Introduction to Critical Reading Text

by Barnwell, Thomas; McCraney, Leah

• ISBN13: 9780155073456
• ISBN10: 0155073451
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-19
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Appropriate for courses in college reading, this text is a four-genre anthology -- poetry, short stories, essays, and textbook chapters. New pieces from ethnically diverse authors have been added throughout the book, including writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, and Reginald McKnight. All of the exercises and pedagogy are found in the instructor's manual, not in the student text. The instructor's manual contains fully developed exercises on each piece in the book, an essay on teaching students to read textbook chapters, and transparency masters with examples of outlining. The instructor's manual also suggests ways of using the selections to improve reading skills and critical thinking. This facilitates flexible use in the classroom.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part 1 Poetry	1	(32)
Lot's Wife	3	(1)
Kristine Batey
Genesis 19:12-26	4	(1)
Richard Cory	4	(1)
E. A. Robinson
Warren Pryor	5	(1)
Alden Nowlan
The Road Not Taken	5	(1)
Robert Frost
I, Too	6	(1)
Langston Hughes
Harlem	7	(1)
Langston Hughes
Mother to Son	7	(1)
Langston Hughes
Those Winter Sundays	8	(1)
Robert Hayden
Austere	8	(1)
Roland Flint
A Red Palm	9	(1)
Gary Soto
Daystar	10	(1)
Rita Dove
Once a Lady Told Me	10	(1)
Nikki Giovanni
Four Poems from Spoon River Anthology	11	(1)
Edgar Lee Masters
Minerva Jones
``Indignation'' Jones	11	(1)
Doctor Meyers	12	(1)
Mrs. Meyers	13	(1)
Barbie Doll	13	(1)
Marge Piercy
Mr. Z	14	(1)
M. Carl Holman
The Vacuum	15	(1)
Howard Nemerov
What Makes You Sure	15	(1)
Rhea Tregebov
Weakness	16	(1)
Alden Nowlan
Power	17	(1)
Adrienne Rich
The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Innocence	17	(1)
William Blake
The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Experience	18	(1)
William Blake
Channel Firing	19	(1)
Thomas Hardy
Dulce et Decorum Est	20	(1)
Wilfred Owen
Musee des Beaux Arts	21	(2)
W. H. Auden
The Accident	23	(1)
Willie Morris
To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph	23	(1)
Anne Sexton
In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day	24	(1)
X. J. Kennedy
Ozymandias	25	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mending Wall	26	(2)
Robert Frost
The Unknown Citizen	28	(1)
W. H. Auden
Curiosity	29	(1)
Alastair Reid
Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff	30	(3)
A. E. Housman
Part 2 Fiction	33	(152)
Birthday Party	35	(1)
Katharine Brush
The Lottery	35	(6)
Shirley Jackson
Crusader Rabbit	41	(4)
Jess Mowry
The Catbird Seat	45	(7)
James Thurber
The Gilded Six-Bits	52	(8)
Zora Neale Hurston
The Veldt	60	(9)
Ray Bradbury
A Worn Path	69	(6)
Eudora Welty
He	75	(7)
Katherine Anne Porter
I Stand Here Ironing	82	(5)
Tillie Olsen
The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas	87	(9)
Reginald McKnight
Where Is It Written?	96	(12)
Adam Schwartz
The Fat Girl	108	(10)
Andre Dubus
Life after High School	118	(11)
Joyce Carol Oates
Islands on the Moon	129	(17)
Barbara Kingsolver
A Sudden Trip Home in the Spring	146	(8)
Alice Walker
A Rose for Emily	154	(8)
William Faulkner
Revelation	162	(15)
Flannery O'Connor
The Chrysanthemums	177	(8)
John Steinbeck
Part 3 Essays	185	(82)
Shame	187	(2)
Dick Gregory
Daddy Tucked the Blanket	189	(3)
Randall Williams
A Hanging	192	(4)
George Orwell
Death and Justice	196	(4)
Edward Koch
Mother Tongue	200	(4)
Amy Tan
Why We Need Miss America	204	(5)
Jill Neimark
Starved Out	209	(6)
Cynthia Fox
Heavy Judgement: A Sister Talks about the Pain of ``Living Large''	215	(6)
Deborah Gregory
When Is It Rape?	221	(4)
Nancy Gibbs
The U.S. Needs a New Policy: More Toughness in Fighting the Hard Stuff	225	(6)
Andrew Kupfer
Time for a Change on Drugs: Americans Are Ahead of the Politicians on This One	231	(2)
Molly Ivins
Legalization of Narcotics: Myths and Reality	233	(4)
Joseph A. Califano
The Prisoner's Dilemma	237	(7)
Stephen Chapman
Violent Crime: Myths, Facts, and Solutions	244	(7)
D. Stanley Eitzen
Seven Doomsday Myths about the Environment	251	(6)
Ronald Bailey
A Planet in Jeopardy	257	(6)
Lester R. Brown
Christopher Flavin
Sandra Postel
Does America Still Exist?	263	(4)
Richard Rodriguez
Part 4 Textbook Chapters	267	(66)
Investigation I from Principles of Biology	269	(16)
Virginia G. Latta
Cathy A. McDonald
Janice W. Roberts
Presidency in Crisis from The American Past: A Survey of American History	285	(22)
Joseph R. Conlin
Social Responsibility and Business Ethics from Contemporary Business	307	(26)
Louise E. Boone
David L. Kurtz
Glossary	333	(2)
Credits	335	(2)
Index	337