Reading Our History, Understanding Our Cultures : A Sequenced Approach to Thinking, Reading, and Writing
Reading Our History, Understanding Our Cultures : A Sequenced Approach to Thinking, Reading, and Writing
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Author(s): McCormick, Kathleen
ISBN No.: 9780205261765
Pages: 602
Year: 199812
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 40.40
Status: Out Of Print

Chapters begin with Introduction and conclude with Assignment Sequences and For Further Research. Preface. Introduction. I.I AND IDEOLOGY. 1.Kathleen McCormick and Charles Lipka, Locating Ourselves in History and Culture. Assignment 1: Personal Conflict Narrative.


Assignment 2: Analysis of Perspectives at the Time of the Conflict. Assignment 3: Analysis of Change in Your Perspective Over Time. Assignment 4 (Optional): Analysis in Relation to Other Students. Assignment 5: Final Paper. 2. Sherry Horton and Kathleen McCormick, Fashion: Selves and Surfaces. Introduction: Retaining Your Personal Voice with More Public Subjects. Reading the Signs around Us: Why Begin with Fashion? What Is Fashion? Locating Fashion in Larger Historical and Cultural Contexts.


Active Reading Strategies. J. C. Flugel, The Great Masculine Renunciation. Ida Husted Harper, Amazing Reactions to Women in Bloomers. Amelia Bloomer, Female Attire: An Exchange with the Seneca County Courier. Anne Hollander, Sex and Suits: The Power of Form. John Darnton, Skeletal Models Create Furor Over British Vogue.


Marjorie Garber, Pushing Borderlines: Gender Crossover. Michiko Kakutani, Common Threads. II.ABSORBING STORIES, CREATING IDENTITIES. 3.Donald Jones and Kerry Beckford, Family Portraits: Changing Roles. Introduction: Spying a Family. Peter Stearns, Reinventing the Family.


Louisa May Alcott, Conquering Themselves So Beautifully. Frederick Douglass, Families Enslaved. Mary Wilkes Freeman, The Revolt of 'Mother'. David Osborne, Beyond the Cult of Fatherhood. Richard Goldstein, The Gay Family. 4. Leta Weiss Marks, Beauties and Beasts: The Tales within Us. Introduction: Why Study a Fairy Tale? Lucius Apuleius, Cupid and Psyche.


Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, The Lady and the Lion. Madame Le Prince de Beaumont, Beauty and the Beast. Bruno Bettelheim, Resolution and Restoration in Beauty and the Beast. Jack Zipes, Beauty and the Beast: A Lesson in Submission. Marina Warner, Go! Be a Beast. Angela Carter, from The Tiger's Bride. 5.Sherry Horton and Donald Jones, Questioning U.


S. High Schools: What to Teach and How to Learn. Theodore R. Sizer, What High School Is. Charles Eliot et al., In the Beginning The 1893 Report of the Committee of Ten. Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education, 'The Magnificent Seven' Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education: 1918. John Dewey, Between Traditional and Progressive Education.


Jonathan Kozol, from Savage Inequalities. Myra and David Sadker, Missing in Interaction. Mike Rose, Pasadena: Revised Images of Excellence. 6.Alan G. Schmidt, Elvis Presley: Any Way You Want Me (That's How I Will Be). Introduction: Man or Myth? New York Times, Elvis Forever. Jack Gould, TV: New Phenomenon.


Stanley Booth, Situation Report: Elvis in Memphis, 1967. Greil Marcus, Fanfare. Clark Porteous, A Lonely Life Ends on Elvis Presley Boulevard. Linda Ray Pratt, Elvis, or the Ironies of a Southern Identity. Ron Rosenb.


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