Unit 1: Reading America
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Is Art Necessary?
I use this slideshow with Audre Lorde’s “Poetry is Not a Luxury,” plus quotes from Marcuse, Plato, and Oscar Wilde.
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Multimodal Counternarrative
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Art as Promethean Fire
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Evocative Object Assignment
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Intro to Analysis & the Humanities
Prior to this introduction, I like to have my students read page 1-3 of John Ciardi and Miller Williams’ How Does a Poem Mean? but it’s not necessary to do so. The epigraph to those pages is an excerpt from Charles Dickens’ Hard Times, in which a school master asks his students to explain what…
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Blacklisted Writers
I use this with Toni Morrison’s “Peril” essay.
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Rubric-Counternarrative
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Banned Books
I show these slides when we discuss “Peril,” the preface to Toni Morrison’s The Source of Self-Regard.