1.
Angelou, Maya:
“Finishing School” and
“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” (poetry)
2.
Benet, Stephen Vincent:
"The Devil and
Daniel Webster" (short story)
3.
Camus, Albert:
The Myth
of Sisyphus
4.
Chopin, Kate:
"The Story of
an Hour" (short story)
5.
Donne, John:
"Meditation XVII"
6.
Douglass, Frederick:
"Learning to Read and Write" and
"Resurrection"
7.
Dweck, Carol S.:
"Boosting Achievement with Messages that Motivate"
8.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo:
"Nature" and
"Self-Reliance"
9.
Epstein, Joseph:
“The
Perpetual Adolescent”
10.
Faulkner, William:
"A Rose
for Emily" (short story)
11.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins:
"The Yellow Wallpaper" (short story)
12.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel:
"The Birthmark" (short story),
"The Minister's Black Veil" (short story),
"Rappaccini's Daughter" (short story), and
"Young Goodman Brown" (short story)
13.
Hughes, Langston:
“I,
Too, Sing America” (poetry),
“Let America Be America Again” (poetry), and
“Theme for English B” (poetry)
14.
Jackson, Andrew:
Second
Annual Address
15.
Jacobs, W. W.:
"The
Monkey's Paw" (short story)
16.
Foucault, Michel:
"Panopticism"
17.
Frost, Robert:
"Mending
Wall" (poetry)
18.
Jefferson, Thomas:
Declaration of Independence
19.
Keller, Helen:
"The Day
Language Came into My Life"
20.
Le Guin, Ursula K.:
"She Unnames Them" (short story - link to site)
21.
Madison, James:
US
Constitution and
Amendments to the US Constitution
22.
McBride, Kelli:
"Cheaters Never Prosper"
23.
Mill, John Stuart:
"On the
Liberty of Thought and Discussion"
24.
Nixon, Richard M.:
"Checker's Speech"
25.
Orwell, George:
“A Hanging”,
“Excerpt from 1984 and ‘The Principles of Newspeak’”,
“Freedom of the Press” (Proposed Preface to Animal Farm),
“Politics and the English Language”,
“Shooting an Elephant”, and
“Why
I Write”
26.
PBS:
Indian Removal Act
27.
Paine, Thomas:
"Common
Sense"
28.
Plato:
"Allegory
of the Cave"
29.
Poe, Edgar Allan:
"The
Black Cat" (short story),
The Cask of
Amontillado" (short story),
"The
Man of the Crowd" (short story),
"The
Masque of the Red Death" (short story),
"The
Philosophy of Composition",
"The Pit and
the Pendulum" (short story), and
"The Raven" (poetry)
30.
Red Cloud:
"Red
Cloud's Speech"
31.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady:
"The
Declaration of Sentiments"
32.
Stockton, Frank:
“The
Lady or the Tiger” (short story)
33.
Swift, Jonathan:
"A Modest
Proposal"
34.
Thoreau, Henry David:
"Civil
Disobedience"
35.
Thurber, James:
“The
Catbird Seat” (short story)
36.
Twain, Mark:
"Fenimore
Cooper's Literary Offenses"
37.
Wollstonecraft, Mary:
"A Vindication of the Rights of Women"
38.
Wordsworth, William:
"Expostulation and Reply" (poetry)
1.
Birk, Newman P., and Genevieve B. Birk:
"Selection, Slanting and Charged Language"
2.
Boethius: "Fortune's
Wheel"
3.
Brady, Judy: "Why
I Want a Wife"
4.
Buckley, William F., Jr.: "Why
Don't We Complain?"
5.
Cheever, John: "The
Swimmer"
6.
Clifton, Lucille:
"homage
to my hips"
7.
Cross, Donna Woolfolk:
"Propaganda: How Not to Be Bamboozled"
8.
Cunha, Edite:
"Talking in the New Land"
9.
Dix, Dorothea:
"I Tell What I
Have Seen" (excerpt from On Behalf of the Insanse Poor)
10.
Crow Dog, Mary and Richard Erdoes: "Civilize
Them with a Stick"
11.
Dold, Catherine:
"American
Cannibal" (formerly: "What Happened to the Anasazi")
12.
Dove, Rita:
Three Poems:
"centipede", "adolescence - i", "daystar"
13.
Dugan, Alan:
"Prayer"
14.
Egan, Jennifer: "The
Thin Red Line"
15.
Ellison, Ralph:
"Battle Royal" (excerpt from Invisible Man)
16.
Frankel, Max:
"Turning Away from the Holocaust"
17.
Freire, Paulo:
"The 'Banking' Concept of Education"(Chapter 2 only)
18.
Ghandi, Mahatma: "Letter
to Lord Irwin"
19.
Hass, Robert: "A
Story about the Body" (poem)
20.
Justice, Donald:
"Men at Forty"
21.
Kakutani, Michael:
"The Word Police"
22.
Kaysen, Susanna:
"My
Diagnosis"
23.
King, Martin Luther, Jr.:
"I Have a Dream", and
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" In response to
Public Statement by Eight Alabama Clergymen
24.
King, Robert D.:
"Should English Be the Law?"
25.
Kingsolver, Barbara:
"Everybody's Somebody's Baby" (NY Times version), and
"Somebody's Baby" (complete text from POL 1st ed.)
26.
Kozol, Jonathan: "The
Human Cost of an Illiterate Society"
27.
Kristofferson, Kris:
"Me
and Bobby McGee"
(video of song)
28.
Langer, Susanne K.:
"Language and Thought"
29.
Lee, Li-Young: "Persimmons"
30.
Lutz, William:
'Weasel Words" and
"The World of Doublespeak"
31.
Mamet, David:
"The Watch"
32.
Morrison, Toni:
"Recitatif"
33.
Naylor, Gloria:
"The Meanings of a Word"
34.
Piercy, Marge:
"The Friend"
35.
Rauch, Jonathan:
"Caring for Your Introvert"
36.
Roberts, Paul:
"How to Say Nothing in 500 Words"
37.
Roethke, Theodore:
"My Papa's
Waltz"
38.
Rothschild, Matthew:
"The New
McCarthyism"
39.
Schiel, Marilyn:
"Levi's"
40.
Sedaris, David:
Essays from The
New Yorker and 25 Great Essays and
Short Stories by David Sedaris from The Electric Typewriter
41.
Steinbeck, John:
Excerpts from The Grapes of Wrath (Chapter 14)
42.
Stryk, Lucien:
"Cherries"
43.
Tannen, Deborah:
"Sex, Lies and Conversation" and
Other articles
by Tannen
44.
Van Dusen, Lewis:
"Civil Disobedience: Destroyer of Democracy"
45.
Vonnegut, Kurt:
"How to Write with
Style"
46.
Walker, Alice:
"Am I Blue?"
47.
White, E. B.:
"Once
More to the Lake"
48.
Winn, Marie:
"Television: The Plug-In Drug"
49.
X, Malcolm:
"Coming to an Awareness of Language"