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Books
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
1984 by George Orwell (sometimes)
Plays
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Short Stories
“The Earth on Turtle's Back”—Onondaga
“When Grizzlies Walked Upright”—Modoc
"The Navajo Origin Legend"
“2BR02B” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” Short Story
“The Outcasts of Poker Flat” by Bret Harte
“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin
“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway
“The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving
"To Build a Fire" by Jack London
Essays, Excerpts, and Documents
The Allegory of the Cave by Plato
The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
The Preamble to the Constitution and Bill of Rights
“A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift
“Speech in the Convention” by Benjamin Franklin
From The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
From Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin
“The Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln
From Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
“The Death of a Moth” by Virginia Woolf
“Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech” by William Faulkner
From Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
From Walden by Henry David Thoreau
From Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
From Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
Poetry
“Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins (repeat)
“Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost
“Mending Wall” by Robert Frost
“Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson
“In a Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound
“anyone lived in a pretty how town” by E. E. Cummings
“The Unknown Citizen” by W. H. Auden
“Of Modern Poetry” by Wallace Stevens
“The Emperor of Ice-Cream” by Wallace Stevens
“My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke
“The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” by Randall Jarrell
“Mirror” by Sylvia Plath
“Oh Me! Oh Life!” by Walt Whitman
“Are you the new person drawn to me?” by Walt Whitman
“O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman
“Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas
“Dinosauria, We” by Charles Bukowski
“The Laughing Heart” by Charles Bukowski
“Death, Be Not Proud” by John Donne
“Education” by Peter Boyle
“The City Planners” by Margaret Atwood
“A Death at the Office” by Ted Kooser
“Prof of Profs” by Geoffrey Brock
“Thanatopsis” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Because I could not stop for Death—” by Emily Dickinson
“I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—” by Emily Dickinson
“The Brain—is wider than the Sky—” by Emily Dickinson
“Water, is taught by thirst” by Emily Dickinson
“When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer” by Walt Whitman
“A Noiseless Patient Spider” Poem