open letter/web posting
“Open Letter to the Kansas School Board” Bobby Henderson 2005
Motes website
essay/pamphlet
“A Modest Proposal”
Motes website
Jonathan Swift 1729
quiz Thursday, 4/11
quiz Friday, 4/12
Monday, 4/15
novel
Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis 1922
end Chapter 3, part 1 quiz Thursday, 4/18
Word doc p. 10; Gutenberg e-text page 35; Signet page 25
http://archive.org/stream/babbitsinclair00lewirich/babbitsinclair00lewirich_djvu.txt
Candide Voltaire French: 1759; Morely trans: 1922
end chapter 8
Word doc p 12
Morley trans. Barnes and Noble: page 36
http://archive.org/stream/candide19942gut/19942.txt
quiz Monday 4/22
short story
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” 1939 James Thurber
http://bnrg.eecs.berkeley.edu/~randy/mitty.html
song
“Alice’s Restaurant”
Arlo Guthrie 1967
http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/alices.shtml (lyrics)
Performances of this song are not in the public domain, but can be found on YouTube and Vimeo.
poem
“Dulce et Decorum Est”
Wilfred Owen 1917
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/3303
“The Cambridge Ladies”
ee cummings 1922
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176655
“Sweeney Among the Nightingales”
http://www.bartleby.com/199/24.html
T.S. Eliot 1920