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| Prelude | |
| Understanding How We Read and Write Today | |
| Looking at the History of Words and Images | |
| A Guided Tour of Beyond Words | |
| Paying Attention: Reading Texts | |
| Reading Texts | |
| What do you see? | |
| What is it about? | |
| To what does it relate? | |
| How is it composed? | |
| What details matter? | |
| Getting Attention: Composing Texts | |
| Composing Texts | |
| What's it to you? | |
| What do you want to say about it? | |
| Who will listen? | |
| What do you need to know? | |
| How will you do it? | |
| How well does it work? | |
| Picturing Ourselves: Writing to Express Identities | |
| Introduction Reading Portrait? | |
| What do you see? | |
| Painting: Van Gogh, Self-Portrait | |
| Memoir: N. Scott Momaday, from The Way to Rainy Mountain | |
| What is it about? Photos: Average American Family | |
| Edward Steichen, "Greta Garbo" | |
| Walker Evans, "Hale County Alabama" | |
| Harry Benson, Jubilant Clay 8? | |
| To what does it relate? | |
| Paintings: Albrecht Durer, self-portraits | |
| Dorothea Lange, Drought Refugees from Oklahom? | |
| How is it composed? | |
| Photo: Dorothea Lange, "Migrant Mother" | |
| Poem: Billy Collins, "Embrace" | |
| What details matter? | |
| Magazine cover: Wired, The New Face of the Silicon Age | |
| Photo: Man Ray, Black and White? | |
| American Icons | |
| Photos: Edward S. Curtis, White Duck and A Navaho | |
| Gertrude Kasebier, "Zitkala-Sa" | |
| Fiction: Sherman Alexie, "I Hated Tonto (Still Do)" | |
| Poem: Luci Tapahanso, "It Has Always Been This Way" | |
| Photos: Richard Ray Whitman, Man's Best Friend! | |
| Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Damn! | |
| Photos: Richard Albert Allard, Henry Gray, Arizona, 1972 | |
| Coles Hairston, 6666 Ranch in Texas-Song lyrics: Willie Nelson with Waylon Jennings, Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboy? | |
| Painting: Bernard Williams | |
| Sergeant Buffalo | |
| Struggling for Self-Expression | |
| Installation: Zoe Leonard, from Mouth Open, Teeth Showing | |
| Essay: Susan Bordo, "The Empire of Images in Our World of Bodies" | |
| Essay: Alison Stateman, "Postcards from the Edge" | |
| Photo essay: Jim Goldberg, from Raised by Wolves | |
| Fashioning Identities | |
| Essay: Josie Appleton, "The Body Piercing Project" | |
| Photos: Bruce Davidson, Worcester Fire Department. Steve McCurry, Ramlila Pageant Participant and Los Angeles 1991" | |
| Essay: Alice Walker, "Dreads: It Must Be Like the Mating of Lions" | |
| Photo: Denis O'Regan, Bob Marley | |
| Francesco Mastalia and Alfonse Pagano, from Dreads | |
| Essay: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "In the Kitchen" | |
| Photo Montage: On the Cover of Rolling Stone | |
| Assignments and Projects | |
| Project 1: Composing and Identity Collag | |
| Student Project: Peter Anderson, Identity Collage | |
| Project 2: Researching and Profiling a Person | |
| Student Project: Billy Smith, "Gordon Parks" | |
| Interlude 1: Henriata Nicholas | |
| Uhi Ta Moko: Designs Carved in Skin | |
| Seeing Places: Writing to Describe Landscapes and Environments | |
| Introduction.Reading Landscapes and Environments | |
| What do you see? | |
| Photos: David Muench, "The Grand Canyon" | |
| Airstream Trailer at the Grand Canyon | |
| The Milwaukee Museum of Art | |
| Melissa Ann Pinney, "Disney World, Orlando, Florida" | |
| What is it about? | |
| Photos: Alice Attie, from Harlem in Transition | |
| To what does it relate? | |
| Paintings: Vincent Van Gogh,<$$$> | |
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