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(5) | None | America Writes is an anthology of eighteen American short stories by contemporary and classic authors, including Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Ray Bradbury, and Shirley Jackson. The stories have universal appeal that will touch students and make them think. Designed for high-intermediate to advanced students, the text provides entire lessons developed around each story. Pre-reading sections include comprehensive author biographies, discussions of literary terms, and reviews of idioms and expressions found in the stories. Accompanying grammar exercises help students overcome such trouble areas as prepositions, articles, and irregular verbs. Also included are vocabulary sections, reading comprehension questions, and thought-provoking writing assignments. End-of-chapter sections tie together the stories in each chapter and provide review tests.… (more) |
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![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/score-disabled.gif) Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » Add other authors Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | Kay, Judith | Editor | primary author | all editions | confirmed | Gelshenen, Rosemary | Editor | main author | all editions | confirmed | Anderson, Sherwood | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Bradbury, Ray | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Chopin, Kate | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Cisneros, Sandra | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Finney, Walter Jack | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Hemingway, Ernest | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Henry, O. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Hughes, Langston | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Interollo, Lisa | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Jackson, Shirley | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Johnson, Dorothy M. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Kelley, William Melvin | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Saroyan, William | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Soloway, Judith | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Walters, Anna Lee | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Watanabe, Sylvia | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Weidman, Jerome | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed |
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None ▾Book descriptions America Writes is an anthology of eighteen American short stories by contemporary and classic authors, including Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Ray Bradbury, and Shirley Jackson. The stories have universal appeal that will touch students and make them think. Designed for high-intermediate to advanced students, the text provides entire lessons developed around each story. Pre-reading sections include comprehensive author biographies, discussions of literary terms, and reviews of idioms and expressions found in the stories. Accompanying grammar exercises help students overcome such trouble areas as prepositions, articles, and irregular verbs. Also included are vocabulary sections, reading comprehension questions, and thought-provoking writing assignments. End-of-chapter sections tie together the stories in each chapter and provide review tests. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Contains: - A day's wait / Ernest Hemingway
- Thank you, Ma'm / Langston Hughes
- The corn planting / Sherwood Anderson
- The quickening / Lisa Interollo
- The last leaf / O. Henry
- The ambitious guest / Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The lottery / Shirley Jackson
- The one day war / Judith Soloway
- The third level / Walter Jack Finney
- All summer in a day / Ray Bradbury
- Desiree's baby / Kate Chopin
- A visit to Grandmother / William Melvin Kelley
- Too soon a woman / Dorothy M. Johnson
- My Father sits in the dark / Jerome Weidman
- A rice sandwich / Sandra Cisneros
- The circus / William Saroyan
- The warriors / Anna Lee Walters
- Talking to the dead / Sylvia Watanabe
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