An Introduction to Critical Reading
by McCraney, LeahEdition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-04-27
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
This unique college reading text gives students experience reading and evaluating poetry, short stories, essays, and textbook chapters. An innovative Instructor's Manual gives instructors a wealth of teaching ideas and background material on each piece with a focus on critical thinking.
Table of Contents
| Preface to the Student | p. iv |
| Preface to the Instructor | p. v |
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Poetry | p. 1 |
| Lot's Wife | p. 3 |
| Genesis 19:12-26 | p. 4 |
| Richard Cory | p. 4 |
| Warren Pryor | p. 5 |
| The Road Not Taken | p. 6 |
| I, Too, Harlem and Mother to Son | p. 6 |
| Those Winter Sundays | p. 8 |
| Austere | p. 8 |
| A Red Palm | p. 9 |
| Daystar | p. 10 |
| Once a Lady Told Me | p. 11 |
| My Father's Song | p. 11 |
| Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead | p. 12 |
| A Martian Sends a Postcard Home | p. 13 |
| Bedtime Story | p. 14 |
| Counting the Mad | p. 15 |
| Much Madness Is Divinest Sense | p. 16 |
| Four Poems from Spoon River Anthology | p. 16 |
| Minerva Jones | p. 16 |
| "Indignation" Jones | p. 17 |
| Doctor Meyers | p. 18 |
| Mrs. Meyers | p. 18 |
| Digging | p. 19 |
| Barbie Doll | p. 20 |
| Mr. Z | p. 20 |
| The Vacuum | p. 22 |
| Weakness | p. 22 |
| Power | p. 23 |
| The Chimney Sweeper, from Songs of Innocence, and The Chimney Sweeper, from Songs of Experience | p. 24 |
| Dulce et Decorum Est | p. 25 |
| Mending Wall | p. 26 |
| Lost Sister | p. 28 |
| Persimmons | p. 30 |
| Parsley | p. 33 |
| The Unknown Citizen | p. 35 |
| Curiosity | p. 36 |
| What Would Freud Say? | p. 37 |
| The Naked and the Nude | p. 39 |
| Fiction | p. 41 |
| Birthday Party | p. 43 |
| The Lottery | p. 43 |
| Hills Like White Elephants | p. 50 |
| Harrison Bergeron | p. 53 |
| Crusader Rabbit | p. 58 |
| The Gilded Six-Bits | p. 63 |
| A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings | p. 72 |
| The Veldt | p. 77 |
| Everyday Use | p. 88 |
| Gimpel the Fool | p. 95 |
| A Worn Path | p. 107 |
| I Stand Here Ironing | p. 114 |
| The Fat Girl | p. 120 |
| Life after High School | p. 132 |
| Islands on the Moon | p. 144 |
| What You Pawn I Will Redeem | p. 163 |
| What Means Switch | p. 179 |
| A Rose for Emily | p. 193 |
| The Chrysanthemums | p. 202 |
| Essays | p. 211 |
| Shame | p. 213 |
| Daddy Tucked the Blanket | p. 215 |
| A Hanging | p. 219 |
| Death and Justice | p. 222 |
| Mother Tongue | p. 227 |
| The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria | p. 232 |
| Making the Grade | p. 237 |
| What Is Child Pornography? | p. 240 |
| Disgusting Doesn't Make It "Speech" | p. 242 |
| Should a Man Be Put in Jail for What He's Thinking? | p. 244 |
| Starved Out | p. 246 |
| Heavy Judgment: A Sister Talks about the Pain of "Living Large" | p. 252 |
| When Is It Rape? | p. 259 |
| Time for a Change on Drugs: Americans Are Ahead of the Politicians on This One | p. 264 |
| Legalization of Narcotics: Myths and Reality | p. 267 |
| The Prisoner's Dilemma | p. 271 |
| Violent Crime: Myths, Facts, and Solutions | p. 278 |
| A Nasty Business | p. 286 |
| Torture's Allure and Effect | p. 294 |
| Textbook Chapters | p. 309 |
| Presidency in Crisis, from The American Past: A Survey of American History, Seventh Edition | p. 311 |
| Social Responsibility and Business Ethics, from Contemporary Business, Eleventh Edition | p. 329 |
| Glossary of Important Literary Terms | p. 363 |
| Index | p. 366 |
| Literary Credits | p. 369 |
| Photo Credits | p. 371 |
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