Preface for Instructors Alternative Tables of Contents By Rhetorical Mode By Purpose By Theme By Clusters and Paired Readings By Chronological Order By Lexile Level Sentence Guides MLA Documentation Guide Introduction for Students: Active Reading, Critical Thinking, and the Writing Process *Maya Angelou, Graduation Gloria Anzaldúa, How to Tame a Wild Tongue Barbara Lazear Ascher, On Compassion James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son William F. Buckley, jr., Why Don't We Complain? *Danny Chau, The Burning Desire for Hot Chicken *Sandra Cisneros, Only Daughter *Eli Claire, Clearcut: Explaining the Distance Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Paranoid Style of American Policing Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named María Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write Barbara Ehrenreich, Serving in Florida Lars Eighner, On Dumpster Diving Stephanie Ericsson, The Ways We Lie Jen Gann, Wrongful Birth Malcolm Gladwell, Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted *Jonathan Gold, What Is a Burrito? A Primer *Rahawa Haile, Going It Alone *Jenine Holmes, When Pink Ballet Slippers Won't Do Langston Hughes, Salvation Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence Jamaica Kincaid, The Ugly Tourist Stephen King, Reading to Write Verlyn Klinkenborg, Our Vanishing Night Audre Lorde, The Fourth of July Nancy Mairs, On Being a Cripple *Matthew J. X. Malady, The Ghosts in Our Machines Bharati Mukherjee, Two Ways to Belong in America *Tommy Orange, Indian Heads George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant Plato, The Allegory of the Cave Mike Rose, "I Just Wanna Be Average" *Carl Sagan, Does Truth Matter? *Maria Michela Sassi, The Sea Was Never Blue *David Sedaris, I Like Guys Brent Staples, Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space *Gloria Steinem, Sex, Lies & Advertisting Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal Amy Tan, Mother Tongue henry david thoreau, Civil Disobedience *Calvin Trillin, Last Days of the Rickshaw *Mark Twain, The Lowest Animal *Ai Weiwei, The refugee crisis isn't about refugees. It's about us. E.B.

White, Once More to the Lake *Walt Whitman, Slang in America Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women *Hanya Yanigahara, A Pet Tortoise Who Will Outlive Us All Dave Zirin, Pre-Game Glossary of Writing Terms Index of Authors and Titles.