READINGS FOR NOTES/DJs AND DISCUSSIONS
No late assignments will be accepted due to "make up" assignments built in to this list. Submit BOTH 1) notes on each of these via the appropriate place at TalonNet (drop box) and 2) discussions via TalonNet. See below this list for more important information or follow this link: Readings. (CR refers to our custom reader; AW refers to Alice in Wonderland; TM refers to Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Be sure to save your
drop box submissions with appropriate names: "Reading 1: Goldberg" or, if
grouped, "Readings 1 and 2: Goldberg and Walker."
1. Goldberg's "Be Specific" (CR: 1-2).
2. Walker's "Everyday Use" (CR 25-33).
3. Bower's "Deceptive Appearances" (CR 87-88).
4. Carroll chapters 1 and 2 (AW 1-14).
5. Hopkins' "Spring and Fall" (CR 17).
6. Carroll chapters 3-5 (AW 15-39).
7. Carroll chapters 6-9 (AW 40-74).
8. Brook's "We Real Cool" (CR 35).
9. Chose ONE: Frith's "Autism" (CR 19-24) OR Dajer's "Divided Selves" (CR 45-53).
10. Dolnick's "Hot Heads and Heart Attacks" (CR 113-118).
11. Carroll's chapters 10-12 (AW 75-97).
12. Choose ONE: "Understanding the Inner Voices" (81-86) OR "Design Your Own Personality" (101-106) OR "Now We Are One, or Two, or Three" (165 +).
13. Choose ONE: either Holt's "Three Kinds of Discipline" (5-10) OR Golding's "Thinking as a Hobby" (37-44).
14. Kafka chapter 1.
15. Kafka chapters 2 and 3.
16. Arlington's "Richard Cory" (89).
17. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (91-94).
18. Frost's "Stopping by the Woods" (99).
19. "Authority: Appeals to Obedience" (127-140).
20. Auden's "The Unknown Citizen" (163).
21. Jackson's "The Lottery" (check your text).
22. Frost's "Mending Wall" (141-142).
23. Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" (107-112).
24.
Choose
ONE:
Cheever's "The Swimmer" (65-74)
OR
"Hawthorne
All reading assignments (copy of the custom reader text are available on reserve in the Cerritos Library) require some sort of notes; you may have your choice of forms: outlines, reader responses, DJs (recommended for novels and short stories; see below for links to more examples).
Be sure to save your drop box
submissions with appropriate names: "Reading 1: Goldberg" or, if grouped,
"Readings 1 and 2: Goldberg and Walker."
NO LATE WORK will be accepted for any reading assignments. For due dates check your schedule or follow in-class instructions. All the reading assignments are worth 5 points each.
The assignments above offer 120 "flexible" points from which to choose to meet this category's portion of a student's grade: 10% or 100 points. Similarly, there are 120 "flexible" points available in the discussion category. However, the maximum number of points a student may earn in each of these categories (DJ/notes and discussions) is 100 (In other words, there extra credit points can only be used to "make up" missing assignments within this list).
Therefore, with timely and thorough notes there is the potential of earning a perfect 100 points.