Unit One 1
Text A Reading 1
Text B A Love Affair with Books 7
Unit Two 14
Text A The Triumph of the Yell 14
Text B The Eloquent Sounds of Silence 20
Unit Three 26
Text A Your Speech Is Changing 26
Text B How to Talk about the World 33
Unit Four 38
Text A The Art of Living Simply 38
Text B Holy Dying 45
Unit Five 50
Text A Solitude 50
Text B Once More to the Lake 57
Unit Six 64
Text A A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 64
Text B Men Are Very Delicate 69
Unit Seven 75
Text A Beauty 75
Text B Cinderella' s Stepsisters 81
Unit Eight 86
Text A What Is Science? 86
Text B To Err Is Human 93
Unit Nine 99
Text A On National Prejudice 99
Text B Shall We Choose Death? 105
Unit Ten 111
Text A Daydreams of What You'd Rather Be 111
Text B Culture and Food Habits 118
Unit Eleven 124
Text A Photographs of My Parents 124
Text B Two Ways to Belong in America 131
Unit Twelve 138
Text A Three Types of Resistance to Oppression 138
Text B Loneliness...An American Malady 145