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Happy Top Ten Tuesday! I think about this a lot because I do teach classes! But instead of my more hum-drum reading lists for English Composition, which you can find here , here are the reading lists for imaginary classes I'd like to teach: Early Modern British Literature (Note: would not necessarily teach in this order) 1. King Lear by William Shakespeare 2. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare 3. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 4. Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe 5. Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe 6. Comus by John Milton 7. Penshurst and other poems by Ben Jonson 8. Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum by Aemilia Lanyer 9. The Poems of Katherine Philips (No Image Available) 10. Assaulted and Pursued Chastity by Margaret Cavendish Extras: The Sonnets, selected poems from John Donne, selections from The Jew of Malta and The Duchess of Malfi , selected poems and speeches from Elizabeth I Utopian and Dystopian Li...

Since today's Top Ten Tuesday is a freebie, I thought I'd write about something I think about a lot-readings and books that will interest today's college students. These are mostly a collection of readings I've actually used and found successful, as well as those I'd like to try. 1. "The Sun, the Moon, the Stars" from This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz I've taught this story in every class I could, with almost universally successful results (there's always the odd student offended by the cursing). If I could, I'd teach the whole book. 2. "Shitty First Drafts" by Ann Lamott I tried this out in my classes this semester, and it went over really well. It was one of the readings that many students mentioned in their final reflection, even though we read it at the beginning of the semester. 3. Tripmaster Monkey by Maxine Hong Kingston I read this in college and loved it. It speaks to the Asian-American experience as well a...