4th Monday of each month, 10:30 AM, Watkins Conference Room, Northeast Regional Library.
Discussing the Civically Engaged Reader, published by the Great Books Foundation. New members welcome!
Published with support from the Project on Civic Reflection, The Civically Engaged Reader offers 47 readings from literature, philosophy, and religion that invite reflection on all kinds of civic-minded activities and on the vital connections between thought and service.
Copies of the anthology are available at the Northeast Regional Library checkout desk, thanks to the Friends of the Library.
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Part I: Associating |
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| Apr 26, 2010 |
They'll Say, "She Must Be From Another Country" |
Imtiaz Dharker |
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Fellowship |
Franz Kafka |
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Earliest Impressions |
Jane Addams |
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He Sits Down on the floor of a School for the Retarded |
Alden Nowlan |
| May 24, 2010 |
selection from The Theory of Moral Sentiments |
Adam Smith |
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selection from Democracy in America |
Alexis de Tocqueville |
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selection from The Souls of Black Folk |
W.E.B. Du Bois |
| June 28, 2010 |
Theme for English 8 |
Langston Hughes |
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Recitatif |
Toni Morrison |
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Mending Wall |
Robert Frost |
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Part II: Serving (tentative date assignments) |
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| Jul 26, 2010 |
Luella Miller |
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman |
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Dry Dock |
Margaret Sutherland |
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Saving the Crippled Boy |
Jan Beatty |
| Aug 23, 2010 |
The Eleventh |
Henri Barbusse |
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The Moral Equivalent of War |
William James |
| Sep 27, 2010 |
The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements |
Jane Addams |
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The Drum Major Instinct |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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The Book of Ruth |
from the Bible |
| Oct 25, 2010 |
selection from Specimen Days |
Walt Whitman |
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The Lovers of the Poor |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
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What We Don't Talk About When We Don't Talk About Service |
Adam Davis |
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Part III: Giving |
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| Nov 22, 2010 |
Where Were We |
Dave Eggers |
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selection from The Reveries of the Solitary Walker |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| Dec 20 (?) |
The Sweetness of Charity |
Maya Angelou |
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The Lamb and the Pinecone |
Pablo Neruda |
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The Gospel of Wealth, Part I |
Andrew Carnegie |
| 2011 dates tba |
selection from "Self-Reliance" |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Compassion: The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel" |
Sogyal Rinpoche |
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A Bed for the Night |
Bertoldt Brecht |
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Four Traditions of Philanthropy |
Elizabeth Lynn & D. Susan Wisely |
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selection from the Mishneh Torah |
Moses Maimonides |
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If All Who Have Begged Help |
Anna Akhmatova |
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Part IV: Leading |
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The Wife of His Youth |
Charles Waddell Chestnut |
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II Samuel, chapters 11-12 |
the Bible |
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The Destructors |
Graham Greene |
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The Helmsman |
Franz Kafka |
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The Lesson |
Toni Cade Bambara |
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The Use of Force |
William Carlos Williams |
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selection from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
Benjamin Franklin |
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
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The History Teacher |
Billy Collins |
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Second Inaugural Address |
Abraham Lincoln |
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The Minister's Black Veil |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |