Coming from home : readings for writers /

Students' Introduction: Students to Students.
Authors to Students. Focus on the Reading/Writing Process, Keeping a Reading/Writing Journal, Reading: Preparing for the Journey, Making the Transition: From Reading to Writing Essays.

1. MEMORIES:
George Keithley, The Child.
Russell Baker, Life With Mother.
Alfred Kazin, In Mother's Kitchen.
Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, Beginnings.
Amy Tan, "Scar" from The Joy Luck Club.
John Cheever,The National Pastime.
Alice Walker, Father.
Joan Didion, On Going Home.
Amy Marx, My Grandfather's Memories.

2. RELATIONSHIPS:
D. H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner.
Suzanne Short, The Whispering of the Walls.
Alfred Lubrano, Bricklayer's Boy.
Toni Cade Bambara, Raymond's Run.
Jeremy Seabrook, A Twin Is Only Half a Person.
David Sherwood, Discarded.
Marie Howe, A Letter to a Sister.
Klarice Tsing, The Violin.

3. MYTHS AND RITUALS:
Charles Dickens, Christmas at the Cratchits from a A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
Bruno Bettelheim, Magic Days.
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Moving In.
Lance Morrow, Downsizing an American Dream.
Elizabeth Stone, Family Myths: Explanation Myths.
Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman.
Alberto Rios, Nani.
Carlos Perez, Once Upon a Time in New England.

4. THE MASS PRODUCED FAMILY:
Marie Winn, Television and Family Rituals.
Ella Taylor, Prime Time Families.
Barbara Ehrenreich, The Wretched of the Hearth.
Ray Bradbury, The Veldt.
Stephen Kline, Limits to the Imagination: Marketing and Children's Culture.
Robert Coles, What TV Teaches Children About Politics.
Stephen Dunn, News of the World.
Javier Ruiz, Terminator

5. THE FAMILY IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY:
Toni Morrison, A Slow Walk of Trees.
Shelby Steele, Being Black and Feeling Blue.
Richard Rodriguez, Private and Public Language.
Simon Ortiz, The Language We Know.
Judith Ortz Cofer, Silent Dancing.
Amy Tan, A Brilliant Plan.
Chitra Divakaruni, Indian Movie, New Jersey.
Jospehine Ramos, Growing Up Bilingual.

6. TENSIONS:
Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz.
Lily Collett, Step by Step.
Melinda Blau, Adult Children: Tied to the Past.
David Elkind, The Child Inside.
Arlie Hochschild, Stepping into Old Biographies or Making History Happen.
Judith Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee, On the Brow of the Hill.
Dan Zegart, Solomon's Choice.
Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing.
Angel C. Fabian, Sharing the Blame.

7. BREAKING THE MOLD:
Susan Griffin, Love Should Grow Up Like a Wild Iris in the Fields.
Judith Stacey, Postmodern Families: For Better and Worse.
Keenen Peck, When Family is Not a Household Word.
Thomas Stoddard, Marriage is a Fundamental Right.
Bruce Fein, Reserve Marriage for Heterosexuals.
Gloria Naylor, The Two.
Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett, Cohousing and the American Dream.
Amera Chowhan, Considering Domestic Partnerships.

8. GROWING AWAY:
Susan Allen Toth, Boyfriends.
Annie Dillard, Adolescence.
Maxine Kumin, For Jane at Thirteen.
Bernard Malamud, My Son the Murderer.
Michael Dorris, Moving Out.
James Baldwin, My Father's Funeral.
Elizabeth Kubler Ross, The Patient's Family.
J. B. Taylor, Teamwork.

FAMILY AND COMMUNITY:
Jane Howard, All Happy Clans Are Alike.
John W. Gardner, Building Community.
Paula Alexander, Christmas at Home.
Richard Wilbur, For the Student Strikers.
Deborah Baldwin, Creating Community.
Dorothy Height, Self-Help: A Black Tradition.
Toni CadeBambara, My Man Bovanne.
Mindy Holliday and Robin Cronin, Families First: A Significant Step Toward Family Preservation
Howard Libit, Family Behind Bars.

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