Elements of Literature-Red (11th Grade)

by Anderson, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780030741982
• ISBN10: 003074198X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-01-01
• Publisher: Harcourt School

Table of Contents

Unit One: THE COLONIAL PERIOD---THE AGE OF FAITH
Introduction	2	(4)
Time Line	6	(5)
William Bradford	11	(12)
Of Plymouth Plantation	13	(9)
Primary Sources: The First Thanksgiving	22	(1)
Elements of Literature: The Plain Style	22	(1)
Mary Rowlandson	23	(8)
A Narrative of Her Captivity	24	(7)
Sarah Kemble Knight	31	(5)
The Journal of Madam Knight	32	(4)
Jonathan Edwards	36	(6)
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God	37	(4)
Primary Sources: Journals	41	(1)
Anne Bradstreet	42	(3)
Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666	43	(2)
Edward Taylor	45	(8)
Upon a Spider Catching a Fly	46	(2)
Elements of Literature: The Conceit	48	(1)
God's Determinations Touching His Elect	49	(3)
The Southern Planters	52	(1)
William Byrd	53	(6)
The History of the Dividing Line	54	(5)
Feature: A Sample of Native American Myths and Ritual Songs	59	(13)
Grandmother Spider Steals the Sun (Cherokee)	60	(1)
Coyote Finishes His Work (Nez Perce)	61	(1)
Song of the Sky Loom (Tewa)	62	(1)
Breath of Life (Zuni)	62	(1)
Exercises in Critical Thinking and Writing: Determining the Precise Meanings of Words	63	(3)
Unit Two: THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD---THE AGE OF REASON
Introduction	66	(4)
Time Line	70	(2)
Benjamin Franklin	72	(12)
The Autobiography	74	(7)
Sayings of Poor Richard	81	(2)
Primary Sources: A Letter to Samuel Mather	83	(1)
Feature: The Middle Passage: A Narrative by Olaudah Equiano	84	(3)
Patrick Henry	87	(6)
Speech to the Virginia Convention	88	(4)
Elements of Literature: Persuasion	92	(1)
Thomas Paine	93	(7)
The Crisis, No. 1	94	(6)
Thomas Jefferson	100	(9)
The Autobiography: The Declaration of Independence	101	(7)
Primary Sources: A Letter from Jefferson to His Daughter	108	(1)
The American Language: ``Revolutionary'' English	109	(14)
Exercises in Critical Thinking and Writing: Analyzing and Evaluating Persuasion: Logic	113	(3)
Unit Three: AMERICAN ROMANTICISM
Introduction	116	(4)
Time Line	120	(3)
Washington Irving	123	(15)
Rip Van Winkle	125	(12)
Primary Sources: A Traveler Comments on American Manners	137	(1)
William Cullen Bryant	138	(8)
To a Waterfowl	139	(3)
Thanatopsis	142	(4)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	146	(10)
The Cross of Snow	147	(1)
Elements of Literature: The Sonnet	148	(1)
The Ropewalk	149	(3)
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls	152	(3)
Primary Sources: Visiting Mr. Longfellow	155	(1)
John Greenleaf Whittier	156	(5)
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll	157	(4)
Oliver Wendell Holmes	161	(6)
Old Ironsides	162	(2)
The Chambered Nautilus	164	(3)
James Russell Lowell	167	(5)
She Came and Went	168	(2)
A Fable for Critics	170	(2)
The American Language: ``Noah's Ark'': Webster's Dictionary	172	(15)
Exercises in Critical Thinking and Writing: Responding to Literature
To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth...	177	(3)
Phillis Wheatley
Unit Four: THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE---FIVE MAJOR WRITERS
Introduction	180	(7)
Two Idealists	187	(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson	187	(17)
Nature	191	(3)
Self-Reliance	194	(2)
Concord Hymn	196	(2)
The Rhodora	198	(2)
The Snow-Storm	200	(2)
Emerson's Aphorisms	202	(1)
Primary Sources: Hawthorne Talks About Emerson	203	(1)
Henry David Thoreau	204	(22)
Walden, or Life in the Woods	207	(13)
Resistance to Civil Government	220	(5)
Primary Sources: Two Journals	225	(1)
The Dark Side of Romanticism	226	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe	226	(37)
The Masque of the Red Death	228	(5)
Primary Sources: A Visit to the Poes	233	(1)
The Fall of the House of Usher	234	(13)
Elements of Literature: Symbols	247	(1)
Eldorado	248	(2)
Annabel Lee	250	(3)
To Helen	253	(2)
The Raven	255	(5)
Primary Sources: Poe's Essay on the Writing Process	260	(2)
Elements of Literature: Sound Effects	262	(1)
Nathaniel Hawthorne	263	(31)
The Minister's Black Veil	265	(10)
Rappaccini's Daughter	275	(18)
Primary Sources: Hawthorne and the Monument at Concord	293	(1)
Herman Melville	294	(32)
Moby-Dick	297	(20)
Primary Sources: A Letter and a Journal Entry	317	(1)
Shiloh	318	(1)
Art	319	(2)
Exercises in Critical Thinking and Writing: Analyzing and Evaluating Persuasive Writing: Rhetoric
Self-Reliance	321	(3)
Ralph, Waldo Emerson
Unit Five: A New American Poetry---Whitman and Dickinson
Introduction	324	(2)
Walt Whitman	326	(26)
I Hear America Singing	331	(1)
Song of Myself	332	(1)
I celebrate myself	332	(1)
Elements of Literature: Free Verse	333	(1)
Alone far in the wilds...	334	(2)
Now I will do nothing but listen	336	(2)
I understand the large hearts of heroes...	338	(3)
The spotted hawk swoops by...	341	(2)
On the Beach at Night	343	(2)
On the Beach at Night Alone	345	(2)
When I Heard the Learned Astronomer	347	(1)
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim	348	(2)
Primary Sources: From Specimen Days	350	(2)
Emily Dickinson	352	(33)
Heart! We will forget him!	355	(1)
Success is counted sweetest	356	(1)
The Soul selects her own Society	357	(1)
Elements of Literature: Slant Rhyme	358	(1)
A Bird came down the Walk	358	(2)
I died for Beauty---but was scarce	360	(2)
I heard a Fly buzz---when I died---	362	(1)
If you were coming in the Fall	363	(1)
Because I could not stop for Death---	364	(2)
I never saw a Moor---	366	(1)
Tell all the Truth	367	(1)
Apparently with no surprise	368	(1)
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee	369	(2)
Primary Sources: Higginson's Account of Dickinson	371	(2)
Exercises in Critical Thinking and Writing: Comparing and Contrasting Poems
Song of Myself	373	(1)
Walt Whitman
This quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies	373	(3)
Emily Dickinson
Unit Six: THE RISE OF REALISM---THE CIVIL WAR AND POST-WAR PERIOD
Introduction	376	(6)
Time Line	382	(3)
Frederick Douglass	385	(6)
The Battle with Mr. Covey, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	386	(5)
Spirituals and ``Code'' Songs	391	(2)
Go Down, Moses	391	(1)
Follow the Drinking Gourd	392	(1)
Bret Harte	393	(9)
The Outcasts of Poker Flat	394	(8)
Mark Twain	402	(28)
Life on the Mississippi	404	(10)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	414	(15)
Primary Sources: The ``Original'' Huckleberry Finn	429	(1)
Ambrose Bierce	430	(9)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	431	(8)
Feature: Voices from the Civil War	439	(16)
Mary Chesnut
Theodore Upson
Walt Whitman
Major Sullivan Ballou
Abraham Lincoln
Julia Ward Howe
Frederick Douglass
Susie King Taylor
John Billings
Alexander Hunter
Seth Flint
General Robert E. Lee
Stephen Crane	455	(25)
A Mystery of Heroism	457	(6)
War Is Kind	463	(1)
The Open Boat	464	(15)
Primary Sources: ``Plenty of Grit''	479	(1)
Kate Chopin	480	(21)
A Pair of Silk Stockings	481	(5)
The American Language: A Period of Vocabulary Growth	486	(5)
Exercises in Critical Thinking and Writing: Making Inferences and Analyzing Point of View	491	(3)
Unit Seven: THE MODERNS---THE AMERICAN VOICE IN FICTION
Introduction	494	(4)
Time Line	498	(3)
Sherwood Anderson	501	(9)
The Egg	502	(7)
Primary Sources: ``They were not nice little packages...''	509	(1)
Sinclair Lewis	510	(7)
Babbitt's After-Dinner Speech	511	(6)
Willa Cather	517	(8)
A Wagner Matinee	518	(7)
Thomas Wolfe	525	(8)
His Father's Earth	526	(7)
F. Scott Fitzgerald	533	(20)
Winter Dreams	535	(17)
Primary Sources: A Letter to His Daughter	552	(1)
Ernest Hemingway	553	(6)
In Another Country	555	(3)
Primary Sources: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954	558	(1)
Zora Neale Hurston	559	(5)
How the Lion Met the King of the World	560	(3)
Primary Sources: Collecting Folktales	563	(1)
John Steinbeck	564	(12)
The Leader of the People	565	(10)
Primary Sources: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1962	575	(1)
James Thurber	576	(6)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	577	(4)
Primary Sources: The New Yorker's Farewell (E. B. White)	581	(1)
Katherine Anne Porter	582	(8)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall	583	(7)
William Faulkner	590	(12)
A Rose for Emily	592	(9)
Primary Sources: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1950	601	(1)
Flannery O'Connor	602	(11)
The Life You Save May Be Your Own	603	(8)
Primary Sources: The Adventures of Mr. Shiftlet	611	(1)
Elements of Literature: The Four ``Modes'' of Fiction	612	(1)
Eudora Welty	613	(20)
A Worn Path	614	(5)
Primary Sources: ``Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead?''	619	(2)
The American Language: American Slang	621	(4)
Exercises in Critical Thinking and Writing: Making Generalizations	625	(3)
Unit Eight: POETRY--VOICES OF AMERICAN CHARACTER
Introduction	628	(5)
Edwin Arlington Robinson	633	(5)
Richard Cory	634	(1)
Primary Sources: Robinson on ``Richard Cory''	635	(1)
Miniver Cheevy	636	(2)
Edgar Lee Masters	638	(6)
Richard Bone	639	(1)
Lucinada Matlock	640	(2)
``Butch'' Weldy	642	(1)
Primary Sources: The Genesis of Spoon River	643	(1)
Paul Laurence Dunbar	644	(3)
The Haunted Oak	645	(1)
Primary Sources: Dunbar and Dialect Poetry	646	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay	647	(5)
Recuerdo	648	(2)
Dirge Without Music	650	(1)
Primary Sources: ``The brawny male sends his picture''	651	(1)
Robert Frost	652	(20)
Design	654	(2)
Neither Out Far nor In Deep	656	(2)
Birches	658	(2)
Mending Wall	660	(3)
Once by the Pacific	663	(1)
The Death of the Hired Man	664	(6)
Nothing Gold Can Stay	670	(1)
Primary Sources: ``I must have the pulse beat of rhythm...''	671	(1)
John Crowe Ransom	672	(4)
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter	673	(1)
Parting, Without a Sequel	674	(2)
Robinson Jeffers	676	(4)
Shine, Perishing Republic	677	(1)
Love the Wild Swan	678	(2)
The Harlem Renaissance	680	(1)
James Weldon Johnson	680	(6)
Go Down Death	681	(4)
Primary Sources: God's Trombones	685	(1)
Claude McKay	686	(2)
America	687	(1)
Langston Hughes	688	(6)
Harlem	689	(1)
I, Too	690	(2)
The Weary Blues	692	(2)
Countee Cullen	694	(17)
Tableau	695	(2)
Incident	697	(1)
The American Language: American Dialects	698	(5)
Exercises in Critical Thinking and Writing: Interpreting and Responding to a Poem
Only the Polished Skeleton	703	(3)
Countee Cullen
Unit Nine: IMAGISM AND SYMBOLISM
Introduction	706	(5)
Ezra Pound	711	(6)
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	712	(2)
Primary Sources: ``A Few Don'ts by an Imagist''	714	(1)
Elements of Literature: The Objective Correlative	715	(1)
The Garden	716	(1)
William Carlos Williams	717	(7)
The Red Wheelbarrow	718	(1)
The Great Figure	719	(1)
Tract	720	(2)
Spring and All	722	(1)
Primary Sources: Williams Talks About Poetry	723	(1)
Marianne Moore	724	(5)
The Steeple-Jack	725	(3)
Primary Sources: Animals and Athletes	728	(1)
Carl Sandburg	729	(6)
Chicago	731	(2)
Limited	733	(1)
Primary Sources: ``Rhymes are iron fetters''	734	(1)
E. E. Cummings	735	(5)
nobody loses all the time	736	(2)
what if a much of a which of a wind	738	(1)
Primary Sources: ``Miracles are to come''	739	(1)
T. S. Eliot	740	(10)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	742	(8)
Wallace Stevens	750	(18)
The Death of a Soldier	752	(1)
Anecdote of the Jar	753	(1)
Primary Sources: Poetry and Meaning	754	(1)
Exercises in Critical Thinking and Writing: Analyzing a Poem
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock	755	(1)
Wallace Stevens
Poetry	755	(3)
Marianne Moore
Unit Ten: AMERICAN DRAMA
Introduction	758	(10)
Tennessee Williams	768	(44)
The Glass Menagerie	769	(42)
Primary Sources: The Model for Laura	811	(1)
Lorraine Hansberry	812	(64)
A Raisin in the Sun	813	(53)
Primary Sources: A Letter from the Playwright	866	(1)
Exercises in Critical Thinking and Writing: Evaluating a Play	867	(3)
Unit Eleven: FICTION--1945 TO THE PRESENT
Introduction	870	(4)
Time Line	874	(2)
Isaac Bashevis Singer	876	(9)
The Key	877	(7)
Primary Sources: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1978	884	(1)
Bernard Malamud	885	(12)
The Magic Barrel	886	(11)
John Updike	897	(5)
Son	898	(4)
Julia Alvarez	902	(9)
Daughter of Invention	903	(8)
Amy Tan	911	(8)
Rules of the Game	912	(6)
Primary Sources: An Interview with Amy Tan	918	(1)
Donald Barthelme	919	(6)
Game	920	(4)
Elements of Literature: Satire	924	(1)
Mark Helprin	925	(9)
Tamar	926	(8)
Tim O'Brien	934	(8)
Speaking of Courage	935	(7)
James Alan McPherson	942	(11)
Why I Like Country Music	943	(10)
Anne Tyler	953	(14)
Your Place Is Empty	954	(12)
Primary Sources: ``Still Just Writing''	966	(1)
Andrea Lee	967	(10)
New African	968	(9)
The American Language: Euphemisms	977	(10)
Exercises in Critical Thinking and Writing: Evaluating a Story's Ending	982	(2)
Unit Twelve: MODERN NONFICATION
Introduction	984	(3)
E. B. White	987	(7)
Death of a Pig	988	(6)
Lewis Thomas	994	(4)
Ceti	995	(3)
Russell Baker	998	(6)
Little Red Riding Hood Revisited	999	(3)
School vs. Education	1002	(2)
Richard Wright	1004	(10)
From Black Boy	1005	(9)
N. Scott Momaday	1014	(7)
From The Way to Rainy Mountain	1015	(6)
James Baldwin	1021	(4)
Autobiographical Notes	1022	(3)
Maxine Hong Kingston	1025	(8)
The Girl Who Wouldn't Talk, From The Woman Warrior	1026	(7)
Susan Allen Toth	1033	(7)
Out East, From Ivy Days	1034	(5)
Primary Sources: ``The Importance of Being Remembered''	1039	(1)
Alice Walker	1040	(4)
Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	1041	(3)
Sandra Cisneros	1044	(4)
Straw into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday	1045	(3)
John Hersey	1048	(10)
A Noiseless Flash, From Hiroshima	1049	(9)
Michael Herr	1058	(6)
From Dispatches	1059	(5)
Jamaica Kincaid	1064	(6)
From A Small Place	1065	(5)
William Least Heat Moon	1070	(18)
From Blue Highways	1071	(7)
The American Language: High Tech's Influence	1078	(5)
Exercises in Critical Thinking and Writing: Evaluating Nonfiction: Fact and Opinion	1083	(3)
Unit Thirteen: POETRY IN A TIME OF DIVERSITY
Introduction	1086	(2)
Theodore Roethke	1088	(2)
Elegy for Jane	1089	(1)
Robert Hayden	1090	(3)
``Summertime and the Living...''	1091	(2)
Elizabeth Bishop	1093	(5)
First Death in Nova Scotia	1094	(2)
Little Exercise	1096	(2)
Randall Jarrell	1098	(2)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	1099	(1)
Primary Sources: The Ball Turret	1099	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks	1100	(2)
Of De Witt Williams on His Way to Lincoln Cemetery	1101	(1)
Robert Lowell	1102	(6)
For the Union Dead	1104	(4)
Richard Wilbur	1108	(4)
The Beautiful Changes	1109	(1)
Year's End	1110	(2)
James Dickey	1112	(3)
Sled Burial, Dream Ceremony	1113	(2)
James Merrill	1115	(2)
Kite Poem	1116	(1)
Adrienne Rich	1117	(2)
Power	1118	(1)
Sylvia Plath	1119	(3)
Spinster	1120	(2)
Anne Sexton	1122	(2)
Riding the Elevator into the Sky	1123	(1)
John Berryman	1124	(3)
Winter Landscape	1125	(2)
James Wright	1127	(3)
A Blessing	1129	(1)
Louise Erdrich	1130	(3)
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways	1131	(1)
Primary Sources: The Wellsprings of Creativity	1132	(1)
Julia Alvarez: How I Learned to Sweep	1133	(1)
Allen Ginsberg	1134	(5)
Homework	1135	(2)
Exercises in Critical Thinking and Writing: Evaluating a Poem
That Gull	1137	(1)
John Malcolm Brinnin
Washyuma Motor Hotel	1137	(2)
Simon J. Ortiz
Literary Map of the United States	1139	(1)
The Novel: Study Guide	1140	(8)
The Scarlet Letter	1140	(4)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Great Gatsby	1144	(4)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing About Literature	1148	(5)
Writing Answers to Essay Questions	1148	(1)
Writing and Revising a Research Paper	1149	(1)
A Model Essay	1150	(2)
Documenting Sources	1152	(1)
Literature and Language	1153	(16)
Using Pronouns and Antecedents Correctly	1153	(2)
Combining Sentences	1155	(2)
Correcting Sentence Fragments	1157	(2)
Using Commas Correctly	1159	(2)
Using the Descriptive and Narrative Modes	1161	(2)
Using the Expository and Persuasive Aims	1163	(4)
Using Effective Diction	1167	(2)
Handbook of Literary Terms	1169	(14)
The Gettysburg Address	1177	(6)
Abraham Lincoln
Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics: A Reference Guide	1183	(46)
Parts of Speech	1183	(2)
The Sentence	1185	(3)
Problems of Agreement	1188	(3)
Using Verbs Correctly	1191	(6)
Using Pronouns Correctly	1197	(2)
Using Modifiers Correctly	1199	(4)
Common Usage Problems	1203	(6)
Rules for Capitalization	1209	(4)
Punctuation	1213	(9)
Spelling	1222	(7)
Glossary	1229	(6)
Index of Skills	1235	(9)
Critical Thinking Exercises	1238	(1)
Index of Commentaries	1238	(6)
Index of Authors and Titles	1244