Literature: Texas Treasures

Texas essential knowledge and skills -- Open-ended response questions -- Spotlight on Texas -- How to use Glencoe Literature -- Reading handbook -- unit 1. How do you stay true to yourself?: Acting on your values, My name / S. Cisneros; Believing in yourself, Abuela invents the zero / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- unit 2. Reading: what's in it for you?: Reading for knowledge, There is no frigate like a book / E. Dickinson, Huge, freed pet phthons invade Florida everglades / S. Lovgren; Reading for enjoyment, [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / E. Allan Poe -- unit 3. What's more important, the journey or the destination?: Difficult paths, Drummer boy of Shiloh / R. Bradbury, Exile / Julia Alvarez; Memorable places, Knozville, Tennessee / N. Giovanni -- unit 4. What's worth fighting for?: Society and the world, Saving water / M. Lamb, Treasure of Lemon Brown / W.D. Myers; Freedom and fairness, Harlem / L. Hughes -- unit 5. What really matters?: Personal connections, Clean sweep / J. Bauer; Social issues, from Elegy on the death of Cesar Chavez / Rudolfo Anaya; Scientific matters, from The story of my life / Helen Keller -- unit 6. How do you keep from giving up?: The diary of Anne Frand, Act One-Two / Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett -- Reference section: Literary terms handbook; Reading and thinking with foldables; Functional documents; Writing handbook; Language handbook; Speaking, listening, and viewing handbook; Glossary.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.