A 20-year teacher reads and discusses great works of literature for students learning at home.
Learning By Literary Audio Files
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A 20-year teacher reads and discusses great works of literature for students learning at home.
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December 31, 2021
"I Want a Wife" by Judy Syfers Brady
<p>Episode #37</p> <p>Reading and rhetorical analysis of the feminist masterpiece "I Want a Wife" by Judy Brady. Recommended for high school.</p> <p>Analysis focuses on syntax and tone, with additional focus on context and audience. </p> <p>CW: The whole thing is sexist. Also there's quite a bit about sex.</p> <p>Feminist Justice #13</p> <p>Link to the text: https://www.thecut.com/2017/11/i-want-a-wife-by-judy-brady-syfers-new-york-mag-1971.html</p> <p>Thank you, and good night.</p>
December 30, 2021
"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
<p>Episode #36</p> <p>Reading and analysis of the short story "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker. Recommended for high school.</p> <p>Analysis focuses on diction, characterization, and theme, primarily the themes of practical use vs. ornamentation, substance vs. style</p> <p>CW: Discussions of racism, sexism, gender roles, family conflict, and injuries caused by fire.</p> <p>#12 in the Feminist Justice series.</p> <p>Link to PDF of the story: <a href="https://faculty.weber.edu/jyoung/english%206710/everyday%20use.pdf">everyday use.pdf (weber.edu)</a></p>
December 29, 2021
Naomi Shihab Nye, "Making a Fist" and "The Flying Cat"
<p>Episode #35</p> <p>Literary analysis of two poems, "Making a Fist" and "The Flying Cat" by Naomi Shihab Nye. Recommended for high school.</p> <p>Analysis focuses on the use of humor, speaker/point of view, and theme.</p> <p>CW: one poem is about death, the other is about pets dying; the discussion reflects both themes.</p> <p>#11 in the Feminist Justice series</p> <p>The poems are short, so I'm going to put the full text of both here. But also, links.</p> <p>Making a Fist: <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54308/making-a-fist">Making a Fist by Naomi Shihab Nye | Poetry Foundation</a></p> <h1>Making a Fist</h1> <p>BY <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/naomi-shihab-nye">NAOMI SHIHAB NYE</a></p> <p>We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.</p> <p>—Jorge Luis Borges</p> <p>For the first time, on the road north of Tampico,</p> <p>I felt the life sliding out of me,</p> <p>a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear.</p> <p>I was seven, I lay in the car</p> <p>watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern past the glass.</p> <p>My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin.</p> <p><br></p> <p>“How do you know if you are going to die?”</p> <p>I begged my mother.</p> <p>We had been traveling for days.</p> <p>With strange confidence she answered,</p> <p>“When you can no longer make a fist.”</p> <p><br></p> <p>Years later I smile to think of that journey,</p> <p>the borders we must cross separately,</p> <p>stamped with our unanswerable woes.</p> <p>I who did not die, who am still living,</p> <p>still lying in the backseat behind all my questions,</p> <p>clenching and opening one small hand.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The Flying Cat: <a href="https://www.quia.com/quiz/2890101.html">Quia - Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye -- The Flying Cat</a></p> <p>The Flying Cat<br> <br> Never, in all your career of worrying, did you imagine<br> What worries could occur concerning the flying cat.<br> You are traveling to a distant city.<br> The cat must travel in a small box with holes.<br> <br> Will the baggage compartment be pressurized?<br> Will a soldier's footlocker fall on the cat during take-off?<br> Will the cat freeze?<br> <br> You ask these questions one by one, in different voices<br> over the phone. Sometimes you get an answer,<br> sometimes a click.<br> Now it's affecting everything you do.<br> At dinner you feel nauseous, like you're swallowing<br> at twenty thousand feet.<br> In dreams you wave fish-heads, but the cat has grown propellers,<br> the cat is spinning out of sight!<br> <br> Will he faint when the plane lands?<br> Is the baggage compartment soundproofed?<br> Will the cat go deaf?<br> "Ma'am, if the cabin weren't pressurized, your cat would explode."<br> And spoken in a droll impersonal tone, as if<br> the explosion of cats were another statistic!<br> <br> Hugging the cat before departure, you realize again<br> the private language of pain. He purrs. He trusts you.<br> He knows little of planets or satellites,<br> black holes in space or the weightless rise of fear.<br> <br> by Naomi Shihab Nye</p> <p><br></p>
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