Holt Elements of Literature Third Course

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The Short Story Collections

Collection 1 - Facing Monsters

Collection Opener
The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury (PDF)
     Choices and Grammar Links (PDF)
The Birds, by Daphne du Maurier
     Choices and Grammar Link
Poison, by Roald Dahl
The Interlopers, by Saki
from Black Boy, by Richard Wright

Collection 2 - The Human Spirit

Thank You, Ma'm, by Langston Hughes
    Choices and Grammar Link  
Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut
    Choices and Grammar Link  
A Christmas Memory, by Truman Capote
     Choices and Grammar Link
A Man Called Horse, by Dorothy M. Johnson
    Choices and Grammar Link  
Salvador Late or Early by Sandra Cisneros
    Choices and Grammar Link  
The Washwoman, by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Collection 3 - Expect the Unexpected

 

Collection Opener
The Gift of the Magi by O.Henry
Snow by Julia Alvarez
The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
The Princess and the Tin Box by James Thurber

The Talking Skull by Leo Frobenius and Douglas G. Fox

Collection 4 - Discoveries

Collection Opener
The Gift by Ray Bradbury
Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird by Toni Cade Bambara
Marigolds by Eugenia W. Collier
American History by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Helen on Eighty-sixth Street by Wendi Kaufman
The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst
    Choices and Grammar Link  
New Directions by Maya Angelou

The Nonfiction Collections

Collection 5 - We Remember

Collection Opener
Not Much of Me by Abraham Lincoln
With a Task Before Me by Abraham Lincoln
When I Lay My Burden Down by Maya Angelou
Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Alice Walker
The Talk by Gary Soto
Ballad of Birmingham by Dudley Randall
The History Behind the Ballad by Taylor Branch
Writer's Workshop: Autobiographical Incident
Sentence Workshop: Expanding Sentences
Reading for Life: Reading a Textbook

Collection 6 - A Place Called Home

Collection Opener

The Best Gift of My Life by Cynthia Rylant
Riding Is an Exercise of the Mind by N. Scott Momaday

Haven't I Made a Difference! by James Herriot

The Round Walls of Home by Diane Ackerman
The Loophole of Retreat by Harriet A. Jacobs
The Sacred by Stephen Dunn

Collection 7 - What I Think

Collection Opener
from An Indian's Views of Indian Affairs by Chief Joseph
Darkness at Noon by Harold Krents
Homeless by Anna Quindlen
Misspelling by Charles Kuralt
Those Who Don't by Sandra Cisneros
Writer's Workshop: Persuasive Essay

The Poetry Collections

Collection 8 - See the Miracles

Collection Opener
Daily by Naomi Shihab Nye
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman
        Choices (for Daily and When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer)
Haikus by Miura Chora, Chiyo, Matsuo Basho, and Kobayashi Issa
Fog by Carl Sandburg
in Just- by E. E. Cummings
        Making Meanings (for Haikus, Fog, and In Just)
        Choices (for Haikus, Fog, and In Just)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
        Choices Link 
Return of the Prodigal Son by Sister Wendy Beckett

Collection 9 - Imagine

Collection Opener
Kidnap Poem by Nikki Giovanni
Southbound on the Freeway by May Swenson
Beware: Do Not Read This Poem by Ishmael Reed
The Secret by Denise Levertov
The Seven Ages of Man by William Shakespeare
Fire and Ice by Robert Frost  and
    All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan
Claiming Breath by Diana Glancy

Collection 10 - The Ways We Are

Collection Opener
Women by Alice Walker
My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke
The Gift by Li-Young Lee 

Combing by Gladys Cardiff
Fifteen by William Stafford
American Hero by Essex Hemphill
The Girl Who Loved the Sky by Anita Endrezze
Americans All by Michael Dorris

Collection 11 - Say It!

Collection Opener
The Puppy by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 
Harlem by Langston Hughes
Legal Alien/ Extranjera legal by Pat Mora
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Lucinda Matlock by Edgar Lee Masters
Ain't I a Woman by Sojourner Truth

Modern Drama

Collection 12 - Opening Doors

Collection Opener
The Miracle Worker, Act One, by William Gibson
The Miracle Worker, Act Two, by William Gibson
The Miracle Worker, Act Three, by William Gibson
Annie, by Joseph P. Lash 

William Shakespeare

Collection 13 - The Destruction of Innocence

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Act 1 (Page 1)(Page 2)(Page 3)(Page 4)(Page 5)
       "Choices" and "Grammar Link"

Act 2 (Page 1)(Page 2)(Page 3)(Page 4)(Page 5)
       "Choices" and "Grammar Link"

Act 3 (Page 1)(Page 2)(Page 3)(Page 4)(Page 5)(Page 6)
       "Choices" and "Grammar Link"

Act 4 (Page 1)(Page 2)(Page 3)(Page 4)
       "Choices" and "Grammar Link"

Act 5 (Page 1)(Page 2)(Page 3)(Page 4)
       "Choices" and "Grammar Link"