An Introduction to Critical Reading

by McCraney, Leah

• ISBN13: 9781413016215
• ISBN10: 1413016219
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-27
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This unique college reading text gives students experience reading and evaluating poetry, short stories, essays, and textbook chapters. An innovative Instructor's Manual gives instructors a wealth of teaching ideas and background material on each piece with a focus on critical thinking.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Student	p. iv
Preface to the Instructor	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. vii
Poetry	p. 1
Lot's Wife	p. 3
Genesis 19:12-26	p. 4
Richard Cory	p. 4
Warren Pryor	p. 5
The Road Not Taken	p. 6
I, Too, Harlem and Mother to Son	p. 6
Those Winter Sundays	p. 8
Austere	p. 8
A Red Palm	p. 9
Daystar	p. 10
Once a Lady Told Me	p. 11
My Father's Song	p. 11
Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead	p. 12
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home	p. 13
Bedtime Story	p. 14
Counting the Mad	p. 15
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense	p. 16
Four Poems from Spoon River Anthology	p. 16
Minerva Jones	p. 16
"Indignation" Jones	p. 17
Doctor Meyers	p. 18
Mrs. Meyers	p. 18
Digging	p. 19
Barbie Doll	p. 20
Mr. Z	p. 20
The Vacuum	p. 22
Weakness	p. 22
Power	p. 23
The Chimney Sweeper, from Songs of Innocence, and The Chimney Sweeper, from Songs of Experience	p. 24
Dulce et Decorum Est	p. 25
Mending Wall	p. 26
Lost Sister	p. 28
Persimmons	p. 30
Parsley	p. 33
The Unknown Citizen	p. 35
Curiosity	p. 36
What Would Freud Say?	p. 37
The Naked and the Nude	p. 39
Fiction	p. 41
Birthday Party	p. 43
The Lottery	p. 43
Hills Like White Elephants	p. 50
Harrison Bergeron	p. 53
Crusader Rabbit	p. 58
The Gilded Six-Bits	p. 63
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings	p. 72
The Veldt	p. 77
Everyday Use	p. 88
Gimpel the Fool	p. 95
A Worn Path	p. 107
I Stand Here Ironing	p. 114
The Fat Girl	p. 120
Life after High School	p. 132
Islands on the Moon	p. 144
What You Pawn I Will Redeem	p. 163
What Means Switch	p. 179
A Rose for Emily	p. 193
The Chrysanthemums	p. 202
Essays	p. 211
Shame	p. 213
Daddy Tucked the Blanket	p. 215
A Hanging	p. 219
Death and Justice	p. 222
Mother Tongue	p. 227
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria	p. 232
Making the Grade	p. 237
What Is Child Pornography?	p. 240
Disgusting Doesn't Make It "Speech"	p. 242
Should a Man Be Put in Jail for What He's Thinking?	p. 244
Starved Out	p. 246
Heavy Judgment: A Sister Talks about the Pain of "Living Large"	p. 252
When Is It Rape?	p. 259
Time for a Change on Drugs: Americans Are Ahead of the Politicians on This One	p. 264
Legalization of Narcotics: Myths and Reality	p. 267
The Prisoner's Dilemma	p. 271
Violent Crime: Myths, Facts, and Solutions	p. 278
A Nasty Business	p. 286
Torture's Allure and Effect	p. 294
Textbook Chapters	p. 309
Presidency in Crisis, from The American Past: A Survey of American History, Seventh Edition	p. 311
Social Responsibility and Business Ethics, from Contemporary Business, Eleventh Edition	p. 329
Glossary of Important Literary Terms	p. 363
Index	p. 366
Literary Credits	p. 369
Photo Credits	p. 371
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