Reading Perspective

Part I Public Speech
1. Inauguration Speech (John F. Kennedy)
2. I Have a Dream! (Martin Luther King Jr.)
3. Remembering Robert Frost (John F. Kennedy)
4. Yes, We Can! (Barack Hussein Obama)

Part II Essay & Science
1. 1833 Factory Act (The National Archives)
2. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For (Henry David Thoreau)
3. The San Francisco Earthquake (Mark Twain)
4. On Umbrella Morals (Alfred George Gardiner)
5. The Special Theory of Relativity (Albert Einstein)

Part III Short Story
1. The Invisible Lover (Lucius Apuleius)
2. The Tell?ale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe)
3. The Black Cat (Edgar Allan Poe)
4. The Bet (Anton Chekhov)
5. After Twenty Years (O. Henry)
6. The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry)
7. The Last Leaf (O. Henry)
8. Witches’ Loaves (O. Henry)
9. The Boarding House (James Joyce)
10. Araby (James Joyce)
11. Adventure (Sherwood Anderson)
12. The Egg (Sherwood Anderson)
13. The Fly (Katherine Mansfield)
14. A Cup of Tea (Katherine Mansfield)
15. Indian Camp (Ernest Hemingway)
16. The Pearl of Love (Herbert George Wells)
17. Shooting an Elephant (George Orwell)

Part IV Poem
1. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? (William Shakespeare)
2. The Chimney Sweeper (William Blake)
3. How Do I Love Thee? (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
4. Annabel Lee (Edgar Allan Poe)
5. A Broken Appointment (Thomas Hardy)
6. He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (William Butler Yeats)
7. The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost)
8. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night (Dylan Thomas)