Links to Additional Readings
Additional Readings
Your instructor might assign some of these selected readings, linked below, or other additional readings like current events news stories, web articles, photocopies, or handouts. Under fair use for classroom purposes within US copyright law (the TEACH Act), faculty can print handouts of copyrighted material for classroom instructional purposes.
- Narrative Essays & Literacy Narratives
- Critical Thinking & Creative Writing
- Argument & Rhetorical Analysis
- Videos & Multimedia
Narrative Essays & Literacy Narratives
The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives
“The Scary Ham” – Ellen Klages
“In Praise of the Sentence” – Adrian Blevins
“Self-Regulation: Nine Moments in Life as a Mammal” – Erica Watson
“My Mother Learned to Read at 63” – Donna Ladd
“A Previvor’s Tale” – Alena Smith
“The Anxiety and Satisfaction of Race Day” – Kassie da Costa
“The Visitors” – John Paul Brammer
“I Am Dying From Glioblastoma Brain Cancer” – David Meyers
Critical Thinking & Creative Writing
Critical Thinking Essays:
“The Braindead Megaphone” – George Saunders
“Politics and the English Language” – George Orwell
“The Checklist” – Atul Gawande
“What Do We Do With the Work of Immoral Artists?” – Erin L. Thompson
“Comparison is the Way We Know the World” – Masha Gessen
“A Rant About ‘Technology'” – Ursula K. Le Guin
“This Land is… Whose Land?: The History of Woody Guthrie’s Song” – Gustavus Stadtler
“About the Shark” – Kathleen Rooney
“What Slime Knows” – Lacy M. Johnson
“How Car Seats are a Solution and a Problem” – Jim Dalrymple II
“How Can we Save the Cookout?” – Daric L. Cottingham
“What is ‘Time Activism’ – And Why do We Desperately Need It?” – Edwina Preston
Fiction, Poetry, & Creative Writing:
“The Moon’s Navel” – John Paul Brammer
“Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings” – Joy Harjo
“Letter to America” – Chaun Ballard
“Declaration” – Tracy K. Smith
“The Gospel of Barbecue” – Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
“The Red Convertible” – Louise Erdrich
“A New National Anthem” – Ada Limón
“The Lovers of The Poor” – Gwendolyn Brooks
Argument & Rhetorical Analysis
“Governing Bodies” – Rafia Zakaria
“Memorial of the Cherokee Nation”
“What to the Slave is the 4th of July?” – Frederick Douglass
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Address to the United Nations” – Greta Thunberg
“It’s Time to Start Eating Roadkill” – Ella Jacobson
“Scientists: Don’t Feed the Doubt Machine” – Cecilia Tomori
“Stolen Breaths” – The New England Journal of Medicine
“The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Could Help the Navajo Nation” – Julia Cooper
“‘Nice’ Isn’t Going to Save the Planet” – Mary Annaïse Heglar and Amy Westervelt
“In the Wake of Uvalde, a Teacher’s Plea for Police-Free Schools” – Nataliya Braginsky
Videos & Multimedia
“Cheerleading has a Monopoly Problem” (4:35)
Reality TV Stars Challenge Exploitative Labor Conditions (9:23)
“Poetry For All” Podcast episode – Tracy K. Smith on “Declaration” (23:10)
TED Talk: Jamila Lyiscott, “3 Ways To Speak English” (4:29)
TED Talk: Lizzo, “The Black History of Twerking – And How It Taught Me Self-Love” (13:50)
Video Argument: “How the #LandBack Movement Might Save the Planet” (10:40)
