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United States

(2)

United States Eastern Seaboard

(1)

Central and South America

Encounters and Foundations to 1800

Time Line

(2)

Political and Social Milestones

(2)

Introduction to the Literary Period: Encounters and Foundations

(15)

Gary Q. Arpin

The Sun Still Rises in the Same Sky: Native American Literature

(3)

Joseph Bruchac

The Sky Tree

(1)

Joseph Bruchac

The Earth Only

(1)

Coyote Finishes His Work

(3)

Barry Lopez

Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666

(4)

Anne Bradstreet

Literature of the Americas

World, in hounding me . . .

(1)

Alan S. Trueblood

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

En perseguirme, mundo

(4)

from A Narrative of the Captivity

(9)

Mary Rowlandson

from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

(6)

Jonathan Edwards

from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

(9)

Olaudah Equiano

Connection / from To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth

(2)

Phillis Wheatley

Connection / Honoring African Heritage

(4)

Halimah Abdullah

from The Autobiography

(6)

Benjamin Franklin

Connection / from All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

(1)

Robert Fulghum

from Poor Richard's Almanack

(6)

Benjamin Franklin

Speech to the Virginia Convention

(7)

Patrick Henry

from The Crisis, No. I

(8)

Thomas Paine

Political Points of View Freedom and Equality

(2)

from The Autobiography: The Declaration of Independence

(11)

Thomas Jefferson

from The Iroquois Constitution

107

(2)

Letter to John Adams

109

(1)

Abigail Adams

from Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention

110

(3)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Read On for Independent Reading

113

(1)

Writing Workshop Writing an Editorial

114

(8)

Listening and Speaking Workshop Presenting and Evaluating Speeches

122

(4)

Collection I: Skills Review

Comparing Literature

To My Dear and Loving Husband

126

(1)

Anne Bradstreet

Love is not all

127

(3)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Vocabulary Skills

130

(1)

Writing Skills

131

(3)

American Romanticism 1800-1860

Time Line

134

(2)

Political and Social Milestones

136

(2)

Introduction to the Literary Period: American Romanticism

138

(13)

Gary Q. Arpin

The Devil and Tom Walker

151

(15)

Washington Irving

Thanatopsis

166

(5)

William Cullen Bryant

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls

171

(2)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Cross of Snow

173

(2)

Connection / Return to Gitche Gumee

175

(6)

J. D. McClatchy

from Nature

181

(3)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

from Self-Reliance

184

(7)

from Walden, or Life in the Woods

191

(14)

Henry David Thoreau

Connection / from Heaven Is Under Our Feet

205

(3)

Don Henley

Political Points of View Civil Disobedience

208

(2)

from Resistance to Civil Government

210

(9)

Henry David Thoreau

from On Nonviolent Resistance

219

(2)

Mohandas K. Gandhi

from Letter from Birmingham City Jail

221

(6)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

227

(11)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Minister's Black Veil

238

(17)

The Pit and the Pendulum

255

(18)

Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven

273

(5)

Primary Source / Poe's Process: Writing

``The Raven''

278

(2)

Edgar Allan Poe

Eldorado

280

(3)

Read On For Independent Reading

283

(1)

Writing Workshop Writing a Short Story

284

(8)

Collection 2: Skills Review

Comparing Literature

To Helen

292

(1)

Edgar Allan Poe

Helen by H. D.

293

(3)

Vocabulary Skills

296

(1)

Writing Skills

297

(3)

American Masters: Whitman and Dickinson

Time Line

300

(2)

Introduction to the Literary Period: American Masters: Whitman and Dickinson

302

(8)

John Malcolm Brinnin

I Hear America Singing

310

(3)

Walt Whitman

from Song of Myself 10 Alone far in the wilds

313

(3)

from 33 I understand the large hearts of heroes

316

(3)

52 The spotted hawk swoops by

319

(2)

A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim

321

(2)

Primary Source / from Specimen Days

323

(2)

Walt Whitman

Connection / from Hospital Sketches

325

(6)

Louisa May Alcott

Literature of the Americas

Plenos poderes

331

(1)

Pablo Neruda

Full Powers

331

(6)

Ben Belitt

Alastair Reid

The Soul selects her own Society

337

(1)

Emily Dickinson

If you were coming in the Fall

338

(2)

Primary Source / ``If you were coming in the Fall''

340

(2)

Emily Dickinson

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant

342

(2)

Apparently with no surprise

344

(1)

Success is counted sweetest

345

(2)

Because I could not stop for Death

347

(2)

I heard a Fly buzz---when I died

349

(1)

Much Madness is divinest Sense

350

(1)

Primary Source / ``I sing . . . because I am afraid''

351

(3)

Emily Dickinson

Connection / In the season of change

354

(1)

Teresa Palomo Acosta

Connection / Emily Dickinson

355

(1)

Linda Pastan

Connection / Emily Dickinson

355

(4)

Gary Smith

Read On for Independent Reading

359

(1)

Writing Workshop Writing a Reflective

360

(8)

Listening and Speaking Workshop Presenting a Reflection

368

(2)

Collection 3: Skills Review

Comparing Literature

from Song of Myself, I

370

(1)

Walt Whitman

Who Understands Me but Me

371

(3)

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Vocabulary Skills

374

(1)

Writing Skills

375

(3)

The Rise of Realism: The Civil War to 1914

Time Line

378

(2)

Political and Social Milestones

380

(2)

Introduction to the Literary Period: The Rise of Realism

382

(14)

Gary Q. Arpin

Political Points of View Slavery

396

(2)

from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

398

(8)

Frederick Douglass

from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

406

(6)

Harriet A. Jacobs

from My Bondage and My Freedom

412

(2)

Frederick Douglass

Go Down, Moses

414

(1)

Follow the Drinking Gourd

415

(1)

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

416

(1)

The Most Remarkable Woman of This Age

417

(6)

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

423

(9)

Ambrose Bierce

Political Points of View The Civil War

432

(2)

A Mystery of Heroism

434

(8)

Stephen Crane

War Is Kind

442

(3)

Letter to His Son

445

(2)

Robert E. Lee

Letter to Sarah Ballou

447

(1)

Maj. Sullivan Ballou

The Gettysburg Address

448

(1)

Abraham Lincoln

from A Diary from Dixie

449

(1)

Mary Chesnut

from Men at War: An Interview with Shelby Foote

450

(5)

Ken Burns

``I Will Fight No More Forever''

455

(4)

Chief Joseph

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

459

(7)

Mark Twain

Primary Source / The Frog Jumping of the County of Calaveras

466

(2)

Mark Twain

The Lowest Animal

468

(6)

Connection / A Time of Gifts

474

(6)

Stephen Jay Gould

To Build a Fire

480

(13)

Jack London

Connection / from Left for Dead

493

(6)

Literature of the Americas

What Do You Feel Underground?

499

(4)

Maria Giachetti

Gabriela Mistral

A Pair of Silk Stockings

503

(7)

Kate Chopin

Connection / Now and Then, America

510

(3)

Pat Mora

A Wagner Matinee

513

(10)

Willa Cather

Richard Cory

523

(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Miniver Cheevy

524

(1)

Primary Source / Robinson on Richard Cory

525

(2)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Read On For Independent Reading

527

(1)

Writing Workshop Reporting Historical Research

528

(20)

Listening and Speaking Workshop Presenting Historical Research

548

(2)

Collection 4: Skills Review

Comparing Literature

from The Red Badge of Courage

550

(2)

Stephen Crane

Camouflaging the Chimera

552

(2)

Yusef Komunyakaa

Vocabulary Skills

554

(1)

Writing Skills

555

(3)

The Moderns

Time Line

558

(2)

Political and Social Milestones

560

(2)

Introduction to the Literary Period: The Moderns

562

(9)

John Leggett

John Malcolm Brinnin

MAKE IT NEW!

Symbolism, Imagism, and Beyond

571

(4)

John Malcolm Brinnin

The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

575

(3)

Ezra Pound

The Garden

578

(1)

Primary Source / A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste

579

(4)

Ezra Pound

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

583

(9)

T. S. Eliot

The Red Wheelbarrow

592

(2)

William Carlos Williams

The Great Figure

594

(1)

This Is Just to Say

595

(3)

Poetry

598

(1)

Marianne Moore

Connection / Ars Poetica

599

(3)

Archibald MacLeish

what if a much of a which of a wind

602

(1)

E. E. Cummings

Primary Source / ``Miracles are to come''

603

(1)

E. E. Cummings

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

603

(2)

Mini-Workshop Writing a Descriptive

605

(5)

MODERN AMERICAN FICTION

Soldier's Home

610

(8)

Ernest Hemingway

Primary Source / Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954

618

(5)

Ernest Hemingway

Winter Dreams

623

(17)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Primary Source / A Letter to His Daughter

640

(5)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Rose for Emily

645

(9)

William Faulkner

Primary Source / Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1950

654

(4)

William Faulkner

Literature of the Americas

The Feather Pillow

658

(7)

Margaret Sayers Peden

Horacio Quiroga

Mini-Workshop Analyzing Literature

665

(4)

MIDCENTURY VOICES

The Leader of the People

669

(16)

John Steinbeck

A Worn Path

685

(7)

Eudora Welty

Primary Source / ``Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead?''

692

(4)

Eudora Welty

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

696

(11)

Katherine Anne Porter

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

707

(5)

James Thurber

Primary Source / The New Yorker's Farewell

712

(5)

E. B. White

Primary Source / Common Diction

717

(1)

Robert Frost

Design

718

(3)

Robert Frost

Nothing Gold Can Stay

721

(1)

Connection / Trying to Name What Doesn't Change

722

(2)

Naomi Shihab Nye

Birches

724

(3)

Robert Frost

Mending Wall

727

(2)

Connection / Mending Test

729

(1)

Penelope Bryant Turk

Connection / To the Editor

729

(2)

Jeffrey Meyers

The Death of the Hired Man

731

(5)

Robert Frost

Primary Source / ``I must have the pulse beat of rhythm . . .''

736

(3)

Robert Frost

Mini-Workshop Writing a Biographical Narrative

739

(3)

THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

The Harlem Renaissance

742

(3)

Tableau

745

(2)

Countee Cullen

Incident

747

(3)

The Weary Blues

750

(4)

Langston Hughes

Harlem

754

(2)

Primary Source / Heyday in Harlem

756

(3)

Langston Hughes

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

759

(2)

Connection / the mississippi river empties into the gulf

761

(2)

Lucille Clifton

from Dust Tracks on a Road

763

(10)

Zora Neale Hurston

Read On for Independent Reading

773

(1)

Writing Workshop Analyzing a Novel

774

(8)

Listening and Speaking Workshop Presenting a Literary Analysis

782

(2)

Collection 5: Skills Review

Comparing Literature

America

784

(1)

Claude McKay

Homework

785

(3)

Allen Ginsberg

Vocabulary Skills

788

(1)

Writing Skills

789

(3)

Contemporary Literature

Time Line

792

(2)

Political and Social Milestones

794

(2)

Introduction to the Literary Period: Contemporary Literature

796

(15)

John Leggett

Susan Allen Toth

John Malcolm Brinnin

Thomas Hernacki

Political Points of View World War II

811

(3)

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

814

(1)

Randall Jarrell

Primary Source / The Ball Turret

815

(2)

Randall Jarrell

from Night translated

817

(13)

Stella Rodway

Elie Wiesel

A Noiseless Flash from Hiroshima

830

(12)

John Hersey

Primary Source / Unforgettable Fire

842

(3)

Yasuko Yamagata

``The Arrogance and Cruelty of Power'' from Speech at the Nuremberg Trials, November 21, 1945

845

(10)

Robert H. Jackson

from The Diary of a Young Girl

855

(3)

Anne Frank

``The Biggest Battle of All History'' from The Greatest Generation Speaks

858

(2)

Tom Brokaw

John Whitehead

from April in Germany

860

(6)

Margaret Bourke-White

CONTEMPORARY FICTION

Speaking of Courage

866

(11)

Tim O'Brien

Game

877

(6)

Donald Barthelme

Connection / The Unknown Citizen

883

(5)

W. H. Auden

Everything Stuck to Him

888

(5)

Raymond Carver

Connection / A Still, Small Voice

893

(5)

Jay Mclnerney

Daughter of Invention

898

(14)

Julia Alvarez

Literature of the Americas

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World

912

(8)

Gregory Rabassa

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Rules of the Game from The Joy Luck Club

920

(13)

Amy Tan

When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine

933

(14)

Jhumpa Lahiri

Connection / The Ravaged People of East Pakistan

947

(5)

Alvin S. Toffler

The Book of the Dead

952

(12)

Edwidge Danticat

Mini-Workshop Writing an Autobiographical Narrative

964

(4)

CONTEMPORARY NONFICTION

from Black Boy

968

(17)

Richard Wright

The Girl Who Wouldn't Talk from The Woman Warrior

985

(12)

Maxine Hong Kingston

from The Way to Rainy Mountain

997

(10)

N. Scott Momaday

from In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

1007

(8)

Alice Walker

Autobiographical Notes

1015

(5)

James Baldwin

Connection / from On James Baldwin Eulogy

1020

(4)

Toni Morrison

Straw into Gold

1024

(7)

Sandra Cisneros

Mini-Workshop Analyzing Nonfiction

1031

(4)

CONTEMPORARY POETRY

Night Journey

1035

(4)

Theodore Roethke

The Beautiful Changes

1039

(4)

Richard Wilbur

The Fish

1043

(3)

Elizabeth Bishop

One Art

1046

(4)

Mirror

1050

(2)

Sylvia Plath

Mushrooms

1052

(4)

The Bells

1056

(2)

Anne Sexton

Young

1058

(3)

The Bean Eaters

1061

(2)

Gwendolyn Brooks

In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My Father

1063

(3)

Elsewhere

1066

(4)

Derek Walcott

The Memory of Elena

1070

(2)

Carolyn Forche

Primary Source / Bearing Witness: An Interview with Carolyn Forche

1072

(3)

Bill Moyers

Literature of the Americas

Ars Poetica

1075

(3)

D. J. Flakoll

Claribel Alegria

The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica

1078

(4)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Testimonial

1082

(4)

Rita Dove

Coastal

1086

(3)

Mark Doty

Visions and Interpretations

1089

(4)

Li-Young Lee

Medusa

1093

(4)

Agha Shahid Ali

Man Listening to Disc

1097

(4)

Billy Collins

Read On for Independent Reading

1101

(1)

Media Workshop Analyzing and Using Media

1102

(8)

Listening and Speaking Workshop Reciting Literature

1110

(2)

Collection 6: Skills Review

Comparing Literature

How I Learned to Sweep

1112

(2)

Julia Alvarez

September, 1918

1114

(2)

Amy Lowell

Vocabulary Skills

1116

(1)

Writing Skills

1117

(4)

Resource Center

Reading Matters

Kylene Beers

When the Text Is Tough

1121

(1)

Improving Your Comprehension

1122

(9)

Improving Your Reading Rate

1131

(2)

Vocabulary Development

1133

(2)

The World of Work

Reading

1135

(1)

Informative Documents

1135

(1)

Consumer Documents

1135

(1)

Workplace Documents

1136

(1)

Persuasive Documents

1137

(1)

Critiquing Persuasive Documents

1138

(1)

Writing

1138

(1)

Job Applications and Resumes

1138

(1)

Workplace Documents

1138

(1)

Word-Processing Features

1139

(1)

Formatting Documents

1139

(1)

Integrating Databases, Graphics, and Spreadsheets

1139

(1)

A Model Resume

1139

(2)

Writer's Handbook

The Writing Process

1141

(2)

Paragraphs

1143

(4)

The Writer's Language

1147

(2)

Designing Your Writing

1149

(4)

Test Smarts

Flo Ota De Lange

Sheri Henderson

Strategies for Taking Multiple-Choice Tests

1153

(9)

Strategies for Taking Writing Tests

1162

(7)

Handbook of Literary and Historical Terms

1169

(20)

Language Handbook

1189

(40)

The Parts of Speech

1190

(1)

Agreement

1191

(2)

Using Verbs

1193

(2)

Using Pronouns

1195

(2)

Using Modifiers

1197

(2)

Phrases

1199

(2)

Clauses

1201

(1)

Sentence Structure

1202

(3)

Sentence Style

1205

(3)

Sentence Combining

1208

(1)

Capitalization

1208

(4)

Punctuation

1212

(7)

Spelling

1219

(3)

Glossary of Usage

1222

(7)

Glossary

1229

(7)

Spanish Glossary

1236

(9)

Acknowledgments

1245

(4)

Picture Credits

1249

(4)

Index of Skills

1253

(14)

Literary Skills

1253

(2)

Vocabulary Skills

1255

(1)

Reading Skills

1255

(1)

Writing Skills

1256

(5)

Language (Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics) Skills

1261

(2)

Listening and Speaking Skills

1263

(2)

Independent Reading

1265

(2)

Index of Art

1267

(4)

Index of Authors and Titles

1271

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