Contents by Genre

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Fiction

Annotated Fiction

The following selections are available with annotations to assist reading. These readings accompany the Draw Connections exercise in the modules featured in the main contents of LaunchPad Solo for Literature, but they may also be used independently. To assign these readings, follow the instructions for Adding a Link to a LaunchPad Unit.

  • Chopin, Kate. The Storm
  • Chopin, Kate. The Story of an Hour
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Minister’s Black Veil
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Young Goodman Brown
  • Hemingway, Ernest. Hills Like White Elephants
  • Joyce, James. Araby *
  • Kincaid, Jamaica. Girl *
  • Poe, Edgar Allan. The Tell-Tale Heart
  • Updike, John. A&P *

Poetry

Annotated Poetry

The following selections are available with annotations to assist reading. These readings accompany the Draw Connections exercise in the modules featured in the main contents of LaunchPad Solo for Literature, but they may also be used independently. To assign these readings, follow the instructions for Adding a Link to a LaunchPad Unit.

  • Bradstreet, Anne. Before the Birth of One of Her Children
  • Bradstreet, Anne. The Author to Her Book
  • Brooks, Gwendolyn. We Real Cool
  • Dickinson, Emily. Because I could not stop for Death-
  • Dickinson, Emily. I heard a Fly buzz-when I died- *
  • Donne, John. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
  • Donne, John. The Flea
  • Dungy, Camille. Because it looked hotter that way
  • Frost, Robert. Mending Wall *
  • Frost, Robert. The Wood-Pile
  • Hughes, Langston. The Negro Speaks of Rivers *
  • Marvell, Andrew. To His Coy Mistress *
  • Pound, Ezra. In a Station of the Metro
  • Thomas, Dylan. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night *
  • Whitman, Walt. Starting from Paumanok
  • Wilde, Oscar. from The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Williams, William Carlos. The Red Wheelbarrow *
  • Yeats, William Butler. The Stolen Child

Drama

Annotated Drama

The following selections are available with annotations to assist reading. These readings accompany the Draw Connections exercise in the modules featured in the main contents of LaunchPad Solo for Literature, but they may also be used independently. To assign these readings, follow the instructions for Adding a Link to a LaunchPad Unit.

  • Aeschylus. from Seven Against Thebes
  • Glaspell, Susan. Trifles *
  • Ibsen, Henrik. from A Doll's House
  • Kyd, Thomas. from The Spanish Tragedy
  • Middleton, Thomas. from The Revenger's Tragedy
  • Shakespeare, William. from Hamlet
  • Shakespeare, William. from A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Sheridan, Robert Brinsley. from The Rivals
  • Sophocles. from Antigone
  • Wilde, Oscar. from The Importance of Being Earnest

Nonfiction/Critical Contexts

Annotated Nonfiction/Cultural Contexts

The following selections are available with annotations to assist reading. These readings accompany the Draw Connections exercise in the modules featured in the main contents of LaunchPad Solo for Literature, but they may also be used independently. To assign these readings, follow the instructions for Adding a Link to a LaunchPad Unit.

  • Salem Witch Trial Documents (see Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Young Goodman Brown)
  • Sanger, Margaret. The Morality of Birth Control (see Hemingway, Ernest. Hills Like White Elephants)
  • Shaw, George Bernard. Commentary on A Doll's House (see Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House)
  • Sources of Trifles (see Glaspell, Susan. Trifles)
  • Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Declaration of Sentiments (see Chopin, Kate. The Story of an Hour)
  • Vorda, Allan. Interview on Girl, with Jamaica Kincaid (see Kincaid, Jamaica. Girl)