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This sourcebook presents reading guides for 39 literary works frequently used by scondary school English teachers. The guides contain an overview of the work, a pool of instructional objectives for each work, a variety of activities, a series of discussion options, suggestions for evaluation, and annotated lists of related works. Included are: "Foreword" (T. C. Ley); "Overview of Critical Approaches" (A. Dunlop and D. Clark); "Conrad Aiken's 'Silent Snow, Secret Snow'" (S. P. Harper); "Ray Bradbury's 'Farenheit 451'" (K. W. Long); "Richard Bradford's 'Red Sky at Morning'" (A. Morris and P. Sevcik); "Emily Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights'" (S. Hosemann); "Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'" (M. K. Leenay); "Richard E. Connell's 'The Most Dangerous Game'" (K. M. Jones); "Roald Dahl's 'Lamb to the Slaughter'" (B. Schmaltz); "Charles Dickens's 'David Copperfield'" (S. T. Bickmore); "Charles Dickens's 'Great Expectations'" (R. L. Eickhoff); "Frederick Douglass's 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave'" (P. D. Franks); "John Fowles's 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'" (R. E. Comfort); "John Gardner's 'Grendel'" (C. VanLeuven); "Nikki Giovanni's 'Dreams' and 'Revolutionary Dreams'" (B. J. Ford); "Lorraine Hansberry's 'A Raisin in the Sun'" (D. Cook and Z. Woodard); "Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'" (P. S. Burgess); "S. E. Hinton's 'That Was Then, This Is Now'" (G. Smith); "Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World'" (A. G. Fagerland); "Katherine Mansfield's 'The Doll's House'" (F. L. Hicks); "Christopher Marlowe's 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'" and "Walter Raleigh's 'The Nymph's Reply'" (C. Robin); "Sharon Bell Mathis's 'Teacup Full of Roses'" (J. Rambo); "Carson McCullers's 'The Ballad of the Sad Cafe'" (J. E. Frederick); "Tillie Olsen's 'I Stand Here Ironing'" (M. B. Shaddy); "Samuel Pepys's 'Samuel Pepys' Diary'" (E. Crump and others); "Edgar Allan Poe's 'Masque of the Red Death'" (S. Coleman); "Alexander Pope's 'Rape of the Lock'" (P. J. Barrett); "Katherine Anne Porter's 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall'" (M. Stamler); "Antoine de Saint Exupery's 'The Little Prince'" (R. Dahl); "William Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice'" (J. Walkington); "George Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion'" (C. Anderson); "Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'" (E. Donnington); "Mark Twain's 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin'" (E. Betta and B. Morrison);"Mark Twain's 'The Diary of Adam and Eve'" (G. Buehler); "Edith Wharton's 'Ethan Frome'" (A. A. Candelaria); "Walt Whitman's 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd'" (V. D. Ricks); "Thornton Wilder's 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey'" (J. Bishop); "Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town'" (N. Curtis and others); "Medieval and American Ballads" (N. Michaelis); and "Medieval Romance" (T. Reynolds). (NKA)

This sourcebook presents reading guides for 22 literary works frequently used by secondary school English teachers. The guides contain an overview of the work, a pool of instructional objectives for each work, a variety of activities, a series of discussion options, suggestions for evaluation, and annotated lists of related works. Included are: "Foreword" (T. C. Ley); "Overview of Critical Approaches" (D. Clark and A. Dunlop); "Stephen Vincent Bennet's 'By the Waters of Babylon'" (N. J. Tow and J. Whitman); "Ambrose Bierce's 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'" (J. Lucci and M. Shepherd); "Joseph Conrad's 'The Secret Sharer'" (S. Douglas and S. Lessley); "Robert Cormier's 'I Am the Cheese'" (M. Evans and others); "T. S. Elliot's 'The Hollow Men'" (J. Atwood); "T. S. Elliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'" (J. Copland); "Gustave Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary'" (S. McAnulty); "William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'" (D. Gullatte and others); "Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Ambitious Guest'" (W. J. Nix and J. Word-Ross); "Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter'" (P. Cherubini); "Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown'" (K. Hightower); "Ernest Hemingway's 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber'" (D. Teel and D. Thompson); "Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's "House'" (P. Westbrook); "D. H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner'" (E. Reynolds and D. L. Smith); "Flannery O'Connor's 'The Life You Save May Be Your Own'" (G. Kelley); "Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell Tale Heart'" (J. Blankenship and others); "William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'" (H. D. Freeman and others); "John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men'" (B. Esslinger and others); "John Steinbeck's 'The Pearl'" (B. Doyle and others); "Alfred Lord Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess'" (N. Salter); and "Dylan Thomas's 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night'" (D. Teel). (NKA)

This sourcebook presents reading guides for 27 literary works frequently used by secondary school English teachers. The guides contain an overview of the work, a pool of instructional objectives for each work, a variety of activities, a series of discussion options, suggestions for evaluation, and annotated lists of related works. Included are: "Foreword" (T. C. Ley); "A Summary of Critical Approaches" (A. Dunlop and D. Clark); "Sherwood Anderson's 'I'm a Fool'" (A. Stanley); "Truman Capote's 'A Christmas Memory'" (V. M. Stallings); "Willa Cather's 'My Antonia'" (L. Dewey); "Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales'" (K. Jeane and others); "Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat'" (K. K. Brown); "F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'" (J. Fletcher); "Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'" (R. F. Gray); "Ernest Hemingway's 'A Farewell To Arms'" (E. Nash and others); "Homer's 'The Odyssey'" (V. W. Cranford); "W. W. Jacobs's 'The Monkey's Paw'" (V. V. Johnson); "Sarah Orne Jewett's 'A White Heron'" (J. M. Knipp); "James Joyce's 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'" (P. Gatlin and C. G. Smith); "Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis'" (D. Yarbrough); "Jack London's 'The Call of the Wild'" (S. Banasiak); "Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman'" (E. Cannon and L. Richardson); "Flannery O'Connor's 'Good Country People'" (J. B. Cross); "George Orwell's 'Animal Farm'" (L. M. Davis); "W. H. D. Rouse's 'Gods, Heroes, and Men of Ancient Greece'" (G. W. Crabb and R. A. Hendon); "William Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar'" (O. King and C. Oten); "William Shakespeare's'Romeo and Juliet'" (G. Watford and C. Smith); "Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Ozymandias' and Morris Bishop's 'Ozymandias Revisited'" (R. Thompson); "Eudora Welty's 'A Worn Path'" (R. Foster); "T. H. White's 'The Sword in the Stone'" (C. Hannah); "Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie'" (L. K. Benson); "Paul Zindel's 'The Pigman'" (B. Lang and L. Brooks); and "Beowulf" (S. N. Haas and others). (HB)