Prologue
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
Creating Context
Prisoner’s Dilemma: The Decision Game • Concept Vocabulary
Cluster One: What Influences a Decision?
Thinking Skill: Analyzing
- Playing God (short story)
- Quida Sebestian
- Dusting (poem)
- Julia Alvarez
- TLA (short story)
- Jane McFann
- “I would have preferred to carry through” (speech)
- Richard M. Nixon
- Waiting for the Barbarians (poem)
- Constantin Cavafy
- The One Who Watches (short story)
- Judith Ortiz Cofer
Cluster Two: Good Decision or Bad Decision?
Thinking Skill: Evaluating
- A Kind of Murder (short story)
- Hugh Pentecost
- Trapped in the Desert (first-person account)
- Gary Beeman
- Traveling Through the Dark (poem)
- William Stafford
- Long Walk to Forever (short story)
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Facing Donegall Square (short story)
- Maria Testa
Cluster Three: What are the Possible Consequences of Our Decisions?
Thinking Skill: Predicting
- Ashes (short story)
- Susan Beth Pfeffer
- Certain Choices (poem)
- Richard Shelton
- Moving into the Mainstream (personal narrative)
- Slade Anderson
- Button, Button (short story)
- Richard Matheson
Cluster Four: Thinking on Your Own
Thinking Skill: Synthesizing
- The Price of Life (article)
- Andrea Davis Pinkney
- I’ll never (poem)
- Todd Moore
- The Front of the Bus (autobiography)
- Rosa Parks
- The Order of Things (prose poem)
- Michel Foucault
- Gifted (newspaper column)
- David Barry
- The Dandelion Garden: A Modern Fable for Elderly Children (fable)
- Budge Wilson
- Obstacles (from Man’s Search for Meaning)
- Viktor Frankl
