Product Review

The Genre Volume is the most accessible book in the series; readings are appropriate for reading grade levels 8 10 and include drama, poems, a short story, a memoir, and an interview, as well as a painting, or visual text. Students read an Arthur Miller play excerpt, a Shakespeare sonnet, a New York Times article, an interview with writer Amy Tan, a Rainer Maria Rilke letter, a Leonardo da Vinci Notebooks excerpt, a Thomas Hart Benton lithograph, and more. Each unit integrates vocabulary, reading, writing, grammar, and spelling in the context of these selections.