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50 Essays: High School Edition
A Portable AnthologyThird Edition| ©2011 Samuel Cohen
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Features
- An introduction for students discusses the relationship between critical thinking, reading, and writing.
- Headnotes precede each reading, providing biographical and contextual background.
- Four kinds of questions follow each selection to help students understand, analyze, and connect to what they read.
- A glossary of writing terms provides definitions of important rhetorical concepts, including examples drawn from essays in the anthology.
New to This Edition
- New argument essays that model strategies of persuasive writing, including Verlyn Klinkenborg's “Our Vanishing Night,” Bill McKibben's “Curbing Nature's Paparazzi,” and Alice Walker's “In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens.”
- New selections on contemporary topics that engage students such as media and popular culture (including Steven Johnson's “Games” and Eric Schlosser's “Kid Kustomers”) and nature and the environment (including Rachel Carson's “The Obligation to Endure” and Michael Pollan's “What's Eating America.”)

50 Essays: High School Edition
Third Edition| ©2011
Samuel Cohen

50 Essays: High School Edition
Third Edition| 2011
Samuel Cohen
Table of Contents
Alternate Tables of Contents
By Theme
By Paired Readings
By Rhetorical Mode
By Purpose
By Chronological Order
*Student Essay: Jonathon Schaff, “Dangerous Duality: How Racism Splits Us in Two”
Maya Angelou, Graduation
Gloria Anzaldúa, How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Barbara Lazear Ascher, On Compassion
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
Dave Barry, Lost in the Kitchen
William F. Buckley, Why Don't We Complain?
* Rachel Carson, The Obligation to Endure
Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria
* Jared Diamond, The Ends of the World as We Know Them
* Joan Didion, On Morality
* Annie Dillard, Seeing
Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write
Barbara Ehrenreich, Serving in Florida
Lars Eighner, On Dumpster Diving
Stephanie Ericsson, The Ways We Lie
* Stephen Jay Gould, Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs
Langston Hughes, Salvation
Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
* Steven Johnson, Everything Bad Is Good for You: Games
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman
* Verlyn Klinkenborg, Our Vanishing Night
* Audre Lorde, The Fourth of July
Nancy Mairs, On Being a Cripple
Malcolm X, Learning to Read
* Bill McKibben, Curbing Nature's Paparazzi
N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
Bharati Mukherjee, Two Ways to Belong in America
George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
* Plato, Allegory of the Cave
* Michael Pollan, What's Eating America
Richard Rodriguez, Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood
Mike Rose, “I Just Wanna Be Average”
* Scott Russell Sanders, The Men We Carry in Our Minds
* Eric Schlosser, Kid Kustomers
* David Sedaris, A Plague of Tics
* Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments
Brent Staples, Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space
Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
Amy Tan, Mother Tongue
Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Sojourner Truth, Ain't I a Woman?
Sarah Vowell, Shooting Dad
* Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
E.B. White, Once More to the Lake
Marie Winn, Television: The Plug-In Drug
Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth
Authors

Samuel Cohen

50 Essays: High School Edition
Third Edition| 2011
Samuel Cohen
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