List of Readings
“Everyday Use” by Alice Walker
“Two Kinds” by Amy Tan
“And of Clay We Are Created” by Isabel Allende
“The Masque of Red Death” by Edgar Allen Poe
“Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?” by Tim O’Brien
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Sea Wolf by Jack London
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
An excerpt from “Hands: For Mother’s Day” by Nikki Giovanni
“After Apple Picking” by Robert Frost
“Moons” by John Haines
“Eating Together” by Li-Young Lee
“Grape Sherbet” by Rita Dove
“The Legend” by Garret Hongo
“Heart! We will forget him!” by Emily Dickenson
“Three Japanese Tankas” by Ono Komachi
“Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” by William Shakespeare
“Sea Fever” by John Masefield
“Waiting for E. gularis” by Linda Pastan
“Typhoid Fever” from Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
“William Shakespeare’s Life: A Biographical Sketch” by Robert Anderson
“The Man in the Water” by Roger Rosenblatt
“Interview with Alice Walker” by Roland L. Freeman
“Interview with Nikki Giovanni” by Roland L. Freeman
“Call of the Wild – Save Us!” by Norman Myers
“Good Samaritans U.S.A. Are Afraid to Act” by Ann Sjoerdsma
“Crossing a Threshold to Adulthood” by Jessica Barnes
Power Up – How Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life by Chris Kohler
A History of Western Society by John P. McKay, Bennett D. Hill, and John Buckler
Introductory Chemistry: A Foundation by Steven S. Zumdahl
Cracking the AP European History Exam by Kenneth Pearl, Ph.D.