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| Introduction | |
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| Reading Literature | |
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| Critical Reading: Engagement, Response, and Analysis | |
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| Engaging with a Text: Annotation | |
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| Special Feature: Sample Student Annotation of Sandra Cisneross Bread | |
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| Responding to a Text: The Readers Journal | |
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| The Readers Box | |
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| Sample Student Readers Journal | |
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| Freewriting | |
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| Analyzing a Text | |
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| Approaches | |
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| Author-Oriented Approaches | |
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| Reader-Oriented Approaches | |
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| Text-Oriented Approaches | |
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| The Elements of the Essay | |
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| Style | |
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| Tone | |
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| Theme | |
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| The Readers Box | |
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| Questions for Engagement, Response, and Analysis | |
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| Essay | |
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| The Elements of Fiction | |
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| Point of View | |
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| Setting | |
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| Style | |
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| Character | |
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| Plot | |
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| Theme | |
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| The Readers Box | |
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| Questions for Engagement, Response and Analysis | |
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| Short Stories | |
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| The Elements of Poetry | |
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| Situation and Speaker | |
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| Structure and Sound | |
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| Style | |
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| Theme | |
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| The Readers Box | |
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| Questions for Engagement, Response, and Analysis | |
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| Poetry | |
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| The Elements of Drama | |
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| Dialogue and Stage Directions | |
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| Setting | |
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| Style | |
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| Character | |
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| Plot | |
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| Theme | |
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| The Readers Box | |
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| Questions for Engagement Response, and Analysis | |
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| Drama | |
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| Writing About Literature | |
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| Critical Writing: Argument | |
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| Steps for Writing Arguments about Literature | |
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| Step One: Establishing Purpose and Audience | |
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| Modes | |
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| Debatable Topics | |
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| Audience | |
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| Step Two: Generating a Working Thesis | |
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| Re-reading | |
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| Pre-Writing Strategies | |
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| The Writers Box | |
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| Sample Student Brainstorming | |
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| Clustering and Listing | |
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| Honing the Thesis | |
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| Step Three: Gathering Evidence | |
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| Primary Source Evidence | |
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| Secondary Source Evidence | |
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| Step Four: Drafting, Revising, and Editing | |
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| Writing the Introduction | |
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| Crafting Body Paragraphs and Making Transitions | |
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| Concluding Well | |
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| Integrating Source Evidence | |
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| The Writers Box | |
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| Avoiding Common Pitfalls at the Drafting Stage | |
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| Revising and Editing | |
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| The Writers Box | |
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| Avoiding Common Pitfalls in the Editing Stage | |
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| Sample Student Paper | |
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| Thematic Anthology | |
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| Family | |
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| Writing about Family | |
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| Essays | |
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| Joan Didion, On Going Home | |
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| Bill Cosby, from Fatherhood | |
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| Bramare:(Archaic) To Yearn for | |
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| Fiction | |
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| A Domestic Dilemma | |
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| Sonnys Blues | |
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| A Christmas Memory | |
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| Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? | |
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| ShermanAlexie, Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play TheStar-Spangled Bannerat Woodstock | |
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| Poetry | |
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| A Prayer for My Daughter | |
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| Theodore Roethke, My Papas Waltz Gwendolyn Brooks | |
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| The Mother Sylvia Plath | |
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| My Father Is a Simple Man Nikki Giovanni, Nikki-Rosa | |
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| The Gift | |
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| Future Connected By Drama | |
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| Casebook on August Wilson August Wilson Fences | |
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| The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson | |
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| Boundaries, Logistics, and Identity | |
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| The Property of Metaphor in Fencesand Joe Turners Come and Gone | |
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| Filling the Time: Reading History in the Drama of August Wilson </P | |
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