This collection consists of one short story, three poems, and two speeches which represent the feelings of those involved in war. It includes "The Cricket on the Heart," "Conquerors," "Stop the Sun," "Wirers," "I Will Fight No More Forever," and "The Crisis." Each selection comes with higher-level thinking questions which require students to identify strategies or literary devices and determine why the author used them. Charts for rhyme scheme, literary device, and vocabulary identification a