Prologue
Possibilities
Linda Pastan
Creating Context
“They Have to Take You In” • Concept Vocabulary
Cluster One: What Is a Family?
Thinking Skill: Defining
- Thanksgiving in Polynesia (short story)
- Susan Haven
- I Am Singing Now (poem)
- Luci Tapahonso
- Nativity (personal narrative)
- Gary Paulsen
- Gang Girl (article)
- Isis Sapp-Grant as told to Rosemarie Robotham
Cluster Two: How Are We Influenced by Family?
Thinking Skill: Comparing and Contrasting
- The Charmer (short story)
- Budge Wilson
- Keeping Hair (poem)
- Ramona Wilson
- Lectures on How You Never
Lived Back Home (short story)
- M. Evelina Galang
- Birth-Order Blues (article)
- Paula Lynn Parks
- Third Child (humor column)
- Erma Bombeck
- Growing Up (short story)
- Gary Soto
Cluster Three: How Do Families Deal with Problems?
Thinking Skill: Evaluating
- Somebody’s Son (short story)
- Richard Pindell
- After the Divorce (poem)
- Jewel Kilcher
- Gillian, Age Thirteen (personal narrative)
- As told to Jill Krementz
- Getting the Facts of Life (short story)
- Paulette Childress White
- Nikki-Rosa (poem)
- Nikki Giovanni
- Phoenix Farm (short story)
- Jane Yolen
Cluster Four: Thinking on Your Own
Thinking Skill: Synthesizing
- Clear Glass Marbles (dramatic monologue)
- Jane Martin
- Trust Me (short story)
- Frederick Waterman
- Father and Son (poem)
- William Stafford
- Dancer (short story)
- Vickie Sears
- As It Is with Strangers (short story)
- Susan Beth Pfeffer
