With Exploring Literature, students begin to appreciate a wider scope of literary works. The updated and expanded text includes a full range of selections to draw readers in - from fables, myths, tall tales, and legends to short stories, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Students experience the works of classic and contemporary authors.

An ideal introduction to a diverse mix of genres and styles With Exploring Literature, students begin to appreciate a wider scope of literary works. The newly updated and expanded text includes a full range of selections to draw readers in--from fables, myths, tall tales, and legends to short stories, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Students experience the works of classic and contemporary authors, including Mark Twain, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. W. Jacobs, Shakespeare, Yoshiko Uchida, and other respected American and international authors. New authors featured in this edition are Barack Obama and Natasha Trethewey. Now even more visually appealing, the revised Exploring Literature text focuses students' attention. In addition, the Teacher's Edition offers numerous ELL activities and instructions for integrating graphic organizers into the lessons. Many activities for increasing learning are also provided on the Teacher's Resource Library. Lexile Level 880* Reading Level 3-4 Interest Level 8-12 * Lexile level of instructional content is 880; Lexile levels of individual text selections range from 540 to 1500.

Presents the text of Alice Walker's story "Everyday Use"; contains background essays that provide insight into the story; and features a selection of critical response. Includes a chronology and an interview with the author.

U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.

Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.

Discovering the Many Worlds of Literature is a new literature for composition text organized by theme, with readings from four genres (essays, short fiction, poems, and dramatic works) from around the world. "The range, quality, and freshness of this text's readings astonish me..This text has the finest range of readings..that I have seen in 25 years of teaching" Dr. Will Tomory, Southwestern Michigan College. Two introductory chapters on reading and writing about literature lead into seven chapters on the theme of human development, from family and cultural ties through considerations of class, race, and ethnicity, to the spiritual dimension of human life. Each thematic chapter is preceded by a brief introduction to the theme, and each chapter concludes with "Connections," questions that help students to see connections between different works in different genres, and "Filmography," an annotated list of suggested films. Each reading is followed by a set of questions to help students analyze the text, understand the author's techniques, and develop an interpretation of the work. The text emphasizes the development of an effective argument for an interpretation of a literary work, both in the introductory chapters and in "Arguing for an Interpretation" questions at the end of each reading. The extraordinary breadth of the reading selections, and the diversity of the authors represented in the text, are unique; students will find some classic works, such as Shakespeare's "Hamlet," along with many less well known writings from authors around the globe, representing Eastern as well as Western cultures. Students will be challenged to understand the cultural context of the readings, and stimulated to provide meaningful analysis and interpretation of the texts.

An ideal introduction to a diverse mix of genres and styles With Exploring Literature, students begin to appreciate a wider scope of literary works. The newly updated and expanded text includes a full range of selections to draw readers in--from fables, myths, tall tales, and legends to short stories, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Students experience the works of classic and contemporary authors, including Mark Twain, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. W. Jacobs, Shakespeare, Yoshiko Uchida, and other respected American and international authors. New authors featured in this edition are Barack Obama and Natasha Trethewey. Now even more visually appealing, the revised Exploring Literature text focuses students' attention. In addition, the Teacher's Edition offers numerous ELL activities and instructions for integrating graphic organizers into the lessons. Many activities for increasing learning are also provided on the Teacher's Resource Library. Lexile Level 880* Reading Level 3-4 Interest Level 8-12 * Lexile level of instructional content is 880; Lexile levels of individual text selections range from 540 to 1500.