Department:
English

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Phone: (209) 384-6315
E-mail: hundley.a@mccd.edu
Office: IAC 263

Currently (*) and Previously Taught Courses:
English 84* (Learning Community)
English A
English 1A*
English 41
English 1B

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The First Book by Rita Dove

Open it.

Go ahead, it won’t bite.
Well…maybe a little.

More a nip, like.  A tingle.
It’s pleasurable, really.

You see, it keeps on opening.
You may fall in.

Sure, it’s hard to get started; remember learning to use

Knife and fork?  Dig in:
you’ll never reach bottom.

It’s not like it’s the end of the world—
just the world as you think

you know it.

The Thoughtful Reader
Mary C. Fjeldstad

I am not scheduled to teach this course Fall 2008 so no updates will be made at this time.

             English 41

Spring 2008

College-Level Reading
 

This class emphasizes critical reading and thinking skills appropriate to
college reading needs. This course is for students who already have
knowledge of word analysis and comprehension techniques, but need 
work in applying critical reading and thinking strategies to college-level material. According to Porter, Kneupper, and Reeder’s book 
The Literate Mind (1987), a critical thinker is reflective, methodical,
inventive, curious, flexible, and confident. This course will help you
recognize and develop these critical reading and thinking skills.

In addition to completing reading and writing assignments from the
textbooks, students will also use additional handouts/materials, the Internet, and group work to enhance the application of critical reading and thinking skills. Participation in group and whole class activities is mandatory; this course requires you to be an active learner.

Click here to go to the English 41 Syllabus

Click here to go to the English 41 Course Calendar

Click here to go to English 41 Sample Assignments

"Outside of a book a dog is man's best friend, inside of a dog 
it is too dark to read."--- Groucho Marx


Lucy and Jessie, my dogs, on the beach in Santa Barbara Nov. 2007

“When you sell a man a book, you don’t sell him twelve ounces 
of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life.” 
–Christopher Morley

"The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world
in respect to time and place. His life falls into a set routine; he is limited to contact
and conversation with a few friends and acquaintances, and he sees only what happens in his immediate neighborhood. From this prison there is no escape."
--Lin Yu-Tang, The Art of Reading
 

Last updated June 23, 2008 by Amy Hundley