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Summer Transition and
Enrichment Program
(STEP)
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English
Readings
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Readings are listed by the week they are due.
Please
view the STEP English Syllabus for
specific due date information. (For
your convenience, readings have also been
hyperlinked to the Syllabus.)
All
readings have been saved to PDF. If you have trouble viewing the files,
please see the directions located at the end of the readings.
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Week 2 (June 27 – June 30,
2011):
Bread & Roses, Film
Critiques:
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Roger Ebert, “Bread & Roses”
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Rick Barton, “Coming Clean”
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Andrew O’Hehir,
“Bread & Roses”
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Peter Matthews, “Beyond Our Ken”
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Kevin Thomas, “The Political Is Personal in
‘Bread & Roses’”
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Ana
Castillo, “We Would Like You to Know”
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Julia
Alvarez, “Homecoming”
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Lorna
Dee Cervantes, “Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an
Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe in the War Between the Races”
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Sandra
Cisneros, “You Bring Out the Mexican in Me” / Select Definitions
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Sandra Cisneros,
Introduction & “No Speak English” from House on Mango Street
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Week 3 (July 5 – July 7,
2011):
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Debbie Nathan, “Irma’s
Story: The Life of An Illegal Alien” from Women and Other Aliens
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Gloria Anzaldua, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” from Borderlands/La Frontera
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Gary Soto, “Being Mean”
from Living in the Street
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Jimmy
Santiago Baca, “I Am Sure of It”
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Luis
Alberto Urrea, “Hymn to Vatos
Who Will Never Be in a Poem”
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Pedro Pietri, “Puerto Rican Obituary”
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Miguel
Piñero, “A Lower East Side Poem”
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Week 4 (July 11 – July 14,
2011):
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Jimmy Santiago Baca,
excepts from A Place to Stand
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Luis J. Rodriguez, “La Vida Loca” from
Always Running
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Reymundo
Sanchez: “Down Brother” from My Bloody Life
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PDF
Troubleshooting
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If
you are having problems viewing any of the PDF's on this site, please
follow the directions below.
The
very first step is to download the latest version of Adobe Reader. Click here to download this program free of
charge.
After
the download is complete, try viewing a PDF file. If you are still unable
to view the readings, there are a couple of possible explanations. Your
computer may be blocking downloads or it could have a firewall set up that
will not allow encrypted files. In either case, my best suggestion (if you
are still having trouble) is to locate another computer to which you have
access.
You
are accountable for all readings regardless of whether or not you were able
to install Adobe. Please make sure to download these files with ample time
as you will be required to bring hardcopies to class. Feel free to contact me
if you have any trouble.
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Mitzi
Ramos, ABD
 STEP
Coordinator / English Instructor
E-Mail: mramos8@uic.edu
URL: http://tigger.uic.edu/~mramos8/
Latin
American Recruitment & Educational Services
1200 W.
Harrison (MC 220)
Chicago, IL 60607
Office:
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Phone:
312-996-3356
Fax:
312-413-2903
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