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LaunchPad Solo for Literature (1-Term Access)
First Edition| ©2016 Bedford/St. Martin's
LaunchPad Solo for Literature, a set of customizable online materials, helps beginning literature students learn and practice close reading and critical thinking skills in an interactive environment. Easy-to-use and easy-to-assign modules based on widely taught literary selections guide stu...
LaunchPad Solo for Literature, a set of customizable online materials, helps beginning literature students learn and practice close reading and critical thinking skills in an interactive environment. Easy-to-use and easy-to-assign modules based on widely taught literary selections guide students through common assignment types: responding to a reading, drawing connections between texts, instructor-led collaborative close reading, and listening to a text. In addition, students and instructors have access to a library of texts and nearly 500 reading comprehension quizzes on commonly taught literary selections along with several engaging videos by well-known authors on literary elements such as character, dialogue, and voice. Get all our great resources and activities in one fully customizable space online; then use our tools with your own content.
LaunchPad Solo for Literature can be used on its own or packaged with one of our literature titles at no additional cost.
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LaunchPad Solo for Literature, a set of customizable online materials, helps beginning literature students learn and practice close reading and critical thinking skills in an interactive environment. Easy-to-use and easy-to-assign modules based on widely taught literary selections guide students through common assignment types: responding to a reading, drawing connections between texts, instructor-led collaborative close reading, and listening to a text. In addition, students and instructors have access to a library of texts and nearly 500 reading comprehension quizzes on commonly taught literary selections along with several engaging videos by well-known authors on literary elements such as character, dialogue, and voice. Get all our great resources and activities in one fully customizable space online; then use our tools with your own content.
LaunchPad Solo for Literature can be used on its own or packaged with one of our literature titles at no additional cost.
Features
Interactive modules are easy to use, assign, and monitor to guide students through close readings of 10 widely-taught texts (stories, poems, scenes from plays) based on 3-4 common assignments:
- Respond to a Reading: Using marginal questions that point to specific lines and moments in the selection, students are asked to read carefully and think critically about important issues raised by the text.
- Draw Connections: Students are asked to read and compare two or more complementary texts, which have been annotated to highlight key moments and helpful contextual information. Students respond in writing to a series of questions that highlight important similarities and differences between the texts.
- Collaborate on a Reading: Using the highlighting tools and notes feature in LaunchPad, instructors can post notes or questions about specific moments or issues in a text, prompting students to respond with their own comments, questions, or observations. Students can also respond to each other, further deepening their understanding of the text.
- Listen to a Reading: Select modules include an audio recording of the selection or reading by the author. A series of accompanying questions ask students to reflect on key aspects of the recording.
More than 200 literature texts – and the ability to add your own. Assign additional commonly assigned readings from the many publisher-provided poems, short stories, play scenes, essays, and contextual documents. Instructors can assign these readings – or upload their favorite texts – and create a customized lesson or module around the selection.
Close to 500 hundred reading comprehension quizzes on commonly taught stories, poems, plays, and essays. These multiple choice quizzes report to the instructor gradebook and help students test their understanding of a specific literary selection.
Instruction and Exercises on the Elements of Literature – fiction, poetry, drama, figurative language, and more – provide students with an overview of key literary concepts and invite them to test their understanding.
Critical Approaches to Literature offer students a brief guide to each of the key critical lenses for approaching literature.
Author videos on the elements of literature are perfect for the YouTube generation and include T.C. Boyle on comedy in fiction, Anne Rice on transitions in fiction, and Frank McCourt on voice. Using the video editing tools in LaunchPad, instructors can annotate, assign, and add questions or comments to these videos, as well as apply these tools to videos that they upload themselves.
Thinking Aloud about Literature videos provide a window into the close-reading process of three students as they work their way through a poem by Louise Glück.
A Glossary of Literary Terms is a comprehensive resource for students and instructors.
MLA Instruction and Practice prepare students for writing and documenting their sources using The MLA Handbook 8e (2016).
LearningCurve adaptive quizzing is game-like online quizzing that adapts to what students already know and helps them focus on what they need to learn. It offers a thorough coverage of grammar topics, MLA and APA citation, and argument.
More than 100 Grammar Girl podcasts offer a different way to experience and understand writing, grammar, and punctuation. The host, Mignon Fogarty (a.k.a. Grammar Girl), offers clear, upbeat, and sometimes humorous takes on a variety of English-language topics.
New to This Edition
"Using LaunchPad Solo for Literature helped improved students' understanding of literature and enhanced class discussions. I saw an improvement in exam scores, as well."
– Tiffany Messerschmidt, Polk State College"I like that it encourages students to stop and reflect on what they are reading."
– Abigail Scheg, Elizabeth City State University"I like that it requires students to use higher level thinking skills as they compare two texts."
– Nichole DeWall, McKendree University

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Table of Contents
Welcome
Contents by Author (instructor-only)
Contents by Genre (instructor-only)
Video Contents (instructor-only)
LaunchPad Solo for Literature contains Interactive Modules with three to four activity types:
Respond to a Reading
Draw Connections
Collaborate on a Reading
Listen to a Reading
Interactive modules are based on the following selections:
Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book
Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
Emily Dickinson, I Heard A Fly Buzz
Robert Frost, Mending Wall
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
Jamaica Kincaid, Girl
Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
William Shakespeare, scenes from Hamlet
William Shakespeare, scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
John Updike, A&P
Sophocles, scenes from Antigone
Oscar Wilde, scenes from The Importance of Being Earnest
William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow
Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
John Updike, A&P
William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow
Exercises on the Elements of Fiction
Character
Plot
Point of View
Setting
Style
Symbolism
Theme
Exercises on the Elements of Poetry
Assonance
Denotation and Connotation
Diction
Image
Irony
Meter
Rhyme
Tone
Word Order
Exercises on the Elements of Drama
Character
Dialogue
Performance
Plot
Setting and Staging
Theme
Exercises on Figurative Language and Other Elements
Allegory
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile
Symbol
Thinking Aloud about Literature
Student Laura Paik
Student Chelsea Dickson
Student Stephen Epples
Critical Approaches to Literature
Deconstruction
Feminist Criticism
Marxist Criticism
Postcolonial Criticism
Psychoanalytic Criticism
Reader-Response Criticism
Structuralism
The New Criticism
The New Historicism
A Glossary of Literary Terms
MLA Documentation
MLA Documentation Guide
LearningCurve: Working with Sources (MLA)
LearningCurve Exercises (40 exercise topics)
Grammar Girl Podcasts (over 100 to choose from)
Reading Comprehension Quizzes (nearly 500 to choose from)
Author Videos (over 130 to choose from)
ADDITIONAL READING SELECTIONS (over 200 to choose from)
* An asterisk indicates there is a quiz or exercise for the selection.
Additional Selections: Fiction
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. from Tarzan of the Apes *
Cather, Willa. Paul's Case *
Cather, Willa. A Wagner Matinée
Chekhov, Anton. The Lady with the Dog *
Chopin, Kate. The Story of an Hour *
Conrad, Joseph. An Outpost of Progress *
Crane, Stephen. The Open Boat *
Crane, Stephen. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky *
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Winter Dreams *
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper *
Harte, Bret. The Luck of Roaring Camp
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Birthmark *
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Minister's Black Veil *
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Young Goodman Brown *
Hemingway, Ernest. Hills Like White Elephants *
Hurston, Zora Neale. Spunk *
James, Henry. The Jolly Corner
James, Henry. The Real Thing
Jewett, Sarah Orne. A White Heron *
Joyce, James. Eveline *
Kincaid, Jamaica. Girl *
Lawrence, D. H. The Horse Dealer's Daughter *
London, Jack. The Law of Life
London, Jack. To Build a Fire *
Mansfield, Katherine. Miss Brill *
Mansfield, Katherine. The Fly *
Melville, Herman. Bartleby, the Scrivener *
Poe, Edgar Allan. The Cask of Amontillado *
Twain, Mark. The Story of the Good Little Boy
Updike, John. A&P *
Wharton, Edith. The Quicksand
Additional Selections: Poetry
Anonymous. Bonny Barbara Allan
Anonymous. Scarborough Fair
Anonymous. The Frog
Anonymous. There was a young lady named Bright
Anonymous. Western Wind
Arnold, Matthew. Dover Beach
Behn, Aphra. On Her Loving Two Equally
Blake, William. Infant Sorrow
Blake, William. London
Blake, William. The Chimney Sweeper
Blake, William. The Garden of Love
Blake, William. The Lamb
Blake, William. The Tyger
Bradstreet, Anne. To My Dear and Loving Husband
Bronte, Emily. Riches I hold in light esteem
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. When our two souls stand up erect and strong
Browning, Robert. Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
Browning, Robert . Meeting at Night
Browning, Robert . My Last Duchess
Browning, Robert. Parting at Morning
Burns, Robert. A Red, Red Rose
Byron, Lord George Gordon. She walks in Beauty
Carroll, Lewis. Jabberwocky
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Kubla Khan
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. What Is an Epigram?
Crane, Stephen. Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind
Crane, Stephen. A Man Said to the Universe
Dickinson, Emily. Apparently With No Surprise
Dickinson, Emily. "Faith" is a fine invention
Dickinson, Emily. I Know That He Exists
Dickinson, Emily. If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
Dickinson, Emily. Oh Sumptuous Moment
Dickinson, Emily. Portraits Are to Daily Faces
Dickinson, Emily. Some keep the Sabbath going to Church—
Dickinson, Emily. The Bustle in a House
Dickinson, Emily. The Thought Beneath So Slight a Film—
Dickinson, Emily. To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
Dickinson, Emily. Water, is taught by thirst
Dickinson, Emily. Wild Nights—Wild Nights!
Donne, John. Batter my heart, three-personed God
Donne, John. Death Be Not Proud
Donne, John. Song
Donne, John. The Apparition
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. We Wear the Mask
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Theology
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. To a Captious Critic
Eliot, George. In a London Drawingroom
Eliot, T. S. Preludes
Eliot, T. S. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Farries, Helen. Magic of Love
Freneau, Philip. The Indian Burying Ground
Frost, Robert. After Apple-Picking
Frost, Robert. Birches
Frost, Robert. The Road Not Taken
Frost, Robert. An Old Man's Winter Night
Frost, Robert. Home Burial
Frost, Robert. "In White": An Early Version of "Design"
Frost, Robert. Mowing
Frost, Robert. My November Guest
Frost, Robert. "Out, Out—"
Frost, Robert. Storm Fear
Frost, Robert. The Oven Bird
Frost, Robert. The Pasture
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Queer People
Gray, Thomas. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Hardy, Thomas. The Convergence of the Twain
Hardy, Thomas. Hap
Hardy, Thomas. In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"
Harper, Frances E. W Learning to Read
Herbert, George. The Pulley
Herbert, George. The Collar
Herrick, Robert. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Herrick, Robert. Delight in Disorder
Herrick, Robert. Upon Julia's Clothes
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. God's Grandeur
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, Spring and Fall
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Hurrahing in Harvest
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Pied Beauty
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. The Windhover
Housman, A. E. "Terence, this is stupid stuff"
Housman, A. E. To an Athlete Dying Young
Housman, A. E. Is my team ploughing
Housman, A. E. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Housman, A. E. When I was one-and-twenty
Howe, Julia Ward. Battle-Hymn of the Republic
Jonson, Ben. On My First Son
Jonson, Ben. Still to Be Neat
Jonson, Ben. To Celia
Keats, John. To Autumn
Keats, John. Ode to a Nightingale
Keats, John. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
Keats, John. To one who has been long in city pent
Keats, John. When I have fears that I may cease to be
Keats, John. Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition
Keats, John. La Belle Dame sans Merci
Keats, John. Ode on a Grecian Urn
Lazarus, Emma. The New Colossus
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Snow-Flakes
Lowell, Amy. The Pond
Marlowe, Christopher. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
McKay, Claude. America
Millay, Edna St. Vincent. Wild Swans
Millay, Edna St. Vincent. Recuerdo
Millay, Edna St. Vincent. First Fig
Milton, John. On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
Milton, John. When I consider how my light is spent
Owen, Wilfred. Dulce et Decorum Est
Poe, Edgar Allan. Annabel Lee
Poe, Edgar Allan. The Haunted Palace
Pope, Alexander. from An Essay on Criticism
Raleigh, Sir Walter. The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Robinson, Edwin Arlington . Richard Cory
Robinson, Mary. London's Summer Morning
Rossetti, Christina Georgina. In Progress
Rossetti, Christina Georgina. Promises Like Pie-Crust
Rossetti, Christina Georgina. Some Ladies Dress in Muslin Full and White
Rossetti, Christina Georgina. Song
Rossetti, Christina Georgina. The World
Sandburg, Carl. Buttons
Sandburg, Carl. Chicago
Sappho. Beautiful-throned, Immortal Aphrodite
Sappho. Immortal Aphrodite of the broidered throne
Sassoon, Siegfried. "They"
Shakespeare, William. Sonnet 116
Shakespeare, William. Sonnet 130
Shakespeare, William. Sonnet 18
Shakespeare, William. Sonnet 73
Shakespeare, William. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Shakespeare, William. When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
Shakespeare, William. When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Ozymandias
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Ode to the West Wind
Sidney, Sir Phillip. Loving in Truth, and Fain in Verse My Love to Show
Sigourney, Lydia Huntley. Indian Names
Southey, Robert. from "The Cataract of Lodore"
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. estina
Taylor, Edward. Housewifery
Tennyson, Lord Alfred. Break, Break, Break
Tennyson, Lord Alfred. The Charge of the Light Brigade
Tennyson, Lord Alfred. Crossing the Bar
Tennyson, Lord Alfred. Ulysses
Tennyson, Lord Alfred. Tears, Idle Tears
Whitman, Walt, A Noiseless Patient Spider
Whitman, Walt. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Whitman, Walt. Cavalry Crossing a Ford
Whitman, Walt. from "I Sing the Body Electric"
Whitman, Walt. from Song of Myself
Whitman, Walt. I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Organ
Whitman, Walt. One's-Self I Sing
Whitman, Walt. When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
Williams, William Carlos. To Waken an Old Lady
Wordsworth, William. Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Wordsworth, William. The world is too much with us
Wordsworth, William. A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
Wordsworth, William. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Wordsworth, William. It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
Wordsworth, William. London, 1802
Wordsworth, William. Mutability
Wordsworth, William. My Heart Leaps Up
Wordsworth, William. The Solitary Reaper
Wordsworth, William. The World Is Too Much With Us
Wyatt, Sir Thomas. They flee from me
Additional Selections: Non Fiction/Critical Contexts
Dickinson, Emily. A Description of Herself
Douglass, Frederick. Learning to Read and Write *
Hurston, Zora Neale. How It Feels to Be Colored Me *
Mayor of London. Objections to the Elizabethan Theater 1597
Truth, Sojourner. Ain't I a Woman?
Zitkala-Sa. The School Days of an Indian Girl

LaunchPad Solo for Literature (1-Term Access)
First Edition| 2016
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In 1981, Charles Christensen and Joan Feinberg founded an imprint of St. Martin's Press called Bedford Books and started work on The Bedford Reader. Today, Bedford/St. Martin's is publishing across the disciplines of English, History, Communication, Music, and College Success. Books like A Writer's Reference, The Bedford Series in History and Culture, and A Speaker's Guidebook work because they grow from where disciplines are, where they're going, and what they need.

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