"This is terrific work, available to both beginning and advanced students and wonderfully unobtrusive, that is, making so much available only if students want it. But the material is so alluring they WILL want it!"

Professor James Kincaid, USC

THE GLEEDITIONS, LLC TEAM
Founded on three decades of experience producing academic materials, including extensive attention to historical as well as literary contexts, Gleeditions addresses fundamental educational needs.

The ongoing creative team consists of a core group of technical, academic, and editorial advisors. Providing oversight for particular subject areas and audiences are Robert Watson, Professor, UCLA English; James Kincaid, Professor, USC English; and Carol Jago, Secondary-English Instructor Emeritus, 2010 President of NCTE, and Director of the California Reading and Literature Project at UCLA.

The central development team consists of senior editor Joyce Moss (Phi Beta Kappa, UCLA English; Masters, USC Instructional Technology); software engineer George Spanos (Masters, CSULB Computer Science); and assistant editors Diane Mannone (Masters, CSUDH Rhetoric and Composition and Adjunct English Professor) and Lisa Granados (UCLA; Masters candidate, UCI English). Directed by George Spanos, design of this website is a product, as well, of the creative efforts of Abe Kislevitz and Kaelee Makarick.

Deep appreciation is extended to Kunal Kadakia for his strategic technical advice to Gleeditions, and to Hilda K. Weisburg for her real-world feedback on school media needs. Gratitude for informational content goes to the academic experts who developed the online editions (for names and credentials, see the Title Page of each edition). Lastly, we heartily thank the broad mix of students and teachers who field tested Gleeditions.

GUIDING PHILOSOPHY
Behind this site is a firm belief in the value of looking at the various aspects of a text to comprehend its artistry and the ideas it conveys. There is, of course, more than one way to analyze a text. What one person sees as Voice/Point of View, another may see as Themes/Issues. The site does not presume to be definitive. It does, on the other hand, provide tools that contribute to and help stimulate analysis and mastery of the given text. Although Gleeditions LLC relies on a highly regarded team of experienced scholars who specialize in the field, we, the developers, realize that other approaches are as legitimate as ours. Readers with new or different ways of looking at a text, which are supportable by reference to that text, have our hearty encouragement. We are all part of the same enlightening process.

COMMON CORE TITLES
In 2010 the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers (in collaboaration with teachers, administrators, and subject-matter specialists) developed Common Core State Standards in education. Already adopted by 43 states and territories, these Standards include an English Language Arts Appendix B, which lists literary texts across the genres by grade level.

Gleeditions, in keeping with these Standards and in consultation with its academic consultants in the field, now provides on its site e-ditions of the literary works listed in Appendix B for Grades 9–CCR*. In contrast to Gleeditions interactive online editions, these Common Core e-texts are not newly or fully annotated. Rather they are digitized editions of the print publications recommended in Appendix B that are currently in the public domain. Whenever possible, Gleeditions made available the exact edition specified in Appendix B. If that edition is still in copyright, Gleeditions consulted with its academic specialists to mount the finest available public-domain edition of the text. Finally, to the extent possible, the editors obtained permission to include specified titles still in copyright (e.g., Elie Wiesel’s “Hope, Despair and Memory”).

* College and Career Readiness