These challenging and relevant anthologies fit the curriculum and make literature meaningful and enjoyable for students and teachers alike. A special literary focus in each anthology develops essential literary strategies and concepts. The anthologies focus on literature reading and interpreting outstanding fiction and informational text by highly-regarded authors. Student Edition Features: The selections and academic vocabulary are both challenging and relevant for students and provide... Read full description

These challenging and relevant anthologies fit the curriculum and make literature meaningful and enjoyable for students and teachers alike. A special literary focus in each anthology develops essential literary strategies and concepts. The anthologies focus on literature reading and interpreting outstanding fiction and informational text by highly-regarded authors.

Student Edition Features:

• The selections and academic vocabulary are both challenging and relevant for students and provide an appropriate mix of text complexity.
• The selections are easily differentiated for ELL students, struggling readers, gifted students, students working at grade level, and students with different learning styles.
• Writing prompts and suggested research projects encourage deeper analysis of the texts.
• Revised editions align instruction with a focus on close reading strategies and text-dependent questions and tasks. State standards alignment correlations are available for all titles.

Teaching and Assessment Resources
Each anthology is supported by an invaluable resource that integrates literary and writing skills and offers:

• Assessment opportunities
  
• Strategies for differentiating instruction
  
• A skills chart to align instruction with state and district standards
  
• Pre-, during-, and post-reading activities
  
• Writing workshops and 6 Trait writing rubrics
  
• Assessment options for each selection and unit
  
• And More!

BRITISH LITERATURE
Here is an anthology with a focus on critical thinking and connections among texts. It is an engaging, accessible book presenting British literature chronologically from the mid 400's through the present. 992 pages.

Special Focus: Critical Thinking and Connections Among Texts Students explore fine literature and use critical thinking strategies across a range of genres. In approaching texts comparatively and critically, students are encouraged to read deeply, think creatively, and write meaningfully.

• Students experience literary, historic, and artistic influences as a teen in each time period.
• Students use critical thinking skills to explore modern relevance by relating a piece of contemporary literature to the literature in the unit and to modern issues.
• Scaffolded reading support.
• Critical thinking and before-reading pages.

Sampling of Selections
Burton Raffel, translator: Grendel
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Pardoner's Tale
Sir Thomas Malory: from Le Morte d'Arthur
William Shakespeare: Sonnet 130
John Milton: How Soon Hath Time
Jonathan Swift: from Gulliver's Travels
William Wadsworth: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Elizabeth Barret Browning: Sonnet 43
A.E. Housman: When I Was One-and- Twenty
D.H. Lawrence: The Rocking Horse Winner
Dylan Thomas: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Class Set includes: 10 Texts and 1 Teaching Resource

Online Edition 6 Year license - 25 unit minimum purchase - Requires Internet access

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