"The Egg" by Andy Weir
"Chivalry" by Neil Gaiman
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Seventh Man" by Haruki Murakami
"The Nine Curves River" by R.F. Kuang
"The Angel of Khan el-Khalili" by P. Djèlí Clark
Pretty much anything on Levar Burton Reads.
"Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell
"My Graduation Speech" by Neil Postman
"Thinking as a Hobby" by William Golding
"In the Laboratory with Agassiz" by Samuel Scudder
"A Change of Heart About Animals" by Jeremy Rifkin
"Want to Get Into College, Learn to Fail" by Angel B. Pérez
"Hidden Intellectualism" by Gerald Graff
"Not Going to College is a Viable Option" by Lawrence B. Schlack
"Of Primates and Personhood" by Ed Yong
"Honor Code" by David Brooks
"His Politeness is Her Powerlessness" by Deborah Tannen
"The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" by Audre Lorde
"What is the Value of a Human Life?" by Kenneth Feinberg
"No Lunch Left Behind" by Alice Waters
"10 rules for going to college when nobody expected you to" by Joe Rodriguez
One exemplar may be a Kurzgesagt Video
"Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost
"Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath
"And Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou
"The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden
"We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
"If" by Rudyard Kipling
"Power" by Audrey Lorde
"Persimmons" by Li-Young Lee
"How Things Work" by Gary Soto
"Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelly
"Harlem" by Langston Hughes
"Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins
"Siren Song" by Margaret Atwood