Title: Discovering Fiction 2
Description: FEATURES:
• Classic and contemporary stories give students a thorough background in North American literature.
• Every chapter gives students practice in guessing meaning from context, which research shows is one of the most important skills for reading unadapted texts.
• Students also learn to think critically, make inferences, discuss what they read, and write responses to the work.
SELECTED AUTHORS:
Kate Chopin, Sandra Cisneros, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Shirley Jackson, Anna Lee Walters, and more
Subjects: College readers, Short stories, american, Short stories, canadian, American Short stories, Canadian Short stories, Anglais (langue), Lectures et morceaux choisis, Nouvelles américaines, Nouvelles canadiennes, Fiction, Textbooks, Textbooks for foreign speakers, English languages, social life and customs, manners and customs, short stories, miscegenation, Louisiana Creoles, quadroons, racism, Foreign language study
Places: United States, Louisiana, L’Abri
People: Armand Aubigny, Désirée, Madame Valmont, Sandrine, La Blanche, Kate Chopin
Time periods: 19th century, Antebellum era