For Monday, read and annotate the following essays, and then write a one-page DIDLS analysis for one (only one) of them:
Heidi Julavits, "The Writer in the Silos," pp. 159-162
Vijay Seshadri, "My First Fairy Tale," pp. 163-168
Patrick Madden, "A Sudden Pull on the Heart," pp. 169-172
Stanley Jenkins, "George," pp. 314-321
William deBuys, "Errands in the Forest," pp. 322-326
For Thursday, read and annotate George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant" and James Baldwin, "Notes of a Native Son" which will be handed out on Monday. No writing. Bring Gornick's The Situation and the Story to class.
