This balanced collection of stories from the 1820s to today exposes students to classic authors who've shaped America's literary history—Poe, Hemingway, and Faulkner—as well as modern greats, including Alice Walker, Joyce Carol Oates, and Sherman Alexie.
Six units organized by era give students a holistic understanding of the development of common themes and movements in American literature and encourage them to compare and contrast works from different periods. Updated to focus on close reading strategies and text-dependent questions and tasks.
SPECIAL FOCUS: Author's Style
• Each story emphasizes understanding the author's style through pre-reading summaries and post-reading discussion and writing.
• Literary Lens callouts give students a purpose for reading as they analyze literary techniques, including symbolism, color imagery, satire, characterization, and stream of consciousness.
• Students analyze, evaluate, and emulate the literature through longer writing projects at the end of each unit.
Benefits of Many Voices
- A special literary focus in each anthology develops essential literary strategies and concepts.
- The anthologies focus on literature—reading and interpreting outstanding fiction and nonfiction by highly regarded authors.
- The literature selections are both challenging and relevant for students.
- The selections are easily differentiated for ELL students, struggling readers, gifted students, students at grade level, and students with different learning styles.
Student Editions
- A special literary focus in each anthology develops essential literary strategies and concepts.
- The anthologies focus on literature—reading and interpreting outstanding fiction and informational text by highly-regarded authors.
- The selections and academic vocabulary are both challenging and relevant for students and provide an appropriate mix of text complexity.
- The selections are easily differentiated for ELL students, struggling readers, gifted students, students working at grade level, and students with different learning styles.
- Writing prompts and suggested research projects encourage deeper analysis of the texts.
- Revised editions align instruction with a focus on close reading strategies and text-dependent questions and tasks. State standards alignment correlations are available for all titles.
Teaching Support
- Teaching and Assessment Resources—active reading strategies; pre-, during-, and post-reading activities; writing workshops; multiple assessment opportunities; and more.
Teaching and Assessment Resources
- Support for teaching each selection
- Direct instruction of reading strategies
- Selection quizzes and unit tests
- nit organizers for differentiating instruction
- Skill-building activities with graphic organizers
- Writing workshops with extended instruction
- Abundant extended project choices
- Writing rubrics for instruction and assessment