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This page is intended as a supplement to teachers and students of West Hills High School who are completing the unit "The Fallacy of the American Dream."
.doc = a Word document version
.pdf = a portable document format version to be read with Adobe's Reader (download here)
online = a webpage where you can view the text
assignment = corresponding assignments used in class
Junior/Senior final assignment (assignment type 4)
Texts are listed in ABC order, and authors are ordered based on publication listing.
"15 Years on the Bottom Rung" by Anthony DePalma [.doc] [.pdf] [online]
"America the Blue" by Kalle Lahn and Bruce Grierson [.doc] [.pdf] [online]
"Angela Whitiker's Climb" by Isabel Wilkerson [.doc] [.pdf] [online]
"As Sick as It Gets" by Rudolph Mueller, M.D. [.doc] [.pdf] [online] [assignment .doc] [assignment .pdf]
"Class and the American Dream" from THE NEW YORK TIMES [.doc] [.pdf] [online]
"The College Dropout Boom" by David Leonhardt [.doc] [.pdf] [online]
"Coming to an Awareness of Language" by Malcolm X [.doc] [.pdf] [online]
"Dreaming Across Class Lines" by Steve Thorngate [.doc] [.pdf] [online]
"The Ghetto Cityscape" by Camilo José Vergara [.doc] [.pdf] [online]
"I Have a Dream" by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [.doc] [.pdf] [online]
"In Fiction, a Long History of Fixation on the Social Gap" by Charles McGrath [.doc] [.pdf] [online]
"Inequality in the Workplace" by William E. Thompson and Joseph V. Hickey [.doc] [.pdf] [online]
"Invisible Men and Women" by Jamie Passaro [.doc] [.pdf] [online]
"Life at the Top in America Isn't Just Better, It's Longer" by Janny Scott [.doc] [.pdf] [online]
"No Degree, and No Way Back to the Middle" by Timothy Egan [.doc] [.pdf] [online]
"Shadowy Lines That Still Divide" by Janny Scott and David Leonhardt [.doc] [.pdf] [online]
"Up From the Holler: Living in Two Worlds, at Home in Neither" by Tamar Lewin [.doc] [.pdf] [online]
"Wake Up: The American Dream Is Over" by Paul Harris [.doc] [.pdf] [online]
"Wal-mart Suit Shows Glass Ceiling Is Still an Issue" by Mark Trumbull [.doc] [.pdf] [online]
If you experience problems with this page, please inform Cece Boehme at cboehme@guhsd.net.