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Challenging texts. Essays. Horror Stories. Romantic tales. Philosophy. Mermaids. Pirates. Samurais. You'll discover a wide array of authors, topics and themes in class.
To the left are some of the authors you'll meet.
Below you'll find most of the texts you'll be able to choose to read in class. Click on
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Nonfiction
"
On the Reproduction . . .," Althusser
"No Time for Bullies . ., " Angier
"On War," Boswell
"Ideas and Opinions," Einstein
"The Last Mermaids," Flowers
"About Men: A Giant Step" Gates Jr.
"On Reason and Passion," Gibran
"I Had a Dream," King
"Nobel Prize Acceptance," King
"Rediscovering Lost Values," King
"Liu Xiaobo,"
New York Times
"I'm Not Going to School," Pamuk
"Seagulls," Pamuk
"On Listening," Plutarch
"What's Bugging Our Moose . . .," Rines
"A Modest Proposal," Swift
"Companies Can't be Great . . .," Taylor
"Civil Disobedience," Thoreau
"Leadership and Followership . . .," Vugt
"Once More to the Lake . . .," White
Novels
Selections from:
The Lakota Way,
Anon
Selections from:
Meditations
, Aurelius
Alice in Wonderland
, Carroll
Gods of Asgard
, Evenson
House of the Scorpion
, Farmer
The Outsiders
,
Hinton
That Was Then This is Now
, Hinton
Number The Stars
, Lowr
y
The Giver
, Lowry
Selections from:
Bushido
, Nitobe
Green Eggs and Ham
, Seuss
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
Poems
"Mechanism," Ammoms
Sonnet 43, Browning
"
The Destruction of . . ." Byron
"Life is the Flash . . . ," Crowfoot
"In This Short Life," Dickinson
"Who Knows If . . . ," E.E. Cummings
"Eagle Pain," Francis
"Nothing Gold Can Stay," Frost
"Out, Out," Frost
"Road Not Taken," Frost
"Invictus," Henley
"Dreams," Hughes
"
Best Society," Larkin
"
A Few Rules for Beginners," Mansfield
"A Dream Within a Dream," Poe
"The Intellectual is Always . . . ," Rumi
Sonnet 15, Shakespeare
Sonnet 29, Shakespeare
Sonnet 71, Shakespeare
"Captain Hook," Silverstein
"Forgotten Language," Silverstein
"Hug O' War," Silverstein
"The Missing Piece" Silverstein
"
The Pirate," Silverstein
"Whatif," Silverstein
"There Will Come Soft . . . ," Teasdale
"If I Were in Charge of the World," Viors
"Knifes," Yolen
Fiction
"Dead Men's Path," Achebe
"The Little Mermaid," Andersen
"The Scythe," Bradbury
"The Sound of Thunder," Bradbury
"There Will Come . . . ," Bradbury
The Price," Gaiman
"Little Red Riding Hood," Grimm
"The End . . . ," Hemingway
"How the Snake Got Poison," Hurston
"The Lottery," Jackson
"The Monkey's Paw," Jacob
"The Statement of . . . ," Lovecraft
"
A Very Old Man . . ." Marquez
"Light is Like Water," Marquez
"I Sell My Dreams," Marquez
"One of These Days," Marquez
"The Handsomest . . . ," Marquez
"Allegory of the Cave," Plato
"Tell Tale Heart," Poe
"The Black Cat," Poe
"The Lady or the Tiger," Stockton
"Rules of the Game," Tan
"Three Questions," Tolstoy
"A Fable," Twain
"The War Prayer," Twain
"The Wild Man Interviewed," Twain
"Long Walk to Forever," Vonnegut
"The Nightingale and the Rose," Wilde