Links to Assigned Reading  

 

 

 

Literature

"The Kiss" by Kate Chopin

"A Respectable Woman" by Kate Chopin

"The Storm" by Kate Chopin

"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin

"A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor

"Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor

Poems for Name the Poet Game

"Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway

"Indian Camp" by Ernest Hemingway

"A Very Short Story" by Ernest Hemingway

"Old Man at the Bridge" by Ernest Hemingway

Sure Thing by David Ives

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" by Randall Jarrell

"Traveling through the Dark" by William Stafford

Essays and Articles

"News of American Decline is Greatly Exaggerated" (inductive claim of fact)

"The True Costs of SUV's" (claim of fact)

"Dissent is Now Dangerous" (inductive argument)

"Analysis puts 'Just the Facts' in Context"

"Ask Bush Supporters these Basic Questions" (loaded language)

"Biggest Pests of All" (unmasking assumptions)

Declaration of Independence (deductive argument)

"Fair is Fair"

"God vs. GE"

 

"I have a Dream"

(speech transcript) (audio file)

"Jim Crow Revived in Cyberspace"

"Just Like Us?" (deductive reasoning) PDF file.  If it doesn't open, you need to download free Adobe Reader here.

"On Nation and Race"

"Politics and the English Language"

"Safe and Sorry"

"Warrior Culture"

Other

Commission on Presidential Debates website

Inaugural Address: Clinton

Inaugural Address: Lincoln

 
     
     
     
 

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