ClassZone: The Language of Literature

PART 2	Moments of Discovery
William Jay Jacobs	Eleanor Roosevelt Much more than a president’s wife	A C T I V I T Y What doors of discovery have you opened during the past year? Use a word web to brainstorm ideas. Then, in your notebook, briefly describe a learning experience of your own and tell what you discovered. How has this discovery strengthened you?
Eleanor Roosevelt	LITERARY LINK from The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt Mrs. Roosevelt’s own words
Doris Kearns Goodwin	from No Ordinary Time A revealing anecdote

Anna Quindlen	Homeless Thoughts on those without homes
Sandra Cisneros	LITERARY LINK Bums in the Attic Dreams of a house

Toni Cade Bambara	The War of the Wall Origin of a mural
Walt Whitman	LITERARY LINK from Song of Myself A man at peace with life

Rudyard Kipling	Rikki-tikki-tavi A battle of life and death!
	REAL WORLD LINK Primal Compassion A gorilla rescues a 3-year-old child.
Gary Paulsen	Dirk the Protector Something growls in the dark alley.
O. Henry	AUTHOR STUDY
	After Twenty Years A night they planned a long time ago
	A Retrieved Reformation Will his secret be discovered?
	from Short Story to the Big Screen