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Unit One
COLLECTION ONE: Courage
Judith Berry Griffin
Jean Craighead George
Osage Tradition
Irene Hunt
Eleanor Farjeon
Judith Viorst
Victoria Furman
David L. Parker
Langston Hughes |
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Phoebe and the General
The Wounded Wolf
A Wolf
from Across Five Aprils
The Quarrel
Apology
The Race
The Stoiry of Iqbal Masih
Words Like Freedom |
WORKSHOP ONE: Recognizing Plot
Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
Stephen Leacock
Ogden Nash
Alma Flor Ada
Johanna Hurwitz
Alex Haley
Amy Ling
Norah Burke
Denise Levertov |
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Dear Miss Veloshin
The Great Detective
Adventures of Isabel
The Gold Coin
The Empty Box
My Furthest Back Person
Grandma Ling
Polar Night
Moon Tiger |
CURTAINS UP! One
T. S. Elliot
Michael & Molly Hardwick |
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The Rum Tum Tugger
The Dying Detective
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UNIT TWO
COLLECTION TWO: New Frontiers
Steven Vincent Benet
Jack London
Eve Pownall
Maxine Kimin
Glinette Tilley Turner
Don L. Wulffson
Eudora Welty
Beverly McLoughland
Frank Richards
Rosemary & Stephen Vincent Benet
Myra Cohn Livingston
Sally Ride with Susan Okie
Edward Wellen |
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Western Wagons
The King of Mazy May
No Medals for Mary
The Microscope
Garrett A. Morgan
The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle
from One Writer's Beginnings
Crazy Boys
First Flight
Wilbur Wright & Orville Wright
Moon
from To Space and Back
Call Me Proteus |
WORKSHOP TWO: Defining Character
Robert Fulghum
Don Haynie
William Saroyan
Leo Tolstoy
Robert Hayden
Javaka Steptoe
Sandra Cisneros
Dorothy West
Gail B. Graham
Russell Baker
Arthur Cavanaugh
Molly Picon |
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The Rap on the Door
The Biggest Problem
The Rescue of the Perishing
The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson
Those Winter Sundays
Seeds
Abuelito Who
The Richer, the Poorer
The Beggar in the Blanket
from Growing Up
Miss Awful
I’ll Give You Law |
CURTAINS UP! Two
N. M. Bodecker
James Thurber |
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Sing Me a Song of
Teapots and Trumpets
The Great Quillow |
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UNIT THREE
COLLECTION THREE: Our Natural World
Patricia MacLachlan
Lilian Moore
Diana Cohen Conway
Robert Frost
Dale Ferguson
Ogden Nash
Bailey White
Charlotte Zolotow
A. Lentini
Frank Asch
Charlotte Pomerantz |
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Bringing the Prairie Home
Beach Stones
Little Swallow
A Minor Bird
The Island of the Endangered
A Nash Menagerie
Turkeys
Change
Autumntime
Saguaro
The Day They Parachuted
On Borneo: A Drama of Ecology |
WORKSHOP THREE: Exploring Setting
Myron Levoy
D. H. Lawrence
A. A. Milne
E. E. Cummings
Richard E. Albert
William Butler Yeats
Jesse Stewart
Emma Lazarus
Ralph Helfer |
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Keplik, the Match Man
Baby Running Barefoot
Halfway Down
who are you,little i
Alejandro's Gift
The Cat and the Moon
What America Means to Me
The New Colossus
The Flood |
UNIT FOUR
COLLECTION AND WORKSHOP FOUR: Poetry
Traditional
May Swenson
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edward Lear
Edward Lear
Raymond R. Patterson
Basho
Arthur Guiterman
John Updike
Barbara Juster Esbensen
E. E. Cummings
Paul Fleischman
Carl Sandburg
Pablo Neurda |
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Betty Botter
Living Tenderly
Counting-out Rhyme
There Was an Old Person of Mold
There Was an Old Person of Dutton
Glory, Glory
In My New Clothing
Habits of the Hippopotamus
Player Piano
Icicles
Tumbling-hair
The Passenger Pigeon
Arithmetic
Ode to an Artichoke |
UNIT FIVE
COLLECTION FIVE: Fables Legends Folklore
Leo Tolstoy
James Thurber
I. G. Edmonds
Aesop & James Reeves
Aesop & Ennis Rees
Aesop
Poem
Duke Pishposh of Pash |
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The King and the Shirt
The Tiger Who Would Be King
Ooka and the Stolen Smell
The Ant and the Grasshopper
Fable
Poem
The Fox and the Grapes
Fable
Jean de La Fontaine
Jay Williams |
WORKSHOP FIVE: Understanding Theme
Ann Cameron
Sandra Cisneros
Julia Cummingham
Herbert Goldstone
Walter Dean Meyers
Gabriel Olvera
Nora Mards Dauenhauer
Lloyd Alexander
May Swenson |
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The Pudding Like a Night on the Sea
Eleven
A short long story
Virtuoso
Ibrahima
Hug
A Poem for Jim Nagataak'w
The Cat and the Golden Egg
Southbound on the Freeway |
UNIT SIX
THE GRAND FINALE: Pulling It All Together
Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
Gloria Gonzalez
Robert Fulghum
Jack London
James Harriot
Gibbons Ruark |
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The Stub-Book
The Boy with Yellow Eyes
The Lady and the Spider
Earthquake: The story of an Eyewitness
Alfred the Sweet-Shop Cat
The Visitor
Roman Numerals
Handbook of Literary Terms
Glossary
Index of Authors and Titles
Acknowledgements |
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