Dennis Kawaharada, Assistant Professor
Language Arts

Kapi'olani Community College
4303 Diamond Head Road
Honolulu, HI 96816
Office Kalia: 227
Phone: 734-9411
Email: dennisk@hawaii.edu

Eng 100 Syllabus, Schedule, Assignments, and Readings

• Syllabus--Fall 03
• Schedule for Unit I--Exploring Identity--Fall 03 (Subject to Change)
• Schedule for Unit II--Critical Analysis and Research--Fall 03 (Subject to Change)
• Schedule for Unit III--Short Stories and Interpretation--Fall 03 (Subject to Change)
• Schedule for Unit IV--Creative Nonfiction--Fall 03 (Subject to Change)
• End-of-the-Semester Portfolio--Fall 03 (Subject to Change)

Unit IV-Creative Nonfiction / Style, Grammar, and Puncutation

Unit IV Writing Assignment--Creative Nonfiction

Readings

• "Rainbows Under Water" / by John Dominis Holt (handout)
• "Skunk Dreams" / by Louise Erdrich (handout)
• "Heading into Darkness Once Again"/ by Richard Rodrigues (handout)
• "Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self" / by Alice Walker (handout)

Sample Creative Nonfiction by Students

• Creative Nonfiction: Essays on Places, People, and Spirits
• Diamond Journal. A KCC Student Publication.

Further Readings in Creative Nonfiction

The following anthologies provide further readings in creative nonfiction:

• Twenty-Five Great Essays. Robert Diyanni, ed. New York: Penguin, 2002.
• The Best American Essays. Robert Atwan, ed. Boston: Houghton. Published annually with guest editors.

Exercises in Style, Grammar, and Puncutation

1. Style and Punctuation Analysis Question
2. Modifier Placement / Sentence Imitation Exercise

Unit I-Exploring Identity: the Personal Essay

Unit I Writing Assignment--Exploring Identity: the Personal Essay

Readings

• Rainbows Under Water / by John Dominis Holt (handout)

Sample Student Papers

• What is a Hunter?
• Why I am a Vegetarian (handout)
• Invisible Women (handout)
• Changing Your Way (handout)

Figurative Language Exercise

Unit II-Critical Analysis and Research

Unit II Writing Assignment--Critical Analysis and Research

Map of Essay 2

Sample Arguments

• Outlawing Handguns / Robert di Grazia: a police commissioner argues against the private ownership of handguns (1974).
• The Right to Arms / Edward Abbey: an agrarian anarchist argues for the right to arms (1979).
• Legalizing Gambling in Hawai'i / David Carey: a hotel executive argues for legalizing gambling (1995).
• Gambling Means More Crime / Steven Alm: a U.S. Attorney argues against legalizing gambling (1995).
• Permitting Pot is Pernicious Rot / Steve Forbes: a presidential candidate argues against decriminalizing marijuana (1996)
• Keep Marijuana Illegal--For Children's Sake/ Peter Provet, a substance abuse professional, argues against legalizing marijuana (2002).
• Keep Marijuana Illegal--For Teens / Thomas W. Clark: a researcher in the field of addictions argues for legalizing marijuana, but for adults only (1997).
• The Death Penalty Brings Justice / George Pataki: a governor of NY argues for the death penalty (1996).
• Death at Midnight ... Hope at Sunrise / Steven Hawkins: the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty argues against the death penalty (1996).

Analyzing Arguments

1.Evaluating the Writer's Appeal (Ethos, etc.)

2. Evaluating Emotional Appeals (Pathos)

3. Evaluating Rational Appeals (Logos)

4. Common Fallacies

5. Identifying Fallacies: Practice

6. Examining Claims Exercise

Unit III-Short Stories and Interpretation

Unit III Writing Assignment--Story or Interpretation of a Story

Questions for Interpreting Stories

Elements of Story

Readings on Line

Traditonal Hawaiian Stories

• Kahalaopuna / by Emma Nakuina (the owl clan vs. the shark clan)
• Nanaue the Shark Man / by Emma Nakuina (the son of the shark god develops a craving for human flesh, must be killed)
• Oahunui / by Emma Nakuina (the cannibal king of Wahiawa must die)
• Punahou / by Emma Nakuina (how the spring at Punahou was created)
• Pumaia / Anonymous (the rebellion of a pig farmer against the ali'i of O'ahu)

Stories by Local Writers

• I'll Crack Your Head Kotsun / by Milton Murayama (the reader experiences 1920's plantation camp life through the eyes of a young boy on Maui and makes a surprising discovery about how one family makes a living)
• Intermediate School Hapai / by Wini Terada (older brother watching out for younger sister, small kid time 1960's and beyond; nah, she wasn't really hapai.)
• Ship of Dreams/ by Rodney Morales (romeo and juliet in honolulu, 1920's, with a happier ending, perhaps)
• Black over Blue / by Rodney Morales (a shooting death makes a father rethink his commitments)
• House of Bones / by Stuart Ching (young boy, hanai to relatives, comes to terms with who he is)

Stories by National and International Writees

• Disappearing / by Monica Wood, USA (obsession with appearances leads to disappearing?)
• Love, Your Only Mother / by David Kaplan, USA (mother's gone, now what?)
• Lost Keys / by Paul Milenski, USA (growing old can be difficult to accept for a self-reliant outdoorsman)
• The School / by Donald Barthelme, USA (everything seems to be dying--so why not demonstrate how life is made?)
• The Brown House / by Hisaye Yamamoto, USA (gambling addiction causes hardship)
• Lullaby / by Leslie Marmon Silko, Laguna Pueblo-USA (a mother loses her child)
• The Falling Girl / by Dino Buzzati, Italy (is life like falling from a tall building?)
• The Blue Jar / by Isak Dinesan, Denmark (love could be forever)
• Snow / by Ann Beattie, USA (or love could barely last a winter?)
• At the River / by Patricia Grace, Maori-New Zealand (accepting death)
• One of These Days / by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia (a dentist gets revenge--sort of)
• The Verb "To Kill" / by Luisa Valenzuela, Argentina (two young girls fantasize about the verb "to kill.")
• Explosion in the Parlor / by Bai Xiao-Yi, China (why not tell the truth?)
• The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket / by Yasunari Kawabata, Japan (the best moments of life may go unnoticed by those who live them)

Further Readings in Traditional Hawaiian Stories

• Traditions of O'ahu: Stories of an Ancient Island

Further Readings in Local Literature

The following anthologies provide further readings in local literature:

• The Best of Honolulu Fiction . Eric Chock and Darrell Lum, eds. Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1999.
• Growing Up Local: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose from Hawai'i. Chock, et al, eds. Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1998.
• The Speed of Darkness. Rodney Morales. Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1986.

Further Reading in Short Fiction

The following anthologies provide further readings in short short fiction:

• Sudden Fiction International. Robert Shapard and James Thomas, eds. New York: Norton, 1989.
• Sudden Ficton: American Short-Short Stories. Robert Robert Shapard and James Thomas, eds. Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith, 1986.
• Short Shorts: An Anthlogy of the Shortest Stories. Irving Howe and Ilana Wiener Howe, eds. New York: Bantam, 1982.