Professional Documents
Culture Documents
American Literature RC 2002 Contents
American Literature RC 2002 Contents
UNIT ONE
From the Earliest Days . . . . . . .36
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Jonathan Edwards from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God . . . . . . Nonfiction . . . . .101
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UNIT TWO
A New Nation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
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UNIT THREE
The Civil War
and Its Aftermath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .316
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UNIT FOUR
Regionalism and Realism . . .448
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UNIT 5
Beginnings of
the Modern Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .586
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Katherine Anne Porter The Jilting of Granny Weatherall . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short story . . . . . . .621
Gabriela Mistral Richness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . . . . . . .632
Comparing Selections: The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
and Richness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .634
Archibald MacLeish Ars Poetica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . . . . . . .636
Edna St. Vincent Millay Dirge Without Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . . . . . . .639
Recuerdo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . . . . . . .640
E. E. Cummings anyone lived in a pretty how town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . . . . . . .643
Alfred Kreymborg from The Oxford Book
Media Connection
of American Literary Anecdotes . . . . . . . . . . . Anecdote . . . . . . . .645
Marianne Moore Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . . . . . . .647
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Bridal Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short story . . . . . . .652
Vocabulary Skills Using a Semantic Features Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .668
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UNIT 6
Midcentury Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .770
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Randall Jarrell The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . . . . . . .857
Blacklisted Woman
Media Connection
Vindicated by Federal Court Ruling . . . . . . . . Radio transcript . . . . .910
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UNIT 7
Into the
Twenty-First Century . . . . . . . .1018
Bill Watterson Media Connection Calvin and Hobbes . . . . . . . . . . . . Comic strips . . . . .1044
John Updike Son . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short story . . . . . .1047
N. Scott Momaday from The Way to Rainy Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nonfiction . . . . . .1054
Tim O’Brien Ambush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short story . . . . . .1063
Longhang Nguyen Rain Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short story . . . . . .1067
Reading & Thinking Skills Identifying Cause and Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1071
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Anne Sexton Riding the Elevator into the Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . . . . . .1125
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Janet Simons Media Connection The Name Reign . . . . . . . . . . . . Newspaper article . . .1188
Barbara Kingsolver Naming Myself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . . . . . .1190
Poniendome un Nombre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Poem . . . . . . . .1191
Grammar Link Avoiding Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1193
Reference Section
Literary Terms Handbook . . . . . . . . . . . . R1 Reading Handbook
Vocabulary Development . . . . . . . . . . . R86
Language Handbook
Comprehension Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . R87
Troubleshooter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R18
Literary Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R92
Troublesome Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R33
Analysis and Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . R92
Grammar Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R44
Mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R51 Writing Workshop Models . . . . . . . . . . . R94
Spelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R59
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R108
Writing Handbook
The Writing Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R62 Spanish Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R119
Writing Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R66
Research Paper Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . R68 Index of Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R129
Business and Technical Writing . . . . . . . R76 Index of Authors and Titles . . . . . . . . . R141
Communications Skills Handbook Index of Art and Artists . . . . . . . . . . . . R145
Using Electronic Resources . . . . . . . . . . R78
Study and Test-Taking Skills . . . . . . . . . R80 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R148
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Selections by Genre
Short Story Nonfiction
The Life You Save May Be Your Own . . . . . . . 7 Thoughts on the African-American Novel . . . 29
The Devil and Tom Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 from The Iroquois Constitution . . . . . . . . . . . 55
The Minister’s Black Veil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 Shipwreck Survivors Recall Ordeal
The Three-Piece Suit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 in Shark-filled Waters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
The Pit and the Pendulum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 from La Relación . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. . . . . . 368 from Of Plymouth Plantation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of from A Narrative of the Captivity and
Calaveras County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462 Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson . . . . 85
from Stay Alive, My Son . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
The Outcasts of Poker Flat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476
from Sinners in the Hands of an
Chief Sekoto Holds Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
Angry God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
To Build a Fire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
Offer of Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
The Story of an Hour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
from The Autobiography of
A Wagner Matinée . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532 Benjamin Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
The Open Boat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559 from Poor Richard’s Almanack . . . . . . . . . . . 134
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall . . . . . . . . 621 Dichos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
The Bridal Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652 Speech to the Second Virginia
In Another Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680 Convention. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Soldiers of the Republic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689 Give Me Rhetoric! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
The Second Tree from the Corner. . . . . . . . 783 from The Crisis, No. 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Breakfast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798 from The Histories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
A Rose for Emily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804 Declaration of Independence. . . . . . . . . . . . 169
A Worn Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833 Letter to Her Daughter from the
The Portrait. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 851 New and Unfinished White House . . . . . 183
from The Life of Olaudah Equiano. . . . . . . . 189
The Rockpile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865
from Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
The Magic Barrel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875
from Self-Reliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Nineteen Thirty-Seven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999
from Walden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Snow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1032
from Civil Disobedience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Son . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1047
Dead Singer Buckley’s Voice Haunts
Ambush. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063 Poe Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Rain Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1067 from My Bondage and My Freedom . . . . . . . 330
Kitchens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1073 Mars Robot ‘Sojourner’ Named by Black
Bread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1078 Girl to Honor Abolitionist Sojourner
Se me enchina el cuerpo al oír Truth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
tu cuento. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1097 And Ain’t I a Woman? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Game. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1129 from His Promised Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Salvador Late or Early . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174 from Mary Chesnut’s Civil War . . . . . . . . . . 357
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