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... 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
• includes CD-ROM containing the Complete Teaching and Assessments plus a Planning Guide
  

THE AMERICAN TRADITION Explores the roots of American literature with short stories from 1820 to 1920. This collection of classic short fiction features seven Master Writers with extended biographies and multiple selections, allowing for an in-depth analysis of their work. 656 pages.

Special Focus: Literary Elements & Writing About Literature Students consider plot, characters, setting, theme, style, and other literary devices.

Features include:

• Pre-reading pages that introduce the elements
• Literary Lens questions to focus students' reading
• Post-selection pages and unit reviews with discussion questions and writing assignments that concentrate on literary elements
• A Writing About Literature handbook

Class Set includes: 10 Texts and 1 Teaching Resource

Sampling of Selections
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Minister's Black Veil;Young Goodman Brown
Edgar Allan Poe: The Masque of the Red Death; Hop Frog
Mark Twain: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County; The One Million Pound Bank Note
Amrose Bierce: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; The Boarded Window
Kate Chopin: A Respectable Woman; A Pair of Silk Stockings
Stephen Crane: The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky; The Blue Hotel
Willa Cather: Paul's Case; Sculptor's Funeral

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