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Reading, Thinking, and Writing Critically About Literature | |
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Reading and Responding to Literature | |
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What Is Literature? | |
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Looking at an Example: Robert Frost, Immigrants | |
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Looking at a Second Example: Pat Mora, Immigrants | |
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Thinking About a Story: Luke, The Parable of the Prodigal Son | |
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Stories True and False: Grace Paley, Samuel | |
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What's Past Is Prologue | |
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Sunday in the Park | |
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Christmas Tree | |
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Might We Too? | |
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Writing About Literature: From Idea to Essay | |
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Why Write? | |
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Getting Ideas: Pre-Writing | |
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Annotating a Text | |
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Brainstorming for Ideas for Writing | |
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The Story of an Hour | |
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Focused Free Writing | |
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Listing and Clustering | |
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Developing an Awareness of the Writer's Use of Language | |
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Asking Questions | |
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Keeping a Journal | |
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Arriving at a Thesis | |
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Writing a Draft | |
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Sample Draft of an Essay on Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour | |
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Revising a Draft | |
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Peer Review | |
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The Final Version (Sample Student Essay): Ironies of Life in Kate Chopin's "The Story an Hour." | |
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A Brief Overview of the Final Version | |
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Explication | |
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A Sample Explication | |
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The Balloon of the Mind | |
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Comparison and Contrast | |
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Review: How to Write an Effective Essay | |
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Additional Reading | |
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Ripe Figs | |
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For the Felling of an Elm in the Harvard Yard | |
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Refugee Ship | |
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El Tonto del Barrio | |
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Fiction | |
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Approaching Fiction: Responding in Writing | |
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Ernest Hemingway, Cat in the Rain | |
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Responses, Annotations, and Journal Entries | |
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A Sample Essay by a Student: "Hemingway's American Wife." | |
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Stories and Meanings: Plot, Character, Theme | |
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Aesop, The Vixen and the Lioness | |
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The Appointment in Samara | |
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Anonymous, Muddy Road | |
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Misery | |
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Desiree's Baby | |
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Butterflies | |
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Flies | |
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Narrative Point of View | |
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Participant (or First-Person) Points of View | |
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Nonparticipant (or Third-Person) Points of View | |
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The Point of a Point of View | |
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A & P | |
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In the Gloaming | |
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The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book | |
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Allegory and Symbol | |
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Young Goodman Brown | |
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A Worn Path | |
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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings | |
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In Brief: Writing About Fiction | |
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Character | |
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Point of View | |
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Setting | |
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Symbolism | |
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Style | |
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Theme | |
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A Story, Notes, and an Essay | |
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The Cask of Amontillado | |
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A Student's Written Response to a Story | |
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Notes | |
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A Sample Response Essay: Revenge, Noble, and Ignoble | |
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A Fiction Writer at Work | |
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Mine | |
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Little Things | |
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Cathedral | |
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Talking About Stories | |
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On Rewriting | |
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On "Cathedral." | |
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Thinking Critically about a Short Story | |
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A Note on Interpretation | |
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A Casebook on Ralph Ellison's "Battle Royal." | |
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Battle Royal | |
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Atlanta Exposition Address | |
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Of Our Spiritual Strivings | |
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Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others | |
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ILLUSTRATION: Charles Keck, The Booker T. Washington Memorial | |
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On Social Equality | |
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On Negro Folkore | |
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Life in Oklahoma City." | |
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