Introduction to Critical Reading
by McCraney, LeahEdition: 7th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-01-28
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
| Poetry | |
| LotÆs Wife | |
| Genesis 19: 12-26 | |
| Richard Corey | |
| I, Too | |
| Harlem | |
| The Road Not Taken | |
| nobody loses all the time | |
| Warren Pryor | |
| Digging | |
| Mother to Son | |
| Those Winter Sundays | |
| A Red Palm | |
| Daystar | |
| Traveling Through the Dark | |
| A Martian Sends a Postcard Home | |
| Bedtime Story | |
| Barbie Doll | |
| The Unknown Citizen | |
| Curiosity | |
| The History Teacher | |
| The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Innocence | |
| The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Experience | |
| Dulce et Decorum Est | |
| How I Learned to Sweep | |
| Facing It | |
| Counting the Mad | |
| Much Madness Is Divinist Sense | |
| Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead | |
| The Vacuum | |
| Weakness | |
| Power | |
| Mending Wall | |
| Lost Sister | |
| Persimmons | |
| April 29, 1992 | |
| Blink Your Eyes | |
| Parsley | |
| What Would Freud Say? | |
| Fiction | |
| Birthday Party | |
| The Lottery | |
| Powder | |
| A Worn Path | |
| Everyday Use | |
| Crusader Rabbit | |
| Miracle | |
| The Veldt | |
| I Stand Here Ironing | |
| The Gilded Six-Bits | |
| Harrison Bergerson | |
| The Fat Girl | |
| What Means Switch | |
| What You Pawn I Will Redeem | |
| Cell One | |
| A Rose for Emily | |
| Life After High School | |
| Hills Like White Elephants | |
| The Chrysanthemums | |
| Essays | |
| Shame | |
| A Hanging | |
| Fifth Period Is Facebook | |
| The Impact of Facebook on our Students | |
| Teen æSextingÆ: Stupid and Illegal | |
| Steroids, Sports and the Ethics of Winning | |
| Just Say Yes to Steroids û Learn, Make Better Choices | |
| Making the Grade | |
| Right Place Wrong Place | |
| Mother Tongue | |
| Disgusting DoesnÆt Make It ôSpeech" | |
| Should a Man Be Put in Jail for What HeÆs Thinking? | |
| Every Choice Has Its Consequences | |
| Starved Out | |
| Heavy Judgment: A Sister Talks about the Pain of ôLiving Large" | |
| When Is It Rape? | |
| The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria | |
| The Saints and the Roughnecks | |
| Textbook Chapters | |
| Presidency in Crisis, from The American Past: A Survey of American History | |
| Culture, from SOC | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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