Patterns and Themes A Basic English Reader (with InfoTrac),9780155045835

Patterns and Themes A Basic English Reader (with InfoTrac)

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Edition: 5th
ISBN13: 9780155045835
ISBN10: 0155045830
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-10-21
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
List Price: $133.70

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Summary

PATTERNS AND THEMES is a thematic reader, with contemporary, high-interest readings organized thematically around topics that mirror the issue-oriented nature of college-level work. Each reading has suggested writing assignments and is surrounded by unique pedagogical features that focus on key skills such as vocabulary, writing techniques, and critical thinking.

Table of Contents

Preface xv
Memories
Salvation
Langston Hughes
3(5)
Goals
Curt Kruschwitz
8(3)
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
11(4)
My First Hunting Trip
John Bennett
15(4)
Pranks for the Memory
Dave Barry
19(8)
Families
Chicken Gizzards
James A. Perkins
27(4)
My Family's Language
Richard Rodriguez
31(5)
Becoming Helpless
Colette Dowling
36(5)
The Great Sisters and Brothers War
Andrew Shanley
41(5)
Mrs. Razor
James Still
46(5)
Up the Hill
Ryan Hardesty
51(8)
School
A Pocketful of Cricket
Rebecca Caudill
59(9)
Eleven
Sandra Cisneros
68(4)
On Being Seventeen, Bright, and Unable to Read
David Raymond (student)
72(5)
From Growing Up (Becoming a Writer)
Russell Baker
77(4)
Escape from Childhood
John Holt
81(4)
Excerpts from The Thread That Runs So True
Jesse Stuart
85(10)
Differences
A Biracial Child's Choice of Friends
Marina Martinez
95(5)
For My Indian Daughter
Lewis P. Johnson
100(6)
What Is Intelligence Anyway?
Isaac Asimov
106(3)
Jim's Promise
Brittany Stacy (student)
109(8)
Health
Freshman Pay, Mentally and Physically, As They Adjust to Life in College
Thomas Bartlett
117(5)
Wasted
Mania Hornbacher
122(6)
What Price Are You Willing to Pay to Drive Drunk?
Amanda Bess (student)
128(6)
If ER Nurses Crash, Will Patients Follow?
Paul Duke
134(7)
Sports
Sports Can Build Up Black Women in Society
Cheryl D. Fields
141(4)
She Got Game
Jere Longman and tan Zack
145(5)
Has Equality in Sports Gone Too Far?
Mark Clayton
150(6)
Don't Take the Fun Out of Youth Sports
Narissa Dalla (student)
156(2)
Obsession Saps the Fun from Sports
Ken Garfield
158(2)
Let Kids Have Fun
Gabe Helterbrand (student)
160(9)
Women and Men
Yes, Women and Men Can Be "Just Friends"
Marjorie Franco
169(4)
Keeping the Light On
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
173(4)
For Better Boys, Try a Little Tenderness
Kathleen Parker
177(4)
One Man's Kids
Daniel R. Meier
181
Work
Downturn Goes Easier on College-Educated Workers
Stephanie Armour
189(3)
Blue-Collar Journal: A College President's Sabbatical
John R. Coleman
192(5)
Death of an Officer
Gaye Wagner
197(8)
The Company Man
Ellen Goodman
205(4)
Working Mothers
Janet Krebs
209(8)
Heroism
Why Heroes Are Hard to Come By
Sara Terry
217(4)
Joe DiMaggio: The Silent Superstar
Paul Simon
221(4)
Real Heroes Need No Fame
Kathleen Parker
225(3)
Appalachian Heroes
Silas House
228(5)
Credits 233

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