Great Source Daybooks

by Clagget, Fran; Reid, Louann; Vinz, Ruth

• ISBN13: 9780669464351
• ISBN10: 066946435X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Great Source Education Group Inc

Table of Contents

Introduction Angles of Literacy	9	(12)
Interacting With a Text
``Mother, Summer, I'' (Poetry)
Philip Larkin
``Far Out'' (Poetry)
Philip Larkin
Story Connections
``Ambulances'' (Poetry)
Philip Larkin
Shifting Perspectives
Language and Craft
``Street Lamps'' (Poetry)
Philip Larkin
Focus on the Writer
``Notebooks'' (Nonfiction)
Philip Larkin
Story Connections Building an Interpretation	21	(14)
Subject and Story Meaning
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Novel)
Roddy Doyle
Conflict and Story Meaning
``The Piano Tuner's Wives'' (Short Story)
William Trevor
Conveying Meaning Through Tone
Imagery and Meaning
The Conversations at Curlow Creek (Novel)
David Malouf
Interpreting Meaning
Literary Belief	35	(14)
How Readers Come to Believe
Listening for Small Sounds (Novel)
Penelope Trevor
Creating Believability
``Comrades'' (Short Story)
Nadine Gordimer
Writing Unwritten Scenes
Believing the Fantastic
``An Iff and a Butt'' from Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Novel)
Salman Rushdie
Creating a Believable Fantasy
Shifting perspectives Seeing the World	49	(12)
Considering Sources
``Subterranean Gothic'' (Nonfiction)
Paul Theroux
Identifying Inner Conflict
``Sea-Room'' (Nonfiction)
Jonathan Raban
Real and Imaginary Details
``Sea-Room'' (Nonfiction)
Jonathan Raban
Point of View
``American Tourists in Egypt'' from Labels: A Mediterranean Journey (Nonfiction)
Evelyn Waugh
Establishing Points of Reference
Bury Me Standing (Nonfiction)
Isabel Fonseca
Perspectives on a Subject: Finding a Home	61	(14)
Idea Association
Daughters and Rebels (Nonfiction)
Jessica Mitford
Defining a Subject Through Objects
``Great Men's Houses'' (Nonfiction)
Virginia Woolf
Developing Contrasts
``Great Men's Houses'' (Nonfiction)
Virginia Woolf
Changing Perspectives
``Telephone Conversation'' (Poetry)
Wole Soyinka
Irony and Double Meanings
``The Virgins'' (Poetry)
Derek Walcott
Language and Craft Writing from Models	75	(12)
Point of View
``Hawk Roosting'' (Poetry)
Ted Hughes
Spinoff Modeling
``I Think Continually of Those'' (Poetry)
Stephen Spender
Modeling an Ode
``To an Athlete Dying Young'' (Poetry)
A.E. Housman
Modeling Voice
``Naming of Parts'' from Lessons of the War (Poetry)
Henry Reed
Modeling Situation
Crafting Memory	87	(14)
Images of Childhood
``Fern Hill'' (Poetry)
Dylan Thomas
Childhood Memory
The Language of Memory
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Novel)
James Joyce
Stream of Consciousness
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Novel)
James Joyce
Daydreaming and Epiphanies
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Novel)
James Joyce
Focus on the Writer William Butler Yeats	101	(12)
Image and Symbol
``The Wild Swans at Coole'' (Poetry)
The Dramatic Lyric
``Coole Park, 1929'' (Poetry)
Lines That Transcend Time
``The Second Coming'' (Poetry)
Poem as Autobiography
``What Then?'' (Poetry)
The Artistic Process
from the Introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (Nonfiction)
Angles of Literacy Essentials of Reading	113	(12)
Thinking With the Writer
``Trail of the Green Blazer'' (Short Story)
R.K. Narayan
Reading Between the Lines
Thinking Theme
``Homage for Isaac Babel'' (Short Story)
Doris Lessing
Doubling Back
Author's Purpose
``Writing a Story---One Man's Way'' (Nonfiction)
Frank O'Connor
Story Connections Experiencing the Story	125	(14)
Tension and Anticipation
Birdsong (Novel)
Sebastian Faulks
Empathy and Sympathy
Observer and Participant
``England, My England'' (Short Story)
D.H. Lawrence
The Unicorn (Novel)
Iris Murdoch
Then and Now
Family and Friends (Novel)
Anita Brookner
Creating the Experience
Language and Story	139	(12)
Word Play
``Jabberwocky'' (Poetry)
Lewis Carroll
Language and Tone
``Randolf's Party'' (Short Story)
John Lennon
Reading Difficult Language
A Clockwork Orange (Novel)
Anthony Burgess
Language and Characterization
A Clockwork Orange (Novel)
Anthony Burgess
Creating Meaning Through Language
Shifting Perspectives Text and Context	151	(12)
Shifting Meanings With Allusions
``Dulce et Decorum Est'' (Poetry)
Wilfred Owen
The Context of Geography
``The Reading Lesson'' (Poetry)
Richard Murphy
Shifting Personal Perspectives
``On Seeing England for the First Time'' (Nonfiction)
Jamaica Kincaid
The Context of Politics
``On Seeing England for the First Time'' (Nonfiction)
Jamaica Kincaid
The Events of History
``Ireland 1972'' (Poetry)
Paul Durcan
Interpreting Nonfiction	163	(14)
The Perspective of the Author
``Greenhouse with Cyclamens---I'' (Nonfiction)
Rebecca West
Aspects of the Subject
Understanding an Opinion
``Greenhouse with Cyclamens---I'' (Nonfiction)
Rebecca West
Reading an Argumentative Essay
An Experiment in Criticism (Nonfiction)
C.S. Lewis
Understanding Arguments
An Experiment in Criticism (Nonfiction)
C.S. Lewis
Language and Craft Character in Poetry	177	(10)
Understanding Character
``To My Mother'' (Poetry)
George Barker
The Dramatic Monologue
``My Last Duchess'' (Poetry)
Robert Browning
Reading a Long Poem
``In Memory of W. B. Yeats'' (Poetry)
W.H. Auden
Direct Address
``In Memory of W. B. Yeats'' (Poetry)
W.H. Auden
Completing the Reading
``In Memory of W. B. Yeats'' (Poetry)
W.H. Auden
Poetry and Art	187	(12)
The Art of Irony
``Ozymandias'' (Poetry)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Visualizing a Poem
``Ode on a Grecian Urn'' (Poetry)
John Keats
Discovering Possible Interpretations
``Ode on a Grecian Urn'' (Poetry)
John Keats
Comparing Poems
``A Rhinoceros and a Lion'' (Poetry)
Kaoru Maruyama
Exploration and Interpretation
``Burnt Norton'' from Four Quartets (Poetry)
T.S. Eliot
Focus on the Writer	199	(16)
V. S. Naipaul
Creating Characters
from ``Hat'' from Miguel Street (Novel)
Replaying the Newsreel
``Prelude: An Inheritance'' from A Way in the World: A Novel (Novel)
Finding a Place in the World
``Prelude: An Inheritance'' from A Way in the World: A Novel (Novel)
The Writer in the World
from the Author's Foreword to Finding the Center (Nonfiction)
A Portrait of the Writer
from ``A Prologue to an Autobiography'' in Finding the Center (Nonfiction)
Poetry Workshop	215	(3)
Glossary	218	(4)
Acknowledgments	222	(2)
Index	224