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For courses in Freshman Orientation/Student Success/Freshman Composition.This anthology of imaginative literature by student as well as professional writers contains stories, poems, drama, essays, letters, and memoirs about all aspects of college life in order to motivate students, especially first year students, to read, discuss, write, and think critically about the problems and challenges of succeeding in college. Historical and cultural diversity offers students a broader context in which to appreciate and understand the college experience.

Preface

xi

Where We're Coming From: Leaving Other Lives

1

(62)

Incurring My Mother's Displeasure

2

(4)

Zitkala-Sa

from Up from Slavery

6

(5)

Booker T. Washington

Raising My Hand

11

(3)

Antler

The English Lesson

14

(13)

Nicholasa Mohr

Miss Rinehart's Paddle

27

(2)

Jeri McCormick

from The Day I Became an Autodidact

29

(6)

Kendall Hailey

In High School I Majored in Shop

35

(2)

Peter Martin

50% Chance of Lightning

37

(10)

Cristina Salat

Somewhere in Minnesota

47

(2)

Peter Klein

The Eyes of Chickens

49

(9)

Michael Lancaster

Further Suggestions for Writing

58

(3)

Selected Films

61

(2)

School Daze: Life in the First Year

63

(70)

A Day in the Life Of...

64

(2)

Greg Adams

Ten Commandments for a College Freshman

66

(4)

Joseph McCabe

My First Week at Mizzou

70

(6)

Andrew Hicks

from Diary of a Freshman

76

(3)

Charles Macomb Flandreau

Hunters and Gatherers

79

(3)

Jennifer Hale

Waiting for Daylight

82

(7)

Linda Mannheim

Grading Your Professors

89

(7)

Jacob Neusner

Theme for English B

96

(3)

Langston Hughes

College Students Speak about ADD

99

(5)

Outside In: The Life of a Commuter Student

104

(6)

Patti See

Homeward Bond

110

(4)

Daisy Nguyen

from I Walk in Beauty

114

(5)

Davina Ruth

from The Freshman Year Thrill Ride

119

(3)

Missy Loney

Julie Feist

``Who Shall I Be?'' The Allure of a Fresh Start

122

(6)

Jennifer Crichton

Further Suggestions for Writing

128

(2)

Selected Films

130

(3)

Student Affairs: Friends and Lovers

133

(80)

Raspberries

134

(2)

Jennifer Fandel

First Love

136

(11)

R.A. Sasaki

Revision

147

(2)

John David Rose

Carmen

149

(5)

Jennifer Sheridan

What It's Really Like

154

(2)

Frank Smoot

Virginity

156

(10)

Jane Barnes Casey

Irreversible Seasons

166

(12)

Anita Santiago

No More Kissing --- AIDS Everywhere

178

(3)

Michael Blumenthal

The Blue-Light System

181

(7)

Katie Roiphe

Dancing

188

(19)

Paul Durica

The Good Student Apologizes to His Professor and to the Girl in Room 303

207

(2)

Ron Watson

Further Suggestions for Writing

209

(2)

Selected Films

211

(2)

Teacher, Teacher: Will This Be on the Test?

213

(86)

Teachers: A Primer

214

(5)

Ron Wallace

Take This Fish and Look at It

219

(5)

Samuel H. Scudder

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

224

(2)

Walt Whitman

Mayday

226

(15)

William Crawford Woods

No Immediate Danger

241

(8)

Mary McLaughlin Slechta

Open Admission

249

(10)

Shirley Lauro

Signed, Grateful

259

(5)

Kate Boyes

Of This Time, Of That Place

264

(29)

Lionel Trilling

April Inventory

293

(3)

W.D. Snodgrass

Further Suggestions for Writing

296

(2)

Selected Films

298

(1)

Been There, Done That: Looking Forward, Looking Back

299

(36)

The Speech the Graduates Didn't Hear

300

(3)

Jacob Neusner

The Eighty-Yard Run

303

(12)

Irwin Shaw

Reunion

315

(3)

Dawn Karima Pettigrew

Moon June Spoon

318

(3)

Frank Smoot

Scarlet Ribbons

321

(4)

Michael Perry

Passion

325

(6)

Monica Coleman

Further Suggestions for Writing

331

(2)

Selected Films

333

(2)

Appendix Critical Thinking Points on Selected Films

335

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Preface Higher Learning provides students and teachers a vehicle to explore, reflect on, and perhaps even discover issues about ethnic, class, age, gender, and sexual diversity. Imagine entering a foreign country where you understand just enough of the language to communicate but cannot quite grasp the customs or the etiquette of the land. Imagine you had to learn the culture of that country without anyone showing or telling you how. This is what going to college is like for many first-year students. Higher Learning: Reading and Writing about Collegepresents imaginative literature--fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction--that appeals to students and teachers because it is written from their point of view. It is literature that allows them to see how their individual experience fits into the culturally and historically diverse traditions and perspectives of university life. Avid readers--students, teachers, and lifelong learners--know literature is the one place a person is never alone. This collection allows readers to discover people just like them, as well as people sometimes so different from them to be almost, at least at first, unimaginable. Students can watch these people struggle with problems and challenges, most of which never appear in any college catalogue or on any class syllabus. Though universities provide an array of student support systems, there are some aspects of university life that new students must work through mostly on their own. Character, maturity, and experience will be as essential to success as high school class rank or SAT scores. Alienation, isolation, and loneliness will be as much of a challenge as English Composition or Calculus. Many college texts for first-year students focus on time management, critical thinking, active reading, and lecture and text note taking. These survival skills are the nuts and bolts of college success. This collection, written by people who have "been there and done that," displays the whole machine chugging along in all its imperfect glory. These readings provide good and bad examples, some broader views and alternative takes of individual experiences, parables of the admirable, cautionary tales, and funny stories. College students, especially first-year students, often feel isolated on campuses. The degree to which students feel a "connectedness" to a university, a sense of place and a way of fitting in that many teachers and administrators by now take too much for granted, leads to how well the students perform, in fact whether or not they complete a degree.Higher Learningoffers some of the "inside" stories of college life, addressing the difficult issues that students face in their transition to college. It also provides students and teachers a vehicle to explore, reflect on, and perhaps even discover issues about ethnic, class, age, gender, and sexual diversity. How to Use This Book Reading and writing questions are provided as a part of the text and should be read before and after reading each piece of literature, as a way to get readers involved in the kind of close and active reading done at the college level. In addition to 'providing prompts for class discussion, Critical Thinking Points, offered before and after each piece under the categories ofAs You Read, After You've Read,andSome Possibilities for Writing,accomplish the following objectives: provide a focus for each reading help readers formulate their own questions while they read provide a historical and/or cultural context for the reading create a forum for reader response, analysis, and critical reflection promote creative writing and expository responses that connect readings to students' personal lives provide prompts for informal and formal writing assignments, such as journal entries, class pr

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