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Read three to five of the following Nonfiction Readings and define all of the words you don't know.
Take reading notes as follows:
1. What is the author's thesis?
2. Why do they believe this is true?
3. What evidence do they provide?
4. What type of evidence is it? (Think rhetorical strategies)
5. Do you agree or disagree with the author's thesis? What is your view on the subject?

Then, write a paper about your position on an idea or subject suggested by your reading, using several references from each of two or three of these articles to support, enhance or even refute your position. 250-350 words - Due April 4th

See also - The NYTimes and the Common Core Standards: Reading Strategies for 'Informational Text'

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Spring Break at Wal-Mart?
Skyler Bartels kept looking over his shoulder. It's a habit he picked up living at the Windsor Heights Wal-Mart for three days.

See also The Wal-Mart Effect by Charles Fishman

New Plano, Texas, Supercenter Takes Innovative Approach to Enhancing Shopping Experience

Wal-Mart turns attention to upscale shoppers

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NPR : Creative Solutions to Life's Challenges

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Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time

Hemingway - Nobel Prize for Literature

Hemingway at the New York Times

Raymond Carver Review

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Searching for Dummies
TALK of decline was old news in academia even in 1898, when traditionalists blasted Harvard for ending its Greek entrance requirement. But today there's a new twist in the story: Are search engines making today's students dumber?
By Edward Turner
NYTimes March 26, 2006

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William Christenberry's theme, however, is singular: the history, the very story of place, is at the heart of his project. An affection for literature and the distinctly southern tradition of oral history informs his work. Christenberry’s poetic documentation of vernacular architecture, signage, and landscape captures moments of quiet beauty in a sometimes mythic terrain that, with its worn iconography and buildings turned ramshackle, evokes the form and power of the passage of time.

From the Aperture Foundation:
Things as They Are: Photojournalism in Context since 1955
History's First Draft Looks Much Better With Pictures
NYTimes Review By PHILIP GEFTER
March 26, 2006

From World Press Photos:
50 Years Gallery from World Press Photos
Winners Gallery 2006

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When Bob Dylan begins his spring tour in Reno on Saturday, several thousand fans will be rooting for him to play one or another song. They won't be at the show. And they may not even like the song. But they are competitors in the Dylan Pool (pool.dylantree.com), an online game that awards points to players who correctly predict the lineup of the mercurial singer's concerts.
From Dylan Plays, They Score
By DOUGLAS WOLK
NYTimes March 26, 2006

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Hisaye Yamamoto, author of Seventeen Syllables, grew up at the Poston Relocation Center in Arizona.

Ansel Adams photographed the Manzanar Relocation Center near Independence, California.

Manzanar Historic Site Virtual Tour

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Critical References for "The Yellow Wallpaper"
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society

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George Orwell - Biography, Library, A life, Links, Info
‘All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.’

America in the 1930s from American Studies at the University of Virginia

Audio Performances of Featured Authors

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Ars Poetica
By Archibald MacLeish

A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globed fruit,

Dumb
As old medallions to the thumb,

Silent as the sleeve-worn stone
Of casement ledges where the moss has grown--

A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.

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A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs,

Leaving, as the moon releases
Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,

Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves,
Memory by memory the mind--

A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs.

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A poem should be equal to:
Not true.

For all the history of grief
An empty doorway and a maple leaf.

For love
The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea--

A poem should not mean
But be.

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A Wagner Matinee

Martha Lackey, sister of Allan Lackey’s great grandfather Thomas Jefferson Lackey, married Pearson Wallen, and they moved from Franklin County, Ohio to Marshalltown, Iowa around 1850, with his father and brothers. It is believed, though not with certainty, that this may be a picture of their son Alexander and his family after they moved west into Nebraska.

Nebraska Sod House at American Memory

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