"Harrison Bergeron" by Vonnegut (full)

"Self-Reliance" by Emerson (excerpts)

“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe (full)

Pericles’ Funeral Oration (Thucydides) (excerpt)

"Because I Could Not Stop For Death" by Emily Dickinson (full)

The Book of Job (specific chapters)

• Chs 1-3: initial prosperity and sudden trials

• Ch 7: honest human struggle

• Ch 14: brevity of life and hope beyond suffering

• Ch 19: declaration of faith amid despair

• Ch 28: poem on wisdom

• Chs 38-41: shift in perspective

• Ch 42: ultimate triumph of resilient faith

"Invictus" by Henley (full)

Eulogy for President Reagan by Thatcher (full)

“Duty, Honor, Country” by MacArthur (full)

"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe (full)

"The Poison Tree" by William Blake (full)

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (excerpts)

“The Prince” by Machiavelli (excerpt ch 17)

Federalist No. 10 by James Madison (excerpt)

"Give Me Liberty of Give Me Death" by Patrick Henry

“The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Lord Tennyson 1854 (full)

“If” by Rudyard Kipling (full)

“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe (full)

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (full)

"Dear Mr. McCarthy, I Am Very Real" by Kurt Vonnegut (excerpt)

"What is Capitalism?" by Ayn Rand (excerpt from Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal)

"Flattering Unction" by Thomas Sowell (excerpt from The Vision of the Anointed)

"The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury (excerpt from The Illustrated Man) 

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost (full)

“Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas (full)

“The Unknown Citizen” by W.H. Auden (full)

“Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell (full)

“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury (full)

“There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury (full)