Section III.F: LITERARY JOURNAL #2 (Spring 2008)

LITERARY JOURNAL, Submission #2 (0-100 points), due 5/8

"Money and Work," "Peace and War," "Varieties of Protest," and "Protest Songs"


As cultural markers, the dates specified for each work are important.

A. You MUST respond to ALL 3 of the following selections (20 points each, 60 points total):

1._____Fail Safe, Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler [Required Novel, 1962]

2._____"The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner," Alan Sillitoe, 1204-1232. [Required Novella, 1959]

3._____Hiroshima, by John Hersey [Required non-fiction, 1946; "The Aftermath," 1985]

[NOTE: The above selections are worth more points than the other journal selections, so these responses should be a minimum of two typed (and double-spaced) pages and more in depth.]

B. Reader’s Choice: You MUST select and respond to 4 of following selections (10 points each, 40 points total):

Fiction:

4._____"August 2026, There Will Come Soft Rains," Ray Bradbury, 946-951 [1950]

5._____"I Stand Here Ironing," Tillie Olsen, 588-594 [1954]

6._____"Everyday Use," Alice Walker, 654-662 [1973]

7._____"The Man I Killed," Tim O’Brien, 979-984 [1990]

Poetry:

8.____"Ella, in a square apron, along Highway 80," Judy Grahn, 672-674 [1969]

9.____"So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs From Americans," Jimmy Santiago Baca, 676-679 [1979]

10.____"Ballad of the Landlord," Langston Hughes, 685-687 [1951]

11.____"In Response to Executive Order 9066: ALL AMERICANS OF JAPANESE DESCENT MUST REPORT TO RELOCATION CENTERS," Dwight Okita, 999-1001 [1989]

12.____"Daddy," Sylvia Plath, 1292-1294 [October 1962]

13.____"Edge," by Sylvia Plath, http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/edge/ [February 6, 1963]

14.____"The Lovepet," Ted Hughes, 394-396 [1971]

15.____"Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportees)," Woody Guthrie, 711-712 [1948]

16.____"The Merry Minuet," Sheldon Harnick (handout) [1959]

17.____"The Moral Majority," Doug Mayfield (handout) [1981]

Non-fiction

18.____"MIKE LEFEVRE: Who Built the Pyramids?" Studs Terkel, 929-937 [1974]

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EXTRA CREDIT: (5 points) You may select (from your textbook) ONE work not in the "Reader’s Choice" section.

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If you encounter difficulty in reading the selections, I encourage you to get help from the Learning Resource Center for reading strategies.

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