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Summer Success Seminar
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English
Readings
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Readings are listed by the week they are due.
Please view the SSS 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 having trouble viewing the files, please see
directions below.
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Week 1:
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Sandra
Cisneros, “You Bring Out the Mexican in Me” / Select Definitions
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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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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 2:
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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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Week 3:
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Debbie
Nathan, “Irma’s Story: The Life of An Illegal Alien” from Women and Other
Aliens
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Los Tigres del Norte,
Corrido: “Jaula de Oro”
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Sandra Cisneros,
Introduction & “No Speak English” from House on Mango Street
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Week 4:
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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Roberto Suro, “Children of the Future” from Strangers
Among Us
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Week 5:
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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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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 again to click the PDF link. If it still does not
work, 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 irregardless 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
 SSS 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: SSB 2640
(Room 2662)
Phone:
312-996-3356
Fax:
312-413-2903
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