Originally published: Austin, TX : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, ©2007.

Encounters and foundations to 1800, forging a new nation: Sun still rises in the same sky, Native American literature / J. Bruchac; from The Autobiography, the Declaration of Independence / T. Jefferson; from La Relación / A.N.C. de Vaca translated by Cyclone Covey -- American romanticism, 1800-1860, imagination and the individual: Devil and Tom Walker / W. Irving; from Resistance to civil government / H.D. Thoreau; Chambered nautilus / O.W. Holmes -- American masters, Whitman and Dickinson, celebrate the people, celebrate the self: I hear America singing / W. Whitman; Soul selects her own society / E. Dickinson; When I heard the learn'd astronomer / W. Whitman; My life closed twice before its close / E. Dickinson -- Rise of realism, the Civil War to 1914, from conflicts to new frontiers: from Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass / F. Douglass; Mystery of heroism / S. Crane; Story of an hour /K. Chopin -- Moderns, 1914-1939, redefining the American dream: Make it new!, Symbolism, imagism, and beyond / J.M. Brinnin; Modern American fiction, Soldier's home / E. Hemingway; Midcentury voices, Leader of the people / J. Steinbeck; Harlem renaissance, Tableau / C. Cullen -- Contemporary literature 1939 to present, new voices, new visions: Death of the ball turret gunner / R. Jarrell; Contemporary fiction, Speaking of courage / T. O'Brien; Contemporary nonfiction, from Black boy / R. Wright; Contemporary poetry, Night journey / T. Roethke; Contemporary drama, American drama / R. Anderson; Magic barrel / B. Malamud -- Resource center: Reading matters; World of work; Writer handbook; Test smarts; Handbook of literary and historical terms; Language handbook; Glossary; Spanish glossary.

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Grade 11.