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Reading involves interpreting all types of texts: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic novels, advertisements, spoken words, and more. Sound Ideas is a reader that acknowledges this – and that a wide variety of linguistic backgrounds make up today's college classrooms. Sound Ideas addresses the needs and interests of this diverse audience, while maintaining strong connections to a history of ideas.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Introduction Letter to the Reader The Reading-Writing Process On Reading and Thinking Reading: The Activity and Art of Reading, Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren On Writing and Revision Reading: Everybody is Talented, Original, and Has Something Important to Say, Brenda Ueland Reading: A Way of Writing, William Stafford Reading: How to Write a Critical Analysis, John Trimble Reading: Shitty First Drafts, Ann Lamott Reading: Simplicity, William Zinsser On Visual Texts Reading: The Vocabulary of Comics, Scott McCloud On Audio Texts Audio Track 0.1: Anne Lamott Audio Track 0.2: Louise Erdrich For Writing Chapter 1 - On Gender Differences: Separating the Boys from the Girls Introduction Nonfiction Reading: Strong Girls, from Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, Mary Pipher Reading: Inside the World of Boys, from Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood, William Pollack Reading: Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls, Katha Pollitt Reading: The War Against Boys, Christina Hoff-Somers Fiction Reading: A and P, John Updike Reading: Boys and Girls, Alice Munro Reading: Girl, Jamaica Kincaid Reading: Boys, Rick Moody Poetry Reading: Barbie Doll, Marge Piercy Reading: Wishes for Sons, Lucille Clifton Graphic Fiction Reading: Gum of Mystery, Lynda Barry Visual Texts Visual: Quinceañera, Janet Jarman Visual: Hannah, 13 years old, Lauren Greenfield Visual: Shacktown Child, Dorothea Lange Visual: Boy and Girl at Debutante Ball, Catherine Karnow Audio Texts Audio Track 1.1: Carol Gilligan Audio Track 1.2: Paul Kivel Audio Track 1.3: William Pollack Audio Track 1.4: Joe Marshall Additional Audio Resources Connections For Writing Video Suggestions Chapter 2 - Ideas about Family: Parents and Children Introduction Nonfiction Reading: Nothing Lasts a Hundred Years, from Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Father, Richard Rodriguez Reading: Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin Reading: Mother of the Year, Paul Theroux Reading: Shooting Dad, Sarah Vowell Fiction Reading: Mother, Grace Paley Reading: My Mothers Memoirs, My Fathers Lie, and Other True Stories, Russell Banks Reading: Everyday Use, Alice Walker Reading: River of Names, Dorothy Allison Poetry Reading: A Chinese Banquet, Kitty Tsui Reading: Nikki-Rosa, Nikki Giovanni Graphic Fiction Reading: Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Chris Ware Visual Texts Visual: For Dragonboat Festival, Komi Chen Visual: Mother and Child, Edward Curtis Visual: Family Eating Dinner in Kitchen, William Gottlieb Audio Texts Audio Track 2.1: Richard Rodriguez Audio Track 2.2: Paul Theroux Audio Track 2.3: Grace Paley Audio Track 2.4: Alice Walker Additional Audio Resources Connections For Writing Video Suggestions Chapter 3 - Ideas about Education: Stories from School Introduction Nonfiction Reading: Claiming an Education, Adrienne Rich Reading: New Spelling of My Name, from Zami, Audre Lorde Reading: Teaching as a Subversive Activity, Neil Postman Reading: The Graduation, from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou Fiction Reading: The Lesson, Toni Cade Bambara Reading: The School, Donald Barthelme Reading: Saint Marie, from Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich Reading: Pauls Case: A Study in Temperment, Willa Cather Poetry Reading: We Real Cool, Gwendolyn Brooks Reading: The History Teacher, Billy Collins Graphic Fiction Reading: Remembrance of Things Past: Combray, Marcel Proust, illustrated by Stephane Heuet Visual Texts Visual: Marshals escort girls from school, New Orleans, 1960 Visual: In the Schoolroom, Theophile Emmanuel Duverger Visual: Schoolhouse and pupils, 1913, E.S. Shipp Audio Texts Audio Track 3.1: Panel discussion on interdisciplinary studies with Leonard Shlain, Herman Haluza, Jamie Molaro, and Geoffrey Green Audio Track 3.2: Adrienne Rich Additional Audio Resources Connections For Writing Video Suggestions Chapter 4 - Ideas about Love and Hate Introduction Nonfiction Reading: Compassion and Love, from Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey, Jane Goodall Reading: All About Love, bell hooks Reading: Whats So Bad About Hate? Andrew Sullivan Reading: Hateful Things, from The Pillow Book, Sei Shonagon Fiction Reading: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver Reading: Amor Divino, Julia Alvarez Reading: The Lottery, Shirley Jackson Reading: The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe Poetry Reading: Love Poem, Audre Lorde Reading: Hate Poem, Julie Sheehan Graphic Fiction Reading: Ghost World, Daniel Clowes Visual Texts Visual: The Lovers, Rene Magritte Visual: Love, Kawabata Ryushi Visual: Cain and Abel, Jacopo Tintoretto Audio Texts Audio Track 4.1: Sue Gerhardt Audio Track 4.2: Dr. Thomas Lewis Audio Track 4.3: Mark Potok Audio Track 4.4: bell hooks Audio Track 4.5: Jane Goodall Additional Audio Resources Connections For Writing Video Suggestions Chapter 5 - Ideas about War Introduction Nonfiction Reading: The Art of War, Sun Tzu Reading: The War Prayer, Mark Twain Reading: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (excerpt), Philip Gourevitch Reading: Handouts, from The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq, John Crawford Fiction Reading: The Things They Carried, Tim OBrien Reading: Civil Peace, Chinua Achebe Reading: Two Words, Isabelle Allende Reading: War, Luigi Pirandello Poetry Reading: The Colonel, Carolyn Forché Reading: Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen Graphic Fiction Reading: Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, Joe Sacco Visual Texts Visual: We Can Do It!, J. Howard Miller Visual: Napoleon Bonaparte in the Grand Mosque at Cairo, Henri Levy Visual: Children fleeing napalm, Trang Bang, South Vietnam, June 8, 1972; Nick Ut Audio Texts Audio Track 5.1: Srebrenicia Anniversary: Ambassador Swanee Hunt, General William Nash, General John W. Vessy, and Mike Shuster Audio Track 5.2: Rwandan Genocide: Corinne Dufka and Louise Mushikiwabo Audio Track 5.3: Iraq War: Michael Gordon Audio Track 5.4: Chilean History: Isabel Allende Additional Audio Resources Connections For Writing Video Suggestions Chapter 6 - Ideas about Crime and Punishment Introduction Nonfiction Reading: Illegalities and Delinquency, from Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault Reading: A Hanging, George Orwell Reading: Prison Cruelty, Frank Tannenbaum Reading: My Life is My Sundance, Leonard Peltier Fiction Reading: House of the Dead, Fyodor Dostoevsky Reading: Outside Work Detail, Scott Wolven Reading: Enemies, Jimmy Santiago Baca Reading: Kiss of the Spider Woman, Manuel Puig Poetry Reading: The Report, Dick Allen Reading: Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital of the Criminal Insane, Etheridge Knight Graphic Fiction Reading: The Beast of Chicago: An Account of the Life and Crimes of Herman W. Mudgett, Rick Geary Visual Texts Visual: Prisoners Exercising, Vincent van Gogh Visual: Prisoners, David Siqueros Visual: Prisoner Behind Bars, Tom Grill Audio Texts Audio Track 6.1: Panel discussion on clemency and the death penalty: Arthur Serat, Michael Rushford, Wayne Owens, and Mike Perell. Additional Audio Resources Connections For Writing Video Suggestions Chapter 7 - Ideas about the Environment: Human vs. Nature vs. Human Introduction Nonfiction Reading: Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson Reading: A Letter to Thoreau, from The Future of Life, Edward O. Wilson Reading: Silent Spring, Rachel Carson Reading: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard Fiction Reading: The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway Reading: Lessons from the Wolverine, from Fieldnotes, Barry Lopez Reading: A White Heron, Sarah Orne Jewett Reading: My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozecki Poetry Reading: The World is Too Much with Us, William Wordsworth Reading: November Cotton Flower, Jean Tomer Graphic Fiction Reading: Moby Dick, Will Eisner Visual Texts Visual: Melting Clock and Globe, Marina Saba Visual: The Polar Sea, Caspar David Friedrich Visual: Mermaid Waiting in Dry Lake, Tomek Obinski Audio Texts Audio Track 7.1: Wangari Maathai Audio Track 7.2: Panel discussion of the future of the oceans with Leon Panetta Audio Track 7.3: Panel discussion of the future of the oceans with Brian Baird