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UNIT ONE

Thinking Starters

Text A: Speech at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Text B: Just Be Yourself

Reading Skills: Comparison and Contrast (I)

Readings and Self-testing

UNIT TWO

Thinking Starters

Text A: War

Text B: A Glimpse of Heaven

Reading Skills: Comparison and Contrast (II)

Readings and Self-testing

UNIT THREE

Thinking Starters

Text A: School Violence Is Exaggerated by the Media

Text B: The History of Gun Control

Reading Skills: Long and Difficult Sentences (I)

Readings and Self-testing

UNIT FOUR

Thinking Starters

Text A: Speech at Kean College

Text B: The Anthropology of Manners

Reading Skills: Long and Difficult Sentences (II)

Readings and Self-testing

UNIT FIVE

Thinking Starters

Text A: Im Still Me!--Steves Story

Text B: Sex, Lies and Conversation

Reading Skills: Fact and Opinion (I)

Readings and Self-testing

#NIT SIX

Thinking Starters

Text A: The Case for a Sovereign Quebec

Text B: Violence in the Media

Reading Skills: Fact and Opinion (II)

Readings and Self-testing

UNIT SEVEN

Thinking Starters

Text A: Diplomacy in the Age of Terror

Text B: The Age of Nonpolarity

Reading Skills: Making Inference (I)

Readings and Self-testing

UNIT EIGHT

Thinking Starters

Text A: The Inheritance of Tools

Text B: The Inheritance of Tools (continued)

Reading Skills: Making Inference (11)

Readings and Self-testing

UNITNINE

Thinking Starters

Text A: Two Kinds

Text B: Two Kinds (continued)

Reading Skills: Cause and Effect (I)

Readings and Self-testing

UNITTEN

Thinking Starters

Text A: Why Men Become Men

Text B: A Proposal I Never Thought Id Consider

Reading Skills: Cause and Effect (II)

Readings and Self-testing

ELEVEN

Thinking Starters

Text A: Cyberspace: If You Dont Love It, Leave It

Text B: The Longest Day

Reading Skills: Critical Reading (I)

Readings and Self-testing

UNIT TWELVE

Thinking Starters

Text A: A Little Theory

Text B: The Most Important Book I Read: The Stranger by Albert Camus

Reading Skills: Critical Reading (11)

Readings and Self-testing

UNIT THIRTEEN

Thinking Starters

Text A: Access to Cheap Drugs Can Slow the AIDS Epidemic in Africa

Text B: The Global AIDS Epidemic Is a Serious Problem

Reading Skills: Reading for Main Ideas

Readings and Self-testing

UNIT FOURTEEN

Thinking Starters

Text A: Working for a Constitution: James Madison

Text B: To Move Toward Independence: Thomas Jefferson

Reading Skills: Reading for Thesis Statement

Readings and Self-testing

UNIT FIFTEEN

Thinking Starters

Text A: Sixty Feet Deep

Text B: Green Acres

Reading Skills: Understanding Text Structure and Organization (I)

Readings and Self-testing

UNIT SIXTEEN

Thinking Starters

Text A: The Genes That Jump

Text B: Understanding Eskimo Science

Reading Skills: Understanding Text Structure and Organization (11)

Readings and Self-testing

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