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Thematic Study of Work, Community
A. Work 1. Profession as identity 2. Merging family and career 3. The relationship between passion and responsibility B. Community 1. Community service 2. Poverty/homelessness 3. Immigration 4. Culture C. Gender 1. Gender roles 2. Family 3. Workplace 4. Society
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1. Analyze style (eg: tone, purpose, assumptions, attitude, argument) in paired passages 2. Incorporate primary and secondary sources into a revision 3. Communicate informally with a writing community using the electronic blackboard discussion forum 4. Synthesize sources of research to form a cogent argument and understand how to inform but not overwhelm the reader using these sources 5. Create working definitions of work, community, and gender as they apply to 21st century society and note the interactive relationships between these three constructs 6. Compare and analyze multiple authors’ investigations of the workplace, individual’s place within the community, and impact of gender roles in society. 7. Compare the impact of career, community, and gender in an individual’s life today with the impact of those constructs on an individual’s life at the turn of the century. 8. Synthesize primary and secondary research on work, community, and gender to form a unique argument about how the combination of these traits defines and individual in the 21st century. 9. Identify and utilize parallel structure.
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CHAPTER 5 Work How does our work shape or influence our lives?
CHAPTER 6 Community What is the relationship of the individual to the community?
CHAPTER 7 Gender What is the impact of gender roles that society creates and enforces?
ADDITIONAL LITERATURE Importance of Being Earnest and Ideal Husband
A Thousand Splendid Sons
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Central Essay Barbara Ehrenreich, from Serving in Florida Barbara Ehrenreich on Writing Classic Essay Booker T. Washington, from The Atlanta Exposition Address Richard Selzer, The Surgeon as Priest Thomas Carlyle, Labour Claudia O’Keefe, The Traveling Bra Salesman’s Lesson Annie Dillard, The Stunt Pilot Ellen Goodman, In Praise of a Snail’s Pace Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing (fiction) Jean Toomer, Harvest Song (poetry) Visual Text J. Howard Miller, We Can Do It! (poster) Visual Text Jeff Parker, The Great GAPsby Society (cartoon) Conversation Focus on Working Parents Marilyn Gardner, More Working Parents Play Beat the Clock Claudia Wallis, The Case for Staying Home Christopher Mele, Sick Parents Go to Work, Stay Home When Kids Are Ill Amelia Warrne Tyagi, Why Women Have to Work Kimberly Palmer, My Mother, Myself, Her Career, My Questions Buzz McClain, Don’t Call Me Mr. Mom
Central Essay Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail Eight Alabama Clergymen, Public Statement Classic Essay Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived, and What I Lived for Jane Howard, In Search of the Good Family Amitai Etzioni, The New Community Anna Quindlen, from Being Perfect: Commencement Speech at Mt. Holyoke College Lori Arviso Alvord, Walking the Path between Worlds Edwidge Danticat, New York Day Women (fiction) Aurora Levins Morales, Child of the Americas (poetry) Visual Text Lee Teter, Reflections (painting) Visual Text Frederick Hart, Three Servicemen (sculpture) Conversation Focus on the Individual’s Responsibility to the Community Bertrand Russell, The Happy Life Peter Singer, The Singer Solution to World Poverty Garrett Hardin, Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor John Betjeman, In Westminster Abbey (poetry)
Cental Essay Stephen Jay Gould, Women’s Brains Classic Essay Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women John and Abigail Adams, Letters Gretel Ehrlich, About Men Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman Judith Ortiz Cofer on Writing Paul Theroux, Being a Man Stephen Lewis, Aids Has a Woman’s Face Deborah Tannen, There Is No Unmarked Woman Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat (fiction) Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll (poetry) Visual Text Cathy Guisewite, Cathy (cartoon) Visual Text Bill Broadway, New and Newer Versions of Scripture (table) Conversation Focus on Defining Masculinity Mark Bauerlein and Sandra Stotsky, Why Johnny Won’t Read Ann Hulbert, Boy Problems (includes table) David Brooks, Mind over Muscle Rebecca Walker, Putting down the Gun
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Importance of Being Earnest
Ideal Husband |