Movement in Poetry, Film, and Prose

Travel Writing5 questions

• Blue Highways | William Least Heat-Moon | Chapter 1
• In a Sunburned Country | Bill Bryson | Excerpts from Chapters 1 & 2
• The Travels of Marco Polo | Brief Selections
• The Death of Josseline | Excerpt
• “Why We Travel” | Pico Iyer

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Poetry11 questions

1. Voices of Migration

   • “Lines Written in Oregon” | Vladimir Nabokov
   • “The New Colossus” | Emma Lazarus
   • “Prospective Immigrants Please Note” | Adrienne Rich
   • “Chicago Zen” | A. K. Ramanujan

2. The Poetry of Going Places

   • “Ode to Bicycles” | Pablo Neruda
   • “To a Locomotive in Winter” | Walt Whitman
   • “High Flight” | John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
   • “Filling Station” | Elizabeth Bishop
   • “Oh the Places You’ll Go” | Dr. Seuss

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Short Stories2 questions

• Ken Liu | “Paper Menagerie”
• Jumpa Lahiri | “Once in a Lifetime”

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Film5 questions

• Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
• Opening of Up
• “I’ll Wait for the Next One”
• “PaperMan”
• October Sky

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