Holt Elements of Literature Fourth Course
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Collection 1 - Hard Choices
The Cold Equations by Tom Godwin (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Part 5) (Part 6) (Part 7) (Part 8)
The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant by W. D. Wetherell (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)
Boys and Girls by Alice Munro (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)
Everyday Use by Alice Walker (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)
from Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
Collection 2 - Hearts That Love
Two Kinds by Amy Tan (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Part 5)
Geraldo No Last Name by Sandra Cisneros
The First Seven Years by Bernard Malamud
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(Part 2)
(Part 3)
(Part 4)
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Choices and Grammar
Distillation by Hugo Martinez-Serros (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)
Life Is Sweet at Kumansenu by Abioseh Nicol
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(Part 2)
(Part 3)
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Choices and Grammar
Lessons of Love by Judith Ortiz Cofer (Part 1) (Part 2)
Collection 3 - Exiles, Castaways, and Strangers
Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy? by Tim O’Brien (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)
Liberty by Julia Alvarez (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)
The Bet by Anton Chekhov (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)
You Are Now Entering the Human Heart by Janet Frame (Part 1) (Part 2)
Collection 4 - Breakthroughs
Trap of Gold by Louis L’Amour (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3)
By The Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benét (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)
Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Part 5)
With All Flags Flying by Anne Tyler (not available online)
By Any Other Name by Santha Rama Rau
(Part 1)
(Part 2)
(Part 3)
Lamb to the Slaughter by Ronald
Dahl The Nonfiction Collections Collection 5 - Becoming Myself
Hair by Malcolm X with Alex Haley It Can’t Be Helped by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and
James Houston
(Part 1)
(Part 2) Typhoid Fever by Frank McCourt
(Part 1)
(Part 2)
(Part 3)
Theme for English B by Langston Hughes Collection 6 - Being There! R.M.S. Titanic by Hanson W. Baldwin
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(Part 2)
(Part 3)
(Part 4)
(Part 5)
(Part 6)
No News from Auschwitz by A. M. Rosenthal from Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
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(Part 2)
(Part 3)
(Part 4)
(Part 5) A Presentation of Whales by Barry Lopez
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(Part 2)
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(Part 4)
A Storm in the Mountains by Alexander Solzhenitsyn Collection 7 - Making a Point The Lowest Animal by Mark Twain
(Part 1)
(Part 2)
The Man in the Water by Roger Rosenblatt
Now You Take “Bambi” or “Snow White”—That’s Scary! by
Stephen
King
The Unknown Rebel by Pico Iyer The Poetry Collections Collection 8 - How to Live
Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Loveliest of Trees by A. E. Housman
George Gray by Edgar Lee Masters
Is There Really Such a Thing as Talent? by Annie Dillard Collection 9 - Can This Be Love?
I Am Offering This Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca
since
feeling is first by E. E. Cummings
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? by William Shakespeare
Bonny Barbara Allan by Anonymous
Heart! We will forget
him!, by Emily Dickinson/Three Japanese Tankas by Ono Komachi
from Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes
Ex-Basketball Player by John Updike The Bean Eaters & We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks
Aunt Fannie Fixes Bison Bourguignon by Diane Glancy Tony Went to the Bodega but He Didn’t Buy Anything by Martín Espada The Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee told by Dick Fool Bull
I
Never Sang For My Father by Robert Anderson
Act 1
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Act 2
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Greek Drama: Out of Ritual by David Adams Leeming
Antigone by Sophocles
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(Part 8)
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(Part 10)
William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William
Shakespeare Act 1
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(Part 4)
(Part 5) Act 2
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(Part 5) Act 3
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(Part 6) Act 4
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(Part 4) Act 5
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The Arrogance and Cruelty of Power by Robert H. Jackson Collection 13 - Sources of Wisdom
The Bible by David Adams Leeming
Abraham and Isaac written in Tanakh
Psalm 23 & To Every Thing There Is a Season written in King James
The Parable of the Prodigal Son
written in New English Bible Didactic Literature: Teaching Lessons from The Koran translated by N. J. Dawood from Sayings of Saadi translated by Idries Shah from The Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám Taoist Anecdotes translated by Moss Roberts from the Tao Te Ching by Laotzu Zen Parables translated by Paul Reps The Tiger, The Brahman, and The Jackal from the Panchatantra Collection 14 - Finding Our Heroes
The Sword in the Stone by Sir Thomas Malory The Round Table by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
(Part 1)
(Part 2) The Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake by Sir Thomas
Malory
(Part 1)
(Part 2) from Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali by D. T. Niane
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(Part 2)
Collection 10 - Dreams — Lost and Found
The Drama Collection
Collection 11 - Doing the Right Thing
Collection 12 - Ambition or Honor?