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This student text contains excerpts of various forms of literature and presents them in concept order:
- Choices — “As you read the following stories and poems, carefully consider the choices presented. Remember also that the rule for fiction is equally true in life: people never stand still. Your daily choices may move you only one step, but like the characters in the stories, you are moving one step closer to eventual success or failure.”
- Friends — “As you read this unit’s selections, consider what you have learned about friendship. … Finally, take the time to evaluate your own friendships.”
- Viewpoints — “It is imperative…that each of us examine ourselves to determine whether our focus is as it should be. But how can we determine whether we are viewing things correctly? One way is to examine our behavior. If our viewpoint is flawed, what we do will betray an overemphasis on self, others, or things.”
- Adventurers — Examine adventurers who “willingly accept hazardous challenges. Though each character could have avoided personal risk, each one chose to contend with danger to protect others.”
- Discoveries — “In literature, we are given the opportunity to gain insight through the characters’ experiences, and we can do so without having to stumble over any obstacles or experience any unnecessary pain.”
- Heroes & Villains — Using a story about the French Revolution (1789-1793), this unit’s goal is to tie all of the previous units together so that the reader is reminded that “heroes and villains are not shaped by the circumstances they face but by the choices they make with regard to their friendships, their focus, their adventures, and their discoveries.”
Each unit contains definitions of new words and “About” sections that provide several questions for thought and discussion.