Table of ContentTABLE 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: Quincea�era, 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 Mother�s Memoirs, My Father�s 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: Paul�s 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