Unit 1 Expectation and Frustration
Text A Eleven — Sandra Cisneros
Text B Salvation — Langston Hughes
Text C Ten Indians — Ernest Hemingway
Text D Crickets — Robert Olen Butler
Unit 2 Repression and Rebellion
Text A The Story of an Hour — Kate Chopin
Text B Sredni Vashtar — Hector Hugh Munro
Text C Gertrude Talks Back — Margaret Atwood
Text D Saboteur — Ha Jin
Unit 3 Life and Death
Text A Indian Camp— Ernest Hemingway
Text B A Sunrise on the Veld — Doris Lessing
Text C The Masque of the Red Death — Edgar Allen Poe
Text D Death in the Woods — Sherwood Anderson
Unit 4 Innocence and Experience
Text A The Grave — Katherine Anne Porter
Text B Araby — James Joyce
Text C One Holy Night — Sandra Cisneros
Text D Wild Swans — Alice Munro
Unit 5 Alienation and Communication
Text A A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. — Carson McCullers
Text B Hands — Sherwood Anderson
Text C Gaston — William Saroyan
Text D Present — Ali Smith
Unit 6 Prejudice and Transcendence
Text A Cathedral — Raymond Carver
Text B Everything That Rises Must Converge — Flannery O'Connor
Text C All He Need Is Feet — Chester Himes
Text D Dry September — William Faulkner
Unit 7 Love and Suffering
Text A The Lady with the Dog — Anton Chekhov
Text B A Rose for Emily — William Faulkner
Text C The Nightingale and the Rose — Oscar Wilde
Text D Bliss — Katherine Mansfield
Unit 8 Fiction and Reality
Text A How to Tell a True War Story — Tim OBrien
Text B The Garden of Forking Paths — Jorge Luis Borges
Text C Happy Endings — Margaret Atwood
Text D The Swimmer — John Cheever