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I posted a few months ago that I was accepted into the English Master's Program at Rutgers-Camden and given an excellent assistantship. One of the benefits of my teaching assistantship is that I get to select my own theme and materials for my courses. For the section of 101 that I'm teaching, I had full reign. For the 102 section, it had to be something relevant in contemporary society. Also, there are fewer assigned primary sources in 102 because it is more researach-oriented. So here are my selections. The selections are obvious in places, but I'm really looking forward to a few of them. Especially since I've been encouraged to include films and graphic novels. All freshman writing students here have to read Joanne Harris' Chocolat as well.
English 101: Composition 1: Exploring the Holocaust through Academic Writing
Books -
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Night by Elie Wiesel
I am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
The Cunning of History by Richard L. Rubenstein
Films -
Schindler's List (1993)
Cabaret (1972)
There will also be a few short stories and poems, undecided as of yet.
English 102: Research in Writing: Underground Movements Against Nation States in Fiction and Literature
Man's Fate by Andre Malreaux
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
Films -
Michael Collins (1996) (I may also have them read some of Yeats' early nationalist poetry and drama to tie in)
I'm really excited about this stuff, particularly 102. I think I'm going to have them use their assignments to connect the ideas in these stories to what's going on today. Get them to think about the ideas and motivations rather than political rhetoric.
English 101: Composition 1: Exploring the Holocaust through Academic Writing
Books -
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Night by Elie Wiesel
I am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
The Cunning of History by Richard L. Rubenstein
Films -
Schindler's List (1993)
Cabaret (1972)
There will also be a few short stories and poems, undecided as of yet.
English 102: Research in Writing: Underground Movements Against Nation States in Fiction and Literature
Man's Fate by Andre Malreaux
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
Films -
Michael Collins (1996) (I may also have them read some of Yeats' early nationalist poetry and drama to tie in)
I'm really excited about this stuff, particularly 102. I think I'm going to have them use their assignments to connect the ideas in these stories to what's going on today. Get them to think about the ideas and motivations rather than political rhetoric.