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| Preface for Instructors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Responding to Literature | |
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| Emily Dickinson, There Is No Frigate Like A Book | |
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| Why We Read Literature | |
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| Reading Actively | |
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| Reading and Thinking Critically | |
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| Reading Fiction | |
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| The Methods of Fiction | |
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| Tone | |
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| Plot | |
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| Characterization | |
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| Setting | |
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| Point of View | |
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| Irony | |
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| Theme | |
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| Exploring Fiction | |
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| Reading Poetry | |
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| When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer | |
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| Word Choice | |
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| Figurative Language | |
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| The Music of Poetry | |
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| Exploring Poetry | |
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| Annotating While You Read | |
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| Sonnet 29 | |
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| How Annandale Went Out | |
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| Reading Drama | |
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| Stages and Staging | |
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| The Elements of Drama | |
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| Characters | |
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| Dramatic Irony | |
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| Plot and Conflict | |
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| Exploring Drama | |
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| Reading Nonfiction | |
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| Types of Nonfiction | |
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| Narrative Nonfiction | |
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| Descriptive Nonfiction | |
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| Expository Nonfiction | |
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| Argumentative Nonfiction | |
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| Analyzing Nonfiction | |
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| The Thesis | |
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| Structure and Detail | |
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| Style and Tone | |
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| Exploring Nonfiction | |
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| Writing About Literature | |
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| Responding to Your Reading | |
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| Keeping a Journal | |
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| Exploring and Planning | |
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| Good Questions | |
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| Establishing a Working Thesis | |
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| Gathering Information | |
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| Organizing Information | |
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| Revising the Essay | |
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| Editing Your Draft | |
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| Selecting Strong Verbs | |
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| Eliminating Unnecessary Modifiers | |
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| Making Connections | |
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| Proofreading Your Draft | |
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| Some Common Writing Assignments | |
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| Explication | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Comparison and Contrast | |
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| The Research Paper | |
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| An Annotated Student Research Paper | |
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| Some Matters of Form and Documentation | |
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| Titles | |
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| Quotations | |
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| Brackets and Ellipses | |
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| Quotation Marks and Other Punctuation | |
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| Documentation | |
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| Documenting Internet Sources | |
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| A Checklist for Writing about Literature | |
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| Innocence and Experience | |
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| Questions for Thinking and Writing | |
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| Fiction | |
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| Young Goodman Brown (1804-1864) | |
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| Araby (1882-1941) | |
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| A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1925-1964) | |
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| The Lesson (1939-1995) | |
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| Girl (b. 1949) | |
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| The House on Mango Street (b. 1954) | |
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| Tiger Mending (b. 1969) | |
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| Connecting Stories: Learning on the Job | |
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| A & P (b. 1932) | |
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| The Perfect Hotspot (b. 1962) | |
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| Poetry | |
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| The Chimney Sweeper (1757-1827) | |
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| The Lamb (1757-1827) | |
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| The Tyger (1757-1827) | |
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| The Garden of Love (1757-1827) | |
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| London (1757-1827) | |
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| On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (1795-1821) | |
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| My Last Duchess (1812-1889) | |
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| I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (1830-1886) | |
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| The Ruined Maid (1840-1928) | |
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| Spring and Fall (1844-1889) | |
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| When I Was One-and-Twenty (1859-1936) | |
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| Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff (1859-1936) | |
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| Leda and the Swan (1865-1939) | |
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| Birches (1874-1963) | |
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| The Road Not Taken (1874-1963) | |
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| In Just— (1894-1962) | |
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