Reading Checklist

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Reading Plan Checklist

Track your progress and stay on schedule.

September 2025

Week of Sept 8 (Light reading)

  • *Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature* by Colby Gordon
  • *Queer Philologies: Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare’s Time* by Jeffrey Masten
  • *Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns* by Valerie Traub
  • “Shakespeare in Transition: Pedagogies of Transgender Justice and Performance” by Sawyer Kemp

Week of Sept 15

  • *King Henry VIII* by William Shakespeare
  • *King Richard II* by William Shakespeare
  • *Love’s Labour’s Lost* by William Shakespeare
  • *Much Ado About Nothing* by William Shakespeare
  • *Reclaiming the Multicultural Roots of U.s. Curriculum* by Wayne Au et al.

Week of Sept 22

  • *Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness* by Patricia Bizzell
  • “Writing with Teachers: A Conversation with Peter Elbow” by David Bartholomae
  • “Beyond the Methods Fetish: Toward a Humanizing Pedagogy” by Lilia Bartolomé
  • “The Intellectual Work of ‘Mixed’ Forms of Academic Discourses” by Patricia Bizzell

Week of Sept 29

  • *Titus Andronicus* by William Shakespeare
  • *Coriolanus* by William Shakespeare
  • *Julius Caesar* by William Shakespeare
  • *King Henry IV. Part 1* by William Shakespeare

October 2025

Week of Oct 6

  • “William Perry and Liberal Education” by Patricia Bizzell
  • “Critical and Social Justice Pedagogies in Practice” by Mary C. Breunig
  • “Collaborative Learning and the ‘Conversation of Mankind'” by Kenneth A. Bruffee
  • “Critical Thinking and Critical Pedagogy: Relations, Differences, and Limits” by Nicholas C. Burbules and Rupert Berk

Week of Oct 13 (Increased Reading)

  • *King Henry IV. Part 2* by William Shakespeare
  • *King Henry V* by William Shakespeare
  • *King Lear* by William Shakespeare
  • *The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom* by Felicia Rose Chavez
  • “Speaking Back to Manifest Destinies: A Land Education-Based Approach to Critical Curriculum Inquiry” by Dolores Calderon

Week of Oct 20

  • *Shakespeare Beyond the Green World: Drama and Ecopolitics in Jacobean Britain* by Todd Andrew Borlik
  • “Compost/Composition” by Francis E. Dolan
  • “Introduction: Toward a Renaissance Soil Science” by Hillary Caroline Eklund
  • “Wetlands Reclamation and the Fate of the Local in Seventeenth-Century England” by Hillary Caroline Eklund

Week of Oct 27

  • *Pedagogy of the Oppressed* by Paulo Freire
  • “Introduction” from *Performing Antiracist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication* by Frankie Condon and Vershawn Ashanti Young
  • “The Ecology of Writing” by Marilyn M. Cooper
  • “Teaching as an Act of Love: In Memory of Paulo Freire” by Antonia Darder

November 2025

Week of Nov 3

  • *Timon of Athens* by William Shakespeare
  • *Troilus and Cressida* by William Shakespeare
  • “Relative Strangers: Contracting Kinship in the Queer Ecology Classroom” by Sarah Ensor
  • “Introduction” from *Counterstories from the Writing Center* by Wonderful Faison and Frankie Condon

Week of Nov 10

  • *Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice* by Geneva Gay and James A. Banks
  • “Ecocriticism and Education for Sustainability” by Greg Garrard
  • “Critical Pedagogies: Dreaming of Democracy” by Ann George
  • “Beyond the Limits of Radical Educational Reform: Toward a Critical Theory of Education” by Henry Giroux

Week of Nov 17 (Increased Reading)

  • *Twelfth Night, or What You Will* by William Shakespeare
  • *The Taming of the Shrew* by William Shakespeare
  • *Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom* by bell hooks
  • *Promoting Diversity and Social Justice: Educating People from Privileged Groups* by Diane J. Goodman
  • *The Seeds We Planted: Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School* by Noelani Goodyear-Ka’õpua
  • *True to the Language Game: African American Discourse, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy* by Keith Gilyard

Week of Nov 24

  • *The Merchant of Venice* by William Shakespeare
  • *The Two Noble Kinsmen* by William Shakespeare
  • *Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality: Queer Students of Color and Anti-Oppressive Education* by Kevin K. Kumashiro
  • *But That’s Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy* by Gloria Ladson Billings

December 2025

Week of Dec 1

  • “Venus and Adonis” by William Shakespeare
  • “The Rape of Lucrece” by William Shakespeare
  • “Foundations of Place: A Multidisciplinary Framework for Place-Conscious Education” by David A. Gruenewald
  • “The Best of Both Worlds: A Critical Pedagogy of Place” by David A. Gruenewald

Week of Dec 8

  • *Epicoene, or the Silent Woman* by Ben Jonson
  • *Volpone, or, the Fox* by Ben Jonson
  • “Ike ‘Aina: Native Hawaiian Culturally-Based Indigenous Literacy” by kuualoha hoomanawanui
  • “A Mighty Cooperative” by Jennifer Horwitz
  • “A Place in Which to Stand” by Claude Hurlbert

Week of Dec 15

  • *The Winter’s Tale* by William Shakespeare
  • *The Jew of Malta* by Christopher Marlowe
  • “Inserting the ‘Race’ into Critical Pedagogy: An Analysis of ‘Race-Based Epistemologies” by Marvin Lynn
  • “Constructing Disciplinary Space: The Borders, Boundaries, and Zones of English” by Daniel Mahala and Jody Swilky

Christmas Break (Extra Reading)

  • *Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World* by Patricia Akhimie
  • *Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery* by Miles P. Grier
  • *Critical Pedagogy, Race, and Media: Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education Teaching* by Melanie A. Marotta and Susan Flynn
  • “Location, Location, Location: The Real’ (E)States of Being, Writing, and Thinking in Composition” by Johnathon Mauk

January 2026

Week of Jan 5

  • *Doctor Faustus: A Two-Text Edition* by Christopher Marlowe
  • *Edward II* by Christopher Marlowe
  • *Teaching, Affirming, and Recognizing Trans and Gender Creative Youth*\* by sj Miller
  • “Critical Pedagogy” from *Life in Schools* by Peter McLaren
  • “Multiculturalism and the Postmodern Critique: Towards a Pedagogy of Resistance and Transformation” by Peter McLaren

Week of Jan 12

  • *The Roaring Girl* by Thomas Middleton
  • *Shakespeare’s Sonnets* by William Shakespeare
  • *Geographies of Writing: Inhabiting Places and Encountering Difference* by Nedra Reynolds
  • “The Emergence of Critical Pedagogy” from *Life in Schools* by Peter McLaren

Week of Jan 19

  • *Richard III* by William Shakespeare
  • *Measure for Measure* by William Shakespeare
  • *Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change* by Ira Shor
  • “Part One” from *Pedagogy: Disturbing History, 1820-1930* by Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori
  • “Chapter 1: Introduction” from *Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing* by Mina P. Shaughnessy

Week of Jan 26

  • *Othello* by William Shakespeare
  • *Pericles, Prince of Tyre* by William Shakespeare
  • “Introduction” from *Critical Literacy in Action: Writing Words, Changing Worlds* by Ira Shor and Caroline Pari
  • “Some Basic Sociolinguistic Concepts” by Michael Stubbs
  • “Consensus and Difference in Collaborative Learning” by John Trimbur

February 2026

Week of Feb 2

  • *Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories* by James A. Berlin
  • *Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985* by James A. Berlin
  • *Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education* by John Dewey

Week of Feb 9

  • *Teaching Subject: Composition since 1966* by Joseph Harris
  • *Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare* by Stephen Greenblatt
  • *The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642* by Andrew Gurr

Week of Feb 16

  • *English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama* by Mary Floyd-Wilson
  • *Wooden Os: Shakespeare’s Theatres and England’s Trees* by Vin Nardizzi
  • *The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton* by Tiffany Jo Werth

Week of Feb 23 (Final Push)

  • “Local Pedagogies and Race: Interrogating White Safety in the Rural College Classroom” by Amy Winans
  • *All remaining unread items*
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