Week 10: Family in America

In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, 

unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another ... They 

were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which 

one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, 

comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that 

seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, 

what endured, in the end.

—Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake (2003)

 

Tu 10.26
Read: “Raising Cain” by Debora J. Dickerson, “Three Fathers” by Kevin Sweeney, “Bumping into Mr. Ravioli” by Adam Gopnik
In-Class: Reading discussion; Presentations; Preview—Cause and effect essay

Th 10.28
In-Class: Cause and effect essay
Due: Expository essay (Final draft; Attach draft 1); Journal 5

 

UPCOMING:

 

Week 11:

Tu 11.2
Read: CR—“Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers” by Deborah Tannen, “I Want a Wife” by Judy Brady
In-Class: Reading discussion; Presentations

Th 11.4
Read: CR—“Romance: Meeting Girls is Easy” by Donald Miller, “Sex Without Intimacy: No Dating, No Relationships” by Brenda Wilson, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” by Raymond Carver; ALL—p. 3-68
In-class: Reading discussion; Presentations; Preview—Editorial essay