Synopses & Reviews
Authentic North American short stories enhance students' reading skills, language learning, and enjoyment of literature. The Instructor's Manual for Discovering Fiction, Student's Book 2, provides further information about the stories, teaching suggestions, and an answer key. In addition, a useful brief synopsis of each story is provided in the Elements of a Short Story section.
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Provides further information about the stories, teaching suggestions, and an answer key.
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A Two-level reading series that introduces students to American literature, including short stories by Isaac Asimov, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, and O'Henry. Designed for intermediate students, the text provides interactive, integrated skills lessons developed around each story.
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Discovering Fiction is a two-level anthology of American short stories by classic and contemporary American authors.
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America Writes is an anthology of eighteen American short stories by contemporary and classic authors, including Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Ray Bradbury, and Shirley Jackson. The stories have universal appeal that will touch students and make them think. The text provides entire lessons developed around each story.
Table of Contents
How to use this book; Part I. A Life Lesson: 1. 'A Day's Wait' Ernest Hemingway; 2. 'Thank You, Ma'm' Langston Hughes; 3. 'The Corn Planting' Sherwood Anderson; 4. 'The Quickening' Lisa Interollo; Part II. The Unexpected Twist: 5. 'The Last Leaf' O. Henry; 6. 'The Ambitious Guest' Nathaniel Hawthorne; 7. 'The Lottery' Shirley Jackson; 8. 'The One Day War' Judith Soloway; Part III. Irony: 9. 'The Thirs Level' Jack Finney; 10. 'All Summer in a Day' Ray Bradbury; 11. 'Dsire's Baby' Kate Chopin; Part IV. Family Relationships: 12. 'A Visit to Grandmother' William Melvin Kelley; 13. 'Too Soon a Woman' Dorothy M. Johnson; 14. 'My father Sits in the Dark' Jerome Weidman; Part V. Meeting Challenges: 15. 'A Rice Sandwich' Sandra Cisneros; 16. 'The Circus' William Saroyan; 17. 'The Warriors' Anna Lee Walters; 18. Talking to the Dead' Sylvia Watanabe.