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CONTENTS IN BRIEF
O O P
UNIT ONE
The Anglo-Saxon Period: 449–1066
UNIT TWO
The Middle Ages: 1066–1485
UNIT THREE
The Renaissance: 1485–1660
UNIT FOUR
The Restoration and the
Enlightenment: 1660–1798
UNIT FIVE
The Romantic Period: 1798–1832
UNIT SIX
The Victorian Age: 1832–1901
UNIT SEVEN
The Modern Era: 1901–Present
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
O O P P
To the Student . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
UNIT ONE
The Anglo-Saxon Period: 449–1066
Eye on an Era: Political, Cultural, and
Literary Milestones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
A Teen of the Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Understanding the Anglo-Saxon Period: Compare
and Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Burton Raffel, translator
Burton Raffel, translator
Burton Raffel, translator
Ann Stanford, translator
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“Grendel” epic poem . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“The Coming of Beowulf” epic poem
“The Battle with Grendel” epic poem
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“Grendel’s Mother” epic poem . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“The Battle with Grendel’s Mother” epic poem
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“The Battle with the Dragon” epic poem
“The Death of Beowulf” epic poem . . . .
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . .
“The Seafarer” poem . . . . . .
“The Wanderer” poem . . . .
“The Wife’s Lament” poem .
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Connecting Eras: Compare and Contrast
“Beowulf: A Hero for Our Times”
by Paul Vallely newspaper article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
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UNIT TWO
The Middle Ages: 1066–1485
Eye on an Era: Political, Cultural, and Literary Milestones 86
A Teen of the Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Understanding the Middle Ages: Cause and Effect. . . . . . . 92
Geoffrey Chaucer
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
*from the Prologue of The Canterbury Tales poem . . . . . . 94
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Geoffrey Chaucer
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
*The Canterbury Tales: “The Pardoner’s Tale” poem . . . . 1 48
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Geoffrey Chaucer
Author Unknown
The Canterbury Tales: Prologue from
“The Wife of Bath’s Tale” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
The Canterbury Tales: “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” poem . . 170
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*“Lord Randal” ballad . . . . . . . . . . .
*“Get Up and Bar the Door” ballad .
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The Pearl Poet
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
*from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight poem . . . . . . . . . 198
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Sir Thomas Malory
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
from Le Morte d’Arthur epic tale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Connecting Eras: Cause and Effect
from Guenevere, Queen of the North Country
by Rosalind Miles novel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
UNIT THREE
The Renaissance: 1485–1660
Eye on an Era: Political, Cultural, and Literary Milestones 242
A Teen of the Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Understanding the Renaissance: Generalize . . . . . . . . . . 248
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
Edmund Spenser
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*“Whoso List to Hunt” poem
*“Sonnet 30” poem . . . . . . . .
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Christopher Marlowe
Sir Walter Raleigh
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” lyric poem
“The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” lyric poem .
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
William Shakespeare
MACBETH
Before You Read . . . .
Sonnet 29 poem .
Sonnet 116 poem
Sonnet 130 poem
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by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Understanding Macbeth: Infer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
*Act I, Scene I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
*Act I, Scene II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
*Act I, Scene III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
*Act I, Scene IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
*Act I, Scene V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
*Act I, Scene VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
*Act I, Scene VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
*Act II, Scene I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Act II, Scene II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Act II, Scene III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*Act II, Scene IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
Act III, Scene I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Act III, Scene II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Act III, Scene III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
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Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
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Act V, Scene VII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Act V, Scene VIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Connecting Eras: Infer
from The Third Witch by Rebecca Reisert novel . . . . . . . 444
John Donne
Ben Jonson
Robert Herrick
Andrew Marvell
Richard Lovelace
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” poem
*“Meditation 17” poem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“Holy Sonnet 10” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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*“Song: To Celia” poem .
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*“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” poem .
*“To His Coy Mistress” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*“To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars” poem . . . . .
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*“How Soon Hath Time” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*“When I Consider How My Light Is Spent” poem .
*from Paradise Lost epic poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
John Milton
King James Bible
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Psalm 23 scripture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Parable of the Prodigal Son scripture
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Connecting Eras: Generalize
from Milton in America by Peter Ackroyd novel . . . . . . . 512
UNIT FOUR
The Restoration and the Enlightenment:
1660–1798
Eye on an Era: Political, Cultural, and Literary Milestones 520
A Teen of the Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
Understanding the Restoration and the
Enlightenment: Classify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 526
Samuel Pepys
Alexander Pope
Jonathan Swift
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
from The Diary of Samuel Pepys diary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*“An Essay on Man” essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
*The Rape of the Lock: Cantos III and V poem
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Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . .
from Gulliver’s Travels novel .
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James Boswell
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
from The Life of Samuel Johnson biography . . . . . . . . . . . . 588
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596
Thomas Gray
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” poem . . . . . . 598
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603
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Connecting Eras: Classify
The Tribes of Britain by David Miles: Reviewed by
Bryan Appleyard book review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605
UNIT FIVE
The Romantic Period: 1798–1832
Eye on an Era: Political, Cultural, and Literary Milestones 612
A Teen of the Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617
Understanding the Romantic Period: Synthesize . . . . . . . 618
Robert Burns
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619
“To a Mouse” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623
William Blake
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625
“The Lamb” from Songs of Innocence poem . . . . . . . . . . 626
“The Tyger” from Songs of Experience poem . . . . . . . . . . 627
“The Chimney Sweeper” from Songs
of Innocence poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628
“The Chimney Sweeper” from Songs
of Experience poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
George Gordon, Lord Byron
“Lines Composed a Few Miles Above
Tintern Abbey” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“Composed Upon Westminster Bridge,
September 3, 1802” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“The World Is Too Much with Us” poem. . . . . . . . . . . .
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . .
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
639
640
641
642
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“Kubla Khan” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” poem
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674
677
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“She Walks in Beauty” poem . . . . . . .
from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage poem
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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“Ozymandias” poem . . . . . . . .
“Ode to the West Wind” poem
“To a Skylark” poem . . . . . . . .
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“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” poem .
“When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” poem
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“Ode to a Nightingale” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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681
685
689
690
691
692
693
696
700
Exploring the Classics: Mary Shelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702
Connecting Eras: Synthesize
“The Zen of Eminem” by Zadie Smith magazine interview 704
UNIT SIX
The Victorian Age: 1832–1901
Eye on an Era: Political, Cultural, and Literary Milestones 714
A Teen of the Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 719
Understanding the Victorian Age: Analyze . . . . . . . . . . . 720
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Robert Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“The Lady of Shalott” poem . . . . .
“Ulysses” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
from In Memoriam, A. H. H. poem
“Crossing the Bar” poem . . . . . . . .
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . .
“My Last Duchess” poem.
“Sonnet 43” poem . . . . . .
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . .
Before You Read . . . . . . . . .
“Pied Beauty” poem . . .
“Spring and Fall” poem.
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Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744
“Malachi’s Cove” short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 745
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 766
Elizabeth Gaskell
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767
“Christmas Storms and Sunshine” short story. . . . . . . . 768
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780
Matthew Arnold
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781
“Dover Beach” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 784
A. E. Housman
Thomas Hardy
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“To an Athlete Dying Young” poem . .
“When I Was One-and-Twenty” poem
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“The Darkling Thrush” poem . . . . . . . . . . .
“Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” poem
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786
788
789
790
791
793
795
Exploring the Classics: Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens,
Charlotte Brontë . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 796
Connecting Eras: Analyze
“Mrs. Gaskell” by Virginia Woolf book review . . . . . . . . 798
UNIT SEVEN
The Modern Era: 1901–Present
Eye on an Era: Political, Cultural, and Literary Milestones 806
A Teen of the Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811
Understanding the Modern Era: Evaluate . . . . . . . . . . . . 812
William Butler Yeats
D. H. Lawrence
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“The Second Coming” poem . .
“Sailing to Byzantium” poem .
“When You Are Old” poem . . .
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819
“The Rocking-Horse Winner” short story . . . . . . . . . . . 820
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836
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James Joyce
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838
“Araby” short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846
Katherine Mansfield
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 848
“A Cup of Tea” short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858
Virginia Woolf
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860
from A Room of One’s Own essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . .
“Preludes” poem . . . . . . .
“The Hollow Men” poem
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T. S. Eliot
W. H. Auden
Dylan Thomas
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Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881
“Musée des Beaux Arts” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 882
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 884
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” poem .
“Fern Hill” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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886
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890
Graham Greene
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891
“A Shocking Accident” short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 899
Wilfred Owen
Rupert Brooke
Siegfried Sassoon
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
“Dulce et Decorum Est” poem
“The Soldier” poem . . . . . . . . .
“Dreamers” poem . . . . . . . . . .
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
George Orwell
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 908
“Shooting an Elephant” essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 917
Winston Churchill
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 919
“Be Ye Men of Valor” (May 19, 1940) speech. . . . . . . . . 920
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 924
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Seamus Heaney
Ted Hughes
Stevie Smith
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“Digging” poem . . .
“The Horses” poem .
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“The Frog Prince” poem . . . . . . . . .
“Not Waving but Drowning” poem .
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Doris Lessing
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 936
“A Sunrise on the Veld” short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 937
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 946
Nadine Gordimer
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948
“The Train from Rhodesia” short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955
V. S. Naipaul
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957
“B. Wordsworth” short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 958
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 965
Derek Walcott
Margaret Atwood
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966
from Midsummer poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967
“Elegy for the Giant Tortoises” poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 970
Anita Desai
Before You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 972
“A Devoted Son” short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 973
After You Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983
Exploring the Classics: Samuel Beckett, Chinua Achebe . 984
Connecting Eras: Evaluate
“Remember the Ship” and “Windrush Child”
by John Agard poems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 986
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