Unit One A Day's Wait 1
Unit Two Advice to Youth 16
Unit Three How to Mark a Book 32
Unit Four Three Unforgettable Professors 49
Unit Five Gifts of the Magi 64
Unit Six The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 78
Unit Seven Father Knows Better 90
Unit Eight The Story of Adam and Eve 112
Unit Nine What Is Happiness? 125
Unit Ten Sonnet 18 136
Unit Eleven Prometheus 143
Unit Twelve No Marriage,No Apologies 162
Unit Thirteen 50 Things to Do Before I Die 175
Unit Fourteen Choose Optimism 187
Unit Fifteen The Solitary Reaper 204
Unit Sixteen The Joy Luck Club:Two Kinds(abridged) 210
Unit Seventeen Three Days to See(excerpts) 229
Unit Eighteen Trifles (Part One) 244
Unit Ninteen Trifles(Part Two) 262
Unit Twenty Symptoms 280
References 295