- ISBN: 9781319137205 | 1319137202
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 5/31/2017
1 – Reading the World2 – Thinking about Literature3 – Thinking about Rhetoric and Argument4 – Thinking about Synthesis5 – Identity and Society What does "identity" mean? ? How is one’s identity formed? ? How do personal experiences affect our identity? ? To what extent does school emphasize conformity at the expense of individuality?Central Text George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant (nonfiction)Conversation: Changes and Transformations
- Jon Krakauer, The Devil’s Thumb (nonfiction)
- Caitlin Horrocks, Zolaria (fiction)
- Sharon Olds, My Son The Man and The Possessive (poetry)
- William Shakespeare, Seven Ages of Man (poetry/drama)
- James Joyce, Eveline (fiction)
- Alexandra Robbins, from The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth (nonfiction)
- Faith Erin Hicks, from Friends with Boys (graphic novel)
- John Taylor Gatto, Against School (nonfiction)
- Horace Mann, from The Common School Journal (nonfiction)
- Theodore Sizer, from Horace’s School: Redesigning the American High School (nonfiction)
- Maya Angelou, from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (memoir)
- The Carlisle Indian Boarding School (photographs)
- W.H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts (poetry)
- William Carlos Williams, Landscape with The Fall of Icarus (poetry)
- Brian Aldiss, Flight 063 (poetry)
- Jeffrey Kluger, from Ambition: Why Some people Are Most Likely to Succeed (nonfiction)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias (poetry)
- William Shakespeare, Cardinal Wolsey’s Speech from Henry VIII (drama)
- Amy Tan, Rules of the Game (fiction)
- Miguel Cervantes, from Don Quixote (fiction)
- Martin Luther King Jr., I’ve Been to the Mountaintop (speech)
- Nelson Mandela, from An Ideal for Which I am Prepared to Die (speech)
- Thomas Paine, from Common Sense (broadside)
- Malala Yousafzai, Speech to the United Nations Youth Assembly
- Carrie Chapman Catt, Address to the Congress on Women’s Suffrage
- George Orwell, from Animal Farm (fiction)
- Gabriel García Márquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (fiction)
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Cell One (fiction)
- Nathan Englander, Free Fruit for Young Widows (fiction)
- John Updike, A & P (fiction)
- William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark (poetry)
- Wislawa Szymborska, A Contribution to Statistics (poetry)
- Annie Dillard, An American Childhood (memoir)
- Sam Harris, from Lying (nonfiction)
- Robert Kolker, Cheating Upwards (nonfiction)
- Chuck Klosterman, Why We Look the Other Way (nonfiction)
- Christopher Bergland, Cheaters Never Win (nonfiction)
- Brad Allenby, Is Human Enhancement Cheating? (nonfiction)
- Mia Consalvo, Cheating is Good For You (nonfiction)
- David Callahan, from The Cheating Culture (nonfiction)
- The Ethics of Photo Manipulation (photographs)
- Kamila Shamsie, from The Storytellers of Empire (nonfiction)
- Wilfred Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est (poetry)
- William Shakespeare, St. Crispin’s Day Speech (drama)
- Vu Bao, The Man Who Stained his Soul (fiction)
- Katey Schultz, Deuce Out (fiction)
- Kevin Sites, from In the Hot Zone (nonfiction)
- Brian Turner, 2000 lbs. (poetry)
- Karim Ben Khelifa, My Enemy, Myself (photo essay)
- Jean de Crevecoeur, from Letters from an American Farmer (nonfiction)
- Anna Quindlen, Quilt of a Country (nonfiction)
- Li-Young Lee, For a New Citizen of these United States (poetry)
- Nola Kambanda, My New World Journey (nonfiction)
- Amit Majmudar, Dothead (poetry)
- Maira Kalman, from And the Pursuit of Happiness (graphic essay)
- Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (nonfiction)
- Sandra Cisneros, No Speak English (fiction)
- Ha Jin, Children as Enemies (fiction)
- Mutabaruka, Dis Poem (poetry)
- Kory Stamper, Slang for the Ages (nonfiction)
- Firoozeh Dumas, Hot Dogs and Wild Geese (nonfiction)
- Marjorie Agosin, English (poetry)
- W.S. Merwin, Losing a Language (poetry)
- Clive Thompson, Brave New World of Digital Intimacy (nonfiction)
- Sherry Turkle, from Alone Together (nonfiction)
- Tim Egan, The Hoax of Digital Life (nonfiction)
- Sherman Alexie, Facebook Sonnet (poetry)
- Robbie Cooper, Alter Egos: Avatars and their Creators (photographs)
- Alexis Madrigal, Why Facebook and Googles Concept of Real Names Is Revolutionary (nonfiction)
- Leonard Pitts, The anonymous back-stabbing of Internet message boards (nonfiction)
- Jason Harrington, Do you Like Me? Click Yes or No (fiction)
- Ursula LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (fiction)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron (fiction)
- Nikki Giovanni, Nikki-Rosa (poetry)
- Jane Shore, Happy Family (poetry)
- Pico Iyer, The Joy of Less (nonfiction)
- Chinua Achebe, Civil Peace (fiction)
- Wislawa Szymborska, Utopia (poetry)
- Jon Meachem, Free to Be Happy (nonfiction)
- Isaac Asimov, Robot Dreams (fiction)
- Margaret Atwood, Are Humans Necessary? (nonfiction)
- Kevin Kelly, from Better than Human (nonfiction)
- James Barrat, from Our Final Invention (nonfiction)
- Rosa Brooks, In Defense of Killer Robots (nonfiction)
- Richard Fisher Is it OK to torture or murder a robot? (nonfiction)
- Arthur House, The Real Cyborgs (nonfiction)
- Francis Fukuyama, Transhumanism (nonfiction)
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