| Note: Each unit includes Critical Thinking and Writing Assignments, Exploring Ideas Together, Exploring the Internet, and Writing Essays | |
| Annotated Table of Contents | |
| The Self My Name | |
| The Name Is Mine | |
| I'm Just Me | |
| Growing Up Asian | |
| The Jacket | |
| Salvation | |
| Nobody Listens When I Talk | |
| Living in Two Worlds | |
| Hearing the Sweetest Songs | |
| Call Me Crazy, But I Have to Be Myself | |
| A Thanksgiving Feast in Aburi | |
| The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life | |
| Self with Family Mother, Father, Neighbor | |
| The Old Man | |
| A Daughter's Journey | |
| A Parent's Journey Out of the Closet | |
| Adoption Should Be Color-Blind | |
| Hold the Mayonnaise | |
| Sibling Imprints | |
| Brothers | |
| No Snapshots in the Attic: A Granddaughter's Search for a Cherokee Past | |
| Fatherless America | |
| The Perfect Family | |
| The Incredible Shrinking Family | |
| Self with Friends Liked for Myself | |
| A Small Act | |
| A Boyhood Friendship in a Divided Valley | |
| College Friends | |
| What Are Friends For? | |
| Breaking Away | |
| Only Reconnect | |
| The Difference Between Male and Female Friendships | |
| What Friends Are For | |
| A Simple Gift | |
| Self with Dates and Mates Relationships 101 | |
| From Front Porch to Back Seat | |
| Just Saying No to the Dating Industry | |
| Finding a Wife | |
| My Home, My World | |
| Teen Bride | |
| Trouble in Paradise | |
| How Do I Love Thee? | |
| The Good Marriage | |
| Marriage and Divorce American Style | |
| Why the M Word Matters to Me | |
| Marriage--and Marriage | |
| Self with Work Easy Job, Good Wages | |
| The Way We Worked | |
| The Case Against Chores | |
| W-O-R-K | |
| Girl in an Oven | |
| One Man's Kids | |
| Working with Difficult People | |
| Workplace Violence: Going "Postal," Paula Bryant | |
| Less Is More: A Call for Shorter Work Hours | |
| What You Do Is What You Are | |
| The Future of Work | |
| Can't Hear Your Inner Voice? | |
| Self with Society Getting to Know About You and Me | |
| Indian Education | |
| The Scholarship Jacket | |
| Cultural Diversity | |
| Anonymous Victims of Dreams and a River | |
| The Citizenship Boom | |
| Coming to America | |
| People Like Us | |
| Mongrel America | |
| The Resegregation of a Southern School | |
| The Recoloring of Campus Life | |
| I Have a Dream | |
| Self with Technology and Media | |
| The Plot Against People | |
| Machine | |
| Technology and the Hearing Impaired | |
| The Distorting Mirror of Reality TV | |
| The Real Digital Divide | |
| Are Video Games Really So Bad? | |
| Oversimulated Suburbia | |
| Fraternities of Netheads: Internet Addiction on Campus | |
| We ALL Pay for Internet Plagiarism | |
| Internet Insecurity | |
| Hype, Spin, Puffery, and Lies: Should We Be Scared? | |
| Rising to the Occasion | |
| Self with Heroes Larger Than Life | |
| September 11, 2001: Answering the Call | |
| Real Superheroes | |
| Hero Inflation | |
| Sometimes Heroism Is a Moving Target: The Ordeal of Jessica Lynch | |
| Giving Students the Heroes They Need | |
| George Washington: A Hero for American Students? | |
| The New Heroes and Role Models | |
| Rosa Parks | |
| From a Cuban Heart | |
| The Virtue of the Weaponed Hero | |
| True Grit | |
| Rhetorical Table of Contents Cause and Effect | |
| The Name Is Mine | |
| The Jacket | |
| Living in Two Worlds | |
| Hearing the Sweetest Songs | |
| Call Me Crazy, But I Have to Be Myself | |
| A Thanksgiving Feast in Aburi | |
| The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life | |
| Mother, Father, Neighbor | |
| The Old Man | |
| A Daughter's Journey | |
| Hold the Mayonnaise | |
| Sibling Imprints | |
| No Snapshots in the Attic: A Granddaughter's Search for a Cherokee Past | |
| Fatherless America | |
| The Incredible Shrinking Family | |
| Liked for Myself | |
| A Small Act | |
| Vinnie's Jacket | |
| Breaking Away | |
| Relationships 101 | |
| My Home, My World | |
| Teen Bride | |
| The Good Marriage | |
| Marriage and Divorce American Style | |
| Why the M Word Matters to Me | |
| Marriage--and Marriage | |
| Easy Job, Good Wages | |
| The Way We Worked | |
| The Case Against Chores | |
| W-O-R-K | |
| Less Is More: A Call for Shorter Work Hours | |
| Getting to Know About You and Me | |
| Indian Education | |
| People Like Us | |
| Mongrel America | |
| The Resegration of a Southern School | |
| The Recoloring of Campus Life | |
| Nena's Tamale Machine | |
| Technology and the Hearing Impaired | |
| The Distorting Mirror of Reality TV | |
| Are Video Games Really So Bad? | |
| Fraternities of Netheads: Internet Addiction on Campus | |
| We ALL Pay for Internet Plagiarism | |
| Internet Insecurity | |
| Rising to the Occasion | |
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