A Gathering of Voices

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1 COMMON CORE Unit 1 Table of Contents A Gathering of Voices Literature of Early America (Beginnings to 1800) Multiple Perspectives on the Era Snapshot of the Period instructional essay and graphics 2 Historical Background instructional essay 4 Essential Questions Across Time: Early America instructional essay 6 Recent Scholarship William L. Andrews America Begins with a Promise and a Paradox essay 14 Integrate and Evaluate Information 16 Part One: Meeting of Cultures Comparing Literary Works: Mythic Archetypes Onondaga The Earth on Turtle s Back myth 20 Modoc When Grizzlies Walked Upright myth 24 Navajo from The Navajo Origin Legend myth 27 THEMES ACROSS CENTURIES: Author s Insights Susan Power Introduces Museum Indians essay 32 Susan Power Museum Indians essay 34 Dekanawidah from The Iroquois Constitution ANCHOR TEXT political document 42 Comparing Literary Works: Problems and Solutions Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca from A Journey Through Texas exploration narrative 48 García López Boulders Taller Than de Cárdenas the Great Tower of Seville exploration narrative 52 William Bradford from Of Plymouth Plantation narrative account 58 The Mayflower history connection 60 Contemporary Connection: Exploration Past and Present Steve Squyres from Mars Rover Mission Update blog 69 Part Two: The Puritan Influence Anne Bradstreet To My Dear and Loving Husband poem 76 The Tenth Muse world literature connection 78 Edward Taylor Huswifery poem 82 Jonathan Edwards from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God ANCHOR TEXT sermon 86 Biblical Imagery literature connection 88 x Contents informational text highlighted *

2 Unit 1 Part Three: A Nation is Born Extended Study: Speeches Elements of Speeches 96 Frederick Douglass from What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July EXEMPLAR speech 97 Patrick Henry Speech in the Virginia Convention speech 100 Benjamin Franklin Speech in the Convention speech 105 Comparing Literary Works: Appeals to Audience Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence ANCHOR TEXT political document 112 John Locke and the Social Contract philosophy connection 114 Thomas Paine from The American Crisis ANCHOR TEXT political essay 117 Phillis Wheatley To His Excellency, General Washington poem 124 Reading for Information: Analyzing Functional and Argumentative Texts How to Watch a Debate functional text 129 Help North Texas Vote argumentative text 132 Extended Study: Benjamin Franklin Literary History: Franklin s World instructional essay 134 Meet the Author: Benjamin Franklin biography 136 Benjamin Franklin from The Autobiography autobiography 140 Socrates world literature connection 142 Benjamin Franklin in Our World cultural connection 146 William L. Andrews Benjamin Franklin: America s Everyman essay 147 Benjamin Franklin from Poor Richard s Almanack proverbs 148 Proverbs: The Wisdom of Many world literature connection 151 Comparing Autobiography Past and Present A Gallery of Autobiography illustrated history 156 Sandra Cisneros Straw Into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday autobiography 158 themes across Centuries: Scholar s Insights William L. Andrews Introduces Olaudah Equiano essay 166 Olaudah Equiano from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano autobiography 170 The Slave Trade economic connection 174 Contents xi

3 Research Project: Primary Sources John Adams Letter from the President s House letter 181 Abigail Adams Letter to Her Daughter From the New White House letter 182 Benjamin Henry Latrobe Floor Plan of the President s House blueprint 184 Writing Workshop: Autobiographical Narrative 188 Speaking and Listening: Evaluate Persuasive Speech 196 Language Study: Using a Dictionary and Thesaurus 198 Text Set Workshop: From Text to Understanding 200a Common Core Assessment Workshop: Test-Taking Practice 200 Common Core Assessment Workshop: Performance Tasks 204 Independent Reading 206 xii Contents

4 2 COMMON CORE Unit 2 Table of Contents A Growing Nation Literature of the American Renaissance (1800 to 1870) Unit Multiple Perspectives on the Era Snapshot of the Period instructional essay and graphics 210 Historical Background instructional essay 212 Essential Questions Across Time: The American Renaissance instructional essay 214 Recent Scholarship Gretel Ehrlich Inspired by Nature essay 222 Integrate and Evaluate Information 224 Part One: Fireside and Campfire Washington Irving The Devil and Tom Walker ANCHOR TEXT short story 228 The Faust Legend world literature connection 235 Research Project: Primary Sources Thomas Jefferson Commission of Meriwether Lewis commission 245 Meriwether Lewis Crossing the Great Divide field report 250 Comparing Literary Works: Meter and Mood Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from The Song of Hiawatha poem 258 The Fireside Poets literature connection 259 The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls poem 260 William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis poem 262 Oliver Wendell Holmes Old Ironsides poem 266 Part Two: Shadows of the Imagination Nathaniel Hawthorne The Minister s Black Veil ANCHOR TEXT short story 272 Jonathan Edwards, Puritans, and Sermons of Fear history connection 276 Contents xiii

5 Unit 2 Part FOUR: American Masters Extended Study: Poetry Elements of Poetry 402 Billy Collins Man Listening to Disc EXEMPLAR poem 403 Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death EXEMPLAR poem 408 I heard a Fly buzz when I died poem 410 There s a certain Slant of light poem 412 My life closed twice before its close poem 413 Capturing the Moment world literature connection 413 The Soul selects her own Society poem 414 The Brain is wider than the Sky poem 415 There is a solitude of space poem 416 Water, is taught by thirst poem 417 Galway Kinnell Reckless Genius literary criticism 418 Walt Whitman from Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves essay 426 of Grass ANCHOR TEXT from Song of Myself EXEMPLAR poem 428 When I Heard the Learn d Astronomer poem 432 By the Bivouac s Fitful Flame poem 433 I Hear America Singing poem 434 A Noiseless Patient Spider poem 436 James E. Miller, Jr. America s Epic literary criticism 437 Writing Workshop: Reflective Essay 440 Speaking and Listening: Write and Deliver a Persuasive Speech 448 Language Study: Etymology: Political Science/History Terms 450 Text Set Workshop: From Text to Understanding 452a Common Core Assessment Workshop: Test-Taking Practice 452 Common Core Assessment Workshop: Performance Tasks 456 Independent Reading 458 Contents xv

6 COMMON CORE Unit 3 Table of Contents Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion Literature of the Civil War and the Frontier (1850 to 1914) Multiple Perspectives on the Era Snapshot of the Period instructional essay and graphics 462 Historical Background instructional essay 464 Essential Questions Across Time: The Civil War and the Frontier instructional essay 466 Recent Scholarship Nell Irvin Painter Defining an Era essay 474 Integrate and Evaluate Information 476 Part One: A Nation Divided Ambrose Bierce An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge short story 480 The Battle of Shiloh history connection 485 Research Project: Primary Sources Mary Chesnut from Mary Chesnut s Civil War diary 495 Warren Lee Goss Recollections of a Private journal 500 Randolph McKim A Confederate Account of the Battle of Gettysburg diary 502 Stephen Crane An Episode of War short story 508 Photographer Mathew Brady humanities connection 509 Extended Study: Narrative Nonfiction Defining Narrative Nonfiction 516 Richard Wright from Black Boy EXEMPLAR autobiography 517 Frederick Douglass from My Bondage and My Freedom ANCHOR TEXT autobiography 520 Slave Narratives history connection 526 Comparing Literary Works: Refrains Traditional Go Down, Moses spiritual 532 Traditional Swing Low, Sweet Chariot spiritual 534 Comparing Literary Works: Writer s View of Civil War Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address speech 538 Robert E. Lee Letter to His Son letter 541 Contemporary Connection: Civil War Writings Past and Present Anthony Minghella from Cold Mountain screenplay excerpt 546 THEMES ACROSS CENTURIES: Scholar s Insights Nell Irvin Painter Introduces Sojourner Truth essay 550 Sojourner Truth An Account of an Experience With Discrimination first-person account 554 xvi Contents

7 Unit 3 Reading for Information: Analyzing Functional and Expository Texts A Community s Roots expository text 559 Virginia Department of Historic Resources Form functional text 561 Part Two: Forging New Frontiers Extended Study: Mark Twain Literary History: Twain s World instructional essay 564 Meet the Author: Mark Twain biography 566 Mark Twain from Life on the Mississippi autobiography 570 from How to Tell a Story literary criticism 575 The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County short story 576 Comparing Humor Past and Present School of American Humor illustrated literary history 586 Bill Bryson from The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid memoir 589 Jack London To Build a Fire short story 596 Dogs and the Yukon history connection 602 Research Project: Primary Sources Miriam Davis Colt Heading West ANCHOR TEXT personal history 617 Chief Joseph I Will Fight No More Forever ANCHOR TEXT speech 622 Part Three: Living in a Changing World Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour ANCHOR TEXT short story 628 Challenging Women s Roles world literature connection 631 Paul Laurence Dunbar Douglass poem 636 We Wear the Mask poem 638 Edwin Arlington Robinson Luke Havergal poem 642 Richard Cory poem 644 Contents xvii

8 Extended Study: Edgar Allan Poe Meet the Author: Edgar Allan Poe biography 288 Poe and Pop Culture cultural connection 290 Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher short story 292 On Writing The Raven literary criticism 311 The Raven poem 312 Comparing Gothic Literature Past and Present The Gothic Family Tree illustrated literary history 322 Joyce Carol Oates Where Is Here? short story 325 Herman Melville from Moby Dick novel excerpt 336 The Golden Age of Yankee Whaling history connection 344 The Whale as Archetype humanities connection 346 Part Three: The Human Spirit and the Natural World Extended Study: Transcendentalism Literary History: The Transcendentalists Transcendentalism: The Seekers instructional essay 360 themes across Centuries: Scholar s Insights Charles Johnson On Ralph Waldo Emerson essay 362 Ralph Waldo Emerson from Nature essay 366 from Self-Reliance essay 369 Concord Hymn poem 371 THEMES ACROSS CENTURIES: Scholar s Insights Gretel Ehrlich Introduces Henry David Thoreau essay 374 Henry David Thoreau from Walden EXEMPLAR essay 378 Mount Olympus world literature connection 382 from Civil Disobedience ANCHOR TEXT essay 388 Reading for Information: Analyzing Functional and Expository Texts Water on Tap functional text 393 South Florida Environmental Report expository text 395 Contemporary Connection: Embracing Wilderness Past and Present Bridget Besaw Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail photographs 398 xiv Contents

9 COMMON CORE Unit 4 Table of Contents Unit 4 Disillusion, Defiance, and Discontent Literature of the Modern Age (1914 to 1945) Multiple Perspectives on the Era Snapshot of the Period instructional essay and graphics 690 Historical Background instructional essay 692 Essential Questions Across Time: The Modern Age instructional essay 694 Recent Scholarship Tim O Brien Literature as a Magic Carpet essay 702 Integrate and Evaluate Information 704 Part One: Facing Troubled Times T. S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock EXEMPLAR poem 708 Modernism humanities connection 713 Comparing Literary Works: Imagism Ezra Pound A Few Don ts literary manifesto 719 In a Station of the Metro poem 722 William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow poem 723 This Is Just to Say poem 723 The Great Figure poem 724 H. D. Pear Tree poem 725 F. Scott Fitzgerald Winter Dreams ANCHOR TEXT short story 730 Fitzgerald s Elusive Women cultural connection 742 The Jazz Age cultural connection 746 John Steinbeck The Turtle from The Grapes of Wrath novel excerpt 758 Research Project: Primary Sources Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother photographs 767 Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Blues ballad 768 W. H. Auden The Unknown Citizen poem 774 E. E. Cummings old age sticks poem 780 anyone lived in a pretty how town poem 781 Comparing Literary Works: Theme Wallace Stevens Of Modern Poetry poem 786 Archibald MacLeish Ars Poetica poem 789 Marianne Moore Poetry poem 791 Contents xix

10 COMMON CORE Unit 4 Table of Contents Part TWO: From Every Corner of the Land Extended Study: Short Stories Elements of Short Stories 796 Sarah Orne Jewett from A White Heron EXEMPLAR short story 797 Ernest Hemingway In Another Country ANCHOR TEXT short story 800 THEMES ACROSS Time: Author s Insights Tim O Brien Introduces Ambush essay 808 Tim O Brien Ambush short story 810 William Faulkner A Rose for Emily short story 816 Two Influential Writers literature connection 820 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech speech 828 Katherine Anne Porter The Jilting of Granny Weatherall short story 834 House Calls history connection 836 Eudora Welty A Worn Path short story 848 The Hero s Quest world literature connection 851 James Thurber The Night the Ghost Got In humorous essay 860 Comparing Literary Works: Personification Carl Sandburg Chicago poem 868 Grass poem 870 Robert Frost Birches poem 874 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening poem 877 Mending Wall EXEMPLAR poem 878 Out, Out poem 880 Acquainted With the Night poem 882 Terza Rima world literature connection 883 The Gift Outright poem 884 Contemporary Connection: Cartooning as Literature Jules Feiffer Trapped in a Comic Book graphic story 889 xx Contents

11 Unit 4 Part Three: The Harlem Renaissance Extended Study: Langston Hughes Literary History: Langston Hughes and Harlem instructional essay 896 Langston Hughes biography 898 Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers poem 902 I, Too poem 904 Dream Variations poem 906 Refugee in America poem 907 Comparing Poetry of Cultural Identity Poetry of Identity illustrated literary history 912 Lucille Clifton Study the Masters poem 915 Colleen McElroy For My Children poem 916 Comparing Literary Works: Imagery Claude McKay The Tropics in New York poem 923 Arna Bontemps A Black Man Talks of Reaping poem 924 Countee Cullen From the Dark Tower poem 926 Zora Neale Hurston from Dust Tracks on a Road ANCHOR TEXT autobiography 930 Zora Neale Hurston Rediscovered literature connection 935 Reading for Information: Analyzing Functional and Expository Texts Son of Citation Machine functional text 939 Wikipedia Article, Atlanta Braves expository text 941 Contents xxi

12 Writing Workshop: Multimedia Presentation of an Argument 944 Speaking and Listening: Analyze a Nonprint Political Advertisement 952 Language Study: Etymology: Scientific, Medical, and Mathematical Terms 954 Text Set Workshop: From Text to Understanding 956a Common Core Assessment Workshop: Test-Taking Practice 956 Common Core Assessment Workshop: Performance Tasks 960 Independent Reading 962 xxii Contents

13 COMMON CORE Unit 5 Table of Contents Unit 5 Prosperity and Protest Literature of the Post-War Era (1945 to 1970) Multiple Perspectives on the Era Snapshot of the Period instructional essay and graphics 966 Historical Background instructional essay 968 Essential Questions Across Time: The Post-War Era instructional essay 970 Recent Scholarship Arthur Miller The Purpose of Theater essay 978 Integrate and Evaluate Information 980 Part One: War Shock Comparing Literary Works: Author s Perspective John Hersey from Hiroshima ANCHOR TEXT nonfiction 984 B-29 Bombers history connection 986 World War II history connection 992 Randall Jarrell The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner poem 997 Research Project: Primary Sources Junk Rally poster 1003 Dr. Seuss The Battle of the Easy Chair editorial cartoon 1004 Editors of The New York Times Backing the Attack editorial 1005 Part Two: Tradition and Rebellion Flannery O Connor The Life You Save May Be Your Own short story 1012 Bernard Malamud The First Seven Years short story 1028 Lawrence Ferlinghetti Constantly Risking Absurdity poem 1042 Contemporary Connection: Artistic Upstarts Past and Present Improv Everywhere Subway Birthday electronic nonfiction narrative 1047 Sylvia Plath Mirror ANCHOR TEXT poem 1052 Anne Sexton Courage ANCHOR TEXT poem 1053 Theodore Roethke Cuttings poem 1058 Cuttings (later) poem 1060 Contents xxiii

14 Comparing Literary Works: Repetition and Parallelism Gwendolyn Brooks The Explorer poem 1064 Robert Hayden Frederick Douglass poem 1066 Elizabeth Bishop One Art poem 1072 The Villanelle literature connection 1073 Filling Station poem 1074 Part THREE: Literature of Protest James Baldwin The Rockpile short story 1082 James Baldwin and the Church cultural connection 1088 Toni Morrison Life in His Language eulogy 1096 Comparing Literary Works: Rhetorical Devices John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address ANCHOR TEXT speech 1104 Martin Luther King, Jr. from Letter from Birmingham City Jail ANCHOR TEXT letter 1109 Extended Study: Drama Defining Drama instructional essay 1116 Lorraine Hansberry from A Raisin in the Sun EXEMPLAR drama 1117 Author in Depth: Arthur Miller biography 1118 THEMES ACROSS TIME: Author s Insights Arthur Miller Miller on The Crucible essay 1120 The Crucible, Act 1 drama 1126 History Repeats Itself history connection 1132 Maxim Gorky world literature connection 1137 The Inquisition history connection 1145 The Crucible, Act 2 drama 1161 Arthur Miller and the Blacklist history connection 1166 Bertolt Brecht world literature connection 1171 Twentieth-Century Drama literary history 1184 The Crucible, Act 3 drama 1187 Federico García Lorca world literature connection 1199 Puritans and Nathaniel Hawthorne history connection 1208 The Crucible, Act 4 drama 1217 Wole Soyinka world literature connection 1223 Being Abigail Williams media connection 1226 xxiv Contents

15 Unit 5 Comparing Political Drama Past and Present Political Drama Around the World illustrated literary history 1238 George Clooney and Grant Heslov from Good Night, and Good Luck screenplay 1241 Reading for Information: Analyzing Argumentative and Expository Texts Brooks Atkinson The Crucible argumentative text 1251 Kenneth Turan Hysteria Resides at the Heart of the Frantic Crucible argumentative text 1252 Mel Gussow A Rock of the Modern Age, Arthur Miller Is Everywhere expository text 1253 Writing Workshop: Argumentative Essay 1256 Speaking and Listening: Analyze and Evaluate Entertainment Media 1264 Language Study: Idioms and Idiomatic Expressions 1266 Text Set Workshop: From Text to Understanding 1268a Common Core Assessment Workshop: Test-Taking Practice 1268 Common Core Assessment Workshop: Performance Tasks 1272 Independent Reading 1274 Contents xxv

16 COMMON CORE Unit 6 Table of Contents New Voices, New Frontiers Literature of the Contemporary Period (1970 to Present) Multiple Perspectives on the Era Snapshot of the Period instructional essay and graphics 1278 Historical Background instructional essay 1280 Essential Questions Across Time: The Contemporary Period instructional essay 1282 Recent Scholarship Julia Alvarez All-American Writer essay 1290 Integrate and Evaluate Information 1292 Part One: Contemporary Fiction Themes Across CULTURES: Author s Insights Julia Alvarez Introduces Antojos essay 1294 Antojos short story 1298 The Dominican Republic geography connection 1301 Alice Walker Everyday Use ANCHOR TEXT short story 1312 Raymond Carver Everything Stuck to Him short story 1326 Part Two: Contemporary Poetry William Stafford Traveling Through the Dark poem 1336 Denise Levertov The Secret poem 1339 Li-Young Lee The Gift poem 1342 Comparing Literary Works: Social Commentary Martín Espada Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper poem 1348 Yusef Komunyakaa Camouflaging the Chimera ANCHOR TEXT poem 1350 Naomi Shihab Nye Streets poem 1353 Stanley Kunitz Halley s Comet poem 1358 The Poets Laureate literary history 1362 Judith Ortiz Cofer The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica EXEMPLAR poem 1366 Ars Poetica world literature connection 1368 Contemporary Connection: Poetry and Numbers The Fibonacci Sequence poems 1371 xxvi Contents

17 Unit 6 Part Three: Contemporary Nonfiction Extended Study: The Essay Defining the Essay 1374 H. L. Mencken American Slang from The American Language EXEMPLAR essay 1375 William Safire Onomatopoeia essay 1378 Ian Frazier Coyote v. Acme essay 1384 Anna Quindlen One Day, Now Broken in Two ANCHOR TEXT essay 1394 Research Project: Primary Sources Sean Ramsay Urban Renewal oral history transcript 1401 William Harvey Playing for the Fighting Sixty-Ninth Comparing Literary Works: Identity Amy Tan Mother Tongue EXEMPLAR essay 1410 Rita Dove For the Love of Books essay 1418 Comparing Literary Works: Point of View Maxine Hong Kingston from The Woman Warrior memoir 1426 N. Scott Momaday from The Names memoir 1434 The Centaur mythology connection 1437 Reading for Information: Analyzing Functional and Expository Text Demographic Aspects of Surnames expository text 1443 The Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Foundation expository text 1446 Writing Workshop: Short Story 1448 Speaking and Listening: Compare Print News Coverage 1456 Language Study: Cognates 1458 Text Set Workshop: From Text to Understanding 1460a Common Core Assessment Workshop: Test-Taking Practice 1460 Common Core Assessment Workshop: Performance Tasks 1464 Independent Reading 1466 Contents xxvii