Toc: Untitled......Page 1Exit......Page 0frontmat-I......Page 2Book Overview......Page 7Table of Contents......Page 8features-xxvii......Page 27Literary Maps......Page 30Guide to Active Reading......Page 33Active Reading Strategies: Fiction......Page 34Active Reading Model: The Life You Save May Be Your Own......Page 37Active Reading Strategies: Poetry......Page 50Active Reading Model: The Fish......Page 53Active Reading Strategies: Nonfiction......Page 56Active Reading Model: Thoughts on the African-American Novel......Page 59unit1t01......Page 66Unit One: From the Earliest Days......Page 67Unit Introduction......Page 68Theme 1: Beginnings and Change......Page 75Literature Focus: Native American Mythology......Page 76How the World Was Made......Page 78The Sky Tree......Page 80Interdisciplinary Connection: Ecology: Living in Harmony with Nature......Page 83from The Iroquois Constitution......Page 85Vocabulary Skills: Understanding Analogies......Page 89Media Connection: Shipwreck Survivors Recall Ordeal in Shark-filled Waters......Page 90from La Relación......Page 92Reading & Thinking Skills: Recognizing Bias......Page 97from Of Plymouth Plantation......Page 99Technology Skills: Using a Video Camera......Page 104Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666......Page 107To My Dear and Loving Husband......Page 109Media Connection: In Your Eyes......Page 112Writing Skills: Using Specific, Vivid Words......Page 113from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson......Page 115from Stay Alive, My Son......Page 123Comparing Selections: from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson and from Stay Alive, My Son......Page 128Listening, Speaking, and Viewing: Conducting an Interview......Page 129from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God......Page 131Grammar Link: Avoiding Sentence Fragments......Page 136Offer of Help......Page 138Writing Workshop: Narrative Writing: Historical Narrative......Page 140Unit Assessment......Page 144Standardized Test Practice......Page 146unit2t02......Page 148Unit Two: A New Nation......Page 149Unit Introduction......Page 150Theme 2: Breaking Free......Page 159from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin......Page 161from Poor Richard's Almanack......Page 164Dichos......Page 169Comparing Selections: from Poor Richard's Almanack and Dichos......Page 174Listening, Speaking, and Viewing: Analyzing Advertising Slogans......Page 175