Connections Literature: American Voices

Student Edition Features:

• The selections and academic vocabulary are both challenging and relevant
• for students and provide an appropriate mix of text complexity.
• The selections are easily differentiated for ELL students, struggling readers, gifted students, students working at grade level, and students with different learning styles.
• Writing prompts and suggested research projects encourage deeper analysis of the texts.
• Revised editions align instruction with a focus on close reading strategies and text-dependent questions and tasks.
• State standards alignment correlations are available for all titles

Teaching and Assessment Resources Each anthology is supported by an invaluable resource that integrates literary and writing skills and offers:

• Assessment opportunities
• Strategies for differentiating instruction
• A skills chart to align instruction with state and district standards
• Pre-, during-, and post-reading activities
• Writing workshops and 6 Trait writing rubrics
• Assessment options for each selection and unit
• And More!

AMERICAN VOICES Chronicling the development of American Literature, American Voices presents a wide range of the traditional American canon as well as contemporary works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. This anthology allows students to interact with literature that showcases the American experience. FromWashington Irving to Amiri Baraka to Joy Harjo, American Voices places literature and authors in the context of literary movements. Throughout the book, students analyze and compare literary movements, examine their cultural and social roots, and assess the impact these movements still have today. Lexile Level: 670-1360

Your students will:

• Understand the influences that impact successful writers and the choices they make to create their work.
• Analyze the use of specific literary devices and their intended effect by writing informal responses as well as more formal analyses.
• Compare how authors employ the defining characteristics of a particular literary movement in their writing.
• Collaborate with peers to deepen their understanding of how literary movements impact writers across time periods.

Sampling of Selections:

Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
O. Henry: A Retrieved Reformation
Ernest Hemingway: Indian Summer
Arthur Miller: The Crucible
Maya Angelow: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Barbara Kingsolver: Fault Lines