Errors in Pearson "Literature Reading and Language Grade Ten"

      1.  P. 4:  The book says, “More precisely, nonfiction reports on real people, events, and ideas, while fiction narrates an imagined story.”  This is a very defective definition.  Does all fiction have an imagined story?  What about poetry?  What about opinion?  What about religion?  What

      This “definition” of fiction/nonfiction is supposedly the idea of a writer Susan Vreeland.  But in the textbook for Grade Nine, another writer Elizabeth McCracken has a different definition.  Is one definition correct, and the other wrong?  Or what?

      2.  P. 6:  The book says, “Elements of Fiction.  Fiction is narrative prose about characters and events from the author’s imagination.  All works of fiction share the following basic elements….”  ALL WORKS?  This is another definition of “fiction” that does not line up with the p. 4 definition, or the Grade Nine book.

      3.  P. 7:  The books says, “Elements of Nonfiction.  In addition to conveying information, a nonfiction writer may offer a particular point of view of his or her subject….”  This is another definition of nonfiction as contrasted with p. 4.

      4.  Throughout the book are commercial advertisements for the commercial website www.PHLitOnline.com, which has not been reviewed for its content or accuracy.  It violates the statute.