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TA B L E CONTENTS OF PART ONE • Understanding Literature UNIT 1 Genres and Techniques of Literature Anonymous THE ORAL TRADITION “Follow the Drinking Gourd” X ! Edna St. Vincent Millay Li-Young Lee Judith Ortiz Cofer Arthur Miller N. Scott Momaday SPIRITUAL 4 6 POEM 12 19 POEM 22 FICTION “American History” X SHORT STORY 27 31 DRAMA from The Crucible X PLAY EXCERPT 41 44 MEMOIR 52 56 POETRY “Sonnet XXX” X “A Story” X NONFICTION “The Way to Rainy Mountain” X GUIDED WRITING ³ Expository Writing: Writing about Literature LANGUAGE, GRAMMAR, AND STYLE: Sentence Variety UNIT REVIEW REFLECTING ON YOUR READING 65 74 74 Blanket, 1875. Navajo artist. PART TWO • The American Tradition UNIT 2 Iroquois Tewa Bartolomé de las Casas John Smith Origins of the American Tradition (to 1750) INTRODUCTION: Historical Background 80 ECHOES: Quotations on the Origins of the American Tradition 86 from the Iroquois Constitution X “Song of the Sky Loom” X ! NONFICTION 87 TRIBAL SONG 92 from The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies X ! NONFICTION 96 from The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles NONFICTION 102 X Dramatic recording included in ! Additional reading support ³ Guided Writing Interactive Audio Library provided in The EMC Write-In Reader Software on CD-ROM v Anonymous Anne Bradstreet Jonathan Edwards William Bradford Anne Bradstreet Edward Taylor from The New England Primer X ! “To My Dear and Loving Husband” X ! from “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” X ! SELECTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING from Of Plymouth Plantation X “Upon the Burning of Our House” “Huswifery” GUIDED WRITING ³ Personal/Expressive Writing: Writing a Reflective Essay LANGUAGE, GRAMMAR, AND STYLE: Pronouns and Antecedents NONFICTION 110 POEM 114 SERMON 118 NONFICTION POEM POEM 124 126 126 127 UNIT REVIEW REFLECTING ON YOUR READING UNIT 3 Benjamin Franklin Patrick Henry Phillis Wheatley Thomas Jefferson Abigail Adams J. Hector St. Jean de Crèvecœur Thomas Paine Benjamin Franklin 136 136 The American Revolution (1750–1800) INTRODUCTION: Historical Background 140 ECHOES: Quotations on the American Revolution 145 from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin X Speech in the Virginia Convention X ! “To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works” X Declaration of Independence X ! INSIGHTS: The Bill of Rights Letter to John Adams, May 7, 1776 X SELECTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING from Letters from an American Farmer from Common Sense from Crisis, No. 1 X from “Remarks Concerning the Natives of North America” GUIDED WRITING ³ Persuasive Writing: Defending a Viewpoint LANGUAGE, GRAMMAR, AND STYLE: Subject-Verb Agreement AUTOBIOGRAPHY 146 SPEECH 153 POEM 159 DOCUMENT NONFICTION 163 168 LETTER 171 NONFICTION NONFICTION NONFICTION 176 177 177 NONFICTION 178 179 UNIT REVIEW REFLECTING ON YOUR READING vi 188 188 X Dramatic recording included in ! Additional reading support ³ Guided Writing Interactive Audio Library provided in The EMC Write-In Reader Software on CD-ROM UNIT 4 William Cullen Bryant Oliver Wendell Holmes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Emily Dickinson Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Herman Melville Louisa May Alcott Edgar Allan Poe James Russell Lowell Emily Dickinson The New England Renaissance (1800–1860) INTRODUCTION: Historical Background 192 ECHOES: Quotations from Emerson and Thoreau 198 “Thanatopsis” X POEM 199 POEM 206 POEM 211 POETRY 216 220 222 225 SHORT STORY POEM 228 244 SHORT STORY NONFICTION 251 273 ESSAY POEM 276 283 ESSAY 286 SELECTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING “Loomings,” from Moby Dick NOVEL EXCERPT “Transcendental Wild Oats” AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FICTION “Annabel Lee” X POETRY “Alone” X “Stanzas on Freedom” POEM “There’s a certain Slant of light—” X POETRY “ ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers—” X “Much Madness is divinest Sense—” X 299 300 306 306 307 307 307 307 “The Chambered Nautilus” X “The Village Blacksmith” X “This is my letter to the World” X ! “The Soul selects her own Society—” X “Because I could not stop for Death—” X ! “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—” X ! “The Pit and the Pendulum” X “The Raven” X ! “Rappaccini’s Daughter” X INSIGHTS: The Real Beatrice? from Self-Reliance X “The Rhodora” X from Walden X ! GUIDED WRITING ³ Imaginative Writing: Describing a Gothic Setting LANGUAGE, GRAMMAR, AND STYLE: Vivid Verbs and Colorful Modifiers UNIT REVIEW REFLECTING ON YOUR READING 308 314 315 Winter Sunday in Norway, Maine, c.1860. American artist. X Dramatic recording included in ! Additional reading support ³ Guided Writing Interactive Audio Library provided in The EMC Write-In Reader Software on CD-ROM vii UNIT 5 Frederick Douglass Anonymous Stephen Foster Julia Ward Howe Abraham Lincoln Sojourner Truth Ambrose Bierce Walt Whitman Stephen Crane Harriet Jacobs (Linda Brent) Abraham Lincoln Robert E. Lee Walt Whitman Booker T. Washington Lydia Maria Child John B. Russwurm William Lloyd Garrison Angelina Grimké William Ellery Channing Salmon P. Chase viii Slavery and the Civil War (1850–1865) INTRODUCTION: Historical Background 318 ECHOES: Quotations on Slavery and the Civil War 323 from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself X AUTOBIOGRAPHY 324 SPIRITUAL 330 FOLK SONG 334 The Gettysburg Address X ! HYMN 339 SPEECH 344 “Ain’t I a Woman?” SPEECH 350 SHORT STORY 354 POETRY 365 375 POETRY 379 382 “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” X ! “My Old Kentucky Home” X ! “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” X ! “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” X ! from “Song of Myself” X ! “O Captain! My Captain!” X “Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind” X “A Man Said to the Universe” X SELECTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Seven Years Concealed X AUTOBIOGRAPHY from “A House Divided” X SPEECH Letter to Mrs. Bixby X LETTER from the Second Inaugural Address X SPEECH Farewell to His Army X SPEECH from “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” X POETRY “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” X from Up from Slavery X AUTOBIOGRAPHY ABOLITIONIST VOICES from An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans NONFICTION from Freedom Journal, March 16, 1827 NONFICTION from Editorial in The Liberator, January 1, 1831 NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL from Appeal to the Christian Women of the Southern States NONFICTION from Slavery NONFICTION from Argument before the Supreme Court in the Case of Wharton Jones v. John Vanzandt, 1846 SPEECH 385 386 386 386 387 387 388 388 388 389 389 389 389 389 X Dramatic recording included in ! Additional reading support ³ Guided Writing Interactive Audio Library provided in The EMC Write-In Reader Software on CD-ROM GUIDED WRITING ³ Narrative Writing: Biographical Narrative LANGUAGE, GRAMMAR, AND STYLE: Writing Effective Sentences 390 UNIT REVIEW REFLECTING ON YOUR READING UNIT 6 Mark Twain Bret Harte Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé Sarah Orne Jewett Susan B. Anthony Kate Chopin Cochise of the Apache Mark Twain Henry James 400 400 Frontiers (1860–1900) INTRODUCTION: Historical Background 404 ECHOES: Quotations from Mark Twain 410 “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” X ! SHORT STORY 411 SHORT STORY 419 SPEECH NONFICTION 432 434 SHORT STORY 437 “The Story of an Hour” X ! SPEECH NONFICTION 448 451 SHORT STORY 454 SELECTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING “I Am Alone” X from Life on the Mississippi X from The Art of Fiction X SPEECH MEMOIR NONFICTION 460 460 462 “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” X “I Will Fight No More Forever” X ! INSIGHTS: Broken Promises “A White Heron” X “Woman’s Right to Suffrage” X INSIGHTS: The Susan B. Anthony Dollar GUIDED WRITING Informative Writing: Application Essay LANGUAGE, GRAMMAR, AND STYLE: Extending Effective Use of Phrases and Clauses UNIT REVIEW REFLECTING ON YOUR READING 463 472 473 Boy Sitting in the Grass, c.1882. Georges Seurat. X Dramatic recording included in ! Additional reading support ³ Guided Writing Interactive Audio Library provided in The EMC Write-In Reader Software on CD-ROM ix UNIT 7 Edgar Lee Masters Amy Lowell Carl Sandburg T. S. Eliot Robert Frost Robert Frost Wallace Stevens William Carlos Williams E. E. Cummings Willa Cather F. Scott Fitzgerald Katherine Anne Porter Ernest Hemingway John Dos Passos William Faulkner Edwin Arlington Robinson Edgar Lee Masters Ezra Pound Vachel Lindsay Edna St. Vincent Millay Robert Frost Wallace Stevens Amy Lowell E. E. Cummings Sherwood Anderson x The Modern Era (1900–1945) INTRODUCTION: Historical Background 476 ECHOES: Quotations on the Modern Era 483 “Lucinda Matlock” from Spoon River Anthology X “Patterns” X “Grass” X “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” “Mending Wall” X ! “Home Burial” X INSIGHTS: Letter to The Amherst Student “The Snow Man” X “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” X POEM 484 POETRY 489 496 POEM 500 POETRY 508 513 517 NONFICTION POETRY 520 523 POETRY 529 532 “A Wagner Matinee” X POEM 535 SHORT STORY 539 “The Sensible Thing” SHORT STORY 548 SHORT STORY 562 SHORT STORY 572 NONFICTION 578 SPEECH NOVEL EXCERPT 585 588 POETRY 593 593 593 593 593 594 595 596 596 596 596 NOVEL EXCERPT 596 “This Is Just to Say” X “The Red Wheelbarrow” X “somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond” X ! “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” ! “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” X “Newsreel LXVIII,” from The Big Money X ! Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech X “Darl” from As I Lay Dying X SELECTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING MODERN POETRY “Richard Cory” “Petit, the Poet,” from Spoon River Anthology X “In a Station of the Metro” X “The Flower-Fed Buffaloes” X “Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare” “The Death of the Hired Man” “An Old Man’s Winter Night” “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock” X “Wind and Silver” X “A Lover” “anyone lived in a pretty how town” X MODERN FICTION “Sophistication” from Winesburg, Ohio X X Dramatic recording included in ! Additional reading support ³ Guided Writing Interactive Audio Library provided in The EMC Write-In Reader Software on CD-ROM John Steinbeck from The Grapes of Wrath X 599 GUIDED WRITING ³ Informative Writing: Writing an Annotated Bibliography LANGUAGE, GRAMMAR, AND STYLE: Documenting Online and Conventional Sources 601 UNIT REVIEW REFLECTING ON YOUR READING UNIT 8 Paul Laurence Dunbar Countee Cullen Claude McKay Jean Toomer Langston Hughes Arna Bontemps FICTION Dorothy West NONFICTION Zora Neale Hurston Alice Walker W. E. B. Du Bois Zora Neale Hurston 608 609 The Harlem Renaissance (1920–1936) INTRODUCTION: Historical Background 612 ECHOES: Quotations on the Harlem Renaissance 618 “We Wear the Mask” X POEM 619 POETRY 624 628 632 POEM 636 POETRY 640 645 POEM 648 SHORT STORY 652 PERSONAL ESSAY 658 SPEECH 663 ESSAY NOVEL EXCERPT 666 671 “Yet Do I Marvel” X “Any Human to Another” “The Tropics in New York” X “Storm Ending” X “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” X ! “I, too, sing America” ! “A Black Man Talks of Reaping” X “The Richer, the Poorer” X “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” X INSIGHTS: from “The Resurrection of Zora Neale Hurston and Her Work” SELECTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING from The Souls of Black Folk from Their Eyes Were Watching God X GUIDED WRITING ³ 672 Imaginative Writing: Writing a Lyric Poem LANGUAGE, GRAMMAR, AND STYLE: Effective Language UNIT REVIEW REFLECTING ON YOUR READING 680 680 Huckleberry Finn and Jim, c.1936. Thomas Hart Benton. X Dramatic recording included in ! Additional reading support Audio Library provided in The EMC Write-In Reader ³ Guided Writing Interactive Software on CD-ROM xi UNIT 9 Tennessee Williams Modern Drama (1900–1945) INTRODUCTION: Historical Background 684 ECHOES: Quotations on Modern Drama 685 The Glass Menagerie ! PLAY GUIDED WRITING ³ Literary Critique: Evaluating a Play or Film LANGUAGE, GRAMMAR, AND STYLE: Extending Effective Use of Standard, Formal English 745 UNIT REVIEW REFLECTING ON YOUR READING Robert Lowell Randall Jarrell Gwendolyn Brooks Theodore Roethke Flannery O’Connor Eudora Welty Eudora Welty Bernard Malamud Richard Wright John Hersey Ralph Ellison 754 755 Postwar Literature (1945–1960) INTRODUCTION: Historical Background 758 ECHOES: Quotations on Postwar Literature 764 “Commander Lowell” POEM 765 POEM 771 POEM 775 POEM 780 SHORT STORY 784 SHORT STORY 796 NONFICTION 804 SHORT STORY 808 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 824 LITERARY NONFICTION 830 NOVEL EXCERPT 844 “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” X “To Black Women” “Elegy for Jane” X “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” X “A Worn Path” X ! INSIGHTS: “Is Phoenix Jackson’s Grandson Really Dead?” “The Magic Barrel” from Black Boy X “A Noiseless Flash” from Hiroshima ! SELECTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING from Invisible Man GUIDED WRITING ³ 850 Persuasive Writing: Problem-Solution Essay LANGUAGE, GRAMMAR, AND STYLE: Effective Use of Transitions UNIT REVIEW REFLECTING ON YOUR READING 858 859 © Estate of Grant Wood/Licensed by VAGA, New York. UNIT 10 686 Stone City, c.1930. Grant Wood. xii X Dramatic recording included in ! Additional reading support ³ Guided Writing Interactive Audio Library provided in The EMC Write-In Reader Software on CD-ROM UNIT 11 Lawrence Ferlinghetti Anne Sexton Robert Hayden Sylvia Plath Denise Levertov Elizabeth Bishop John Updike Joyce Carol Oates John F. Kennedy Joan Didion Robert Hayden James Dickey James Baldwin Early Contemporary Literature (1960–1980) INTRODUCTION: Historical Background 862 ECHOES: Quotations on the Early Contemporary Era 868 “Constantly risking absurdity” X POEM 869 POEM 874 POEM 879 POEM 883 POEM 887 POEM 891 SHORT STORY 896 SHORT STORY 902 SPEECH 908 ESSAY 915 POEM POEM NOVEL EXCERPT 923 923 924 “The Starry Night” X “Those Winter Sundays” X “Morning Song” X “The Secret” X “House Guest” X “The Slump” X “Journey” X Inaugural Address “On the Mall” SELECTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING “Frederick Douglass” X “For the Last Wolverine” from Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone GUIDED WRITING ³ Informative Writing: Writing a Research Paper LANGUAGE, GRAMMAR, AND STYLE: Effective Documentation 928 UNIT REVIEW REFLECTING ON YOUR READING UNIT 12 Simon Ortiz Rita Dove David Mura Louise Glück 938 938 Contemporary Literature (1980–the Present) INTRODUCTION: Historical Background 942 ECHOES: Quotations on the Contemporary Era 948 “Hunger in New York City” “Wingfoot Lake” X “Huy Nguyen: Brothers, Drowning Cries” X “Celestial Music” X X Dramatic recording included in ! Additional reading support ³ Guided Writing Interactive Audio Library provided in The EMC Write-In Reader Software on CD-ROM POEM 949 POEM 953 POEM 958 POEM 964 xiii Allan Gurganus Julia Alvarez Tim O’Brien Kathleen Norris Daniel J. Boorstin Naomi Shihab Nye Toni Morrison “Reassurance” “Daughter of Invention” from How the García Girls Lost Their Accents X “Ambush” ! “Seeing” from Dakota X SHORT STORY 969 NOVEL EXCERPT 980 SHORT STORY 992 ESSAY 998 ESSAY 1004 POEM NOVEL EXCERPT 1013 1013 “Why I Am Optimistic about America” SELECTIONS FOR ADDITIONAL READING “What Is Supposed to Happen” from Beloved GUIDED WRITING ³ Informative Writing: Creating a Multimedia Presentation LANGUAGE, GRAMMAR, AND STYLE: Effective Use of Visuals UNIT REVIEW REFLECTING ON YOUR READING 1014 1020 1021 PART THREE • Language Arts Survey A Handbook of Essential Skills 1 2 3 xiv READING RESOURCE Introduction to Reading Reading for Experience Reading to Learn Reading for Information Developing Your Vocabulary 1024 1024 1026 1028 1031 4 WRITING RESOURCE Introduction to Writing Understanding the Writing Process 1034 1035 5 LANGUAGE, GRAMMAR, AND STYLE RESOURCE Language Handbook 1053 Grammar Handbook 1055 Subjects and Verbs: Problem Constructions 1061 Writer’s Workshop: Building Effective Sentences 1064 Editing for Grammar and Usage Errors 1066 Parts of Speech Summary 1072 Style Handbook 1080 6 SPEAKING AND LISTENING RESOURCE The Power of Communication Listening Skills Communicating with Others Communication Styles and Cultural Barriers Public Speaking 1086 1087 1090 1092 1095 STUDY AND RESEARCH RESOURCE Thinking Skills Study Skills Research Skills Test-Taking Skills 1101 1106 1107 1119 APPLIED ENGLISH RESOURCE The Importance of Applied English 1123 HANDBOOK OF LITERARY TERMS GLOSSARY OF WORDS FOR EVERYDAY USE INDEX OF TITLES AND AUTHORS INDEX OF SKILLS INDEX OF INTERNET SITES INDEX OF FINE ART ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1131 1159 1169 1175 1187 1189 1191