
Designed to spark students’ interest and help them realize their fullest potential, this multicultural collection of short stories, essays, autobiographies, and poems is organized by theme, including suspense, adventure, and conflict. Students will read short stories, poetry, memoirs, a play, and much more. These selections represent the experiences of people from many different cultures and backgrounds. They will meet interesting characters and be transported to other times and places. Students will read about conflicts big and small. What ties together these selections is that they are part of the tradition of American Literature.
Features:
- Presents a wide variety of literary genres and terms to enhance students’ knowledge.
- Encourages students to relate literature to their own lives with high-interest, thematic organization.
- Builds students’ confidence by pre-teaching vocabulary and motivates students with stimulating, critical-thinking questions.
Table of Contents: The Strange and Unexpected, Looking Back, Accepting a Challenge, Close to the Earth, The Struggle Within, Close to the Heart, and Danger and Adventure.
The Pacemaker American Literature Student Edition makes literature accessible with adapted selections, a strong vocabulary strand, and comprehension strategies.
The Student Workbook extends and reinforces textbook concepts through practice exercises.
The Teacher's Answer Edition helps ease classroom management with answers at point-of-use, it also speeds lesson planning with teaching suggestions and annotations.
The Classroom Resource Binder supports lessons with reproducible activities that review, reinforce, and enrich key skills and concepts in the student text.

Each Class Set Includes 10 Textbooks, and 1 Classroom Resource Binder
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