Elements of Literature: Fifth Course : Literature of the United States With Literature of the Americas

by Houghton Mifflin Company

• ISBN13: 9780030520648
• ISBN10: 0030520649
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: HARCOURT SCHOOL PUB

Table of Contents

Maps
United States	xxiv-xxv	(1)
United States Eastern Seaboard	xxvi	(1)
Central and South America	xxvii
Beginnings to 1800	2	(136)
Beginning	2	(2)
Gary Q. Arpin
Time Line	4	(6)
A Closer Look The Salem Witchcraft Trials	10	(9)
Collection 1 Visions and Voyages	19	(48)
The Journey POEM	19	(1)
Mary Oliver
Literature of the Americas North America The Sun Still Rises in the Same Sky: Native American Literature	20	(2)
Joseph Bruchac
Huron-Eastern Woodland Traditional The Sky Tree MYTH	22	(1)
Joseph Bruchac
Teton Sioux Traditional The Earth Only MYTH	23	(1)
Used-As-A-Shield
Navajo Traditional from The House Made of Dawn CHANT	23	(1)
Washington Matthews
Nez Perce Traditional Coyote Finishes His Work MYTH	24	(2)
Barry Lopez
William Bradford	26	(8)
from Of Plymouth Plantation HISTORY	27	(7)
Anthony Lewis An American Story / Connections NEWS FEATURE	34	(1)
Elements of Literature The Plain Style	35	(2)
Reading Skills and Strategies When a Dictionary Can Help	37	(1)
Mary Rowlandson	38	(11)
from A Narrative of the Captivity PERSONAL NARRATIVE	39	(3)
Literature and History / Captivity Narratives	42	(6)
The Southern Planters	48	(1)
William Byrd	49	(7)
from The History of the Dividing Line HISTORY	50	(6)
Olaudah Equiano	56	(11)
from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano AUTOBIOGRAPHY	57	(8)
Africa / Student to Student CONCRETE POEM	65	(2)
Doretha Williams
Collection 2 The Examined Life	67	(32)
from Invisible Man	67	(1)
Ralph Ellison
Anne Bradstreet	68	(4)
Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House,July 10, 1666 POEM	69	(3)
Edward Taylor	72	(2)
Huswifery POEM	73	(1)
Elements of Literature The Conceit	74	(1)
Literature of the Americas Mexico
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz	75	(2)
World, in Hounding Me POEM	76	(1)
Alan S. Trueblood
En perseguirme, mundo POEMA	76	(1)
Jonathan Edwards	77	(7)
from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God SERMON	79	(3)
Primary Sources / Sarah Pierrepont and My Sense of Divine Things JOURNALS	82	(2)
Jonathan Edwards
Benjamin Franklin	84	(12)
from The Autobiography AUTOBIOGRAPHY	85	(5)
Literature and Science / Time on His Side: Benjamin Banneker	90	(5)
Spotlight On / Sayings of Poor Richard	95	(1)
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Fulghum from All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten / Connections ESSAY	96	(3)
Collection 3 The American Dream	99	(39)
Concord Hymn POEM	99	(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patrick Henry	100	(6)
Speech to the Virginia Convention POLITICAL SPEECH	101	(5)
Thomas Paine	106	(8)
from The Crisis, No. 1 POLITICAL ESSAY	107	(6)
Spotlight On / Phillis Wheatley: A Revolutionary Woman	113	(1)
Thomas Jefferson	114	(12)
from The Autobiography: The Declaration of Independence AUTOBIOGRAPHY	115	(5)
Literature and Politics / Legacy of Peace and Unity: The Iroquois Constitution	120	(4)
Primary Sources / A Letter from Jefferson to His Daughter LETTER	124	(2)
Read On	126	(1)
The American Language "Revolutionary" English	127	(3)
Gary Q. Arpin
COMMUNICATIONS WORKSHOPS	130	(8)
Writer's Workshop Narrative Writing: Autobiographical Incident	130	(3)
Language Workshop Linking It Up: Coordinating Conjunctions	133	(1)
Reading for Life Monitoring Your Reading	134	(1)
Learning for Life Researching the Immigrant Experience	135	(3)
American Romanticism 1800-1860	138	(68)
American Romanticism	138	(2)
Gary Q. Arpin
Time Line	140	(2)
A Closer Look The City, Grim and Gray	142	(9)
Collection 4 The Transforming Imagination	151	(55)
A Blessing POEM	151	(1)
James Wright
Washington Irving	152	(16)
Rip Van Winkle SHORT STORY	153	(9)
Literature and Folklore / Enchanted Slumbers	162	(6)
Reading Skills and Strategies Vocabulary: Using Context Clues	168	(1)
William Cullen Bryant	169	(4)
Thanatopsis POEM	170	(3)
Derek Walcott Sea Canes / Connections POEM	173	(2)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	175	(5)
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls POEM	176	(2)
The Cross of Snow POEM	178	(2)
Elements of Literature The Sonnet	180	(1)
John Greenleaf Whittier	181	(6)
from Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll POEM	182	(5)
Oliver Wendell Holmes	187	(7)
The Chambered Nautilus POEM	188	(2)
Old Ironsides POEM	190	(2)
The Sea / Student to Student POEM	192	(2)
Elizabeth Enloe
Read On	194	(1)
The American Language "Noah's Ark": Webster's Dictionary	195	(3)
Gary Q. Arpin
COMMUNICATIONS WORKSHOPS	198	(8)
Writer's Workshop Expository Writing: Analyzing a Literary Work	198	(3)
Language Workshop Smoothing It Out: Inserting Modifiers	201	(1)
Reading for Life Reading Maps	202	(1)
Learning for Life Environmental Concerns	203	(3)
The American Renaissance A Literary Coming of Age 1840-1860	206	(136)
The American Renaissance: A Literary Coming of Age	206	(4)
Gary Q. Arpin
A Closer Look That Was Then	210	(5)
Collection 5 The Life Worth Living	215	(44)
from Gift from the Sea	215	(1)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Ralph Waldo Emerson	216	(14)
from Nature ESSAY	218	(4)
Spotlight On / Emerson's Aphorisms	222	(1)
Primary Sources / Hawthorne Talks About Emerson ESSAY	223	(1)
from Self-Reliance ESSAY	224	(2)
Literature and Society / Onward to Utopia	226	(1)
Imagination / Student to Student ESSAY	227	(3)
Shelby Pearl
Henry David Thoreau	230	(15)
from Walden, or Life in the Woods AUTOBIOGRAPHY	232	(13)
Don Henley from Heaven Is Under Our Feet / Connections ESSAY	245	(3)
Henry David Thoreau from Resistance to Civil Government ESSAY	248	(8)
Primary Sources / "A Healthy and Wholesome Man to Know" JOURNALS	255	(1)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sophia Peabody Hawthorne
Martin Luther King, Jr. from Letter from Birmingham City Jail / Connections LETTER	256	(3)
Collection 6 The Realms of Darkness	259	(88)
from The Night Country	259	(1)
Loren Eiseley
Edgar Allan Poe	260	(19)
The Fall of the House of Usher SHORT STORY	262
Literature and Popular Culture / Poe the Pop Icon	261
Literature and Popular Culture / The Gothic Tradition	274	(5)
Reed Whittemore The Fall of the House of Usher / Connections POEM	279	(1)
Elements of Literature Poe's Symbols	280	(2)
Edgar Allan Poe The Raven POEM	282	(8)
Primary Sources / Poe's Process: Writing "The Raven" ESSAY	287	(3)
Edgar Allan Poe
Literature of the Americas Argentina
Julio Cortazar	290	(6)
House Taken Over SHORT STORY	290	(6)
Paul Blackburn
Nathaniel Hawthorne	296	(14)
The Minister's Black Veil SHORT STORY	298	(12)
Reading Skills and Strategies Vocabulary: Tracing the Origins of Words	310	(1)
Herman Melville	311	(19)
from Moby--Dick NOVEL	313	(17)
Read On	330	(1)
COMMUNICATIONS WORKSHOPS	331	(11)
Writer's Workshop Persuasive Writing: Controversial Issue	331	(6)
Language Workshop Keeping It in Balance: Parallel Structure	337	(1)
Reading for Life Evaluating Credibility of Sources	338	(1)
Learning for Life A Model of Self-Reliance	339	(3)
A New American Poetry Whitman and Dickinson	342	(66)
A New American Poetry: Whitman and Dickinson	342	(5)
John Malcolm Brinnin
Collection 7 The Large Hearts of Heroes	347	(24)
from Song of Myself POEM	347	(1)
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman	348	(7)
I Hear America Singing POEM	351	(2)
from Song of Myself 10. Alone far in the wilds POEM	353	(2)
Elements of Literature Free Verse	355	(5)
from 33. I understand the large hearts of heroes POEM	356	(3)
52. The spotted hawk swoops by POEM	359	(1)
Jimmy Santiago Baca Who Understands Me but Me / Connections POEM	360	(2)
Walt Whitman A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim POEM	362	(5)
Primary Sources / from Specimen Days JOURNAL	363	(4)
Walt Whitman
Literature of the Americas Chile
Pablo Neruda	367	(4)
Plenos Poderes POEMA	368	(1)
Full Powers POEM	368	(3)
Ben Belitt
Alastair Reid
Collection 8 Tell It Slant	371	(37)
Emily Dickinson POEM	371	(1)
Linda Pastan
Emily Dickinson	372	(8)
Heart! We will forget him! POEM	374	(2)
If you were coming in the Fall POEM	376	(1)
Primary Sources / If you were coming in the Fall EDITED POEM	377	(1)
The Soul selects her own Society POEM	378	(2)
Elements of Literature Slant Rhyme	380	(9)
The Mirror Girl-stares back at me / Student to Student POEM	380	(1)
Brigid Spackman
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church POEM	381	(1)
I taste a liquor never brewed POEM	382	(1)
Much Madness is divinest Sense POEM	383	(2)
Apparently with no surprise POEM	385	(1)
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant POEM	386	(2)
Success is counted sweetest POEM	388	(1)
Anne Bernays Emily Dickinson's Homestead / Connections MAGAZINE ARTICLE	389	(2)
Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death POEM	391	(6)
I heard a Fly buzz--when I died POEM	392	(1)
I died for Beauty--but was scarce POEM	393	(1)
Primary Sources / "I sing ... because I am afraid" LETTER	394	(3)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Read On	397	(1)
The American Language A Period of Vocabulary Growth	398	(3)
Gary Q. Arpin
COMMUNICATIONS WORKSHOPS	401	(7)
Writer's Workshop Expository Writing: Comparison-and-Contrast Essay	401	(2)
Language Workshop Variety Is the Spice: Varying Sentence Beginnings	403	(1)
Reading for Life Reading a Textbook	404	(1)
Learning for Life The Changing World of Work	405	(3)
The Rise of Realism The Civil War and Postwar Period 1850-1900	408	(116)
The Rise of Realism: The Civil War and Postwar Period	408	(2)
Gary Q. Arpin
Time Line	410	(4)
A Closer Look Eyes of an Era	414	(9)
Collection 9 Shackles	423	(26)
My Guilt POEM	423	(1)
Maya Angelou
Frederick Douglass	424	(11)
from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass AUTOBIOGRAPHY	425	(7)
Spotlight On / Spirituals and Code Songs	432	(3)
Frederick Douglass
Kate Chopin	435	(9)
A Pair of Silk Stockings SHORT STORY	437	(3)
Literature and History / Elegant Discomfort	440	(3)
Primary Sources / Vogue Stories BIOGRAPHY	443	(1)
Emily Toth
Pat Mora Now and Then, America / Connections POEM	444	(5)
Spotlight On / American Indian Oratory "For More Than a Hundred Winters..."	446	(2)
Black Hawk
"I Will Fight No More Forever"	448	(1)
Chief Joseph
Collection 10 From Innocence to Experience	449	(75)
Shiloh POEM	449	(1)
Herman Melville
Mark Twain	450	(16)
from Life on the Mississippi MEMOIR	452	(6)
Literature and Folklore / The Lure and Lore of the Mississippi	458	(7)
Spotlight On / Mark Twain's Humor	465	(1)
Ambrose Bierce	466	(9)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge SHORT STORY	467	(8)
Reading Skills and Strategies Vocabulary: Affixes--The Long and Short of It	475	(9)
Spotlight On / Voices from the Civil War	476	(8)
Theodore Upson
Walt Whitman
Major Sullivan Ballou
Alexander Hunter
Abraham Lincoln
Susie King Taylor
Frederick Douglass
Mary Chesnut
Seth M. Flint
Stephen Crane	484	(11)
A Mystery of Heroism SHORT STORY	487	(6)
What About Glory / Student to Student POEM	493	(1)
Pindar VanArman
War Is Kind POEM	494	(1)
Jack London	495	(13)
To Build a Fire SHORT STORY	496	(12)
Paul G. Gill,Jr., M.D. Cold Kills: Hypothermia / Connections MAGAZINE ARTICLE	508	(3)
Read On	511	(1)
The American Language American Dialects	512	(3)
Gary Q. Arpin
COMMUNICATIONS WORKSHOPS	515	(9)
Writer's Workshop Expository Writing: Research Paper	515	(4)
Language Workshop Appropriate Additions: Adverb and Adjective Clauses	519	(1)
Reading for Life Reading a College Guide	520	(1)
Learning for Life Monitoring the Media	521	(3)
The Moderns 1900-1950	524	(288)
The Moderns	524	(2)
John Leggett
John Malcolm Brinnin
Time Line	526	(2)
A Closer Look The Best of Times, the Worst of Times	528	(9)
Collection 11 Loss and Redemption	537	(46)
from Knoxville: Summer 1915	537	(1)
James Agee
Willa Cather	538	(10)
A Wagner Matinee SHORT STORY	539	(9)
Thomas Wolfe	548	(10)
His Father's Earth SHORT STORY	549	(9)
Robert Frost	558	(5)
Primary Sources / Frost on Frost's Diction REMINISCENCE	559	(1)
Design POEM	560	(2)
Nothing Gold Can Stay POEM	562	(1)
Naomi Shihab Nye Trying to Name What Doesn't Change / Connections POEM	563	(1)
Robert Frost Once by the Pacific POEM	564	(11)
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep POEM	565	(2)
Birches POEM	567	(2)
The Death of the Hired Man POEM	569	(5)
Primary Sources / "I must have the pulse beat of rhythm " INTERVIEW	574	(1)
Robert Frost
Reading Skills and Strategies Understanding Blank Verse	575	(2)
John Crowe Ransom	577	(3)
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter POEM	577	(3)
Robinson Jeffers	580	(3)
Shine, Perishing Republic POEM	580	(3)
Collection 12 The Dream and the Reality	583	(60)
from Absolution	583	(1)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald	584	(22)
Winter Dreams SHORT STORY	587	(16)
Primary Sources / A Letter to His Daughter	603	(3)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Steinbeck	606	(17)
The Leader of the People SHORT STORY	607	(9)
Literature and Film / The West and Its Mythmakers	616	(4)
Primary Sources / Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1962 SPEECH	620	(3)
John Steinbeck
James Thurber	623	(7)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty SHORT STORY	624	(5)
Primary Sources / The New Yorker's Farewell ESSAY	629	(1)
E. B. White
Charles M. Schulz Peanuts / Connections CARTOON	630	(3)
Eudora Welty	633	(10)
A Worn Path SHORT STORY	634	(6)
Primary Sources / "Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead!" ESSAY	640	(3)
Eudora Welty
Collection 13 No Time for Heroes	643	(48)
The Explorer POEM	643	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Edwin Arlington Robinson	644	(6)
Richard Cory POEM	645	(1)
Miniver Cheevy POEM	646	(2)
Primary Sources / Robinson's Ruminations LETTERS	648	(2)
Ernest Hemingway	650	(11)
Soldier's Home SHORT STORY	652	(4)
Literature and Popular Culture / The Decade That Roared	656	(3)
Primary Sources / Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954 SPEECH	659	(2)
Ernest Hemingway
T. S. Eliot	661	(7)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock POEM	663	(4)
Critical Comment / The Oddest Love Song	667	(1)
John Malcolm Brinnin from Mr. Eliot, I Presume / Connections BIOGRAPHY	668	(4)
Flannery O'Connor	672	(11)
The Life You Save May Be Your Own SHORT STORY	673	(9)
Primary Sources / The Adventures of Mr. Shiftlet LETTERS	682	(1)
Flannery O'Connor
Elements of Literature The Four "Modes" of Fiction	683	(2)
COMMUNICATIONS WORKSHOPS	685	(6)
Writer's Workshop Expository Writing: Analyzing Causes and Effects	685	(4)
Language Workshop Showing Relationships: Using Subordinating Conjunctions	689	(1)
Reading for Life Interpreting and Constructing a Graphic Organizer	690	(1)
Collection 14 Shadows of the Past	691	(42)
Fall POEM	691	(1)
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Edgar Lee Masters	692	(5)
Richard Bone POEM	692	(1)
Primary Sources / The Genesis of Spoon River AUTOBIOGRAPHY	693	(1)
Edgar Lee Masters
"Butch" Weldy POEM	694	(1)
Fiddler Jones POEM	694	(1)
Petit, the Poet POEM	695	(1)
Mrs. George Reece POEM	695	(2)
Edna St. Vincent Millay	697	(5)
Recuerdo POEM	698	(2)
Primary Sources / "The brawny male sends his picture" LETTER	700	(2)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Katherine Anne Porter	702	(9)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall SHORT STORY	703	(8)
Conrad Aiken from Discordants / Connections POEM	711	(2)
William Faulkner	713	(13)
A Rose for Emily SHORT STORY	715	(8)
Primary Sources / Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1950 SPEECH	723	(3)
William Faulkner
Reading Skills and Strategies Vocabulary: Semantic Features Analysis	726	(1)
Literature of the Americas Uruguay
Horacio Quiroga	727	(6)
The Feather Pillow SHORT STORY	728	(4)
Margaret Sayers Peden
Literature and Popular Culture / Reader Beware! Urban Legends We Hope Aren't True	732	(1)
Collection 15 I, Too, Sing America The Harlem Renaissance	733	(36)
I, Too POEM	733	(1)
Langston Hughes
The Harlem Renaissance	734	(2)
James Weldon Johnson	736	(5)
Go Down, Death POEM	737	(3)
Primary Sources / God's Trombones PREFACE	740	(1)
James Weldon Johnson
Gwendolyn Brooks of DeWitt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery / Connections POEM	741	(2)
Claude McKay	743	(3)
America POEM	744	(2)
Countee Cullen	746	(4)
Tableau POME	747	(1)
Incident POEM	748	(2)
Zora Neale Hurston	750	(10)
from Dust Tracks on a Road MEMOIR	751	(7)
Primary Sources / In Search of a Story AUTOBIOGRAPHY	758	(2)
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes	760	(9)
The Weary Blues POEM	761	(2)
Literature and Music / Birth of the Blues	763	(1)
Harlem POEM	764	(2)
Primary Sources / Heyday in Harlem ESSAY	766	(3)
Langston Hughes
Collection 16 Make It New!	769	(43)
"Make it new! Art is a joyous thing."	769	(1)
Ezra Pound
Symbolism, Imagism, and Beyond	770	(3)
John Malcolm Brinnin
Ezra Pound	773	(4)
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter POEM	774	(2)
Primary Sources / A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste ARTICLE	776	(1)
Ezra Pound
Elements of Literature The Objective Correlative	777	(1)
William Carlos Williams	778	(5)
The Red Wheelbarrow POEM	779	(1)
Critical Comment / So Much Depends	779	(1)
The Great Figure POEM	780	(1)
Primary Sources / Williams Talks About Poetry AUTOBIOGRAPHY	780	(1)
Spring and All POEM	781	(2)
Wallace Stevens	783	(4)
Anecdote of the Jar POEM	784	(1)
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock POEM	784	(1)
Critical Comment / Taking Dominion, Catching Tigers	785	(1)
Primary Sources / Notebooks	786	(1)
Wallace Stevens
Marianne Moore	787	(2)
Poetry POEM	787	(2)
Archibald MacLeish Ars Poetica / Connections POEM	789	(1)
Wallace Stevens Of Modern Poetry/ Connections POEM	790	(2)
Carl Sandburg	792	(4)
Chicago POEM	792	(4)
E. E. Cummings	796	(4)
what if a much of a which of a wind POEM	797	(1)
Primary Sources / "Miracles are to come" PREFACE	797	(1)
E. E. Cummings
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond POEM	798	(2)
Read On	800	(1)
The American Language American Slang	801	(3)
Gary Q. Arpin
COMMUNICATIONS WORKSHOPS	804	(8)
Writer's Workshop Expository Writing: Interpretive Essay	804	(3)
Language Workshop The Right Tense for Sense: Using the Literary Present	807	(1)
Reading for Life Obtaining Information from an Internet Database	808	(1)
Learning for Life Planning for the Future	809	(3)
American Drama	812	(92)
American Drama	812	(13)
Robert Anderson
Collection 17 The Breaking of Charity	825	(79)
"In a sense I went naked to Salem...."	825	(1)
Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller	826	(64)
The Crucible DRAMA	828	(1)
Why I Wrote The Crucible ESSAY	827	(63)
Arthur Miller
Reading Skills and Strategies Vocabulary: Doing Analogies	890	(1)
Read On	891	(1)
The American Language Euphemisms	892	(3)
Gary Q. Arpin
COMMUNICATIONS WORKSHOPS	895	(9)
Writer's Workshop Persuasive Writing: Problem-Solution Essay	895	(4)
Language Workshop Fitting It All Together: Using Transitional Expressions	899	(1)
Reading for Life Reading a Film Review	900	(1)
Learning for Life Evaluating Play Choices	901	(3)
Contemporary Literature 1950 to Present	904	(285)
Contemporary Literature	904	(2)
John Leggett
Susan Allen Toth
John Malcolm Brinnin
Thomas Hernacki
Time Line	906	(2)
A Closer Look Atomic Anxiety	908	(11)
Collection 18 The Wages of War	919	(60)
At the Bomb Testing Site POEM	919	(1)
William Stafford
Elie Wiesel	920	(12)
from Night MEMOIR	921	(11)
Randall Jarrell	932	(3)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner POEM	932	(1)
Primary Sources / The Ball Turret COMMENT	933	(2)
Randall Jarrell
John Hersey	935	(13)
A Noiseless Flash from Hiroshima NONFICTION	936	(12)
Robert Lowell	948	(7)
For the Union Dead POEM	949	(4)
Critical Comment / A Vision of Blacks and Whites United	953	(2)
Donald Barthelme	955	(7)
Game SHORT STORY	956	(5)
Critical Comment / Absurd World	961	(1)
Elements of Literature Satire	962	(2)
Tim O'Brien	964	(10)
Speaking of Courage SHORT STORY	965	(9)
Yusef Komunyakaa	974	(3)
Monsoon Season POEM	975	(2)
Anna Quindlen Poetry Emotion / Connections NEWS FEATURE	977	(2)
Collection 19 Discoveries and Awakenings	979	(88)
Pine Tree Tops POEM	979	(1)
Gary Snyder
Bernard Malamud	980	(15)
The Magic Barrel SHORT STORY	981	(12)
Critical Comment / A Tale of Self-Discovery	993	(2)
Literature of the Americas Colombia
Gabriel Garcia Marquez	995	(6)
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World SHORT STORY	996	(5)
Gregory Rabassa
Theodore Roethke	1001	(4)
Elegy for Jane POEM	1002	(1)
Night Journey POEM	1003	(2)
Richard Wilbur	1005	(4)
The Beautiful Changes POEM	1006	(1)
Boy at the Window POEM	1007	(2)
Karl Shapiro	1009	(3)
Auto Wreck POEM	1010	(2)
Richard Wright	1012	(14)
from Black Boy AUTOBIOGRAPHY	1013	(13)
Raymond Carver	1026	(8)
Everything Stuck to Him SHORT STORY	1027	(5)
Primary Sources / "Paddlewheel of Days" INTERVIEW	1032	(2)
Raymond Carver
Elizabeth Bishop	1034	(5)
The Fish POEM	1035	(4)
Joy Harjo	1039	(4)
Remember POEM	1040	(3)
Maxine Hong Kingston	1043	(11)
The Girl Who Wouldn't Talk from The Woman Warrior MEMOIR	1044	(6)
Literature and Society / The Chinese American Family	1050	(4)
William Least Heat-Moon	1054	(10)
from Blue Highways TRAVEL WRITING .	1055	(9)
James Agee from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / Connections ESSAY	1064	(3)
Collection 20 From Generation to Generation	1067	(60)
Speaking POEM	1067	(1)
Simon J. Ortiz
John Updike	1068	(6)
Son SHORT STORY	1069	(5)
Anne Tyler from "Still Just Writing" / Connections ESSAY	1074	(2)
Julia Alvarez	1076	(12)
Daughter of Invention SHORT STORY	1077	(7)
Literature and Technology / Patently American Inventions	1084	(4)
Anne Sexton	1088	(4)
The Bells POEM	1089	(1)
Young POEM	1090	(2)
N. Scott Momaday	1092	(9)
from The Way to Rain Mountain MEMOIR	1093	(8)
Alice Walker	1101	(8)
from In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens ESSAY	1102	(7)
Amy Tan	1109	(11)
from Rules of the Game from The Joy Luck Club SHORT STORY	1110	(8)
Primary Sources / An Interview with Amy Tan	1118	(2)
Reading Skills and Strategies Vocabulary: Base Words, Roots, and Word Families	1120	(1)
Garrett Hongo	1121	(6)
What For POEM	1122	(3)
Primary Sources / A Different Story ESSAY	1125	(2)
Garrett Hongo
Collection 21 The Created Self	1127	(62)
Autobiographia Literaria POEM	1127	(1)
Frank O'Hara
Andrea Lee	1128	(13)
New African SHORT STORY	1129	(12)
James Baldwin	1141	(5)
Autobiographical Notes AUTOBIOGRAPHY	1142	(4)
Toni Morrison from On James Baldwin / Connections EULOGY	1146	(2)
Sylvia Plath	1148	(4)
Mirror POEM	1149	(1)
Mushrooms POEM	1150	(2)
Literature of the Americas Argentina
Jorge Luis Borges	1152	(3)
Borges and Myself FICTION	1152	(3)
Norman Thomas di Giovanni
Jorge Luis Borges
James Dickey	1155	(3)
The Lifeguard POEM	1156	(2)
Sandra Cisneros	1158	(8)
Straw into Gold ESSAY	1159	(7)
Judith Ortiz Cofer	1166	(4)
The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica POEM	1167	(3)
Rita Dove	1170	(7)
The Satisfaction Coal Company POEM	1171	(3)
Literature and Culture / "And the Winner Is...": Major Literary Awards	1174	(1)
from An Interview with Rita Dove: Poet Laureate of the United States / Student to Student	1175	(2)
Moira Haney
Catherine Nicholas
Read On	1177	(1)
The American Language High Tech's Influence	1178	(3)
Gary Q. Arpin
COMMUNICATIONS WORKSHOPS	1181	(8)
Writer's Workshop Persuasive Writing: Evaluation	1181	(4)
Language Workshop Words to the Wise: Using Effective Diction	1185	(1)
Reading for Life Reading Memoranda	1186	(1)
Learning for Life State of the Arts: Celebrating Cultural Diversity	1187	(2)
Resource Center	1189	(75)
Handbook of Literary Terms	1189	(15)
Communications Handbook	1204	(16)
Active Reading Strategies	1204	(1)
Previewing and Setting a Purpose	1204	(1)
Reading Actively	1204	(1)
Dealing with Difficult Texts	1205	(1)
Making Sure You Understand a Text	1205	(1)
Study Skills	1205	(2)
Using a Dictionary	1205	(1)
Using a Thesaurus	1206	(1)
Using Study Guides	1206	(1)
Recognizing Logical Fallacies	1206	(1)
Research Strategies	1207	(1)
Using a Library or Media Center	1207	(2)
Using the Internet	1208	(1)
Evaluating and Citing Sources	1209	(6)
Taking Notes and Documenting Sources	1210	(3)
List of Sources Cited	1213	(2)
Writing for Life	1215	(4)
Writing Interoffice Memos	1215	(1)
Writing Effective Business Letters	1215	(2)
Writing a Personal Resume	1217	(1)
College Admissions	1218	(1)
Proofreading	1218	(1)
Answering Essay Questions	1219	(1)
Language Handbook	1220	(38)
The Parts of Speech	1220	(1)
Agreement	1221	(2)
Using Verbs	1223	(2)
Using Pronouns	1225	(2)
Using Modifiers	1227	(2)
Phrases	1229	(2)
Clauses	1231	(1)
Sentence Structure	1232	(3)
Sentence Style	1235	(3)
Sentence Combining	1238	(1)
Capitalization	1238	(4)
Punctuation	1242, 1245	(2)
Spelling	1249	(3)
Glossary of Usage	1252	(6)
Glossary	1258	(6)
Acknowledgments	1264	(5)
Picture Credits	1269	(2)
Index of Skills	1271	(8)
Literary Terms	1271	(1)
Reading and Critical Thinking	1272	(2)
Language (Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics)	1274	(2)
Vocabulary and Spelling	1276	(1)
Writing	1276	(1)
Speaking, Listening, and Viewing	1277	(1)
Research and Study	1278	(1)
Crossing the Curriculum	1278	(1)
Critical Comments	1279	(1)
Creative Problem Solving	1279	(1)
Index of Art	1279	(3)
Fine Art	1279	(2)
Illustrations	1281	(1)
Cartoons and Cartoon Strips	1281	(1)
Maps	1281	(1)
Index of Authors and Titles	1282