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
Ursula K. Le Guin: "The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas" (audio)
Kevin Broccoli: “The Boy in the Pink Tuxedo” (YouTube audio) --don't choose for Paper One
Martha Salinas: "The Scholarship Jacket" (don't use for Paper One)
John Kennedy Toole: Confederacy of Dunces (Chapter One, parts I-III) audio
Joyce Carol Oates: "Where are you Going, Where Have You Been?"
"This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona by Sherman Alexie
"Say Yes" by Tobias Woolf
Ralph Ellison: "Battle Royale"; "King of the Bingo Game" (DON'T USE THIS STORY UNTIL LINK RESTORED)
Edwidge Danticat: "Night Women" (YouTube audio--begins at 3:27) --DON'T USE THIS STORY UNTIL LINK RESTORED
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"
Juan Felipe Herrera: "Poem by Poem"
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"
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