ELA Sources

Everyone Prior to me is stupid

Nation of Wimps by Hara Estroff Marano

Being smart in school was lame, now it’s cool

I Just Want to Be Average by Mike Rose

Is the ability to look things up good or bad for us?

Is Google Making us Stoopid? by Nicholas Carr

A collection of bad clips is what makes up a person’s life

Looser Edit by Colson Whitehead

Debate > Arguing

Triumph of the Yell by Deborah Tannen

Claiming to know something just to gain influence, even if you don’t

Faking Cultural Literacy by Karl Taro Greenfeld

Would people hate Gen Z no matter how they acted?

What if Gen Z was the Happy Generation? by Dylan Selterman

I think we should focus less on specific math because it doesn’t help as much as we think

Against Algebra Temple Grandin

Creativity is being destroyed in the classroom

Creativity Crisis by Po Bronsen and Ashley Merryman

Being asked questions can be condescending, even when not intended (essay)

Going it Alone by Rahawa Haile

But like, where are you from-from?

Where are you From? by Ken Tanaka

Comedian talks to a debate show host

John Stuart in Crossfire

Learning how to read while in prison using a dictionary

Learning to Read by Malcolm X

Learning to Read and Write growing up as a slave

Learning to Read and Write by Frederick Douglass

Show where people are cooking in prison

Gordon Behind Bars by Gordon Ramsey

Learning to be smart in an indigenous community where not being smart is common

The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie

Prisoners in a cave, one leaves

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

Everyone’s view on morality is different, but somethings are more widely accepted

On Morality by Joan Didion

Because we all do what we think is best for ourselves, we need government

Rings of Gyges by Plato

How to be a Prince 101

Morals of a Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Emperor’s journal about lying

Marcus Aurelius’s personal journal

The beings of a great ruler

Lao Tzu

The different ways people lie and why they might use these lies

The Ways We Lie by Stephanie Ericsson

What’s the point of trying to fix climate change anyways?

Why Bother? by Michael Pollan

Speaking to those who wanted him in jail, from jail. Explains why he did what he did.

Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.

Why America should be free from Britain

Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson

Why women should have rights

Declaration of Rights and Sentiments by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Breakdown on Autonomous Cars

The Ethics of Autonomous Cars by Patrick Lin

Should we genetically modify ourselves to fix climate change?

How Engineering the Human Body Could Combat Climate Change by Ross Anderson

People hate those who are more ‘ethical’ than them

Do These Jeans Make Me Look Unethical? by Nurith Aizenman

Is is ethical to alter human genes?

Gene Editing Tool Hailed as a Breakthrough, and it Really is One by Joe Paica

Creating non-living human embryos to study

Synthetic Human Embryos Created in Groundbreaking Advance by Hannah Devlin

Is buying local better than buying ethical?

Not Local Food, and Not Afraid to Say it by Anna Haensch