American 24-Karat Gold (2nd Edition) (Longman Literature for College Readers) (Paperback)

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Part of Longman's "Literature for College Readers" series, American 24-Karat Gold is a collection of American short stories for the developmental readers. The text includes classic American writers (e.g., Mark Twain, O. Henry, Kate Chopin) along with diverse modern writers (e.g., Maxine Hong Kingston, Migene Gonzalez-Wippler, and Alice Walker.) The text begins with a sample lesson designed with the developmental learner in mind-introducing reading skills, note-taking, and literary terms. Following the sample lesson, the stories are arranged by literary elements: character, conflict, plot, irony, etc. Each story contains pre-reading vocabulary exercises and questions, headnotes, a journal entry worksheet, comprehension quizzes, and writing prompts.

From the Back Cover

AMERICAN 24-KARAT GOLD
24 Classic American Short Stories
Third Edition
Yvonne Collioud Sisko

Read it–and get it! Understand literature like never before!

Frustrated by complicated, hard-to-understand readings in class? Can’t figure out what the point is?

American 24-Karat Gold, Third Edition, presents you yet again with an accessible, straightforward selection of 24 classic American short stories. From authors such as Mark Twain and Zora Neale Hurston, these stories are easier to “get” with their pre-reading questions and vocabulary exercises!

Only in the Third Edition

• New assignments address setting, literary elements and foreshadowing, irony, and symbols.
• Six new selections from Amy Tan, Alice Walker, Kate Chopin, and O. Henry replace stories in the previous edition.
• An alternate table of contents shows the new “Relationships” category.

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--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Longman; 2 edition (November 18, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321365240
• ISBN-13: 978-0321365248
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #963,006 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Literature Book I've Always Wanted to Write But Didn't, January 11, 2009

By	paisleymonsoon (Tulsa, Oklahoma) - See all my reviews

This review is from: American 24-Karat Gold (3rd Edition) (Paperback)

This American Literature textbook is almost exactly the textbook I'd write for my ESL students if I were ever so ambitious. It has several stories in it that I've always copied for my classes to supplement what was in our actual textbooks (such as "The Cask of Amontillado" and "Dr. Heidegger Experiment"), several ironic classics I remember loving in high school (such as "The Last Leaf", "The Gift of the Magi", and "The Lady or the Tiger"), and many stories that are new to me (such as "Yoruba" and "There Will Come Soft Rains"). Thankfully, the stories have a wide range of emotions attached to them which are not all tragedies as one usually finds in literature texts.

I love the format of the textbook. The author has 3 separate tables of contents to order the stories by literary topic, subject, or date. The stories are ordered from easiest to hardest. Each story begins with 2 vocabulary activities and pre-reading questions. Each story is also followed by a journal section (so we don't have to use separate notebooks as we did before), questions, discussion topics, and writing exercises. The editor of the book also suggests summarizing each section of the story in the margins. I plan to have students read one story per week so that we can get more out of each story. With some introductory material of my own and a student survey at the beginning of the course to find out which stories the students might like most, I think this book is going to be a wonderful change for the class. Yay!

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent text for teaching reading skills..., February 1, 2008

By	R. Taylor "raytayz" (louisville, ky USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

...a collection of short stories...each one is preceded by a selection of pre-reading questions and followed by suggestions for journal entries, questions about significant quotations, as well as multiple choice questions and suggestions for further writing...