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Ideal for the Pre-Ap course, Foundations of Language and Literature prepares ninth graders for future AP courses by teaching them to think like a writer as they build the foundational skills required to excel.

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Author:   Renee H. Shea ,  John Golden ,  Tracy Scholz
Publisher:   Macmillan Learning
Imprint:   Bedford/Saint Martin's
Dimensions:   Width: 19.10cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   1.996kg
ISBN:  

9781457691225

ISBN 10:   1457691221
Pages:   1344
Publication Date:   02 March 2018
Audience:   Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Educational: Primary & Secondary
Replaced By:   9781319409265
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"1 STARTING THE CONVERSATION Building a Classroom Community Thinking about Voice   Active Listening Public Speaking      Culminating Activity 2 WRITING The Power of the Pen Voice and Tone Precise Word Choice Strong Sentences Clear Punctuation Well-Built Paragraphs      Culminating Activity 3 READING Defining Texts Active Reading Reading for Understanding Reading for Interpretation Reading for Style Reading Visual Texts      Culminating Activity 4 USING SOURCES Sources as Conversation Types of Sources Finding Sources Evaluating Sources Keeping Track of Sources Using Sources in Your Own Writing      Culminating Actity 5 FICTION Workshop 1: ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF FICTION (Section 1)    Ray Bradbury, The Veldt                       Sherman Alexie, from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian                       Lena Coakley, Mirror Image  (Section 2)    Etgar Keret, What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?                        Edgar Allen Poe, The Cask of Amontillado                        Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game                        Angela Flournoy, Lelah CENTRAL TEXT Amy Tan, Two Kinds                       CONVERSATION – Are We Pushing Kids too Hard to Succeed?                      Malcolm Gladwell,  from Outliers                       Amy Chua, from The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother                       Adam Grant,  How to Raise a Creative Child                        Daniel Pink, from Drive                       Andre Agassi, from Open  (Section 3)   Nadine Gordimer, Once Upon a Time                       Kirstin Valdez Quade, Nemecia                       Kate Chopin, Story of an Hour                      Luke Jones & Anna Mill, Square Eyes (graphic novel)    WORKSHOP 2: WRITING FICTION WORKSHOP 3: ANALYZING FICTION 6 ARGUMENT ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF ARGUMENT (Section 1)    Lisa L. Lewis, Why School Should Start Later in the Day                      NY Times Editorial Board, End the Gun Epidemic in America                      Thomas Sowell, History Shows the Folly of Disarming Lawful People                      Marc Bekoff, Why Was Harambe the Gorilla in a Zoo in the First Place? (Section 2)    Steve Almond, Is It Immoral to Watch the Super Bowl?                      Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Paranoid Style of American Policing                      Tina Rosenberg, Labeling the Danger in Soda                      Leonard Pitts, September 13, 2001: Hatred is Unworthy of Us                       Barack Obama, Hiroshima Speech CENTRAL TEXT Peggy Orenstein, What’s Wrong with Cinderella?                      CONVERSATION – How Does the Media Shape Our Ideas about Gender?                      Madeline Messer, I'm a 12-year-old girl. Why dont the characters in my apps look like me?                      Terryn Hall, When I Saw Prince, I Saw a Vital New Black Masculinity                      Vanessa Friedman, Don’t Ban Ads of Skinny Models                      Geena Davis Institute, Gender Bias Without Borders                      Kali Holloway, Toxic Masculinity Is Killing Men: The Roots of Male Trauma                      Jack O’Keefe, How ‘Master of None’ Subverts Stereotypical Masculinity by Totally Ignoring It (Section 3)    Daniel Engber, Kill All the Mosquitoes                      Sarah Kessler, Why Online Harassment Is Still Ruining Lives—and How We Can Stop It                      Mark Twain, Advice to Youth                      Cesar Chavez, Letter from Delano WORKSHOP 1: WRITING ARGUMENT WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING ARGUMENT 7 POETRY ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF POETRY (Section 1)   Jose Olivarez, Home Court                      Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven                      Suheir Hammad, What I Will                      Rachel Richardson, Transmission                      Dana Gioa, Money                      Billy Collins, Flames                       Jenni Baker, You American Boy AND Find Your Way (Section 2)    Nate Marshall, Harold’s Chicken Shack #86                      Naomi Shihab Nye, Kindness                       Michael Ondaatje, Sweet Like A Crow                      William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18: “Shall I Compare Thee…”                      Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool                      David Tomas Martinez, In Chicano Park                       Emily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop For Death                      Amit Majmudar, T. S. A.                      Ha Jin, Ways of Talking CENTRAL TEXT Langston Hughes, Let America Be America Again                      CONVERSATION – What Does the Statue of Liberty Mean to Us Now?                      Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus                      Concord Oral History Program, Remembrances for the 100th Anniversary of the Statue of Liberty                      Tato Laviera, lady liberty                      Suji Kwock Kim, Slant                      jessica Care moore, Black Statue of Liberty                      Michael Daly, The Statue of Liberty was Muslim (Section 3)   Nikki Giovanni, Ego-Tripping                      Anna Akhmatova, Somwhere there is a simple life                      Reed Bobroff, Four Elements of Ghostdance                      Adrienne Su, Things Chinese                      Kevin Young, Eddie Priest's Barbershop & Notary                      John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn                      Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself WORKSHOP 1: WRITING POETRY WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING POETRY 8 EXPOSITION ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF EXPOSITION (Text Set 1)    Stephen King, Stephen King's Guide to Movie Snacks                        Derf Backderf, from Trashed (graphic essay)                         Lisa Damour, Why Teenage Girls Roll their Eyes                        Raph Koster, from A Theory of Fun for Game Design (Section 2)      Alan Weisman, Earth Without People                        Karl Greenfeld, My Daughter's Homework is Killing Me                         Susan Cain, from Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking                        Martin Luther King Jr., Blueprint for Life CENTRAL TEXT Troy Patterson, The Politics of the Hoodie                        CONVERSATION – How Does Clothing Connect to Identity?                        Kehinde Wiley, Willem van Heythuysen AND Ice-T (paintings)                        Nora Caplan-Bricker, Women Who Wear Pants: Somehow Still Controversial                        Michelle Parrinello-Cason, Labels, Clothing, and Identity: Are You What You Wear?                        Hugh Hart, From Converse to Kanye: The Rise of Sneaker Culture                        Jenni Avins, In Fashion, Cultural Appropriation Is Either Very Wrong or Very Right                        Peggy Orenstein, The Battle Over Dress Codes (Section 3)     Jon Ronson, How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life                        Rebecca Solnit, from Men Explain Things to Me                        Helen Rosner, On Chicken Tenders                        Edwidge Danticat, Black Bodies in Motion and Pain                        Samuel Johnson, On the Decay of Friendship WORKSHOP 1: WRITING AN EXPOSITION WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING EXPOSITION 9 NARRATIVE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF NARRATION  (Section 1)    Santha Rama Rau, By Any Other Name                       Mindy Kaling, from Why Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?                       Marcus Samuelsson, Yes, Chef (Section 2)     Carrie Brownstein, from Hunger Makes me a Modern Girl                        Monique Truong, My Father's Previous Life                        Steven Hall, You, Me, and the Sea                        Sarah Vowell, Music Lessons CENTRAL TEXT Julia Alvarez, La Gringuita                        CONVERSATION – What Is the Relationship Between Language and Power?                        Jimmy Santiago Baca, from Coming into Language                        Richard Wright, from Black Boy                        Joshua Adams, Confessions of a Code Switcher                        Douglas Quenqua, They're, Like, Way Ahead of the Linguistic Currrrve                        Jessica Wolf, The Seven Words I Cannot Say (Around My Children) (Section 3)     Amanda Palmer, from The Art of Asking                         Thi Bui, from The Best We Could Do (graphic memoir)                         Haruki Murakami, Even if I Had a Long Pony Tail Back Then WORKSHOP 1: WRITING NARRATIVE WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING NARRATIVE 10 DRAMA ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF DRAMA (Section 1)      Sylvia Gonzales S., from Boxcar (Section 2)      CENTRAL TEXT WillIiam Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet                        CONVERSATION – Does Tribalism Bring Us Together, or Pull Us Apart?                        Adam Piore, Why We're Patriotic                        David Brooks, People Like Us                        Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?                        Diane Farr, Bringing Home the Wrong Race                        David Ropiek, Sports, Politics, Tribe, Violence, and the Social Human Animal's Drive to Survive (Section 3)      B. T. Ryback, A Roz by Any Other Name WORKSHOP 1: WRITING DRAMA WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING DRAMA 11 MYTHOLOGY ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF MYTHOLOGY (Section 1)     Neil Gaiman, How the Gods Got Their Treasures  (Section 2)     CENTRAL TEXT Homer, from The Odyssey    CONVERSATION – What Is a Hero?                        Linton Weeks, Heroic Acts to Protect the Word ""Hero""                        Katy Waldman, Is Anybody Watching My Do-Gooding?                        William Rhoden, Seeing Through the Illusion of the Sports Hero                        Stephen Kinzer, Joining the Military Doesn't Make You a Hero                        Kyle Anderson, Why Captain America Is America’s Hero (Section 3)     Yusef Komunyaka, from Gilgamesh: A Verse Play WORKSHOP 1: WRITING MYTHOLOGY WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING MYTHOLOGY Grammar Workshops • Sentence fragments • Run-on sentences and comma splices (w/semicolons) • Verbs (tense and voice, but not mood?) • Subject-Verb agreement • Pronoun reference • Pronoun-antecedent agreement • Adjectives and adverbs • Shifts in tense • Shifts in person • Misplaced and dangling modifiers • Parallel structure • Commas • Capital letters • Homophones MLA Guidelines for Works Cited Glossary/Glossario of Academic and Literary Terms Index (key terms + author/title)  "

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