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Below you will find free, open access versions of the Core Books texts that you can use in your classroom. Each one has been collaboratively annotated by professors involved in the Core Books Initiative at CUNY. Annotations provide important context, helpful glosses, discussion questions, as well as auxilary multimedia resources.
You are encouraged to collaboratively annotate these texts with your students in reading groups, which can be either private or public. Collaborative annotations allow students to think critically with and about texts and encourage students to make connections between the details of texts and their meanings. They are also low-stakes writing that can be scaffolded into higher-stakes assignments.
To create a reading group for your class, click on "Reading Groups" along the top of any page in Manifold. Then, click on "Create New Group." After you create the group, browse the library to add specific texts or the entire Core Books project.
