Glencoe+Literature

==**Glencoe Literature: The Reader's Choice. (Course 4). (2000). New York: McGraw-Hill. **==

This volume is a typical ninth grade literature textbook. The contents include short stories, essays, dramas, excerpts from novels, and poetry. Literature written by a diversity of authors is represented, including an array of nationalities, languages (in translation), genders, and eras.

The text is heavily annotated with vocabulary explanations in context. Footnotes clarify references that will most likely be unfamiliar to the ninth grade student. Art and historical photographs compliment the text on most of the pages. Most of the selected works are preficed by background information on the author and the surrounding historical context. Study strategies and possible projects also accompany most of the selections to aid student comprehension and access.