English 1302 Online Readings (Service Learning)

You are not required to read any of the author, YouTube, audio, or video links. 

Required Short Stories

Tim O'Brien: "The Things They Carried" (Chapter One) (YouTube audio)

Willa Cather: "Paul's Case" (YouTube audio)

Amy Tan: "Two Kinds" (YouTube audio)

Kate Chopin: "Story of an Hour" (YouTube audio)

ZZ Packer: "Brownies" (pp. 1-16); (YouTube audio)

John Updike: "A&P" (YouTube audio with short intro)

Required Poetry (for Paper Two Only)

Optional Short Story Readings 

Optional Protest Poetry (for Paper Two)

Tato Laviera: "lady liberty"(audio

Nikita Gill: "They Will Ask Us in the Future How it Happened"

Harryette Mullen: "We are not Responsible"

Blas Manuel De Luna:"Bent to the Earth"

Matthew Olzmann: "Letter Beginning with Two Lines"

Nikki Giovanni: "Rosa Parks"

Juan Felipe Herrera: "Poem by Poem"

Patrick Kavanaugh: "Conflict"

Allen Ginsberg: "America"

Maya Angelou: "The Caged Bird"

Langston Hughes: ""Freedom Train""I Look at the World"

Lorna Dee Cervantes: "Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway"

Derek Walcott: "A Far Cry from Africa"; "the Glory Trumpeter"

William Blake:  "London"

P. B. Shelley: "England in 1819"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "The Cry of the Children"

Frederick Joseph  (see below)

Protest Songs (for Paper Two only)

Fifty of the Greatest Protest Songs 

Twenty of the Best Protest Songs in History

Social Justice Songs by Female Artists

Country Protest Anthems