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Rhetorical Contents | |
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Preface for the Teacher | |
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Preface for the Student | |
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Writing, the "Writing Process," and You | |
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Literacy Narratives | |
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Composing Your Own Literacy Narrative | |
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Family and Community | |
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How the Wicked Sons Were Duped, Indian Folklore | |
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People Like Us, David Brooks | |
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Changing My Name after Sixty Years, Tom Rosenberg | |
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Where the Land is Stepped on, the Sky ., Trikartikaningsih Byas | |
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We Kissed the Tomato and Then the Sky, Dana Wehle | |
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Focusing on Friends, Steve Tesich | |
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Treasures, Mahwash Shoaib | |
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Two Lives, Shirley Geok-lin Lim | |
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For My Indian Daughter, Lewis (Johnson) Sawaquat | |
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The Night I was Nobody, John Edgar Wideman | |
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The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me, Sherman Alexie | |
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One Voice, Susan G. Madera | |
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Solidarity, Charles Neuman | |
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Gender Issues | |
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The Wise Daughter, Swahili Folktale | |
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Apollo and Daphne, Greek Legend | |
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Shrouded in Contradiction, Gelareh Asayesh | |
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To Be a Man, Gary Soto | |
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Man-Made Misery, Thomas M. Colicino | |
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Why Are Gay Men So Feared? Dennis Altman | |
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Gay, Anna Quindlen | |
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Why Do We Hate Our Bodies? Gillianne N. Duncan | |
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The Gravity of Mark Beuhrle, Jason Barone | |
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He and I, Natalia Ginzburg | |
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The Storm, Kate Chopin | |
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Education | |
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The Bar of Gold | |
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A View from the Bridge Cherokee Paul McDonald | |
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Mute in an English-Only World, Chang-Rae Lee | |
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A Letter to a Child Like Me, Josÿ Torres | |
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Always Living in Spanish, Marjorie Agosin | |
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The Mistress of Make Believe, Doris Viloria | |
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Dropout to Graduate, Laura Kuehn | |
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The Fender-Bender, Ramòn "Tianguis" Pÿrez | |
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When the Simulated Patient Is For Real, Taneisha Grant | |
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Multiple Dimensions of Love: From the Artist's Eyes, Giovanni J. Gelardi | |
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From Poets in the Kitchen, Paule Marshall | |
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My Pen Writes in Blue and White, Vincent Cremona | |
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Work | |
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My Young Men Shall Never Work, Chief Smohalla (as told by Herbert J. Spinden) | |
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Life Stories, Michael Dorris | |
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Why We Work, Andrew Curry | |
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Essential Work by John Patterson | |
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Black Hair, Gary Soto | |
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Work Hard���Quit Right! Thomas M. Colicino | |
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Working Like a Dog, Charles Neuman | |
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Forty-Five a Month, R.K. Narayan | |
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Free and Equal, Lalita Gandbhir | |
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Traditions | |
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In the Beginning: Bantu Creation Story, African Legend | |
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Quichÿ-Mayan Creation Story, Quichÿ-Mayan Legend | |
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Footbinding, John King Fairbank | |
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The Algonquin Cinderella, Native American Myth | |
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Cinderella's Stepsisters, Toni Morrison | |
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Seven Days of Mourning, Yael Yarimi | |
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New (and Improved) Delhi, Gautam Bhatia | |
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The Lottery, Shirley Jackson | |
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Stone Throwing in India: An Annual Bash, Mark Fineman | |
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The Losing Champion, Ramon Mendez, Jr | |
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Cultural Encounters | |
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The Falsehood of Truth, Senegalese Myth | |
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The Wise Rogue, Jewish Folktale (as told by Moses Gaster) | |
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Fraternity, Garrett Hongo | |
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Passion and the Dream, Linda Stanley | |
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On Leaving New York, Emma Wunsch | |
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The Man I Killed, Tim O'Brien | |
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Child of the Lot, Ariela Rutkin-Becker | |
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What's in a Name? Gloria Naylor | |
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Konglish, Kenneth Woo | |
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Popular Culture | |
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The Pleasures of Text, Charles McGrath | |
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Can You Hear Me Now?, Sherry Turkle | |
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Too Much Technology?, Katherine Larios | |
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Is That Video Game Programming You? John Misak | |
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The Timeless Culture, Tom Lee | |
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Whatever Happened to Rock 'n Roll? James Geasor | |
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Well if you can't hold the torch .then why pass it? Todd Craig | |
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Why We Crave Horror Movies, Stephen King | |
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Why Does Wall-E Listen to Broadway Musicals? Martin Kutnowski | |
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Rhetorical and Cultural Glossary | |
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Geographic Index | |
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Credits | |