Crossing Cultures : Readings for Composition

by Knepler, Myrna; Knepler, Annie; Knepler, Elinor

• ISBN13: 9780618918065
• ISBN10: 061891806X
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Heinle

Summary

This multicultural reader uses engaging selections to introduce students to the wide variety of cultures in the United States. Organized by themes such as Education, Growing Up, and Families, the collection provides thought-provoking material for class discussion as well as compelling ideas for writing. Straightforward pedagogy includes exercises that help students to analyze both the content and style of each reading, as well as writing prompts that serve as essay assignments or in-class writing activities. Reading selections in Crossing Cultures vary in length and difficulty to provide suitable material for both less experienced and more sophisticated student readers and writers. Each unit opens with a short, often personal piece and then proceeds with progressively more difficult selections. Concluding each unit, a poem provides an alternate way to explore the unit theme.

Table of Contents

Rhetorical Contents	p. xiii
Preface	p. xvii
Introduction: Reading and Thinking Critically	p. 1
What Does It Mean to Read Critically?	p. 2
Looking Ahead	p. 3
Identifying the Thesis	p. 3
Identifying Claims and Evidence	p. 5
Identifying Patterns and Techniques	p. 5
Making Your Mark	p. 8
Reading New or Difficult Material	p. 9
Using the Questions	p. 10
Growing Up	p. 11
The Jacket	p. 13
Barba Nikos	p. 17
Girlhood Among Ghosts	p. 23
Saying Something in African	p. 28
Scents	p. 37
Bikinis and Tiaras: Quinceaneras	p. 47
Incident	p. 57
Education	p. 59
One Man's Kids	p. 61
Indian Education	p. 65
Graduation	p. 72
The Field Trip	p. 83
I Just Wanna Be Average	p. 91
Living in Two Worlds	p. 104
No Kinda Sense	p. 108
Class Poem	p. 121
Families	p. 125
Role Reversal	p. 126
Where Are the Good Old Days?	p. 130
Courtship Ideas of South Asians Get a U.S. Touch	p. 140
The Kitchen	p. 145
Love You, K2a2a, Whoever You Are	p. 149
My Papa's Waltz	p. 154
Working and Spending	p. 157
"Proud to Work for the University"	p. 159
Less Is More: A Call for Shorter Work Hours	p. 166
On Dumpster Diving	p. 172
High-Tech Wasteland	p. 184
Meet the Life Hackers	p. 192
Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper	p. 203
Defining Ourselves	p. 205
An Ethnic Trump	p. 207
The People in Me	p. 210
The Double Helix	p. 214
Hearing the Sweetest Songs	p. 221
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria	p. 225
Hair	p. 232
The College Dropout Boom	p. 235
Time Stood Still Again	p. 247
American Encounters	p. 249
What Is an American?	p. 251
Night Walker	p. 256
Alien Turf	p. 260
I Learn What I Am	p. 272
Two Ways to Belong in America	p. 278
Amerka, Amerka: A Palestinian Abroad in the Land of the Free	p. 283
Black Like Them	p. 292
In Response to Executive Order 9066: All Americans of Japanese Descent Must Report to Relocation Centers	p. 304
Home and Away	p. 307
Home Is Every Place	p. 309
My Lai, Thirty Years After	p. 316
A Close Encounter	p. 323
Picka Pocketoni	p. 326
To live in the Borderlands means you...	p. 332
Communicating	p. 335
The Meaning of a Word	p. 337
Mother Tongue	p. 341
Urdu, My Love Song	p. 348
Unplugged	p. 356
Switch on Bhutan	p. 360
The Hidden (In Plain Sight) Persuaders	p. 366
Why We Tell Stories	p. 382
Credits	p. 385
Author/Title Index	p. 389
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