English 1A Honors
Spring 2012  

Class Announcements:
2/15/2012: Advocate (s)election next Wednesday. Contact me if you have questions and are interested.
1/19/2012: These are the required books for our class:
The required books for the class are REQUIRED – you must purchase them. If you plan to purchase somewhere other than the bookstore – do it now. That is why I am giving you this information ahead of time.
Letters from an American Farmer. Hector St. John de Crevecouer. Dover. ISBN: 0486444082
The Accidental Asian. Eric Liu. Vintage. ISBN: 0375704868
And The Pursuit of Happiness. Maira Kalman. Penguin Press. ISBN: 9781594202674
Citizen 13660. Miné Okubo. University of Washington Press. ISBN: 9780295959894
They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, 2nd Edition. Graff and Birkenstein. Norton. ISBN: 97803934091

Course Documents Available for Download:
4/23/2012: Critical Thinking with Research Support #1
4/16/2012: Optional Revision for CT#2
Due on April 23: Critical Thinking #3
2/15/2012: Critical Thinking Paper#1
2/13/2012: Course Syllabus
2/13/2012: WRC Hours Agreement
2/13/2012: Be sure to get the WRC Track-It Packet assignment from me IN PERSON.

Links to Web Readings:
Kathy Dobie - "AWOL in America: When Desertion is the Only Option"
Frederick Douglass - "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July"
Ralph Waldo Emerson - "American Scholar"
Ralph Waldo Emerson - "Self-Reliance"
Benjamin Franklin - Autobiography (Part Two, second letter)(on this website, Part Two begins in their Part 4 halfway down at “Continuation of the Account of my Life, begun at Passy, near Paris, 1784” and ends in Part 5 at “Thus far written at Passy, 1741”)
Emilio T. Gonzalez - "Contributions of Immigrants to the U.S. Military"
Martin Luther King - "Where Do We Go From Here"
James Madison - Federalist Paper No. 10
Barack Obama - "A More Perfect Union"
Henry David Thoreau - "Civil Disobedience"
Alexis De Tocqueville - "Individualism Stronger at the Close of a Democratic Revolution than at Other Periods" and "Of Individualism in Democratic Countries"
Alexis DeTocqueville - "Tyranny of the Majority"; It is the third section in the chapter; each section begins with its title all in caps and centered on the screen.
Malcolm X - "The Ballot or the Bullet"
Howard Zinn - "The Problem is Civil Obedience"
Pew Center Landscape Study on Religion in America
Op/Ed Graph Chart - "It's the Inequality, Stupid"