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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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