PART ONE • Themes in Literature T ABLE OF C ONTENTS UNIT 1 Working Toward Your Dreams ECHOES: Quotes on Theme Langston Hughes “Dreams” X “A Dream Deferred”! 4 “The Dream Keeper” POEM 6 Nikki Giovanni “A PoemRELATED forR LangstonEADING Hughes” POEM 6 POEM 6 Chaim Potok “Moon” X ! POEM 9 David L. Parker “The RStoryELATED ofREADING Iqbal Masih” SHORT STORY 13 from Stolen Dreams: Portraits of W orking Childr NONFICTION 29 Gary Soto “Born Worker” en X ! INTEGRATED LANGUAGE, FOR YOUR READING LIST SHORT STORY 36 GRAMMAR, AND STYLE • Sentence Functions 11 GUIDED WRITING • Complete Subjects and Narrative W ³ 45 Complete Predicates 34, 49 riting: Preparing a Biographical Memoir • Dialogue 44 46 • Quotation Marks 44 LANGUAGE, GRAMMAR, AND • Tone 47 Complete Sentences STYLE: Writing • Voice 47 • Complete Sentences 48 UNIT REVIEW • Sentence Fragments 48 REFLECTING ON YOUR READING 52 52 UNIT 2 Family Ties ECHOES: Quotes on Theme Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve “The Medicine Bag” An American Diar y: December 7, 1941 56 1997. Roger Shimomura. , Judith Ortiz Cofer “An Hour with Abuelo” X SHORT STORY 58 X Sandra Cisneros RELATED READING “Abuelito Who” SHORT STORY 70 Nikki Giovanni X “Legacies” POEM RELA 75 Amy Ling “GrandmaTED Ling”READINGS POEM 81 Phyllis McGinley “First“Grandma Lesson” Traub” POEM 82 X Norman H. Russell “My Father’s Hands Held Mine” POEM 83 POEM 87 X POEM 88 X Dramatic recording included in Audio Library ! Additional reading support provided in The EMC Write-In Reader ³ Guided Writing Interactive Software on CD-ROM v Bailey White “Good Housekeeping” X RELATED READINGS Hal Sirowitz “No More Birthdays” PERSONAL ESSAY 93 “Happy or Sad” X X “Punishing Yourself” POEM 99 Alice Walker “For My Sister Molly Who inX the Fifties” POEM 100 POEM 100 INTEGRATED LANGUAGE, FOR YOUR READING LIST GRAMMAR, AND STYLE POEM 105 • Simple Predicate or Verb 67 • Simple Subject 67 GUIDED WRITING • Using Who and Whom 77 EXPRESSIVE ³ 111 WRITING • Parts of Speech 77, 103 Poem : Composing a Narrative • Meanings of Words 91 112 LANGUAGE, • Spectacular Verbs and GRAMMAR, AND Adjectives 103 STYLE: Compound Verbs • Colorful Language 103 UNIT REVIEW • Compound Verbs 110, 113 REFLECTING ON YOUR READING 118 118 UNIT 3 Going Down the Road ECHOES: Quotes on Theme Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from The Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 122 RELATED Lori Reccos READING X “The Corps of Discover JOURNAL ENTRIES 124 William Least Heat-Moon from y: They Had Some Help” Blue Highways: A Journey into America X RESEARCH REPORT 132 May Swenson “SouthboundRELATED READING on the Freeway” TRAVELOGUE 138 NSIGHTS I : FOCUSING ON X H The History of Auto TravelISTORY POEM 148 J. R. R. Tolkien “Roads Go Ever Ever On” INFORMATIONAL TEXT 149 Edna St. Vincent Millay “Travel” X Vijaya Mukhopadhyay “WantingRELATED toR Move”EADING POEM 153 POEM 154 William Stafford “Freedom” Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken”X POEM 156 X POEM FOR YOUR READING LIST 161 INTEGRATED LANGUAGE, POEM 162 GRAMMAR, AND STYLE • Proofreading Checklist 136 GUIDED WRITING • Colorful Language 158 INFORMATIVE ³ 167 /PERSUASIVE • Linking Verbs 166 a Persuasive Research WPaperRITING: Developing • Sentence Completers for 168 Linking Verbs 166 LANGUAGE, GRAMMAR, AND • Documenting Source Sources STYLE: Documenting Materials 173 UNIT REVIEW REFLECTING ON YOUR READING vi X Dramatic recording included in 179 179 Audio Library ! Additional reading support provided in The EMC Write-In Reader ³ Guided Writing Interactive Software on CD-ROM UNIT 4 Understanding Conflict ECHOES: Quotes on Theme Ray Bradbury “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh” 184 Emmy Werner fromR ELATED READINGS X Reluctant Witnesses: Children’s Voices from SHORT STORY 186 the Civil War Anonymous “My Dear Josie” Shelby Foote from “Echoes of Shiloh” X NONFICTION 192 Yoshiko Uchida “The Bracelet” LETTER 194 NONFICTION 196 X Dwight Okita “In ResponseRELATED R EADINGto Executive Order 9066: All SHORT STORY 201 Americans of Japanese Descent Must Report to Relocation Centers” Litsa Boudalika from X If You Could Be My Friend: Letters of POEM 206 Mervet Akram Sha’ban and Galit Fink RELA Naomi Shihab Nye “Jerusalem”TED R EADING X NONFICTION X 210 Liam O’Flaherty “The Sniper” X POEM 219 RELATED READINGS Eric Black “The Community of the Peace People” SHORT STORY 224 Betty Williams “Declarationfrom Northern of the Ireland:Peace People” Troubled Land Nelson Mandela from “Our struggle is against all forms of racism” NONFICTION 229 SPEECH 229 INTEGRATED LANGUAGE, FOR YOUR READING LIST GRAMMAR, AND STYLE SPEECH 234 • Collective Nouns 198 GUIDED WRITING 239 • Concrete and Abstract PERSUASIVE ³ Nouns 208 WRITING: Generating a Persuasive 240 • Inverted Sentences 221 Speech • Complete Predicate 222 LANGUAGE , GRAMMAR • Complete Subject 222 , AND STYLE: Verb Tense • Direct Objects 232 UNIT REVIEW • Transitive and Intransitive REFLECTING ON YOUR READING Verbs 232 246 • Using Verb Tenses 246 Correctly 244 UNIT 5 Open a Book, Open a World ECHOES: Quotes on Theme Alice W Young Soldier alker “Women” 250 Winslow Homer, 1861.. RELATED Anonymous “On Education”READING POEM X 252 X Dramatic recording included in POEM 254 Audio Library ! Additional reading support provided in The EMC Write-In Reader ³ Guided Writing Interactive Software on CD-ROM vii Malcolm X and Alex Haley from The Autobiography of Malcolm X Saki “The Story-Teller” ! AUTOBIOGRAPHY 258 Annie Dillard from X An American Childhood SHORT STORY 265 RELATED READING Rita Dove “The First Book” AUTOBIOGRAPHY 273 Ray Bradbury from X Fahrenheit 451 POEM 278 IN X SIGHTS: LEARNING ABOUT Gutenberg and the Age HofISTORY the NOVEL EXCERPT 282 Printed Word X FOR YOUR READING LIST INFORMATIONAL TEXT 290 INTEGRATED LANGUAGE, GUIDED WRITING GRAMMAR, AND STYLE INFORMATIVE ³ 295 • Irregular Verbs 263 /EXPRESSIVE WR 296 • The Verb To Be 263 an Extended Definition ITING: Completing • Identifying Pronouns 280 LANGUAGE , GRAMMAR • Subject-Verb Agreement 297 , AND STYLE Agreement : Subject-Verb UNIT REVIEW REFLECTING ON YOUR READING 301 301 UNIT 6 Far Horizons ECHOES: Quotes on Theme David West Reynolds “Obi-Wan Kenobi: Jedi Knight” from Winter Scene with Skaters, 306 Pieter Brueghel the Y c.1600, ounger. Star Wars Episode 1: The Visual Dictionary RELATED READING “Industrial Light & Magic, Part 1: History” NONFICTION 308 Carol Farley “Lose Now, Pay Later” INTERNET ARTICLE 310 Arthur Porges X “The Ruum” SHORT STORY X Jack Finney 316 “The Third Level” SHORT STORY Isaac Asimov “The Fun They Had” X 326 SHORT STORY X ! 341 FOR YOUR READING LIST SHORT STORY 349 GUIDED WRITING INTEGRATED LANGUAGE, 354 IMAGINATIVE ³ GRAMMAR, AND STYLE /DESCRIPTIVE Setting for a Science FictionWRITING Movie: Creating the • Using Context Clues 314 355 LANGUAGE • Colons 347 , GRAMMAR • Semicolons 347 , AND STYLE: Sentence Run-ons • Sentence Run-ons 356 UNIT REVIEW REFLECTING ON YOUR READING 360 viii 360 X Dramatic recording included in Audio Library ! Additional reading support provided in The EMC Write-In Reader ³ Guided Writing Interactive Software on CD-ROM PART TWO • Genres in Literature UNIT 7 Folklore of the Americas: The Oral Tradition ELEMENTS OF THE ORAL TRADITION Adrien Stoutenburg “Pecos Bill” X Carl Sandburg “Paul Bunyan of the North Woods” 366 AMERICAN TALL TALE 368 D. Laurence Rogers “The ROleELATED Feller Recollects How READING X ! AMERICAN TALL TALE 378 Joe Fournier Became Paul Bunyan” from Paul Bunyan: How a Terrible Timber Feller Became a Legend Richard Walser “Blackbeard’s Last Fight” NONFICTION 381 Virginia Hamilton “The People Could Fly” X ! AMERICAN LEGEND 388 Albert E. Brumley RELATED READING X AFRICAN-AMERICAN FOLK TALE 394 “I’ll Fly Away” Walker Brents “The Tale of Annie Christmas”X ! FOLK SONG Andy Charlie X ! 400 “The Blind Boy and the T AFRICAN-AMERICAN TALL TALE 404 Arctic Loons” wo Jessica Lewis X NSIGHTS I : GETTING INTO Joseph Bruchac and Gayle Ross “Where the Girl Rescued HerSTORYTELLING Brother” YUP’IK FOLK T X ALE MEMORY STORY 421 411 INSIGHTS : EXAMINING ! The Battle of RosebudHISTORY Creek CHEYENNE LEGEND 425 Antonio Hernández Madrigal “Legend of the Feathered Serpent” INFORMATIONAL TEXT 430 Barbara and David P . Mikkelson “Gatored Community” AZTEC LEGEND ! 436 FOR YOUR READING LIST URBAN LEGEND INTEGRATED LANGUAGE, 448 GRAMMAR, AND STYLE GUIDED WRITING • Parts of a Sentence 376 INFORMATIVE ³ 455 WRITING: 456 • Clauses 386 LANGUAGE Analyzing a Legend , GRAMMAR • Compound Sentences 386 Parallelism , AND STYLE: Achieving • Simple Verb Tenses 392 • Adjectives 409 • Adverbs 409 UNIT REVIEW • Perfect Tenses 402 REFLECTING ON YOUR READING • Prepositional Phrases 434 462 • Prepositions 434 462 • Achieving Parallelism 458 Raftsmen Playing Cards George Caleb Bingham., 1847. X Dramatic recording included in Audio Library ! Additional reading support provided in The EMC Write-In Reader ³ Guided Writing Interactive Software on CD-ROM ix UNIT 8 Stories to Tell: Fiction ELEMENTS OF FICTION 466 SHORT STORIES Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings “A Mother in Mannville” X SETTING 471 Toni Cade Bambara “The War of the Wall” X ! THEME 482 INSIGHTS: LOOKING AT OUTDOOR ART Public Art: Murals and Graffiti X INFORMATIONAL TEXT 489 William Stafford “The Osage Orange Tree” X PLOT 493 RELATED READING Arnold Adoff “Walking Along the Edge of the Back Yard:” POEM 500 O. Henry “A Retrieved Reformation” X CHARACTER 504 NOVEL John Steinbeck The Pearl CONFLICT 514 FOR YOUR READING LIST 565 GUIDED WRITING ³ 566 ANGUAGE, NTEGRATED L I TYLE NARRATIVE/IMAGINATIVE WRITING: Developing a MAR, AND S GRAM t 480 ary in Contex Short Story • Vocabul 568 ariety ANGUAGE RAMMAR AND TYLE