Reading for Writing: Modeling the Modern Essay

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 19.01.11

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Demographics
  4. Content Objectives
  5. Teaching Strategies
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Annotated Biography
  8. Reading List About Teaching Writing
  9. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  10. Endnotes

Right Our World as Writers Who Are Readers: Acts of Resistance in Personal Memoirs and Public Arguments

Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau

Published September 2019

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Endnotes

  1. Whitman, Walt, “To the States,” in Leave of Grass, 15.
  2. Zinnser, William, “Nonfiction as Literature,” in On Writing Well, 99.
  3. King, Stephen. “On Writing,” in The Norton Reader, 459.
  4. Ibid, 459.
  5. McFee, John. Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process, 4.
  6. Everson, Barbara, Vygotsky and the Teaching of Writing, 10.
  7. Levin, Jeffrey S. and Thomas R. Cole, “Song of Ourselves: A Quantitative History of Autobiographies,” in The Gerontologist, Vol. 36, No. 4, 448.
  8. Lowry, Paul Benjamin, et al, “Building a Taxonomy and Nomenclature of Collaborative Writing to Improve Interdisciplinary Research and Practice,” in SAGE Publications, 69.
  9. Reeves, Judy, “Writing Alone, Writing Together,” 20.
  10. Zinnser, On Writing Well, 99.
  11. Zinnser, On Writing Well, 240.
  12. Ibid, 243.
  13. Ibid.
  14. Woolf, Virginia, “Modern Essay,” in Thoughtco.com, 2019, https://www.thoughtco.com/the-modern-essay-by-viriginia -woolf-1690207 (accessed July 16, 2019).
  15. Franklin, Benjamin, “Learn to Write,” in The Norton Reader, 484-487.
  16. Douglass, Frederick, “Learning to Read,” in The Norton Reader, 405.
  17. Ibid, 408.
  18. Carr, Nicholas, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” in The Norton Reader, 572-581.
  19. “Constitution,” in History.com, Oct, 27, 2009, https://www.history.com/topics/united-states-constitution/constitution (accessed July 16, 2019).
  20. “United States Founding Fathers,” Constitutionfact.com, Oak Hill Publishing Company: Naperville, IL, 2019, https://www.constitutionfacts.com/us-founding-fathers/ (accessed July 16, 2019).
  21. Genzlinger, Neil, The Problem with Memoirs, (New York: New York Time, 2011), https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/books/review/Genzlinger-t.html (accessed July 31, 2019).
  22. Zinnser, “Writing About Yourself: The Memoir,” in On Writing Well, 132-146.
  23. Zinnser, “Unity,” in On Writing Well, 49.
  24. Smith, Larry. “The Story of Six Words,” in Sixwordmemoirs.com, 2006 – 2019, https://www.sixwordmemoirs.com/about/, (accessed August 6, 2019).
  25. Ibid.
  26. Dillard, Joan, “On Keeping a Notebook,” in The Norton Reader, 487-493.
  27. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, “Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes,” in Goodreads, 2019, https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/12080.Ralph_Waldo_Emerson (July 16, 2019).
  28. McFee, John. Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process, 20.
  29. Zinnser, “Unity,” in On Writing Well, 49.
  30. Ibid, 52.
  31. “When We All Teach Text Structures, Everyone Wins,” in Cult of Pedagogy, 2007, https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/text-structures/ (accessed August 6, 2019).
  32. Bird, Caroline, “College is a Waste of Time and Money,” in The Norton Reader, 431.
  33. FitzGerald, Frances, “Rewriting American History,” in The Norton Reader, 787.
  34. Bissel, Tom, “Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter,” in The Norton Reader, 221.
  35. Petroski, Henry, “Falling Down Is Part of Growing Up,” in The Norton Reader, 189.
  36. Singer, Peter, “What Should a Billionaire Give…” in The Norton Reader, 651.
  37. Efird, Jordan, “Will V-Day be Me-Day too?” in Prezi.com, updated March 15, 2015, https://prezi.com/bfaxwvzrjf5e/will-v-day-be-me-day-too/ (accessed July 16, 2019).
  38. Hughes, Langston, “Will V-Day be Me-Day too?” in Poet.org, 2019, https://poets.org/poem/will-v-day-be-me-day-too (accessed July 16, 2019).
  39. Everson, Barbara, Vygotsky and the Teaching of Writing, 10.
  40. Barnum, P.T., “P.T. Barnum > Quotes,” in Goodreads, 2019, https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/201036.P_T_Barnumn (accessed July 16, 2019).
  41. Douglass, Frederick, “Learning to Read,” in The Norton Reader, 406.
  42. Eighner, Lars, “On Dumpster Diving,” in The Norton Reader, 55.
  43. King, Jr., Martin Luther, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” in The Norton Reader, 813.
  44. Asimov, Issac, “The Relativity of Wrong,” in The Norton Reader, 826.
  45. Ibid.
  46. Jefferson, Thomas et al, “The Declaration of Independence, Original Draft,” in The Norton Reader, 773.

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