Building Academic Literacy Set (contains Anthology and Teacher's Companion)

This anthology serves as a valuable classroom text for encouraging underachieving middle and high school students to become motivated, confident, and competent readers. Featuring essays, memoirs, and journalistic pieces by such writers as Maxine Hong Kingston, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, and Richard Rodriguez, the anthology is suitable and recommended for use in any English/language arts courses at the secondary level.