Foreword to the First Edition; Foreword to the Second Edition; Preface; Acknowledgements; Act I: A Maine-Island Fishing Community in the 1980s; Introduction to 1992 Edition; Community; The Culture of Time; Literacy; Time; Summary of Chapters; A Note on Transcription and Voice; Chapter One: Ways with Lobsters; Chapter Two: Work on the Island; Chapter Three: Fay: Time on the Threshold of Writing; Telling Time; Writing Class; Keeping Track of Students' Writing; Writing Topics; Prewriting; Penmanship and Drawing; Spelling; Writing and Talking; Conferences; Revision
Sharing Writing with the ClassA Time to Talk and a Time to Be Quiet; Publishing; Time and Story; My Kitten; A Critique of the Writing Process; Chapter Four: Mark: Writing in Grade Six; Writing Class; Topics; Baiting Mania; Storm; Imaginative Writing; Audience; Planning the Writing; Waiting for a Conference; The Writing Conference; Revision; A Critique of the Writing Process: "Why Write?"; Time Management and the Quarter System; Homework; Learning at Home and in School; Literacy and the Future; Chapter Five: Christie: Writing and the Future; The High School Daily Schedule
Students' Attitudes toward the High-School ScheduleLearning the Schedule; Transition between Classes; School Time and Personal Time; Time and Being in School; Grammar Review; Time Frame for Composing: "Due Monday; I'll Do It on Sunday"; Rhythm of Writing; Rhythm of the Quarter and Due Dates; Rhythm of the Year; Waiting for the Return of Papers; Grades and Comments; Prewriting; Revision; Due Dates; Homework and Schoolwork: Time for You and Time for Me; Economic Realities; Homework; The Future: A Time to Leave School; Chapter Six: Timescapes for Literacy
Timescapes in a Maine Fishing CommunityActivity Time; Natural Time; Clock Time; School Time; Social Time; Television Time; Sacred Time; Existential Time; Island Time; Island Time and School Time; Narrative Time and Prior Texts; Island Literacy for the Future; From Island to Mainland; Time of Writing; Duration of Writing; Frequency of Writing; Order of Writing; Beginning and Ending Writing; Waiting for Writing; Rhythms of Writing; Reshaping Time; Timescapes for Literacy; Writing Communities and the Politics of Time; Act II: Twenty-Five Years Later; Introduction to 2014 Edition
Chapter Seven: Return to the Island"Town Ain't Town No More"; Down the Bay; Clam Flat Alliance; Traditional Community Values and Change; Parallel Lives: Islanders and People "From Away"; Women's Work and Education; Island Time vs. Clock Time; Growing Up Digital; Chapter Eight: Writing in High School: On Paper-Online; Test Scores and School Improvement; Sustained Silent Reading and Library Use; Class Visits; Contemporary Issues; Honors English; Marine Technology; Writing; Composing an Essay; Readers' Comments and Teachers' Grades; Revisions; Internet Research
