Big Picture Readings for Developing Writers

Name: Big Picture Readings for Developing Writers
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ISBN: 9780130938350

ISBN-10: 0130938351

ISBN-13: 9780130938350

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jill A. Lahnstein

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An exciting approach to learning and refining reading and writing skills prevails throughout this provocative anthology. It interests readers in several works on a certain theme, engages them in reading instruction while reading, and prompts them to complete a writing assignment based upon what they have read. Forty thought-provoking readings on a number of subjects are organized around five general themes: people, places, events, phenomena, and issues. The essays, short stories, poems, and excerpts--along with the six activities that follow each one--will help readers bring all the pieces together to create and understand 0; the big picture.1; For anyone who wants to find out that reading…

Book details

List price: $110.20
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 10/28/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English




People


An Indian Father's Plea


Don't Label My Son a Slow Learner



The Good Daughter



Dead Man Walking



Why I Quit the



Ellis with Studs Terkel


Girl



The Shakers; The Mystical World of the Shakers



Mother to Son



The New Testament



Suggestions


Profiling People



Places


Po Folks: Off With Their Heads



Is Their Life On Mars? Teresa and Gerald Audersirk


Along the Tortilla Curtain



A Fable for Tomorrow



In the Suburbs



The House on Mango Street



What We Can Learn from Japan's Prisons



Familiar Footing



Suggestions


Profiling Places



Events


Reflections



Dreaming: Mysterious Mental Activity During Sleep



Wood and Ellen Green Wood


Last Flight



Today



Body Ritual Among the Nacirema



38Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police



Growng Up Game



The Story of an Hour



Suggestions


Profiling Events



Phenomena


Looking Up Something



Now Hear This: Shhhhhhhhhhh



Hooked on Anger



The Tell-Tale Heart



The Right Chemistry



Health Watch: Eating Disorders—Betrayal of the Body



The Ways We Lie



Childless


with Children



Suggestions


Profiling Phenomena



Issues


What is Poverty?



The Quilt



In Praise of the F Word



The Hammer Man



The Powwow at the End of the World



A Dose of Reality: The Truth about North America's Greatest Drug Problem: Ritalin



Racism and Sexism in the Media



To Pet or Not to Pet?



Suggestions


Profiling Issues



Context Clues



Word Parts



Summary Writing



Characteristics of Effective Writing



The Writing Process