Peenie Wallie: 11th Grade English/American Literature

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January 30, 2006

11th Grade English/American Literature

I'm trying to find my Enlish/American Literature book from the 11th grade. So far, no luck. This site looks promising though. I think that our book may have been "BRITISH AND WESTERN LITERATURE: THEMES AND WRITERS", 3rd Edition, 1979, by MCGRAW HILL, ISBN 0070098719. I seem to recall that we read the following:

Short Stories:
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe
"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe
"A&P" by John Updike
"Why I live at the Post Office" by Eudora Welty
"The Secret Sharer" by Joseph Conrad
"To Build A Fire" by Jack London
"The Singing Bell" by Isaac Asimov
"Beowulf"

Poems:
"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"To his Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell
"Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" by Thomas Gray

Plays:
"The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams

Separate Reading Assignments(possibly from other grades):
Lord of the Flies by William Goldwing - 9th grade?
Lady Chatterly's Lover by DH Lawrence

Here's a post I made on a sci-fi web site.

Update: The story I was trying to recall is "The Singing Bell" by Isaac Asimov, originallly published in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" in January 1955. This short story was republished in the following books:

"Asimov's Mysteries", Fawcett Crest, New York, 1968. ISBN: 0449232239 (paperback)/ISBN: 0385090633(hardback)

"The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov" by Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1986, ISBN: 0449132870

"The Complete Stories" Volume 2, Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1992. ISBN: 0385420781

"Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Volume 2", Anchor, March 1992, ISBN:0385420781

The Singing Bell
First Published In: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1955, pp. 97-110
Collections:

* Asimov's Mysteries
* The Complete Stories, Volume 2

Anthologies:

* The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, 5th Series, Anthony Boucher, ed. Doubleday, 1956, pp. 226-244
* Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow..., Bonnie L. Heintz, Frank Herbert, Donald A. Joos and Jane Agorn McGee, eds. Holt, Rinehart & Winston (pbk), 1974
* The 13 Crimes of Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds. Doubleday, 1979, pp. 222-237
* Sci-Fi Private Eye, Charles G.Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Roc, March 1997, pp. 9-33

Year Publisher Grade Title
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1979 HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH 9 ADVENTURES IN READING
1979 HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH 11 ADVENTURES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
1979 HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH 12 ADVENTURES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
1979 MCGRAW HILL MID-HS BRITISH AND WESTERN LITERATURE: THEMES AND WRITERS
1979 MCGRAW HILL MID-HS ENCOUNTERS: THEMES IN LITERATURE
1979 MCGRAW HILL MID-HS AMERICAN LITERATURE: THEMES AND WRITERS
1979 MCGRAW HILL MID-HS INSIGHTS: THEMES IN LITERATURE
1979 SCOTT FORESMAN MID-HS QUESTION AND FORM IN LITERATURE: MEDALLION EDITION-AMERICA READS
1979 SCOTT FORESMAN MID-HS PURPOSE IN LITERATURE: MEDALLION EDITION-AMERICA READS
1979 SCOTT FORESMAN MID-HS ARRANGEMENT IN LITERATURE: MEDALLION EDITION-AMERICA READS
1980 HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH 10 ADVENTURES IN APPRECIATION
1980 HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH 12 ADVENTURE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
1981 HEATH 12 LIVING LITERATURE: THE LITERARY HERITAGE
1982 SCOTT FORESMAN MID-HS LITERATURE AND LIFE: MEDALLION EDITION-AMERICA READS
1982 SCOTT FORESMAN MID-HS ENGLAND IN LITERATURE: MEDALLION EDITION-AMERICA READS
1982 SCOTT FORESMAN MID-HS ENGLAND IN LITERATURE: MEDALLION EDITION-AMERICA READS
1982 SCOTT FORESMAN MID-HS UNITED STATE IN LITERATURE: MEDALLION EDITION-AMERICA READS
1982 SCOTT FORESMAN MID-HS QUESTION AND FORM IN LITERATURE: MEDALLION EDITION-AMERICA READS
1982 SCOTT FORESMAN MID-HS ARRANGEMENT IN LITERATURE: MEDALLION EDITION-AMERICA READS
1983 HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH MID-HS LITERATURE: STRUCTURE, SOUND, AND SENSE
1983 SCHOLASTIC 9 SCOPE ENGLISH ANTHOLOGY: LITERATURE AND READING PROGRAM - LEVEL 3