Text introduced in class 2020-21: Year 1 Semester 1

Barack Obama (speech) Text types:

Abraham Lincoln (speech) Speech
Calvin & Hobbes (graphic text) Political carton
Gabby’s Playhouse Gabby Schulz and Ken Dahl) (cartoon) technology (TA) Graphic & cartoon texts
Political cartoons power & justice Letter
Dave Granlund, Mike Luckovich, Daryl Cagle, Gary Markstein Promotion/ persuasive/
Ray Bradbury excerpt technology fund raising
Charles Dickens Hard Times excerpt environment/ power & justice Open/ public awareness
Article (satire)
FIELDS OF INQUIRY & GLOBAL ISSUES Article (opinion)
Gender: Poster: political, PSA
Femininity, female roles & cultural values Magazine cover
“Females” C P Gilman (poem 1911) Print advertisements
America When Feminized (political poster early 20th c) Video ads (film)
“I want a wife” (article 1970&1990) Counter ads
Ms mag covers Video documentary
Heinz Ketchup ads Photos and photo journalism
We Can Do It (poster)
Woman’s Weekly (newspaper 1911) Literature:
Carol Anne Duffy, The World’s Wife collection: “Eurydice”, “Medusa”, Poetry
“Salome”, “Anne Hathaway” Novel
“Valentine” Short Stories
Nike video ads (BoW) Song lyrics
Dove video ads (BoW) Speeches
Masculinity, male roles & cultural values Movie: Fiction
Diesel fashion brand advertisements
Old Spice commercial (gender & masculinity)
Nivea ads (BoW) (gender & masculinity)
Car commercial
Marlboro Cig adverts (BoW)
Kipling “If”
What is a man, article Tom Chiarella (BoW)
Beauty Myth, Race, identity
The Bluest Eye
Maya Angelou, “Caged Bird” et al , I Know Why Caged Birds Sing
Grace Nichols, “The Fat Black Woman’s Poems
Funmi Fetto (BoW)
Allure mag article (week 7 hair)
Dove advertisement and print ads “Courage is Beautiful”, “Campaign for Real Beauty” et.al. (BoW)

Equality: race, ability and disability

Nike video ads (BoW)

Wealth/status/ class
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Lauren Greenfield, Generation Wealth (BoW)

Power & justice, race, human rights, equality, hierarchy

Nike video ads
Langston Hughes, “I, Too” (BoW)
John Agard, “Half-Cast“
Wole Soyinka
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Barack Obama (BoW)
Political cartoons various
Martin Luther King Jr, A Call to Conscience
Nelson Mandela
Charles Moore and Bill Hudson (BoW (civil rights protests) photo journalism
Michelle Obama (BoW)
Ana DuVerney 13th
Michelle Alexander (BoW)
Shepard Fairy (BoW)
***Mohin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist *** (Summer reading)
***Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero
***Sophocles, Antigone
Fela Kuti (lyrics) Not read in in class yet
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis (graphic text)
Joe Sacco, Palestine (graphic text)
Banksy
Malala Yousafzai (speech, autobiography)

Climate, the Environment and the Natural World

Boey Kim Cheng, Report to Wordsworth (poem)
Greta Thunberg: speeches
fischerAppelt PETA & Greenpeace ads (BoW)
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

War & Conflict

Joe Sacco, Palestine (graphic text)
***Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum est’ et. al. poems WW1
Cecil Summers, letters from Flanders (WW1)
Various war photographs
Propaganda posters
Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried (Vietnam)
Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone; A Long Journey (Sierra Leone, West Africa)
Art Spiegelman, Maus (WW11 Holocaust) (graphic text)
Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness (Lebanon, Palestine)
Bao Ninh, The Sorrow of War (Vietnam)

Colonialism and Stereotypes

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (excerpt)
Binyavanga Wainaina, “How to write about Africa” (satire)
Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden”
Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” (satire on government, politics,)

Immigration
Warsan Shire, “Home”
Jose Antonio Vargas, opinion articles
Enoch Powell, Birmingham Speech: “Sickly Immagrants”

Science and Technology

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (politics, dictatorship, thought control, surveillance)
Oliver Sacks Essays (Body of Work), (the science of the brain)
Bert Marcus, The American Meme Netflix documentary