About the Book
This unique college reading text gives students experience reading and evaluating poetry, short stories, essays, and textbook chapters. An innovative Instructor's Manual gives instructors a wealth of teaching ideas and background material on each piece with a focus on critical thinking.
Table of Contents:
POETRY. Kristine Batey, Lot's Wife. Genesis 19:12-26. E. A. Robinson, Richard Cory. Alden Nowlan, Warren Pryor. Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken. Langston Hughes, I, Too, Harlem. Langston Hughes, Mother to Son. Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays. Roland Flint, Austere. Gary Soto, A Red Palm. Rita Dove, Daystar. Nikki Giovanni, Once a Lady Told Me. Simon Ortiz, My Father's Song. Andrew Hudgins, Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead. Craig Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home. George Macbeth, Bedtime Story. Donald Justice, Counting the Mad. Emily Dickinson, Much Madness is divinest sense. Four Poems from Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters: Minerva Jones, 'Indignation' Jones, Doctor Meyers, Mrs. Meyers. Seamus Heaney, Digging. Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll. M. Carl Holman, Mr. Z. Howard Nemerov, The Vacuum. Alden Nowlan, Weakness. Adrienne Rich, Power. William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Innocence. William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Experience. Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est. Robert Frost, Mending Wall. Cathy Song, Lost Sister. Li-Young Lee, Persimmons. Rita Dove, Parsley. W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen. Alastair Reid, Curiosity. Bob Hicok, What Would Freud Say? Robert Graves, The Naked and the Nude. FICTION. Katharine Brush, Birthday Party. Shirley Jackson, The Lottery. Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Harrison Bergeron. Jess Mowry, Crusader Rabbit. Zora Neale Hurston, The Gilded Six-Bits. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. Ray Bradbury, The Veldt. Alice Walker, Everyday Use. Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gimple the Fool. Eudora Welty, A Worn Path. Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing. Andre Dubus, The Fat Girl. Joyce Carol Oates, Life After High School. Barbara Kingsolver, Islands on the Moon. Sherman Alexie, What You Pawn I Will Redeem. Gish Jen, What Means Switch. William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily. John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums. ESSAYS. Dick Gregory, Shame. Randall Williams, Daddy Tucked the Blanket. George Orwell, A Hanging. Edward Koch, Death and Justice. Amy Tan, Mother Tongue. Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria. Kurt Wiesenfeld, Making the Grade. George Will, What is Child Pornography? Ann Coulter, Disgusting Doesn't Make It "Speech." Leonard Pitts, Should a Man Be Put in Jail for What He's Thinking? Cynthia Fox, Starved Out. Deborah Gregory, Heavy Judgment. Nancy Gibbs, When Is It Rape? Molly Ivins, Time for a Change on Drugs. Joseph A. Califano, Legalization Of Narcotics: Myths And Reality. Stephen Chapman, The Prisoner's Dilemma. D. Stanley Eitzen, Violent Crime: Myths, Facts, and Solutions. Bruce Hoffman, A Nasty Business. Darius Rejali, Torture's Allure and Effect. TEXTBOOK CHAPTERS. Joseph R. Conlin, The Presidency in Crisis from The American Past: A Survey of American History. Louis E. Boone and David L. Kurtz, Social Responsibility and Business Ethics from Contemporary Business.
Review :
"The instructoras manual is the best part of this book! It contains a wealth of teaching ideas for each piece and promotes critical thinking. I believe it serves as a form of professional development for the teacher who uses it because the approaches are not only innovative but also fun. My students never complain about have to read the selections in this text because the analysis, synthesis, and application steps help even the most jaded student to understand the nuances of quality literature. The pre-reading exercises are thought-provoking, and they focus the readers on the themes of the selections."
"The instructors manual is the best part of this book! It contains a wealth of teaching ideas for each piece and promotes critical thinking. I believe it serves as a form of professional development for the teacher who uses it because the approaches are not only innovative but also fun. My students never complain about have to read the selections in this text because the analysis, synthesis, and application steps help even the most jaded student to understand the nuances of quality literature. The pre-reading exercises are thought-provoking, and they focus the readers on the themes of the selections."
"The instructor's manual is the best part of this book! It contains a wealth of teaching ideas for each piece and promotes critical thinking. I believe it serves as a form of professional development for the teacher who uses it because the approaches are not only innovative but also fun. My students never complain about have to read the selections in this text because the analysis, synthesis, and application steps help even the most jaded student to understand the nuances of quality literature. The pre-reading exercises are thought-provoking, and they focus the readers on the themes of the selections."
