- Group Work on Kurt Vonnegut's
"Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog"
- Group Work on Kurt Vonnegut's
"Who Am I This Time?"
- Group
Work on Jessica Amanda Salmonson's "Parenting" (from A Silver
Thread of Madness)
- Cassandra
and Jonah: some notes on open or closed futures and those who would
tell us
about them
- Group
work on Manchild in the Promised Land
-
In-class
Future Autobiography exercise
-
Group work
on Saki's (1870-1816) story, "The Open Window"
-
Group
Work on Jessica Amanda Salmonson's "Meditations and Confessions
Regarding My Disturbing Ability" (from A Silver Thread of Madness)
-
Link to Violet Books,
Jessica Amanda Salmonson's on-line bookstore, which will link you to
some of her essays and another story
-
Group Work on
Le Guin's "Those Who Walk Away from Omelas"
-
Link to an
interview with Octavia Butler
-
Group Work
on Octavia E. Butler and "Positive Obsession"
-
Group Work
on Octavia E. Butler's "Furor Scribendi"
-
Group work
on Rebbe Nachman's "The Turkey Prince"
-
Group Work on
Orson Scott Card's "Mortal Gods"
-
Group Work on
Orson Scott Card's "Bicicleta"
-
Group Work
on Orson Scott Card's "Gert Fram"
-
Group Work on
Sex and Gender Distinction
-
[In-class
Writing on Childhood Heroes]
-
[In-class
Writing on Night]
-
[Group work
on Orson Scott Card's "The Porcelain Salamander"]
-
[Group work
on "Harrison Bergeron"]
-
[Group work
on Self-Deception]
-
Group work
on Orson Scott Card's "Middle Woman"
-
[Link
to Toni Morrison Page]
-
[Group work
on The Bluest Eye]
-
[Group work
on Night]
-
[Yom
HaShoah - Holocaust Related Links from JEWISHNT - Jewish Global
Information Network]
-
[Group work
on "The Body"]
-
[Group work
on Anthem]
-
[Group work
on Slaughterhouse Five]
-
[Group work
on The Autobiography of Malcolm X]
-
[Links to
material on Malcolm X]
Notes, instructions, and samples
- Notes
for discussion of Kurt
Vonnegut's "More Stately Mansions" (in Welcome to the Monkey House)
-
Notes
for Lecture on "Aristotle, Becker, King, Childhood, and Scary Stories"
-
Reading
S. King's "Breathing Method"
-
Some notes
on identity, character and culture
-
Notes on Heroic
Scripting
-
[Some notes
on self-deception]
-
[Racism as a
call to deception (outline)]
-
Some
notes on sex/gender distinction
-
["P" is a
sample of the writing exercise in which biological sex and social
gender characteristics are not stated and cannot be inferred.]
-
[One Way to
Write a Philosophy Paper] (provides a brief outline of one of the
standard ways to go about writing a philosophy paper)
-
[Theodicy:
The Problem of Evil] (provides a brief discussion of some the
responses to the problem of evil in the context of theodicy)
-
[Anthropodicy:
The Problem of Evil] (a brief list of some of the explanations of
human evil)
-
M.
Kagan notes for lecture on possibilities and practice
Ayn Rand Links
-
[M. Kagan's
notes on and reconstruction of Ayn Rand's Ethical Egoism, and links to
other Rand/Objectivism material ]
-
The
Journal of Ayn Rand Studies
Vonnegut and Card Links
-
Hatrack River - The Official
Web Site of Orson Scott Card
-
[Links to
material on Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse Five]
Berne, Raffa, Campbell Jung and Becker
-
Kagan notes on
Berne from Heroic Scripting lecture