Imagining Worlds

Part I: IMAGINING WORLDS: THE READING AND WRITING PROCESS. 1. Keeping a Journal 2. From Reader's Journal to Finished Text Part II: READING AND WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE. 3. Reading and Writing about Stories Writing in Response to Fiction: A Student Casebook 4. Reading and Writing about Essays Writing in Response to Essays: A Student Casebook 5. Reading and Writing about Poetry Writing in Response to Poetry: A Student Casebook 6. Reading and Writing about Drama Writing in Response to Drama: A Student Casebook Part III: THEMES AND GENRES. 7. Creativity. Folk Tale "How Spider Obtained the Sky God's Stories" (African/Ashanti). Journals George Eliot, How I Came to Write Fiction from Diaries and Letters Virginia Woolf, from A Writer's Diary Jim Harrison, From the Dalva Notebooks: 1985-1987 Keith H. Basso, from Strong Songs Fiction Grace Paley, Conversation with My Father V. S. Naipual, B. Wordsworth John McCluskey, Lush Life Ann Beattie, Janus J. R. R. Tolkien, Leaf by Niggle Essays Patricia Hampl, Memory and Imagination Joy Harjo, Ordinary Spirit bell hooks, Coming to Voice Jimmy Santiago Baca, Pushing Through Poetry John Keats, Ode to a Grecian Urn Denise Levertov, The Secret Claude McKay, The Harlem Dance Chitra Divakaruni, The Quilt William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium e. e. cummings, [maggie and milly and molly and may] " Marianne Moore, Poetry Wallace Stevens, Of Modern Poetry Ted Hughes, The Thought-Fox Dylan Thomas, In My Craft or Sullen Art William Carlos Williams, The Artist Nikki Giovanni, Ego Tripping (There May Be A Reason Why) Merle Woo, Poem for the Creative Writing Class, Spring 1982 Nancy Willard, Why I Never Answered Your Letter R. T. Smith, Yonosa House Drama August Wilson, The Piano Lesson Student Writing Kay Luo, The Beginning Connections: Ideas for Discussion and Writing 8. Initiation and Passages Folk Tale The Brothers Grimm, Hansel and Gretel (German) Journals (excerpts) Anne Frank, My Longing to Talk to Someone from The Diary of a Young Girl Ruth Benedict, How Shall I Say It? from The Journals of Ruth Benedict Czeslaw Milosz, Berkeley 1987, from Fragments from a Journal Fiction Chinua Achebe, Chike's School Days Isabel Huggan, Celia Behind Me James Joyce, Araby Carlos Fuentes, The Doll Queen Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing Toni Cade Bambara, My Man Bovanne Essays Judith Ortiz Cofer, Silent Dancing Maya Angelou, Graduation Michael Dorris, Life Stories E. B. White, Once More to the Lake Poetry Sylvia Plath, Metaphors Maxine Kumin, For Jane at Thirteen Gary Soto, Saturday at the Canal William Butler Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole Philip Levine, The Life Ahead Robert Frost, Birches Sharon Olds,The Moment Audre Lorde, Hanging Fire Adrian Marcus, The Woman in the Next Room Denise Levertov, Who He Was Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz Gwendolyn Brooks, Big Bessie Throws Her Son into the Street Frank Bidart, Happy Birthday Michael Harper, Nightmare Begins Responsibility Li Young Lee, Eating Together Shirley Geok-lin-Lim, Bukit China Muriel Rukeyser, This Place in the Ways Drama Beth Henley, Am I Blue? Student Writing Jennifer Angel, The Shadow in the Spotlight Amanda Beacom, Letter to a Mother Connections: Ideas for Discussion and Writing 9. Relationships Folk Tale: How Men and Women Got Together (Native American) Journals Kathe Kollwitz, Diaries May Sarton, from Journal of Solitude Stephen Spender, Last Autumn of the War Fiction Amy Tan, Jing-Mei Woo: Two Kinds Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants David Leavitt, A Place I've Never Been James BaldwJon Ford is the author of 'Imagining Worlds', published 1994 under ISBN 9780070215139 and ISBN 0070215138.