Moorpark English 1B Tentative Reading List: Spring 2015
Texts:
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 7th
Compact Edition.
eds. Kennedy, X.J. and Dana Gioia. San Francisco: Pearson, 2013.
aka LIT ISBN: 13:987-0-205-22984-0
Recommended: Silverman et al. Rules of Thumb. 8th ed. San
Francisco: McGraw Hill, 2009. or an equivalent recent MLA style
handbook or manual.
most handouts (HO) and online sources are linked from here and the
schedule
Please check the schedule for changes and updates. Complete
all readings by due dates. Summary and response of LIT readings are due
within one week of in-class discussion unless otherwise stated in class.
Various smaller writing
assignments will be given in
class. Any revision of reading assignments are announced in class and
should be posted here or on the class schedule.
Last revised Jan '15
Introductions
Imagery 560-561 (LIT) Haiku 566-570 (LIT)
Conflict
Komunyakaa, Yusef. "Facing It."(LIT)
Tim O'Brien. "The Things They Carried." (LIT)
Tim O'Brien. "How to Tell A War Story." (HO)
Brian Turner. Iraq war poetry (HO) and (LIT)
Wilfred Owen. "Dulce Et Decorum Est" "Anthem For a Doomed Youth" and "War Poetry" (LIT)