Active Reading of Literature - On Writing about Literature - How to Read a Story - How to Read a Poem - How to Read a Play - American's Puritan Heritage Nathaniel Hawthorne Headnote - The Minister's Black Veil/Nathaniel Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown/Nathaniel Hawthorne - American Vistas - Walt Whitman Headnote - Facing West from California's Shores/Walt Whitman - When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer/Walt Whitman - Robert Frost Headnote - Birches/Robert Frost - Mending Wall/Robert Frost - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening/Robert Frost - American Dreams: Men - F. Scott Fitzgerald Headnote - Arthur Miller Headnote - All My Sons/Arthur Miller - American Dreams: Women - Kate Chopin Headnote - The Awakening/Kate Chopin - Charlotte Perkins Gilman Headnote - The Yellow Wall-Paper/Charlotte Perkins Gilman - American Dreams: Children - Sandra Cisneros Headnote - Amy Tan Headnote - "Two Kinds" from the Joy Luck Club/Amy Tan - Louis Erdrich Headnote - The Red Convertible/Louise Erdrich - Honoring Heritage - Alice Walker Headnote - Everyday Use/Alice Walker - Nineteen Fifty-five/Alice Walker - August Wilson Headnote - The Piano Lesson/August Wilson - MLA Documentation - Brief Glossary of Literary terms.