I. PEOPLE.
An Indian Father's Plea: Don't Label My Son a Slow Learner, Robert Lake. The Good Daughter, Caroline Hwang. Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean. Why I Quit the Klan, C.P. Ellis with Studs Terkel. Girl, Jamaica Kincaid. The Shakers; The Mystical World of the Shakers, James Henretta, et al. Mother to Son, Langston Hughes. The New Testament, James McBride. Suggestions. Profiling People.
II. PLACES.
Po Folks: Off With Their Heads, Margo Williams. Is Their Life On Mars? Teresa and Gerald Audersirk. Along the Tortilla Curtain, Pete Hamill. A Fable for Tomorrow, Rachel Carson. In the Suburbs, Louise Simpson. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros. What We Can Learn from Japan's Prisons, James Webb. Familiar Footing, Cheryl Saba. Suggestions. Profiling Places.
III. EVENTS.
Reflections, Kenny Jackson. Dreaming: Mysterious Mental Activity During Sleep, Samuel L. Wood and Ellen Green Wood. Last Flight, Isao Matsuo. Today, Gabriela Pearse. Body Ritual Among the Nacirema, Horace Miner. 38 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police, Martin Gansberg. Growng Up Game, Brenda Peterson. The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin. Suggestions. Profiling Events.
IV. PHENOMENA.
Looking Up Something, Dennis Sampson. Now Hear This: Shhhhhhhhhhh, Jeanette Batz. Hooked on Anger, Russell Baker. The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allen Poe. The Right Chemistry, Anastasia Troufexis. Health Watch: Eating Disorders-Betrayal of the Body, Teresa and Gerald Audersirk. The Ways We Lie, Stephanie Ericsson. Childless...with Children, Andy Stein. Suggestions. Profiling Phenomena.
V. ISSUES.
What is Poverty? Jo Goodwin Parker. The Quilt, Shirley Hart Berry. In Praise of the F Word, Mary Sherry. The Hammer Man, Toni Cade Bambara. The Powwow at the End of the World, Sherman Alexie. A Dose of Reality: The Truth about North America's Greatest Drug Problem: Ritalin, Richard De Grandpre. Racism and Sexism in the Media, Margaret Anderson and Howard F. Taylor. To Pet or Not to Pet? Nadya Labi. Suggestions. Profiling Issues.
APPENDIX I: CONTEXT CLUES.
APPENDIX II: WORD PARTS.
APPENDIX III: SUMMARY WRITING.
APPENDIX IV: CHARACTERISTICS OF EFFECTIVE WRITING.
APPENDIX V: THE WRITING PROCESS.
