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This thematically organized anthology treats literature as a continually expanding commentary on our infinitely varied lives, helping students make the connection between literature and their own unique life stories.

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• Introduction
• Part 1 Reading Literature
• Critical Reading: Engagement, Response, and Analysis
• Engaging with a Text: Annotation
• Special Feature: Sample Student Annotation of Sandra Cisneross Bread
• Responding to a Text: The Readers Journal
• The Readers Box
• Sample Student Readers Journal
• Freewriting
• Analyzing a Text
• Approaches
• Author-Oriented Approaches
• Reader-Oriented Approaches
• Text-Oriented Approaches
• The Elements of the Essay
• Style
• Tone
• Theme
• The Readers Box
• Questions for Engagement, Response, and Analysis
• Essay
• The Elements of Fiction
• Point of View
• Setting
• Style
• Character
• Plot
• Theme
• The Readers Box
• Questions for Engagement, Response and Analysis
• Short Stories
• The Elements of Poetry
• Situation and Speaker
• Structure and Sound
• Style
• Theme
• The Readers Box
• Questions for Engagement, Response, and Analysis
• Poetry
• The Elements of Drama
• Dialogue and Stage Directions
• Setting
• Style
• Character
• Plot
• Theme
• The Readers Box
• Questions for Engagement Response, and Analysis
• Drama
• Part 2 Writing About Literature
• Critical Writing: Argument
• Steps for Writing Arguments about Literature
• Step One: Establishing Purpose and Audience
• Modes
• Debatable Topics
• Audience
• Step Two: Generating a Working Thesis
• Re-reading
• Pre-Writing Strategies
• The Writers Box
• Sample Student Brainstorming
• Clustering and Listing
• Honing the Thesis
• Step Three: Gathering Evidence
• Primary Source Evidence
• Secondary Source Evidence
• Step Four: Drafting, Revising, and Editing
• Writing the Introduction
• Crafting Body Paragraphs and Making Transitions
• Concluding Well
• Integrating Source Evidence
• The Writers Box
• Avoiding Common Pitfalls at the Drafting Stage
• Revising and Editing
• The Writers Box
• Avoiding Common Pitfalls in the Editing Stage
• Sample Student Paper
• Thematic Anthology
• Family
• Writing about Family
• Essays
• Joan Didion, On Going Home
• Bill Cosby, from Fatherhood
• Bramare:(Archaic) To Yearn for
• Fiction
• A Domestic Dilemma
• Sonnys Blues
• A Christmas Memory
• Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
• ShermanAlexie, Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play TheStar-Spangled Bannerat Woodstock
• Poetry
• A Prayer for My Daughter
• Theodore Roethke, My Papas Waltz Gwendolyn Brooks
• The Mother Sylvia Plath
• My Father Is a Simple Man Nikki Giovanni, Nikki-Rosa
• The Gift
• Future Connected By Drama
• Casebook on August Wilson August Wilson Fences
• The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson
• Boundaries, Logistics, and Identity
• The Property of Metaphor in Fencesand Joe Turners Come and Gone
• Filling the Time: Reading History in the Drama of August Wilson