Developing Connections : Short Readings for Writers

by Stanford, Judith Dupras

• ISBN13: 9780767411271
• ISBN10: 0767411277
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-03
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This compact text-reader offers 46 brief selections (primarily essays, but also short stories and poetry) that focus on connections across our nation's cultures. Part One is a solid introduction to the reading and writing processes, including a clear explanation of ways to develop an essay, with models of student writing; Part Two is an anthology divided into seven themes, each introduced by a pair of photographs.

Table of Contents

What Does It Mean to Think in Cultural Contexts?

PART I. CRITICAL READING AND WRITING

1. Critical Reading and Thinking: Recognizing Cultural Contexts

What Is Culture? / Why Read and Think in Cultural Contexts? / Strategies for Reading and Thinking across Cultures

2. Reading to Respond

The Process of Responding / Responding by Making Marginal Notes / Responding by Writing Journal Entries

3. Reading to Understand

Understanding Unfamiliar Words / Summarizing to Understand the Main Idea and Supporting Ideas / Reading to Understand Inferences

4. Reading to Evaluate

Understanding the Distinctions: Response, Summary, Inference, and Evaluation / Establishing Criteria for Evaluating / Using Criteria to Evaluate: Journal Entries / Using Criteria to Evaluate: Discussions / Summary: A Critical Reading Process

5. A Writing Process

Writing for a Purpose / Developing a Writing Process / A Sample Writing Process

PART II. ANTHOLOGY

6. Arrivals, Roots, and Memories

Mary Antin, The Promised Land / Toshio Mori, The Woman Who Makes Swell Doughnuts / Joe Klein, The Education of Berenice Belizaire / Miguel Torres, Crossing the Border / John Tarkov, Fitting In / Patricia Hampl, Parish Streets / Fiction: Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Son From America

7. Families

Tran Thinga, Letter to My Mother / Doris Kearns Goodwin, From Father, with Love / Gary Soto, Like Mexicans / Lindsy Van Gelder, Marriage as a Restricted Club / Sue Horton, Mothers, Sons, and the Gangs / Poem: Seamus Heaney, Midterm Break

8. Questions of Language

Janice Castro with DanCook and Cristina Garcia, Spanglish / Gloria Naylor, A Question of Language / Barbara Ehrenreich, Zipped Lips / Chang Rae Lee, Mute in an English-Only World / Joseph Telushkin, Words That Hurt, Words That Heal: How to Choose Words Wisely and Well / Poems: Emily Dickinson, Three Poems on Words

9. Ways of Learning

Jacques D’Amboise, I Show a Child What Is Possible / Isaac Asimov, What Is Intelligence, Anyway? / Maya Angelou, Finishing School / Nicholas Gage, The Teacher Who Changed My Life / Mike Rose, “I Just Wanna Be Average” / Malcolm X, Prison Studies / Fiction: Grace Paley, The Loudest Voice

10. Health: Mind and Body

Paul Aronowitz, A Brother’s Dreams / Florida Scott Maxwell, Going Home / Eric Bigler, Give Us Jobs, Not Admiration / Anna Quindlen, The War on Drinks / Richard Seltzer, The Discus Thrower / Jacqueline Navarra Rhoads, Nurses In Vietnam / Fiction: William Carlos Williams, The Use of Force

11. Women and Men

Brent Staples, Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space / Jon Katz, How Boys Become Men / Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria / Charles Osgood, “Real” Men and Women / Susan Jacoby, Unfair Game / Scott Russell Sanders, The Men We Carry in Our Minds … and How They Differ from the Real Lives of Most Men / Fiction: Kate Chopin, The Storm

12. Choices, Actions, and the Future

Charles Krauthammer, Of Headless Mice … and Men / Rene Schanchez, Surfing’s Up and Grades Are Down / Lore Segal, Modern Courtesy / Samuel Francis, Illegal Motives / Linda Chavez, There’s No Future in Lady Luck / Meghan Daum, Safe-Sex and White Lies in the Time of AIDS / Fiction: Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron

Glossary of Terms

Subject and Title Index