Unit 1
Lesson 1 Andrew H. Malcolm: Dad
Lesson 2 Sherwood Anderson: Discovery of a Father
Unit 2
Lesson 3 Steve Tesich: Focusing on Friends
Lesson 4 Judith Viorst: Friends, Good Friends--and Such Good Friends
Unit 3
Lesson 5 Thomas L. Friedman: My Favorite Teacher
Lesson 6 James Thurber: University Days
Unit 4
Lesson 7 Mark Twain: Advice to Youth
Lesson 8 Nell Postman: My Graduation Speech
Unit 5
Lesson 9 Barbara Ehrenreich: The Cult of Busyness
Lesson 10 Edward Hoagland: City People and Country People
Unit 6
Lesson 11 J.H. Plumb: The Dying Family
Lesson 12 Sean Prentiss: Buying a House
Unit 7
Lesson 13 Scott Smallwood: Divorce and a Haircut
Lesson 14 Andrew Sullivan: Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage
Unit 8
Lesson 15 Yi-Fu Tuan: American Space, Chinese Place
Lesson 16 Edward T. Hall: The English and the Americans
Unit 9
Lesson 17 Annie Dillard: The Chase
Lesson 18 Marie Winn: The End of Play
Unit 10
Lesson 19 Michael Korda: How to Obtain Power
Lesson 20 Mary E. Mebane: Mary
Unit 11
Lesson 21 George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant
Lesson 22 Erin Murphy: White Lies
Unit 12
Lesson 23 Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address
Lesson 24 Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream
Unit 13
Lesson 25 Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour
Lesson 26 Deborah Tannen: Report-talk in Private
Unit 14
Lesson 27 Harold Krents: Darkness at Noon
Lesson 28 Leonard Kriegel: Taking It
Unit 15
Lesson 29 E.B. White: The Ring of Time
Lesson 30 Malcolm Cowley: Vices and Pleasures: The View from 80
Unit 16
Lesson 31 Virginia Woolf: The Death of the Moth
Lesson 32 Lewis Thomas: On Natural Death
Major Reference Books
