Great Source Daybooks

by Claggett, Fran

• ISBN13: 9780669464320
• ISBN10: 0669464325
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Great Source Education Group

Table of Contents

Introduction Angles of Literacy	9	(12)
Interactions with the Text
``Digging'' (Poetry)
Seamus Heaney
``Blackberry-Picking'' (Poetry)
Seamus Heaney
Story Connections
``Mid-Term Break'' (Poetry)
Seamus Heaney
Shifting Perspectives
Language and Craft
``Trout'' (Poetry)
Seamus Heaney
Focus on the Writer
Story Connections The Lessons Stories Teach	21	(16)
Patterns in Stories
Ovid ``The Story of Midas'' from the Metamorphoses (Poetry)
Symbolic Meaning
``The Nature of Symbolic Language'' (Nonfiction)
Erich Fromm
``First Frost'' (Poetry)
Andrei Voznesensky
Understanding New Symbols
``The Man to Send Rain Clouds'' (Short Story)
Leslie Marmon Silko
Familiar Symbols in Unfamiliar Places
``December 2001: The Green Morning'' (Short Story)
Ray Bradbury
A Network of Symbols in Story
Heroes and Heroines	37	(16)
Who is a Hero?
from Beowulf (Poetry)
Who Is a Heroine?
The Odyssey (Poetry)
Homer
``Lady Madonna'' (Song)
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
Models for Living
``A Name is Sometimes An Ancestor Saying HI, I'm With You'' (Nonfication)
Alice Walker
Are Heroes Always Admirable?
``Dear John Wayne'' (Poetry)
Louise Erdrich
Who are My Heroes or Heroines?
``Frederick Douglass'' (Poetry)
Robert Hayden
Shifting Perspectives New Ways of Seeing and Knowing	53	(12)
Seeing the Details
Blue Highways: A Journey Into America (Nonfiction)
William Least Heat Moon
Seeing the Literal Meaning
``The Marginal World'' (Nonfiction)
Rachel Carson
Observing and Interpreting
``Freedom and Wilderness'' (Nonfiction)
Edward Abbey
Looking Beneath the Surface
``Mushrooms'' (Poetry)
Sylvia Plath
Comprehending Critically
Blue Highways: A Journey Into America (Nonfiction)
William Least Heat Moon
Perspectives on a Subject: The Vietnam War	65
Presenting a Subject
Voices from Vietnam (Nonfiction)
Barry Denenberg
Using Supporting Material
Voices from Vietnam (Nonfiction)
Barry Denenberg
Firsthand Experience
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (Nonfiction)
Le Ly Hayslip
Different Genres
``The Next Step'' (Poetry)
W.D. Ehrhart
Comparing Perspectives
Language and Craft Shades of Meaning	79-90	(1)
Close Reading
``Colors'' (Poetry)
Shel Silverstein
``Defining White'' (Poetry)
Naomi Shihab Nye
Comparing to Define
Scientific and Poetic Language
A Natural History of the Senses (Nonfiction)
Diane Ackerman
Establishing Mood
``Landscape in Scarlet'' from Platero and I (Poetry)
Juan Ramon Jimenez
Visualizing Words
``Visions'' (Poetry)
Joy Harjo
Words in Context	91-102	(103)
Sensory Language
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Nonfiction)
James Agee
Familiar Words in Unfamiliar Ways
Words and Social History
Serve It Forth (Nonfiction)
M.F.K. Fisher
Simple Words, Complex Ideas
``Bread'' (Nonfiction)
Margaret Atwood
The Power of the Present Tense
Focus on the Writer John Steinbeck	103	(14)
The Unfinished Children of Nature
from The Pastures of Heaven (Novel)
Character Relationships
from Cannery Row (Novel)
The Unfinished Child as an Adult
from Of Mice and Men (Novel)
Characters as Witnesses
from The Grapes of Wrath (Novel)
The Perfectibility of Man
from The Nobel Prize Lecture (Nonfiction)
Angles of Literacy Essentials of Reading	117	(14)
Thinking With the Writer
``The Story of an Hour'' (Short Story)
Kate Chopin
Considering the Theme
Reading Between the Lines
A Thousand Acres (Novel)
Jane Smiley
Doubling Back
Author's Purpose
``A Flower in the Outfield'' (Nonfiction)
Steve Wulf
Story Connections Stories Through the Ages	131	(14)
Lessons in Animal Fables
``The Monkey and the Crocodile'' (Folk Tale)
Fables in Cultural Context
``The Hawk and the Buzzard'' (Folk Tale)
Personification in Fables
``No Tracks Coming Back'' (Folk Tale)
Characteristics of Tricksters
``Anansi and His Visitor, Turtle'' (Folk Tale)
Stories of Animals Today
``Peregrine Falcon'' from Refuge (Nonfiction)
Terry Tempest Williams
Transforming Stories	145	(14)
The Changing Story
``The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World'' (Short Story)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Recasting a Story
Reinterpretations
``Lot's Wife'' (Poetry) Genesis, 19:12--26 (Biblical Text)
Anna Akhmatova
Timeless Stories
Changing Perspectives
``Jack'' (Poetry)
Randall Jarrell
Shifting Perspectives Asking Questions about Poems	159	(12)
Literal Understanding
``A Blessing'' (Poetry)
James Wright
Layers of Meaning
``Unfolding Bud'' (Poetry)
Naoshi Koriyama
Asking Interpretive Questions
``A Man'' (Poetry)
Nina Cassian
Language and Structure
``Every Good Boy Does Fine'' (Poetry)
David Wagoner
Speculative Questions
Text and Subtext	171	(12)
Supplying the Background
``Appointment with Love'' (Short Story)
S.I. Kishor
Shifting Point of View
Understanding Irony
``The Chaser'' (Short Story)
John Collier
Examining Assumptions
Understanding Tone
``One Perfect Rose'' (Poetry)
Dorothy Parker
Language and Craft Poetry and Craft	183	(10)
Light Verse
``The trouble with a kitten'' (Poetry) Limericks (Poetry)
Ogden Nash
Reading a Poem for Meaning
``The Illiterate'' (Poetry)
William Meredith
The Italian Sonnet
The Shakespearean Sonnet
Sonnet 116 ``Let me not to the marriage of true minds'' (Poetry)
William Shakespeare
``Pity Me Not'' (Poetry)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Modern Sonnet
``I Really Do Live by the Sea'' (Poetry)
Barbara Greenberg
Writing from Models: Tone	193	(10)
Reading for Tone
``The Unknown Citizen'' (Poetry)
W.H. Auden
Understanding Tone
``You Understand the Requirements'' (Poetry)
Lyn Lifshin
Comparing Poems
Using Metaphors
Einstein's Dreams (Nonfiction)
Alan Lightman
The Paralog
Focus on the Writer Zora Neale Hurston	203	(16)
The Autobiographical Narrator
from ``How It Feel To Be Colored Me'' (Nonfiction)
In Search of Her People's History
``How God Made Butterflies'' from Mules and Men (Nonfiction)
Creating Characters
from Their Eyes Were Watching God (Novel)
Multiple Points of View
from Their Eyes Were Watching God (Novel)
The Writer's Themes
Glossary	219	(3)
Acknowledgments	222	(2)
Index	224