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Seek Summer Program 2021

Instructor: Yolande Brener

Seek Summer Program 2021
  • Syllabus
  • Schedule
  • Readings
    • Amanda Gorman-The Hill We Climb (video)
    • James Baldwin-Autobiographical Notes
    • Sherman Alexie-“Superman and Me”
    • Plato-Excerpt from “Phaedrus”
    • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie-“The Danger of a Single Story”
    • James Baldwin-“Fifth Avenue, Uptown”
    • Nicholas Carr-Excerpt from “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains”
    • Annie Dillard-“Seeing”
    • Amanda Gorman-“The Hill We Climb”
    • Morgan Jerkins-“On Mourning Your Former Selves”
    • Franz Kafka-“Before the Law”
    • Zadie Smith- “Joy”
    • David Zinczenko-“Don’t Blame the Eater”
  • Activities
    • Commonly Used Transitions
    • English Vocabulary Builder
    • Essay
    • Establishing Why One’s Claim Matters
    • Sentence Combining
    • Leading Class Discussions
    • Quotation Sandwich Exercise
    • Quotation Sheet
    • Quotes on Writing and Reading
    • Reading Journal
    • Summary Paragraph Outline
    • Templates from They Say I Say
    • What We Do When We Write And Revise
    • 8 Sentence Paragraph Structure

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