Course Readings

"The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" - Ursula Le Guin Textbook pgs. 5-12, 54-61 - "Elements of Argument" "The Lottery" - Shirley Jackson "Why I Defaulted on my Student Loans" "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost" "Julius Caesar" Speeches "Crito" (Plato) "Civil Disobedience" - Henry David Thoreau "A Letter From Birmingham Jail" - Martin Luther King, Jr. "Othello" (with modern side-by-side translation) "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift "The Yellow Wallpaper" "Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Araby" - James Joyce "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" - Joyce Carol Oates "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" - Flannery O'Connor "The Relive Box" "The Story of an Hour" "The Man in the Well" - Ira Sher "The Cask of Amontillado" - Edgar Allan Poe "The Library of Babel" - Jorge Luis Borges