Introduction Angles of Literacy 9(12) Interactions with the Text ``Digging (Poetry) Seamus Heaney ``Blackberry-Picking (Poetry) Seamus Heaney Story Connections ``Mid-Term Break (Poetry) Seamus Heaney Shifting Perspectives Language and Craft ``Trout (Poetry) Seamus Heaney Focus on the Writer Story Connections The Lessons Stories Teach 21(16) Patterns in Stories Ovid ``The Story of Midas from the Metamorphoses (Poetry) Symbolic Meaning ``The Nature of Symbolic Language (Nonfiction) Erich Fromm ``First Frost (Poetry) Andrei Voznesensky Understanding New Symbols ``The Man to Send Rain Clouds (Short Story) Leslie Marmon Silko Familiar Symbols in Unfamiliar Places ``December 2001: The Green Morning (Short Story) Ray Bradbury A Network of Symbols in Story Heroes and Heroines 37(16) Who is a Hero? from Beowulf (Poetry) Who Is a Heroine? The Odyssey (Poetry) Homer ``Lady Madonna (Song) John Lennon Paul McCartney Models for Living ``A Name is Sometimes An Ancestor Saying HI, Im With You (Nonfication) Alice Walker Are Heroes Always Admirable? ``Dear John Wayne (Poetry) Louise Erdrich Who are My Heroes or Heroines? ``Frederick Douglass (Poetry) Robert Hayden Shifting Perspectives New Ways of Seeing and Knowing 53(12) Seeing the Details Blue Highways: A Journey Into America (Nonfiction) William Least Heat Moon Seeing the Literal Meaning ``The Marginal World (Nonfiction) Rachel Carson Observing and Interpreting ``Freedom and Wilderness (Nonfiction) Edward Abbey Looking Beneath the Surface ``Mushrooms (Poetry) Sylvia Plath Comprehending Critically Blue Highways: A Journey Into America (Nonfiction) William Least Heat Moon Perspectives on a Subject: The Vietnam War 65 Presenting a Subject Voices from Vietnam (Nonfiction) Barry Denenberg Using Supporting Material Voices from Vietnam (Nonfiction) Barry Denenberg Firsthand Experience When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (Nonfiction) Le Ly Hayslip Different Genres ``The Next Step (Poetry) W.D. Ehrhart Comparing Perspectives Language and Craft Shades of Meaning 79-90(1) Close Reading ``Colors (Poetry) Shel Silverstein ``Defining White (Poetry) Naomi Shihab Nye Comparing to Define Scientific and Poetic Language A Natural History of the Senses (Nonfiction) Diane Ackerman Establishing Mood ``Landscape in Scarlet from Platero and I (Poetry) Juan Ramon Jimenez Visualizing Words ``Visions (Poetry) Joy Harjo Words in Context 91-102(103) Sensory Language Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Nonfiction) James Agee Familiar Words in Unfamiliar Ways Words and Social History Serve It Forth (Nonfiction) M.F.K. Fisher Simple Words, Complex Ideas ``Bread (Nonfiction) Margaret Atwood The Power of the Present Tense Focus on the Writer John Steinbeck 103(14) The Unfinished Children of Nature from The Pastures of Heaven (Novel) Character Relationships from Cannery Row (Novel) The Unfinished Child as an Adult from Of Mice and Men (Novel) Characters as Witnesses from The Grapes of Wrath (Novel) The Perfectibility of Man from The Nobel Prize Lecture (Nonfiction) Angles of Literacy Essentials of Reading 117(14) Thinking With the Writer ``The Story of an Hour (Short Story) Kate Chopin Considering the Theme Reading Between the Lines A Thousand Acres (Novel) Jane Smiley Doubling Back Authors Purpose ``A Flower in the Outfield (Nonfiction) Steve Wulf Story Connections Stories Through the Ages 131(14) Lessons in Animal Fables ``The Monkey and the Crocodile (Folk Tale) Fables in Cultural Context ``The Hawk and the Buzzard (Folk Tale) Personification in Fables ``No Tracks Coming Back (Folk Tale) Characteristics of Tricksters ``Anansi and His Visitor, Turtle (Folk Tale) Stories of Animals Today ``Peregrine Falcon from Refuge (Nonfiction) Terry Tempest Williams Transforming Stories 145(14) The Changing Story ``The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World (Short Story) Gabriel Garcia Marquez Recasting a Story Reinterpretations ``Lots Wife (Poetry) Genesis, 19:12--26 (Biblical Text) Anna Akhmatova Timeless Stories Changing Perspectives ``Jack (Poetry) Randall Jarrell Shifting Perspectives Asking Questions about Poems 159(12) Literal Understanding ``A Blessing (Poetry) James Wright Layers of Meaning ``Unfolding Bud (Poetry) Naoshi Koriyama Asking Interpretive Questions ``A Man (Poetry) Nina Cassian Language and Structure ``Every Good Boy Does Fine (Poetry) David Wagoner Speculative Questions Text and Subtext 171(12) Supplying the Background ``Appointment with Love (Short Story) S.I. Kishor Shifting Point of View Understanding Irony ``The Chaser (Short Story) John Collier Examining Assumptions Understanding Tone ``One Perfect Rose (Poetry) Dorothy Parker Language and Craft Poetry and Craft 183(10) Light Verse ``The trouble with a kitten (Poetry) Limericks (Poetry) Ogden Nash Reading a Poem for Meaning ``The Illiterate (Poetry) William Meredith The Italian Sonnet The Shakespearean Sonnet Sonnet 116 ``Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Poetry) William Shakespeare ``Pity Me Not (Poetry) Edna St. Vincent Millay The Modern Sonnet ``I Really Do Live by the Sea (Poetry) Barbara Greenberg Writing from Models: Tone 193(10) Reading for Tone ``The Unknown Citizen (Poetry) W.H. Auden Understanding Tone ``You Understand the Requirements (Poetry) Lyn Lifshin Comparing Poems Using Metaphors Einsteins Dreams (Nonfiction) Alan Lightman The Paralog Focus on the Writer Zora Neale Hurston 203(16) The Autobiographical Narrator from ``How It Feel To Be Colored Me (Nonfiction) In Search of Her Peoples History ``How God Made Butterflies from Mules and Men (Nonfiction) Creating Characters from Their Eyes Were Watching God (Novel) Multiple Points of View from Their Eyes Were Watching God (Novel) The Writers Themes Glossary 219(3) Acknowledgments 222(2) Index 224
