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