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Authentic North American short stories enhance students' reading skills, language learning, and enjoyment of literature. The Instructor's Manual for Discovering Fiction, Student's Book 2, provides further information about the stories, teaching suggestions, and an answer key. In addition, a useful brief synopsis of each story is provided in the Elements of a Short Story section.Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521008093
ISBN-139780521008099
eBay Product ID (ePID)1984803
Product Key Features
Number of Pages66 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameDiscovering Fiction : a Reader of American Short Stories
Publication Year2001
SubjectEnglish As a Second Language, General
FeaturesTeacher's Edition
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaForeign Language Study, Literary Criticism
AuthorJudith Kay
SeriesDiscovering Fiction Ser.
Dimensions
Item Height0.2 in
Item Weight2.8 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number2
Dewey Edition22
Target AudienceEnglish As a Second Language
Dewey Decimal428.64
Table of ContentHow to use this book; Part I. A Life Lesson: 1. 'A Day's Wait' Ernest Hemingway; 2. 'Thank You, Ma'm' Langston Hughes; 3. 'The Corn Planting' Sherwood Anderson; 4. 'The Quickening' Lisa Interollo; Part II. The Unexpected Twist: 5. 'The Last Leaf' O. Henry; 6. 'The Ambitious Guest' Nathaniel Hawthorne; 7. 'The Lottery' Shirley Jackson; 8. 'The One Day War' Judith Soloway; Part III. Irony: 9. 'The Thirs Level' Jack Finney; 10. 'All Summer in a Day' Ray Bradbury; 11. 'Dèsirèe's Baby' Kate Chopin; Part IV. Family Relationships: 12. 'A Visit to Grandmother' William Melvin Kelley; 13. 'Too Soon a Woman' Dorothy M. Johnson; 14. 'My father Sits in the Dark' Jerome Weidman; Part V. Meeting Challenges: 15. 'A Rice Sandwich' Sandra Cisneros; 16. 'The Circus' William Saroyan; 17. 'The Warriors' Anna Lee Walters; 18. Talking to the Dead' Sylvia Watanabe.