By Pairs and Casebooks --
By Chronological Order --
Introduction for Students: Active Reading, Critical Thinking, and the Writing Process --
Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me / Sherman Alexie Alexie, Sherman --
Graduation / Maya Angelou Angelou, Maya --
Men, Women, Sex, and Darwin / Natalie Angier Angier, Natalie --
How to Tame a Wild Tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa Anzaldúa, Gloria --
On Compassion / Barbara Lazear Ascher Ascher, Barbara Lazear --
Notes of a Native Son / James Baldwin Baldwin, James --
Lost in the Kitchen / Dave Barry Barry, Dave --
Never Just Pictures / Susan Bordo Bordo, Susan --
How You Became You / Bill Bryson Bryson, Bill --
Why Don't We Complain? / William F. Buckley Buckley, William F. --
Insufficiency of Honesty / Stephen L. Carter Carter, Stephen L. --
Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria / Judith Ortiz Cofer Cofer, Judith Ortiz --
A Clack of Tiny Sparks: Remembrances of a Gay Boyhood / Bernard Cooper Cooper, Bernard --
On Keeping a Notebook / Joan Didion Didion, Joan --
Death of a Moth / Annie Dillard Dillard, Annie --
Learning to Read and Write / Frederick Douglass Douglass, Frederick --
Serving in Florida / Barbara Ehrenreich Ehrenreich, Barbara --
On Dumpster Diving / Lars Eighner Eighner, Lars --
Ways We Lie / Stephanie Ericsson Ericsson, Stephanie --
Women's Brains / Stephen Jay Gould Gould, Stephen Jay --
What's Wrong with Animal Rights? / Vicki Hearne Hearne, Vicki --
Salvation / Langston Hughes Hughes, Langston --
How It Feels to Be Colored Me / Zora Neale Hurston Hurston, Zora Neale --
Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson Jefferson, Thomas --
Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King Jr. King, Martin Luther, Jr. --
No Name Woman / Maxine Hong Kingston Kingston, Maxine Hong --
Notes of a Native Speaker / Eric Liu Liu, Eric --
On Being a Cripple / Nancy Mairs Mairs, Nancy --
Learning to Read / Malcolm X --
Way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday Momaday, N. Scott --
Two Ways to Belong in America / Bharati Mukherjee Mukherjee, Bharati --
Shooting an Elephant / George Orwell Orwell, George --
Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood / Richard Rodriguez Rodriguez, Richard --
'I Just Wanna Be Average' / Mike Rose Rose, Mike --
Clashing Civilizations? / Edward Said Said, Edward --
Inheritance of Tools / Scott Russell Sanders Sanders, Scott Russell --
Me Talk Pretty One Day / David Sedaris Sedaris, David --
Animal Liberation / Peter Singer Singer, Peter --
Declaration of Sentiments / Elizabeth Cady Stanton Stanton, Elizabeth Cady --
Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space / Brent Staples Staples, Brent --
A Modest Proposal / Jonathan Swift Swift, Jonathan --
Mother Tongue / Amy Tan Tan, Amy --
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For / Henry David Thoreau Thoreau, Henry David --
Aren't I a Woman? / Sojourner Truth Truth, Sojourner --
Shooting Dad / Sarah Vowell Vowell, Sarah --
Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self / Alice Walker Walker, Alice --
Once More to the Lake / E.B. White White, E.B. --
Television: The Plug-In Drug / Marie Winn Winn, Marie --
Death of the Moth / Virginia Woolf Woolf, Virginia.