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DIRECTED READING A NCHOR TE X T/ AUTOBIOGR APH Y from Off the Court, Arthur Ashe I N FOR M AT IO N A L T E X T C O N N EC T IO N 208 Te x t-t o -Te x t E DITORIAL A Black Athlete Looks at Education editorial, Arthur Ashe 223 PE R SONAL ESSAY Fish Cheeks, Amy Tan 227 232 GR AMMAR & ST YLE Fragments and Run-on Sentences COMPARING TEXTS BIOGR APH Y A Bittersweet Memoir, Jerry Izenberg SHORT STORY Searching for January, W. P. Kinsella BIOGR APH Y Madam C. J. Walker, Jim Haskins L I T E R AT U R E C O N N EC T IO N STORY QUILT Te x t-t o -Te x t The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles, Faith Ringgold INDEPENDENT READING MEMOIR PE R SONAL ESSAY from Bario Boy, Ernesto Galarza The Night the Bed Fell, James Thurber F OR YOUR RE A DING L IS T 233 W RI T ING WORK SHOP Informative Writing: Cause-and-Effect Essay 234 SPE A K ING & L IS T ENING WORK SHOP Giving and Actively Listening to Informative Presentations 240 T E S T PR AC T IC E WORK SHOP Writing Skills: Informative Essay from Alone Across the Arctic, by Pam Flowers Revising and Editing Skills Reading Skills 242 242 243 244 CONTENTS xi