Fiction Connections
Introduction to Fiction
Unit 3
GUIDED READING
4
Experiencing the World
164
Nonfiction Connections
Understanding Plot
Fiction Close to
Reading
Model
Introduction
Nonfiction
SHORT STORY
6
Lob’s Girl, Joan Aiken
GUIDED READING
G e o g r aph y C o n n e c t i o n
7
Pa lm Tre e s i n C o r n wa l l
Nonfiction
Close Reading Model
Understanding
Characters
SHORT STORY MEMOIR The
168
from of
An Matt
American
Annie Dillard
Goodness
Kaizer, Childhood,
Avi
GR AMMAR
& ST YLE
Phrases and
GR AMMAR & ST YLE
Sentence
Fragments
BIOGR APH Y
Understanding Setting
Run-ons
22
37
Elizabeth I, Milton Meltzer
Cu l t u r a l C o n n e c t i o n
177
38
Harvesting Last
Hope:
The Story Queen
of César
Chávez,
Parliament,
Elizabeth
I Kathleen Krull 46
POEM
Written with a Diamond on Her Window
DIRECTED READING
Window at Woodstock, Queen Elizabeth I
POEM
Written in Her French Psalter, Queen Elizabeth I
SHORT STORY
The All-American Slurp, Lensey Namioka
52
LE T TE R S o c i a l St u d i from
e s C o Letter
n n e c t i o to
n Mary,
C h i n e s e Queen
Im m ig ra of
t i o n Scots, 1586, Queen Elizabeth I
& SPELLING
Latin, and Anglo-Saxon Roots
VOCABUL ARY & VOCABUL
SPELLING ARY
Synonyms
and Greek,
Antonyms
63
BIOGR APH Y
Eleven, Sandra
Cisneros
Understanding
the Essay
Julia Alvarez
e o g Types
r aph y of C Nouns
onnection
GR AMMAR & ST G
YLE
T h e D o m i m i c a n R e p u b li c
L I T E R AT U R E C O N N EC T IO N Te x t-t o -Te x t
LY RIC POEM Face It, Janet S. Wong
ARGUME NTATI V E
ESSAY The Eternal Frontier, Louis L’Amour
68
70
viii
CONTENTS
193
202
207
Sentence Types
Digital Connections
CONTENTS
190
190
192
Te x t-t o -Te x t
PE R SONAL
ESSAY
NARR ATI V E POEM
Same
Song, Names/Nombres,
Pat Mora S TORY
GR AMMAR & ST YLE
189
190
64
SHORT STORY
L I T E R AT U R E C O N N EC T IO N
169
176
The Renaissance
P R Francisco
I M A RY S O U
RC E C O N N EC T IO N Te x t-t o -Te x t
A NCHOR TE X T/
The Circuit,
Jiménez
SHORT STORY
SPEECH I N FOR M AT IO
N A L Queen
TEXT C
O N N EC T IO N
Te x t-t to
o -Te
xt
from
Elizabeth’s
Speech
Her
iv
166