Texas essential knowledge and skills -- Open-ended response questions -- Spotlight on Texas -- How to use Glencoe Literature -- Reading handbook -- unit 1. How do you stay true to yourself?: Acting on your values, My name / S. Cisneros; Believing in yourself, Abuela invents the zero / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- unit 2. Reading: what's in it for you?: Reading for knowledge, There is no frigate like a book / E. Dickinson, Huge, freed pet phthons invade Florida everglades / S. Lovgren; Reading for enjoyment, [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / E. Allan Poe -- unit 3. What's more important, the journey or the destination?: Difficult paths, Drummer boy of Shiloh / R. Bradbury, Exile / Julia Alvarez; Memorable places, Knozville, Tennessee / N. Giovanni -- unit 4. What's worth fighting for?: Society and the world, Saving water / M. Lamb, Treasure of Lemon Brown / W.D. Myers; Freedom and fairness, Harlem / L. Hughes -- unit 5. What really matters?: Personal connections, Clean sweep / J. Bauer; Social issues, from Elegy on the death of Cesar Chavez / Rudolfo Anaya; Scientific matters, from The story of my life / Helen Keller -- unit 6. How do you keep from giving up?: The diary of Anne Frand, Act One-Two / Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett -- Reference section: Literary terms handbook; Reading and thinking with foldables; Functional documents; Writing handbook; Language handbook; Speaking, listening, and viewing handbook; Glossary.