SHORT STORIES
RECOGNIZING PLOT
| Arthur Gordon | The Sea Devil |
| Paul Annixter | Accounts Settled |
| O. Henry | The Last Leaf |
| MacKinlay Kantor | A Man Who Had No Eyes |
DEFINING CHARACTER
| Richard Y. Thurman | The Countess and the Impossible |
| Shirley Jackson | Charles |
| Kurt Vonnegut | The No-Talent Kid |
| Georges Carousso | The Warden |
| Bill Meissner | In the Middle of a Pitch |
EXPLORING SETTING
| Jack London | To Build a Fire |
| Jesse Stuart | This Farm for Sale |
| Ray Bradbury | The Drummer Boy of Shiloh |
| John D. MacDonald | Fire! |
| Elsie Singmaster | Mr. Brownlee's Roses |
UNDERSTANDING THEME
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | The Finish of Patsy Barnes |
| Edward Everett Hale | The Man Without a Country |
| George P. McCallum | The Song Caruso Sang |
| D. H. Lawrence | Adolf |
| Ernest Hemingway | Old Man at the Bridge |
PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER
| Robb White | Fetch |
| Hugh Pentecost | The Day the Children Vanished |
NOVELLA
| Alexander Key | The Forgotten Door |
POETRY
POETIC DICTION
| Don Marquis | Takes Talent |
| Edwin A. Hoey | Foul Shot |
POETIC IMAGES
| Babette Deutsch | Fireworks |
| Elizabeth Bishop | The Fish |
| Deloras Lane | Keepsakes |
| Louis Untermeyer | Dog at Night |
| Joseph Bruchac | Ellis Island |
POETIC SOUND
| John Masefield | The West Wind |
| Shel Silverstein | The Garden |
| Walt Whitman | O Captain! My Captain! |
| Deborah Austin | Dandelions |
POETIC PATTERNS
| John Godfrey Saxe | The Blind Men and the Elephant |
| Walt Whitman | When I Heard The Learn’d Astronomer |
| Leroy V. Quintana | Legacy II |
POETIC FORM
| Hal Summers | The Rescue |
| Lewis Carroll | The Walrus and the Carpenter |
LYRIC POETRY
| Richard Garcia | The Clouds Pass |
| Richard LeGallienne | I Meant to Do My Work Today |
POETIC THEME
| Elder Olson | Directions to the Armorer |
| Robert Frost | A Time to Talk |
| Naoshi Koriyama | Unfolding Bud |
PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER
| Langston Hughes | As I Grew Older |
| Robert Frost | Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening |
DRAMA
| Gordon Daviot | The Pen of My Aunt |
NONFICTION
| Richard Lederer | The Case for Short Words |
| Ralph Helfer | Fly Away |
| Roald Dahl | The Green Mamba |
| Rita Dove | I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like |
| Bruce Brooks | Animal Craftsmen |
| James Herriot | The Recital |
| James Thurber | The Day the Dam Broke |
| Santha Rama Rau | By Any Other Name |
| Ben Logan | Drouth |
NOVEL
| Jack Bennett | The Voyage of the Lucky Dragon |
GLOSSARY