Unit One
Text A Happiness Mortime J. Adler
Text B Books John Ruskin
Unit Two
Text A The Idea of A University John Henry Newman
Text B The Aims of Education: A Plea for Reform (1916) Alfred North Whitehead
Unit Three
Text A My Mental Development Bertrand Russell
Text B Free Will George Edward Moore
Unit Four
Text A Big Score When Mom takes the SATs. Elizabeth Kolbert
Text B Shopgirls The art of selling lingerie Katherine Zoepf
Unit Five
Text A Stones and Bones Visiting the 9/11 memorial and museum Adam Gopnik
Text B Sixty-Nine Days The Ordeal of the Children Miners Héctor Tobar
Unit Six
Text A Man in the Realm of Nature Alexander Spirkin
Text B Nature Ralf Waldo Emerson
Unit Seven
Text A Spiritual Laws Ralph Waldo Emerson
Text B Morals, Apes and Us Marc D. Hauser
Unit Eight
Text A In the Shadow of Man Jane Goodall
Text B Rescue Gerhart A. Drucker
Unit Nine
Text A Love of Life Jack London
Text B The Men in the Storm Stephen Crane
Unit Ten
Text A The Spring Running Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Text B Introduction —from A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson
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