Summer Assignment Week 7 (7/18-22): Prejudice

This week's stories deal with issues of prejudice. Read one (at least) and come back next week for discussion questions (or visit Ms. Farinas' class blog to jump ahead).

• Barn Burning by William Faulkner (audiofile)
  
  The word niggard (more appropriately, niggardly) means "stingy," "ungenerously small" or "meager." (The fire the narrator's father builds is not a large fire; it gives off very little heat and light.) It is a different word than the racial slur that also begins with the letter N. (That word also appears in the story and if you find it necessary to refer to it in your response(s), please substitute N-word or n-----.)


• Cathedral by Raymond Carver (no audiofile available)
  
  Don't do drugs. Stay in school.

To download the audiofile for "Barn Burning" to listen to on your MP3 device, please right-click the link and choose "save." The audiofile should supplement your reading, not replace it; you are still required to read "Barn Burning" if that's the story you choose (reading both would be nice, but that's not required).