Unit 1
Myths, Narratives, and Counternarratives

"Myth"
by Jonathan Bignell

The reading

Myth by Jonathan Bignell with Footnotes.docx

Adam and Eve

The reading

Genesis 2-3 Adam and Eve.docx

Prometheus and Pandora's Box

The reading

The Story of Prometheus and Pandora's Box.docx

Medusa

The readings

The Story of Medusa's Head by Ovid and Medusa by Carol Ann Duffy.docx

Orpheus and Eurydice 

The reading
(traditional narrative)

Orpheus and Eurydice Myth.docx

The reading (counternarrative)

Eurydice by Margaret Atwood.pdf

"The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling

The reading 

The White Man's Burden by Rudyard Kipling.pdf

"The White Man's Guilt" by James Baldwin

The reading 

The White Man's Guilt by James Baldwin.pdf

Junji Ito's "The Enigma of Amigara Fault"

The reading 

The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito.pdf

The Declaration of Independence

The reading 

The first two paragraphs of the Declaration of Indepedence.docx

Sarah Churchwell's "A Brief History of the American Dream"

The reading 

A Brief History of the American Dream by Sarah Churchwell with footnotes.docx

"America" by Claude McKay 

America by Claude McKay.docx

Walt Whitman

"O Me! O Life!"

O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman.pdf

"I Hear America Singing"

Walt Whitman's I Hear America Singing and Langston Hughes' I, Too (American Dream Poems).docx

Langston Hughes

"Let America Be America Again"

Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes.docx

"I, Too"

Langston Hughes' I, Too.docx

Bonus Read: "I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King Jr.

The reading 

I Have a Dream speech by Martin Luther King Jr..pdf

Unit 2
Systemic Racism and the American Dream

  Cicero Bombing news article (1983)

Response of Cicero, Ill., to a Bias Suit Is Clouded Over by the City's Record - The NYT.docx

Boston, America's "most racist city," Boston Globe article (2017)

Boston. Racism. Image. Reality. by Akilah Johnson and The Spotlight Team.docx

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun

Act 1, Scene 1 of A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun Act 1, Scene 1.pdf

Act 1, Scene 2 of A Raisin in the Sun

Act 1, Scene 2 of A Raisin in the Sun.pdf

Act 2, Scene 1 of A Raisin in the Sun

Act 2, Scene 1 of A Raisin in the Sun.pdf

Act 2, Scene 2 of A Raisin in the Sun

Act 2, Scene 2 of A Raisin in the Sun.pdf

Act 2, Scene 3 of A Raisin in the Sun

Act 2, Scene 3 of A Raisin in the Sun.pdf

Act 3, Scene 1 of A Raisin in the Sun

Act 3, Scene 1 of A Raisin in the Sun.pdf

The entire A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry.pdf

Unit 3
The Land of Opportunity: Narratology and the Immigrant Experience

"Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway

Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway.docx

"About My Father's Accent" by Roxane Gay

About My Father's Accent by Roxane Gay.docx

"Motherfuckers" by Roxane Gay

Motherfuckers by Roxane Gay.docx

"Names/Nombres" by Julia Alvarez

Names Nombres by Julia Alvarez.docx

"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel García Márquez

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.docx

"Invitation" and "Sewer Fauna" by Claudia Hernández González

Invitation and Sewer Fauna by Claudia Hernández.docx

For Honors: "Shopgirl" by Dionne Irving

Shopgirl by Dionne Irving.docx

"The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe

The Black Cat by Poe.pdf

"New York Day Women" by Edwidge Danticat

New York Day Women by Edwidge Danticat.docx

"The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu

The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu.docx

For Honors: "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan

Mother Tongue by Amy Tan.docx

Mayor Wu's Opening Statement to the US House Oversight Committee

Mayor Wu Opening Statement ot the United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.docx

Unit 4
Nothing is Certain: Death, Taxes, and Dreams