Imagining worlds /

Part I: IMAGINING WORLDS: THE READING AND WRITING PROCESS.
1. Keeping a Journal
2. From Reader's Journal to Finished Text
Part II: READING AND WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE.
3. Reading and Writing about Stories
Writing in Response to Fiction: A Student Casebook
4. Reading and Writing about Essays
Writing in Response to Essays: A Student Casebook
5. Reading and Writing about Poetry
Writing in Response to Poetry: A Student Casebook
6. Reading and Writing about Drama
Writing in Response to Drama: A Student Casebook
Part III: THEMES AND GENRES.
7. Creativity.
Folk Tale
"How Spider Obtained the Sky God's Stories" (African/Ashanti).
Journals
George Eliot, How I Came to Write Fiction from Diaries and Letters
Virginia Woolf, from A Writer's Diary
Jim Harrison, From the Dalva Notebooks: 1985-1987
Keith H. Basso, from Strong Songs
Fiction
Grace Paley, Conversation with My Father
V. S. Naipual, B. Wordsworth
John McCluskey, Lush Life
Ann Beattie, Janus
J. R. R. Tolkien, Leaf by Niggle
Essays
Patricia Hampl, Memory and Imagination
Joy Harjo, Ordinary Spirit
bell hooks, Coming to Voice
Jimmy Santiago Baca, Pushing Through
Poetry
John Keats, Ode to a Grecian Urn
Denise Levertov, The Secret
Claude McKay, The Harlem Dance
Chitra Divakaruni, The Quilt
William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium
e. e. cummings, [maggie and milly and molly and may] " Marianne Moore, Poetry
Wallace Stevens, Of Modern Poetry
Ted Hughes, The Thought-Fox
Dylan Thomas, In My Craft or Sullen Art
William Carlos Williams, The Artist
Nikki Giovanni, Ego Tripping (There May Be A Reason Why)
Merle Woo, Poem for the Creative Writing Class, Spring 1982
Nancy Willard, Why I Never Answered Your Letter
R. T. Smith, Yonosa House
Drama
August Wilson, The Piano Lesson
Student Writing
Kay Luo, The Beginning
Connections: Ideas for Discussion and Writing

8. Initiation and Passages
Folk Tale
The Brothers Grimm, Hansel and Gretel (German)
Journals (excerpts)
Anne Frank, My Longing to Talk to Someone from The Diary of a Young Girl
Ruth Benedict, How Shall I Say It? from The Journals of Ruth Benedict
Czeslaw Milosz, Berkeley 1987, from Fragments from a Journal
Fiction
Chinua Achebe, Chike’s School Days
Isabel Huggan, Celia Behind Me
James Joyce, Araby
Carlos Fuentes, The Doll Queen
Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing
Toni Cade Bambara, My Man Bovanne
Essays
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Silent Dancing
Maya Angelou, Graduation
Michael Dorris, Life Stories
E. B. White, Once More to the Lake
Poetry
Sylvia Plath, Metaphors
Maxine Kumin, For Jane at Thirteen
Gary Soto, Saturday at the Canal
William Butler Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole
Philip Levine, The Life Ahead
Robert Frost, Birches
Sharon Olds,The Moment
Audre Lorde, Hanging Fire
Adrian Marcus, The Woman in the Next Room
Denise Levertov, Who He Was
Theodore Roethke, My Papa’s Waltz
Gwendolyn Brooks, Big Bessie Throws Her Son into the Street
Frank Bidart, Happy Birthday
Michael Harper, Nightmare Begins Responsibility
Li Young Lee, Eating Together
Shirley Geok-lin-Lim, Bukit China
Muriel Rukeyser, This Place in the Ways
Drama
Beth Henley, Am I Blue?
Student Writing
Jennifer Angel, The Shadow in the Spotlight
Amanda Beacom, Letter to a Mother
Connections: Ideas for Discussion and Writing
9. Relationships
Folk Tale: How Men and Women Got Together (Native American)
Journals
Kathe Kollwitz, Diaries
May Sarton, from Journal of Solitude
Stephen Spender, Last Autumn of the War
Fiction
Amy Tan, Jing-Mei Woo: Two Kinds
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
David Leavitt, A Place I’ve Never Been
James Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues
Bharati Mukherjee, A Wife’s Story
Nonfiction
Michel Marriott, Father Hunger
Richard Rodriguez, Asians
Deborah Tannen, Gossip from You Just Don’t Understand
Jane Howard, All Happy Clans Are Alike
Poetry
William Shakespeare, When my love swears that she is made of truth
Philip Levine, Starlight
Tess Gallagher, The Hug
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Fever
William Shakespeare, Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess
Lucille Clifton, February 13, 1980
Seamus Heaney, Digging
Dorotea Reyna, My Father
Marie Howe, Letter to My Sister
Sharon Hashimoto, Standing in the Doorway, I Watch the Young Child Sleep
Kuan Tao-Sheng, Married Love
David Mura, Grandfather and Grandmother in Love
Suzanne E. Berger, The Meal
Robert Frost, Mending Wall
Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool
Lorna Dee Cervantes, A las Gatas
Dudley Randall, George
Walt Whitman, To a Stranger
Jim Wayne Miller, Skydiving
Drama
Ed Bullins, A Son, Come Home
Wakako Yamauchi, And the Soul Shall Dance
Student Writing
Ryan Wesley Bounds, Gossip and Intimacy in ‘A Wife’s Story’ and Deborah Tannen’s ‘Gossip’
Connections: Ideas for Discussion and Writing
10. Struggles
Folk Tale
Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor’s New Clothes
Journals
Che Guevara, from The Diary of Che Guevara
Gerald Early, from Digressions
Carolina Maria de Jesus, from the Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Fiction
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
James Alan McPherson, A Loaf of Bread
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Minutes of Glory
Louise Erdrich, American Horse
Heinrich Boll, Action Will Be Taken
Luisa Valenzuela, The Censors
Nonfiction
George Orwell, Shooting and Elephant
Martin Luther King, Letter From a Birmingham Jail
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Silent Girl
Cynthia Hamilton, Women, Home, and Community
Poetry
William Blake, London
Claribel Alegria, I, Mirror
Anne Sexton, Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward
Martin Espada, Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits
Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed
Amy Lowell, Patterns
Regina Barreca, Nighttime Fires
Gwendolyn Brooks, The Mother
Lorna Dee Cervantes, Cannery Town in August
Laureen Mar, My Mother, Who Came from China, Where She Never Saw Snow
June Jordan, Des Moines Iowa Rap
Sipho Sepamla, Words, Words, Words
Jimmy Santiago Baca, Cloudy Day
Richard Wilbur, For the Student Strikers
Tom Wayman, Picketing Supermarkets
Dudley Randall, Roses and Revolutions
Russell Endo, Susumu, My Name
Drama
Sophocles, Antigone
Milcha Sanchez-Scott, The Cuban Swimmer
Student Writing
Jeremy Taylor, King’s ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’ Today
Connections: Ideas for Discussion and Writing

11. Natural Worlds
Folk Tale
P. U. Sung Ling, The Tiger of Chao-Cheng (Chinese)
Journals
Ralph Waldo Emerson, from the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gerard Manley Hopkins, from Notebooks and Papers
Gretel Ehrlich, from The Journals
Sue Hubbell, Winter from A Country Year
Fiction
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rappaccini’s Daughter
Stephen Crane, The Open Boat
Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron
Ursula K. Le Guin, She Unnames Them
Elizabeth Woody, Home Cooking
Essays
Henry David Thoreau, Walking
Loren Eiseley, The Judgment of the Birds
Gretel Ehrlich, On Water
Leslie Marmon Silko, Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination
Poetry
Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover
Margaret Atwood, The Animals in that Country
Ray A. Young Bear, The Reason Why I Am Afraid Even Though I Am a Fisherman
Jorie Graham, Wanting a Child
William Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much with Us
Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
Robert Frost, After Apple-Picking " Claude McKay, The Tropics in New York
Emily Dickinson, A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
James Wright, A Blessing
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Panther
Marge Piercy, A Work of Artifice
Gladys Cardiff, Pretty Bird
Louise Bogan, The Dragonfly
William Stafford, Traveling through the Dark
Maxine Kumin, Woodchucks
James Dickey, The Heaven of Animals
Offering (Zuni, Native American)
Drama
John Millington Synge, Riders to the Sea
Wole Soyinka, The Swamp Dwellers
Matt D. Rostoker, And on the Eighth Day She Unnamed Them
Connections: Ideas for Discussion and Writing

12. Hauntings and Reflections
Folk Tale
The End of the World (Native American)
Journals
Linda Hogan, Diaries
Carl Gustav Jung, Retrospect
Elizabeth Gray Vining, Being Seventy: The Measure of a Year
Fiction
E. M. Forster, The Other Side of the Hedge
Isabel Allende, Phantom Palace
Yukio Mishima, Swaddling Clothes
Elizabeth Bowen, The Demon Lover
Becky Birtha, In the Life
Richard Cortez Day, A Chagall Story
Essays
N. Scott Momaday, Grandmother’s Country
Garrett Hongo, Kubota
Alice Walker, Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self
Annie Dillard, A Field of Silence
Poetry
Robert Frost, Desert Places
Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Other
Michele Murray, Poem to My Grandmother in Her Death
Li-Young Lee, Visions and Interpretations
Roberta Hall Whiteman, Star Quilt
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
W. S. Merwin, Fog-Horn
Theodore Roethke, In a Dark Time
Sylvia Plath, Mirror
James Dickey, Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek
Pat Mora, Curandera
Louise Erdrich, Windigo
Alberto Rios, Mi Abuelo
Cathy Song, Lost Sister
John Donne, Death Be Not Proud
Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Allen Ginsberg, In a Supermarket in California
Maxine Kumin, The Envelope
Drama
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Student Writing
David Wilkinson, Hauntings
Connections: Ideas for Discussion and Writing
Appendix A.
Research Writing
Research Journal Entries
Choosing a Topic
Seeking Information
Narrowing and Focusing Your Topic
Selecting and Studying Your Sources
Finding a Balance of Sources
Evaluating Sources
Note Taking
Paraphrasing versus Plagiarizing
From Research to Writing
Developing a Thesis and Outline
Writing the Draft
Revising the Draft
Peer Sharing the Draft
Rewriting the Initial Draft
Proofreading and Fine-Tuning the Second Draft
Final Rewrite

Appendix B
MLA Documentation
Parenthetical Citations
Works Cited Entries
Model Paper
Jeannie Chang, The Dream Journal: An Exploration of Your Inner Self
Student Research Essay
Notes on Authors
Glossary of Terms
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines