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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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