Contents Rhetorical Contents Preface for the Teacher Preface for the Student Chapter 1: Writing, the Writing Process, and You Literacy Narratives Composing Your Own Literacy Narrative Chapter 2: Family and Community How the Wicked Sons Were Duped, Indian Folklore People Like Us, David Brooks Changing My Name after Sixty Years, Tom Rosenberg Where the Land is Stepped on, the Sky..., Trikartikaningsih Byas We Kissed the Tomato and Then the Sky, Dana Wehle Focusing on Friends, Steve Tesich Treasures, Mahwash Shoaib Two Lives, Shirley Geok-lin Lim For My Indian Daughter, Lewis (Johnson) Sawaquat The Night I was Nobody, John Edgar Wideman The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me, Sherman Alexie One Voice, Susan G. Madera Solidarity, Charles Neuman Chapter 3: Gender Issues The Wise Daughter, Swahili Folktale Apollo and Daphne, Greek Legend Shrouded in Contradiction, Gelareh Asayesh To Be a Man, Gary Soto Man-Made Misery, Thomas M. Colicino Why Are Gay Men So Feared? Dennis Altman Gay, Anna Quindlen Why Do We Hate Our Bodies? Gillianne N. Duncan The Gravity of Mark Beuhrle, Jason Barone He and I, Natalia Ginzburg The Storm, Kate Chopin Chapter 4: Education The Bar of Gold A View from the Bridge Cherokee Paul McDonald Mute in an English-Only World, Chang-Rae Lee A Letter to a Child Like Me, Jose Torres Always Living in Spanish, Marjorie Agosin The Mistress of Make Believe, Doris Viloria Dropout to Graduate, Laura Kuehn The Fender-Bender, Ramon Tianguis Perez When the Simulated Patient Is For Real, Taneisha Grant Multiple Dimensions of Love: From the Artist's Eyes, Giovanni J. Gelardi from Poets in the Kitchen, Paule Marshall My Pen Writes in Blue and White, Vincent Cremona Chapter 5: Work My Young Men Shall Never Work, Chief Smohalla (as told by Herbert J. Spinden) Life Stories, Michael Dorris Why We Work, Andrew Curry Essential Work by John Patterson Black Hair, Gary Soto Work Hard-Quit Right! Thomas M. Colicino Working Like a Dog, Charles Neuman Forty-Five a Month, R.K. Narayan Free and Equal, Lalita Gandbhir
