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License, Acknowledgements, and Table of Contents
How To Use This Book – Instructors
How to Use This Book – Students
General Introduction
Chapter 1: Describing a Scene or Experience
Model Text: “Innocence Again”
Model Text: “Comatose Dreams”
Model Text: “The Devil in Green Canyon”
Chapter 2: Telling a Story
Model Text: “Under the Knife”
Model Text: “Breathing Easy”
Model Text: “Visions”
Chapter 3: Reflecting on an Experience
Model Text: “Slowing Down”
Model Text: Untitled
Model Text: “Parental Guidance”
Part 1 Assignment
Model Text: “The Pot Calling the Kettle Black …”
Model Text: “All Quiet”
Model Text: “Blood & Chocolate Milk”
Chapter 4: Interpretation, Analysis, and Close Reading
Annotated Text: John Donne
Chapter 5: Summary and Response
Model Text by Student Author: “Maggie as the Focal Point”
Model Text by Student Author: “Pronouns & Bathrooms”
Model Text by Student Author: “Education Methods: Banking vs. Problem Posing”
Model Text by Student Author: “You Snooze, You Peruse”
Chapter 6: Analysis and Synthesis
Model Text: “Songs”
Model Text: “Normal Person: An Analysis of the Standards of Normativity in ‘A Plague of Tics’”
Model Text: “Analyzing ‘Richard Cory'”
Part 2 Assignment
Model Text: “Christ Like”
Model Text: “To Suffer or Surrender? An Analysis of Dylan Thomas’s ‘Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night'”
Model Text: “The Space Between the Racial Binary”
Chapter 7: Argumentation
Model Text: “We Don’t Care About Child Slaves”
Model Text: “Effective Therapy Through Dance and Movement”
Model Text: “Carnivore Consumption Killing Climate”
Chapter 8: Research Concepts
Model Text: “Pirates & Anarchy”
Model Text: “Wage Transparency and the Gender Divide”
Model Text: “A Case Of Hysterics”
Chapter 9: Interacting with Sources
Model Text: “What Does It Mean To Be Educated?”
Model Text: “Planting the Seed: Norway’s Strong Investment in Parental Leave”
Model Text Annotated Bib: “Pirates & Anarchy”
Model Text Research Essay: “Pirates and Anarchy: Social Banditry Toward a Moral Economy”
Model Text Annotated Bib: “A Case of Hysterics”
Model Text Research Essay: “The Hysterical Woman”
Part 3 Assignment
Model Text: “Vaccines: Controversies and Miracles”
Model Text: “A Changing Ball Game:
Model Text: “The Advertising Black Hole”
LZ Gator, Vietnam, February 1994
Model Text: “My Favorite Place”
Video” “Running Down The Hill”
Video: “21”
“The Story of an Hour”
Excerpt from My Bondage and My Freedom
Review Article–Between the World Me: An Important Book on Race and Racism
A Text Wrestling Analysis of “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid
Why Our Feminism Must Be Intersectional (And 3 Ways to Practice It)
Inauthenticity, Inadequacy, and Transience: The Failure of Language in “Prufrock”
Review Of Moonlight
A text wrestling analysis of “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin
Excerpt From Nickel And Dimed
Why Boston’s Hospitals Were Ready
Model Text: “Economics and Obesity”
Model Text: “Student Veterans and Their Struggle With Higher Education”
Link to “Our Town” from This American Life
Line To “The Unfinished Battle in the Capital of the Confederacy” from Code Switch
Appendix A: Concepts and Strategies for Revision
Appendix B: Engaged Reading Strategies
Appendix C: Metacognition
Model Text: “Model Metacognitive Reflection”
Model Text: Model Metacognitive Reflection 2
Additional Recommended Resources
“Our Town” from This American Life
An inquiry-driven exploration of the effects of immigration on Albertville, Alabama. Listen to Part One here and Part Two here .
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