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grade 9Selection Choices ............. 14Nonfiction and Informational Texts ............ 16

grade 6Selection Choices ...............2Nonfiction and Informational Texts ..............4



grade 10Selection Choices ............. 18Nonfiction and Informational Texts ............20

grade 11Literature Selections ..........22Nonfiction and Informational Texts ............26


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grade 10Selection Choices ............. 18Nonfiction and Informational Texts ............20



2 3

Unit 1: Fiction and Nonfiction

THE BIG QUESTION

How do we decide what is true?

Jane Yolen What is Fiction and Nonfiction?

Greyling

My Heart Is in the Highlands

Cynthia Rylant Stray

Laurence Yep The Homecoming

Gary Soto The Drive-In Movies

James Herriot The Market Square Dog

Julius Lester Why Monkeys Live in Trees

Susan E. Quinlan The Case of the Monkeys That Fell

From the Trees

Susy Clemens My Papa, Mark Twain

Mark Twain Stage Fright

Julia Alvarez Names/Nombres

Robert Fulghum The Lady and the Spider

Ray Bradbury The Sound of Summer Running

Sandra Cisneros Eleven

Unit 2: Short Stories

THE BIG QUESTION

Is conflict always bad?

Jean Craighead George What Is a Short Story?

The Wounded Wolf

Joyce Hansen The Tail

John Gardner Dragon, Dragon

Isaac Bashevis Singer Zlateh the Goat

Chief Luther

Standing Bear

The Old Woman Who Lived

With the Wolves

James Berry Becky and the Wheels-and-Brake Boys

Judith Viorst The Southpaw

Francisco Jimenez The Circuit

Lensey Namioka The All-American Slurp

Jack London The King of Mazy May

Myron Levoy Aaron’s Gift

Isaac Asimov The Fun They Had

Arthur C. Clarke Feathered Friend

Selection Choices

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Unit 3: Types of Nonfiction

THE BIG QUESTION

What is important to know?

Zlata Filipovic What Is Nonfiction?

from Zlata’s Diary

Helen Keller Water

Russell Baker Hard as Nails

Geoffrey C. Ward and

Ken Burns

Jackie Robinson: Justice at Last

Patricia C. McKissack and

Fredrick McKissack, Jr.

The Shutout

Julia Alvarez from Something to Declare

Russell Freedman A Backwoods Boy

Bailey White Turkeys

Eloise Greenfield Langston Terrace

John Phillip Santos La Leña Buena

Paul Zindel from The Pigman & Me

Yoshiko Uchida Letter From a Concentration Camp

F. Scott Fitzgerald Letter to Scottie

Unit 4: Poetry

THE BIG QUESTION

Do we need words to communicate well?

Gary Soto What Is Poetry?

Oranges

Ode to Family Photographs

Ogden Nash The Adventures of Isabel

Rosemary and

Stephen Vincent Benét

Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright

Jack Prelutsky Ankylosaurus

Edgar Allan Poe A Dream Within a Dream

Maya Angelou Life Doesn’t Frighten Me

Lewis Carroll The Walrus and the Carpenter

Eve Merriam Simile: Willow and Ginkgo

Langston Hughes April Rain Song

Emily Dickinson Fame Is a Bee

Sandra Cisneros Abuelito Who

Nikki Giovanni The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be

Theodore Roethke Child on Top of a Greenhouse

E. E. Cummings who knows if the moon’s

Robert Frost Dust of Snow

Matsuo Bashò Haiku

Lillian Morrison The Sidewalk Racer

Anonymous Limerick

Muso Soseki Haiku

Dorthi Charles Concrete Cat

Anonymous Limerick

Shel Silverstein No Thank You

Rachel Field Parade

Octavio Paz Wind and water and stone

William Shakespeare The Fairies’ Lullaby

Diana Chang Saying Yes

Gwendolyn Brooks Cynthia in the Snow

Pablo Neruda Childhood and Poetry

Naomi Shihab Nye Alphabet

Unit 5: Types of Drama

THE BIG QUESTION

How do we decide who we are?

Joseph Bruchac What Is Drama?

Gluskabe and Old Man Winter

Susan Nanus The Phantom Tollbooth, Act I

The Phantom Tollbooth, Act II

Clark Gesner from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Matthew MacDermid Happiness Is a Charming Charlie Brown

at Orlando Rep

2 3


THE BIG QUESTION

How do we decide what is true?

Jane Yolen What is Fiction and Nonfiction?

Greyling


Cynthia Rylant Stray

Laurence Yep The Homecoming



Julius Lester Why Monkeys Live in Trees

Susan E. Quinlan The Case of the Monkeys That Fell

From the Trees


Mark Twain Stage Fright



Ray Bradbury The Sound of Summer Running

Sandra Cisneros Eleven


THE BIG QUESTION

Is conflict always bad?


The Wounded Wolf

Joyce Hansen The Tail

John Gardner Dragon, Dragon

Isaac Bashevis Singer Zlateh the Goat

Chief Luther

Standing Bear

The Old Woman Who Lived

With the Wolves

James Berry Becky and the Wheels-and-Brake Boys

Judith Viorst The Southpaw

Francisco Jimenez The Circuit

Lensey Namioka The All-American Slurp

Jack London The King of Mazy May

Myron Levoy Aaron’s Gift

Isaac Asimov The Fun They Had

Arthur C. Clarke Feathered Friend

Selection Choices

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THE BIG QUESTION

What is important to know?



Helen Keller Water



Ken Burns




The Shutout





John Phillip Santos La Leña Buena

Paul Zindel from The Pigman & Me

Yoshiko Uchida Letter From a Concentration Camp


Unit 4: Poetry

THE BIG QUESTION

Do we need words to communicate well?


Oranges

Ode to Family Photographs

Ogden Nash The Adventures of Isabel

Rosemary and

Stephen Vincent Benét

Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright

Jack Prelutsky Ankylosaurus

Edgar Allan Poe A Dream Within a Dream

Maya Angelou Life Doesn’t Frighten Me

Lewis Carroll The Walrus and the Carpenter

Eve Merriam Simile: Willow and Ginkgo

Langston Hughes April Rain Song

Emily Dickinson Fame Is a Bee

Sandra Cisneros Abuelito Who

Nikki Giovanni The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be

Theodore Roethke Child on Top of a Greenhouse

E. E. Cummings who knows if the moon’s

Robert Frost Dust of Snow

Matsuo Bashò Haiku

Lillian Morrison The Sidewalk Racer

Anonymous Limerick

Muso Soseki Haiku

Dorthi Charles Concrete Cat

Anonymous Limerick

Shel Silverstein No Thank You

Rachel Field Parade

Octavio Paz Wind and water and stone

William Shakespeare The Fairies’ Lullaby

Diana Chang Saying Yes

Gwendolyn Brooks Cynthia in the Snow


Naomi Shihab Nye Alphabet

Unit 5: Types of Drama

THE BIG QUESTION

How do we decide who we are?


Gluskabe and Old Man Winter

Susan Nanus The Phantom Tollbooth, Act I

The Phantom Tollbooth, Act II

Clark Gesner from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Matthew MacDermid Happiness Is a Charming Charlie Brown

at Orlando Rep

4 5

Literature in Context—Reading in the Content Areas

Social StudieS connection Drive-In Movies

Science connection Living Layers

literature connection Twain Makes His Mark

Science connection Spin Cycle (illustrated)

Safety connection Pet Precautions

literature connection Traditional Dragon Stories

Social StudieS connection Home on the Range

GeoGraphy connection Agricultural Seasons

hiStory connection “Cold” Rush (illustrated)

hiStory connection Cossacks

culture connection Journalism

hiStory connection Making History (illustrated)

Science connection Leaving the Nest (illustrated)

BioGraphy connection The Man Langston Terrace Honors

culture connection Turnpike Tollbooth

Science connection Measuring Time (illustrated)

culture connection Plumb Line

hiStory connection Trail Riders (illustrated)

literature connection Allusions

culture connection Athene

literature connection Rocks and Roles

MuSic connection What Is the Delta Blues? (illustrated)

Additional Nonfiction

Jane Yolen What Is Fiction and Nonfiction?




Susan E. Quinlan The Case of the Monkeys That Fell From

the Trees


Mark Twain Stagefright






Helen Keller Water



Ken Burns




The Shutout





John Philip Santos La Leña Buena

Paul Zindel from The Pigman and Me





Julius Lester What Is Folk Literature?

Reading Informational Materials

weB Site www.aspca.org

newS article Rescuers to Carry Oxygen Masks

for Pets

atlaS entry The Caribbean

travel Brochure Florida Keys Brochure

alManac The Seven Wonders of the World

textBook Egyptian Pyramids

eSSay Race to the End of the Earth

annotated Map Gold Rush: Journey By Land

Richard Durbin Preserving a Great American Symbol

Reginald T. Dogan Jake Wood Baseball is the start of

something special

advertiSeMent Ball Band Shoes

advertiSeMent Neolite Soles

inStructional Manual Origami: Apatosaurus

entry forM World of Escher: Contest Entry Form

policieS docuMent Library Card Information

application Forsyth County Public Library Card

Application

online article NASA Finally Goes Metric

perSuative text Metric Metric: It’s so nice,

we’ll say it twice!™

newS releaSe Satellites and Sea Lions: Working

Together to Improve Ocean Models

encyclopedia entry California Sea Lions

encyclopedia entry How to Read a Road Map

Street Map Downtown Atlanta

Nonfiction and Info rmational TextsSelection Choices continued

Unit 6: Types of Folk Literature

THE BIG QUESTION

How much do our communities shape us?


Black Cowboy, Wild Horses

James Thurber The Tiger Who Would Be King

Leo Tolstoy The Ant and the Dove

Aesop The Lion and the Bulls

My-Van Tran A Crippled Boy

Olivia E. Coolidge Arachne

Witi Ihimaera “Prologue” from The Whale Rider

Rudyard Kipling Mowgli’s Brothers

Roald Dahl from James and the Giant Peach

Chinua Achebe Why the Tortoise’s Shell Is Not Smooth

Virginia Hamilton He Lion, Bruh Bear, and Bruh Rabbit

Ricardo E. Alegria The Three Wishes

Lloyd Alexander The Stone

Joan Aiken Lob’s Girl

Walter Dean Myers Jeremiah’s Song

4 5


Social StudieS connection Drive-In Movies

Science connection Living Layers

literature connection Twain Makes His Mark

Science connection Spin Cycle (illustrated)

Safety connection Pet Precautions

literature connection Traditional Dragon Stories

Social StudieS connection Home on the Range

GeoGraphy connection Agricultural Seasons

hiStory connection “Cold” Rush (illustrated)

hiStory connection Cossacks

culture connection Journalism

hiStory connection Making History (illustrated)

Science connection Leaving the Nest (illustrated)

BioGraphy connection The Man Langston Terrace Honors

culture connection Turnpike Tollbooth

Science connection Measuring Time (illustrated)

culture connection Plumb Line

hiStory connection Trail Riders (illustrated)

literature connection Allusions

culture connection Athene

literature connection Rocks and Roles

MuSic connection What Is the Delta Blues? (illustrated)


Jane Yolen What Is Fiction and Nonfiction?




Susan E. Quinlan The Case of the Monkeys That Fell From

the Trees


Mark Twain Stagefright






Helen Keller Water



Ken Burns




The Shutout





John Philip Santos La Leña Buena

Paul Zindel from The Pigman and Me







weB Site www.aspca.org

newS article Rescuers to Carry Oxygen Masks

for Pets

atlaS entry The Caribbean

travel Brochure Florida Keys Brochure

alManac The Seven Wonders of the World

textBook Egyptian Pyramids

eSSay Race to the End of the Earth

annotated Map Gold Rush: Journey By Land

Richard Durbin Preserving a Great American Symbol

Reginald T. Dogan Jake Wood Baseball is the start of

something special

advertiSeMent Ball Band Shoes

advertiSeMent Neolite Soles

inStructional Manual Origami: Apatosaurus

entry forM World of Escher: Contest Entry Form

policieS docuMent Library Card Information

application Forsyth County Public Library Card

Application

online article NASA Finally Goes Metric

perSuative text Metric Metric: It’s so nice,

we’ll say it twice!™

newS releaSe Satellites and Sea Lions: Working

Together to Improve Ocean Models

encyclopedia entry California Sea Lions

encyclopedia entry How to Read a Road Map

Street Map Downtown Atlanta


Unit 6: Types of Folk Literature

THE BIG QUESTION

How much do our communities shape us?


Black Cowboy, Wild Horses

James Thurber The Tiger Who Would Be King

Leo Tolstoy The Ant and the Dove

Aesop The Lion and the Bulls

My-Van Tran A Crippled Boy

Olivia E. Coolidge Arachne

Witi Ihimaera “Prologue” from The Whale Rider

Rudyard Kipling Mowgli’s Brothers

Roald Dahl from James and the Giant Peach

Chinua Achebe Why the Tortoise’s Shell Is Not Smooth

Virginia Hamilton He Lion, Bruh Bear, and Bruh Rabbit

Ricardo E. Alegria The Three Wishes

Lloyd Alexander The Stone

Joan Aiken Lob’s Girl

Walter Dean Myers Jeremiah’s Song

6 7

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THE BIG QUESTION

What should we learn?

Richard Mühlberger What Is Nonfiction?

What Makes a Rembrandt a Rembrandt?

Robert Zimmerman Life Without Gravity

Nancy Masterson

Sakamoto

Conversational Ballgames

Chief Dan George I Am a Native of North America

Judith Ortiz Cofer Volar: To Fly

Barbara Eaglesham A Special Gift:

The Legacy of “Snowflake” Bentley

Russell Baker No Gumption

Barbara Jordan All Together Now

Louis L’Amour The Eternal Frontier

Geoffrey C. Ward The Real Story of a Cowboy’s Life

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Rattlesnake Hunt

Bailey White Alligator

Robert Service Cremation of Sam McGee

Unit 4: Poetry

THE BIG QUESTION

What is the best way to communicate?

Pat Mora What Is Poetry?

Maestro

The Desert Is My Mother

El desierto es mi madre

Bailando

Naomi Shihab Nye The Rider

William Jay Smith Seal

Buson Haiku

Nikki Giovanni Winter

Mary Ellen Solt Forsythia

Matsuo Basho Haiku

Naomi Long Madgett Life

Wendy Rose Loo-Wit

Edna St. Vincent Millay The Courage That My Mother Had

Langston Hughes Mother to Son

Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow

The Village Blacksmith

Carl Sandburg Fog

Alfred Noyes The Highwayman

Gregory Djanikian How I Learned English

Shel Silverstein Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not

Take the Garbage Out

James Berry One

Eve Merriam Weather

William Shakespeare Full Fathom Five

Louise Bogan Train Tune

Eve Merriam Onomatopoeia

Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee

Raymond R. Patterson Martin Luther King

Emily Dickinson I’m Nobody

Lewis Carroll Father William

Robert Frost Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Gwendolyn Brooks Jim

Walt Whitman Miracles

E. E. Cummings in Just-

Unit 5: Drama

THE BIG QUESTION

Do others see us more clearly than we see ourselves?

Laurence Yep What Is Drama?

excerpt from Dragonwings


Israel Horovitz A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley

Act I

A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley

Act II

from A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and

Marley, Act I, Scene 2; Act I, Scene 5

Rod Serling The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

Arthur Miller from Grandpa and the Statue

Peg Kehret My Head Is Full of Starshine


THE BIG QUESTION

What is the best way to find the truth?

Richard Peck What Is Fiction and Nonfiction?

The Three Century Woman

Cynthia Rylant Papa’s Parrot

Jean Fritz mk

Annie Dillard from An American Childhood

Lucille Clifton The Luckiest Time of All

Ernesto Galarza from Barrio Boy

Ernest Hemingway A Day’s Wait

Ray Bradbury All Summer in a Day

Jane Yolen Suzy and Leah

Julia Alvarez My First Free Summer

Frank McCourt from Angela’s Ashes

James Thurber The Night the Bed Fell

Sherwood Anderson Stolen Day


THE BIG QUESTION

Does every conflict have a winner?

Walter Dean Myers What Is a Short Story?

The Treasure of Lemon Brown

Joseph Bruchac Bear Boy

Rudyard Kipling Rikki-tikki-tavi

Karen Hesse from Letters from Rifka

Amy Tan “Two Kinds” from The Joy Luck Club

Gary Soto Seventh Grade

Anna Quindlen Melting Pot

Joan Aiken The Third Wish

Piri Thomas Amigo Brothers

Edward D. Hoch Zoo

Laurence Yep Ribbons

O. Henry After Twenty Years

Shinichi Hoshi He—y, Come on O—ut!

Selection Choices

grade 7

6 7

table of contents


THE BIG QUESTION

What should we learn?


What Makes a Rembrandt a Rembrandt?


Nancy Masterson

Sakamoto




Barbara Eaglesham A Special Gift:

The Legacy of “Snowflake” Bentley







Robert Service Cremation of Sam McGee

Unit 4: Poetry

THE BIG QUESTION

What is the best way to communicate?


Maestro

The Desert Is My Mother

El desierto es mi madre

Bailando

Naomi Shihab Nye The Rider

William Jay Smith Seal

Buson Haiku

Nikki Giovanni Winter

Mary Ellen Solt Forsythia

Matsuo Basho Haiku

Naomi Long Madgett Life

Wendy Rose Loo-Wit

Edna St. Vincent Millay The Courage That My Mother Had

Langston Hughes Mother to Son

Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow

The Village Blacksmith

Carl Sandburg Fog

Alfred Noyes The Highwayman

Gregory Djanikian How I Learned English

Shel Silverstein Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not

Take the Garbage Out

James Berry One

Eve Merriam Weather

William Shakespeare Full Fathom Five

Louise Bogan Train Tune

Eve Merriam Onomatopoeia

Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee

Raymond R. Patterson Martin Luther King

Emily Dickinson I’m Nobody

Lewis Carroll Father William

Robert Frost Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

Gwendolyn Brooks Jim

Walt Whitman Miracles

E. E. Cummings in Just-

Unit 5: Drama

THE BIG QUESTION

Do others see us more clearly than we see ourselves?




Israel Horovitz A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley

Act I

A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley

Act II

from A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and

Marley, Act I, Scene 2; Act I, Scene 5

Rod Serling The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

Arthur Miller from Grandpa and the Statue

Peg Kehret My Head Is Full of Starshine


THE BIG QUESTION

What is the best way to find the truth?


The Three Century Woman

Cynthia Rylant Papa’s Parrot

Jean Fritz mk


Lucille Clifton The Luckiest Time of All


Ernest Hemingway A Day’s Wait

Ray Bradbury All Summer in a Day

Jane Yolen Suzy and Leah




Sherwood Anderson Stolen Day


THE BIG QUESTION

Does every conflict have a winner?

Walter Dean Myers What Is a Short Story?

The Treasure of Lemon Brown

Joseph Bruchac Bear Boy

Rudyard Kipling Rikki-tikki-tavi

Karen Hesse from Letters from Rifka

Amy Tan “Two Kinds” from The Joy Luck Club

Gary Soto Seventh Grade

Anna Quindlen Melting Pot

Joan Aiken The Third Wish

Piri Thomas Amigo Brothers

Edward D. Hoch Zoo

Laurence Yep Ribbons

O. Henry After Twenty Years

Shinichi Hoshi He—y, Come on O—ut!

Selection Choices

grade 7

8 9

Nonfiction and Info rmational TextsLiterature in Context—Reading in the Content Areas

Social StudieS connection Tragedy Strikes

Science connection Do parrots like Rocky understand

language?

culture connection A Matter of Luck

Science connection Temperature Scales

aStronoMy connection The Hothouse Planet

Social StudieS connection The Pueblo (illustrated)

Science connection Cobra Fact and Fiction

lanGuaGe connection New English Words

MytholoGy connection A Star is Born

lanGuaGe connection Spanish Terms

fine artS connection Dancing en Pointe (illustrated)

fine artS connection Techniques Rembrandt Used

(illustrated)

Science connection Weighted Down

lanGuaGe connection Scientific Words From Greek Origins

Social StudieS connection Union Workhouse

Media connection The Many Faces of Scrooge (illustrated)

Media connection Onscreen Aliens (illustrated)

MytholoGy connection Gods and Goddesses (illustrated)

Social StudieS connection Tenochtitlan

Social StudieS connection The Harlem Renaissance (illustrated)



Michael Morrison The Fall of the Hindenburg

Jean Fritz mk







What Makes a Rembrandt a Rembrandt


Nancy Masterson

Sakamoto




Barbara Eaglesham A Special Gift: The Legacy of

“Snowflake” Bentley









Jon Scieszka What Is Storytelling?


atlaS East Asia

puBlic docuMent Discovering a Paper Son

application Flat Rock Playhouse

contract Crystal Springs Uplands School Theatre

MaGaZine article Mongoose on the Loose

encyclopedia entry Indian Grey Mongoose

GovernMent puBlication Walking for Exercise & Pleasure

weB Site Safe Routes to School

textBook article Keeping It Quiet

MaGaZine article On the Boardwalk

inStruction Manual How to Recognize Venomous Snakes in

North America

SiGnS California State Park Snake

Warning Signs

technical directionS How to Download Ringtones for a

Cell Phone

product warranty Limited Warranty for Telephones

Kathiann M. Kowalski The Rhythms of Rap

educational SonG Conjunction Junction

review Reviews of A Christmas Carol

radio interview Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

editorial Veteran Returns, Becomes Symbol

editorial The Wrong Orbit

textBook article The Seasons on Earth

QueStion and anSwer The Benefits of Community Gardens

editorial Zoos: Joys or Jails?

editorial Kid Territory: Why Do We Need Zoos?

Selection Choices continued

Unit 6: Themes in the Oral Tradition

THE BIG QUESTION

Community or individual—which is more important?


Grasshopper Logic

The Other Frog Prince

Duckbilled Platypus vs. BeefSnakStik®

Josephine Preston

Peabody

Icarus and Daedalus

Anne Terry White Demeter and Persephone

Jacqueline Dineen Tenochtitlan: Inside the Aztec Capital

Juliet Piggott Wood Popocatepetl and Ixtlaccihuatl

Mary Pope Osborne “The Voyage” from Tales from

the Odyssey

Samantha Larson To the Top of Everest

Richard Erdoes and

Alfonso Ortiz

Sun and Moon in a Box

Zora Neale Hurston How the Snake Got Poison

Virginia Hamilton The People Could Fly

Harold Courlander All Stories are Anansi’s

William Cleary The Fox Outwits the Crow

Aesop The Fox and the Crow

8 9

Nonfiction and Info rmational TextsLiterature in Context—Reading in the Content Areas

Social StudieS connection Tragedy Strikes

Science connection Do parrots like Rocky understand

language?

culture connection A Matter of Luck

Science connection Temperature Scales

aStronoMy connection The Hothouse Planet

Social StudieS connection The Pueblo (illustrated)

Science connection Cobra Fact and Fiction

lanGuaGe connection New English Words

MytholoGy connection A Star is Born

lanGuaGe connection Spanish Terms

fine artS connection Dancing en Pointe (illustrated)

fine artS connection Techniques Rembrandt Used

(illustrated)

Science connection Weighted Down

lanGuaGe connection Scientific Words From Greek Origins

Social StudieS connection Union Workhouse

Media connection The Many Faces of Scrooge (illustrated)

Media connection Onscreen Aliens (illustrated)

MytholoGy connection Gods and Goddesses (illustrated)

Social StudieS connection Tenochtitlan

Social StudieS connection The Harlem Renaissance (illustrated)



Michael Morrison The Fall of the Hindenburg

Jean Fritz mk







What Makes a Rembrandt a Rembrandt


Nancy Masterson

Sakamoto




Barbara Eaglesham A Special Gift: The Legacy of

“Snowflake” Bentley











atlaS East Asia

puBlic docuMent Discovering a Paper Son

application Flat Rock Playhouse

contract Crystal Springs Uplands School Theatre

MaGaZine article Mongoose on the Loose

encyclopedia entry Indian Grey Mongoose

GovernMent puBlication Walking for Exercise & Pleasure

weB Site Safe Routes to School

textBook article Keeping It Quiet

MaGaZine article On the Boardwalk

inStruction Manual How to Recognize Venomous Snakes in

North America

SiGnS California State Park Snake

Warning Signs

technical directionS How to Download Ringtones for a

Cell Phone

product warranty Limited Warranty for Telephones

Kathiann M. Kowalski The Rhythms of Rap

educational SonG Conjunction Junction

review Reviews of A Christmas Carol

radio interview Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

editorial Veteran Returns, Becomes Symbol

editorial The Wrong Orbit

textBook article The Seasons on Earth

QueStion and anSwer The Benefits of Community Gardens

editorial Zoos: Joys or Jails?

editorial Kid Territory: Why Do We Need Zoos?



THE BIG QUESTION

Community or individual—which is more important?


Grasshopper Logic

The Other Frog Prince

Duckbilled Platypus vs. BeefSnakStik®

Josephine Preston

Peabody

Icarus and Daedalus

Anne Terry White Demeter and Persephone

Jacqueline Dineen Tenochtitlan: Inside the Aztec Capital

Juliet Piggott Wood Popocatepetl and Ixtlaccihuatl

Mary Pope Osborne “The Voyage” from Tales from

the Odyssey

Samantha Larson To the Top of Everest

Richard Erdoes and

Alfonso Ortiz

Sun and Moon in a Box

Zora Neale Hurston How the Snake Got Poison

Virginia Hamilton The People Could Fly

Harold Courlander All Stories are Anansi’s

William Cleary The Fox Outwits the Crow

Aesop The Fox and the Crow

10 11

grade 8

Selection ChoicesUnit 1: Fiction and Nonfiction

THE BIG QUESTION

Is truth the same for everyone?

Patricia C. McKissack What Are Fiction and Nonfiction?


Frederick C. McKissack

from The Baker Heater League

Patricia C. McKissack The 11:59

Toni Cade Bambara Raymond’s Run

O. Henry A Retrieved Reformation

Juan A.A. Sedillo Gentleman of Río en Medio

Mark Twain Cub Pilot on the Mississippi

Jesse Stuart Old Ben

Lensey Namioka Fox Hunt


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Speckled Band

John Steinbeck from Travels with Charley

Martin Luther King, Jr. The American Dream

Paul Laurence Dunbar The Finish of Patsy Barnes

Ray Bradbury The Drummer Boy of Shiloh


THE BIG QUESTION

Can all conflicts be resolved?

Judith Ortiz Cofer What Is a Short Story?

An Hour with Abuelo

Brian Wilson Aldiss Who Can Replace a Man?

Yoshiko Uchida Tears of Autumn

Naomi Shihab Nye Hamadi

Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart

Jack London Up the Slide

Gary Paulsen “A Glow in the Dark” from Woodsong

Shirley Jackson Charles

Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon

Langston Hughes Thank you, M’am

Saki (H.H. Munro) The Story-Teller

Gish Jen The White Umbrella

Virginia Driving Hawk

Sneve

The Medicine Bag


THE BIG QUESTION

How much information is enough?

Andrew Mishkin What Is Nonfiction?

Making Tracks on Mars

Lionel G. Garcia Baseball

Ann Petry from Harriet Tubman: Conductor

on the Underground Railroad

Brent Ashabranner from Always to Remember:

The Vision of Maya Ying Lin

Maya Angelou from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Anaïs Nin Forest Fire

Diane Ackerman Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall

Mary C. Curtis The Season’s Curmudgeon Sees the Light

Robert MacNeil The Trouble With Television

Susan B. Anthony On Woman’s Right to Suffrage

Colin Powell from Sharing in the American Dream

Isaac Asimov Science and the Sense of Wonder

Russell Freedman “Emancipation”

from Lincoln: A Photobiography

Walter Dean Myers Brown vs. Board of Education

Unit 4: Poetry

THE BIG QUESTION

What is the secret to reaching someone with words?

Jacqueline Woodson What is Poetry?

Describe Somebody

Almost a Summer Sky

Eleanor Farjeon Cat!

Walter de la Mare Silver

Georgia Douglas Johnson Your World

Nikki Giovanni The Drum (for Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ring Out, Wild Bells

Eve Merriam Thumbprint

Patricia Hubbell Concrete Mixers

Langston Hughes Harlem Night Song

Richard Garcia The City Is So Big

Elizabeth Bishop Little Exercise

Pablo Neruda Ode to Enchanted Light

Emily Dickinson The Sky is Low, the Clouds Are Mean

David Bottoms Snake on the Etowah

Bailey White Vanishing Species

Ricardo Sánchez Old Man

Robert Hayden Runagate Runagate

William Shakespeare Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

Emily Lazarus The New Colossus

Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow

Paul Revere’s Ride

Paul Laurence Dunbar Harriet Beecher Stowe

John Updike January

N. Scott Momaday New World

Alice Walker For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties

E. E. Cummings your little voice/

Over the wires came leaping

Wendy Rose Drum Song

Amy Ling Grandma Ling

Robert Frost The Road Not Taken

Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain!

Unit 5: Drama

THE BIG QUESTION

Is it our differences or our similarities that matter most?

Cherie Bennett What is Drama?

from Anne Frank & Me

Neil Simon The Governess

Anton Chekhov The Ninny

Frances Goodrich and

Albert Hackett

The Diary of Anne Frank, Act I


Albert Hackett

The Diary of Anne Frank, Act II

Anne Frank from Anne Frank: The Diary of a

Young Girl

Miep Gies from Anne Frank Remembered

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grade 8

Selection ChoicesUnit 1: Fiction and Nonfiction

THE BIG QUESTION

Is truth the same for everyone?



Frederick C. McKissack

from The Baker Heater League

Patricia C. McKissack The 11:59

Toni Cade Bambara Raymond’s Run

O. Henry A Retrieved Reformation

Juan A.A. Sedillo Gentleman of Río en Medio



Lensey Namioka Fox Hunt


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Speckled Band



Paul Laurence Dunbar The Finish of Patsy Barnes

Ray Bradbury The Drummer Boy of Shiloh


THE BIG QUESTION

Can all conflicts be resolved?

Judith Ortiz Cofer What Is a Short Story?

An Hour with Abuelo

Brian Wilson Aldiss Who Can Replace a Man?

Yoshiko Uchida Tears of Autumn

Naomi Shihab Nye Hamadi

Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart

Jack London Up the Slide

Gary Paulsen “A Glow in the Dark” from Woodsong

Shirley Jackson Charles

Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon

Langston Hughes Thank you, M’am

Saki (H.H. Munro) The Story-Teller

Gish Jen The White Umbrella

Virginia Driving Hawk

Sneve

The Medicine Bag


THE BIG QUESTION

How much information is enough?



Lionel G. Garcia Baseball

Ann Petry from Harriet Tubman: Conductor

on the Underground Railroad

Brent Ashabranner from Always to Remember:

The Vision of Maya Ying Lin





Robert MacNeil The Trouble With Television







Unit 4: Poetry

THE BIG QUESTION

What is the secret to reaching someone with words?


Describe Somebody

Almost a Summer Sky

Eleanor Farjeon Cat!

Walter de la Mare Silver

Georgia Douglas Johnson Your World

Nikki Giovanni The Drum (for Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ring Out, Wild Bells

Eve Merriam Thumbprint

Patricia Hubbell Concrete Mixers

Langston Hughes Harlem Night Song

Richard Garcia The City Is So Big

Elizabeth Bishop Little Exercise

Pablo Neruda Ode to Enchanted Light

Emily Dickinson The Sky is Low, the Clouds Are Mean

David Bottoms Snake on the Etowah

Bailey White Vanishing Species

Ricardo Sánchez Old Man

Robert Hayden Runagate Runagate

William Shakespeare Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

Emily Lazarus The New Colossus

Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow

Paul Revere’s Ride

Paul Laurence Dunbar Harriet Beecher Stowe

John Updike January

N. Scott Momaday New World

Alice Walker For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties

E. E. Cummings your little voice/

Over the wires came leaping

Wendy Rose Drum Song

Amy Ling Grandma Ling


Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain!

Unit 5: Drama

THE BIG QUESTION

Is it our differences or our similarities that matter most?


from Anne Frank & Me

Neil Simon The Governess

Anton Chekhov The Ninny


Albert Hackett

The Diary of Anne Frank, Act I


Albert Hackett

The Diary of Anne Frank, Act II

Anne Frank from Anne Frank: The Diary of a

Young Girl


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Unit 6: Themes in American Stories

THE BIG QUESTION

Are yesterday’s heroes important today?

Lan Samantha Chang What Is Storytelling?

Water Names

Richard Erdoes and

Alfonso Ortiz

Coyote Steals the Sun and Moon

Zora Neale Hurtston Why the Waves Have Whitecaps

Jackie Torrence Brer Possum’s Dilemma

Traditional John Henry

Rudolfo A. Anaya and

Jose Griego y Maestas

Chicoria

Carl Sandburg from The People, Yes

Davy Crockett Davy Crockett’s Dream

Carl Sandburg Paul Bunyan of the North Woods

Stephen Vincent Benet Invocation from John Brown’s Body

Karen Hesse from Out of the Dust

Debts

Fields of Flashing Light

Migrants

Joseph Bruchac Ellis Island

Alice Walker Choice: A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stephen Crane An Episode of War

Pablo Neruda Poetry (La Poesía)

Pat Mora from My Own True Name

Naomi Shihab Nye Words to Sit in, Like Chairs

Nonfiction and Info rmational TextsAdditional Nonfiction


from The Baker Heater League Nonfiction






Judith Ortiz Cofer What is a Short Story?



Lionel G. García Baseball

Ann Petry Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the

Underground Railroad

Brent Ashabranner from Always to Remember: The Vision of

Maya Ying Lin





Robert MacNeil The Trouble with Television









Anne Frank from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl


Lan Samantha Chang What is Storytelling?





Social StudieS connection Making Tracks (illustrated)

lanGuaGe connection Why Use an Allusion?

hiStory connection Managing the Mississippi

Science connection DNA Fingerprinting (illustrated)

Social StudieS connection A Bloody Battle

hiStory connection Gateways to a New World (illustrated)

culture connection Guided by Gibran

Science connection Phosphorescence

Science connection Test Inventors (illustrated)

Social StudieS connection The Sioux Nation

hiStory connection Frederick Douglass: Fighter for Freedom

artS connection Honoring Civil Rights

literature connection Inspired by Words (illustrated)

culture connection The Television Age (illustrated)

Science connection Lord of the Rings

law connection Civil Rights Pioneer

hiStory connection What Is Women’s Work?

hiStory connection Air Raids

world eventS connection Safe Havens

hiStory connection Taking the Beaches, Ending the War

(illustrated)

GeoGraphy connection The Long River (illustrated)

culture connection Kachinas

Social StudieS connection Machine Age

hiStory connection Allusions

hiStory connection The Great Depression (illustrated)

hiStory connection Marching for Freedom


conSuMer docuMent Savannah Belles Ferry Schedule

Map Savannah Belles Ferry Route

Richard and Joyce

Wolkomir

Sun Suckers and Moon Cursers

Scientific article Electric Circuits and Power

James D. Hart, Editor from The Oxford Companion to American

Literature, Summary of “The Tell-Tale Heart”

Anna Sheets Nesbitt,

Editor

from Short Story Criticism,

Summary of “The Tell-Tale Heart”

advertiSeMent For Extra Days in Florida, Take the Train!

advertiSeMent Amtrak

advertiSeMent Jumpstart’s Read for the Record

advertiSeMent City Harvest

textBook from The American Nation,

The War in Vietnam

puBlic docuMent Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

letter On the Situation in Vietnam

editorial Hands-Free Law Won’t Solve the Problem

Speech Hands-Free Cell Phone Legislation Signing

recipe Thumbprint Cookies

product inforMation Explanation of Nutrition Facts Label

Menu Sarasota County Schools

technical directionS Using Your Answering Machine

conSuMer docuMent Limited Warranty for Answering Machine

puBlic docuMent U.S. Department of Labor,

Wage and Hour Division: Basic Information

contract Work-Study Contract

application Be a Museum Volunteer!

weB Site Florida Holocaust Museum

preSS releaSe Local Holocaust Survivors and Liberators

Attend Opening Event for Exhibition

Zakia Carter Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters

taBle of contentS A Life in Letters: Contents

index A Life in Letters: Index

radio tranScript Paralyzed Veterans of America

photo eSSay Readjustment

political cartoon Happy Day


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Unit 6: Themes in American Stories

THE BIG QUESTION

Are yesterday’s heroes important today?

Lan Samantha Chang What Is Storytelling?

Water Names

Richard Erdoes and

Alfonso Ortiz

Coyote Steals the Sun and Moon

Zora Neale Hurtston Why the Waves Have Whitecaps

Jackie Torrence Brer Possum’s Dilemma

Traditional John Henry

Rudolfo A. Anaya and

Jose Griego y Maestas

Chicoria

Carl Sandburg from The People, Yes

Davy Crockett Davy Crockett’s Dream

Carl Sandburg Paul Bunyan of the North Woods

Stephen Vincent Benet Invocation from John Brown’s Body

Karen Hesse from Out of the Dust

Debts

Fields of Flashing Light

Migrants

Joseph Bruchac Ellis Island



Pablo Neruda Poetry (La Poesía)



Nonfiction and Info rmational TextsAdditional Nonfiction


from The Baker Heater League Nonfiction






Judith Ortiz Cofer What is a Short Story?



Lionel G. García Baseball

Ann Petry Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the

Underground Railroad

Brent Ashabranner from Always to Remember: The Vision of

Maya Ying Lin





Robert MacNeil The Trouble with Television









Anne Frank from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl


Lan Samantha Chang What is Storytelling?





Social StudieS connection Making Tracks (illustrated)

lanGuaGe connection Why Use an Allusion?

hiStory connection Managing the Mississippi

Science connection DNA Fingerprinting (illustrated)

Social StudieS connection A Bloody Battle

hiStory connection Gateways to a New World (illustrated)

culture connection Guided by Gibran

Science connection Phosphorescence

Science connection Test Inventors (illustrated)

Social StudieS connection The Sioux Nation

hiStory connection Frederick Douglass: Fighter for Freedom

artS connection Honoring Civil Rights

literature connection Inspired by Words (illustrated)

culture connection The Television Age (illustrated)

Science connection Lord of the Rings

law connection Civil Rights Pioneer

hiStory connection What Is Women’s Work?

hiStory connection Air Raids

world eventS connection Safe Havens

hiStory connection Taking the Beaches, Ending the War

(illustrated)

GeoGraphy connection The Long River (illustrated)

culture connection Kachinas

Social StudieS connection Machine Age

hiStory connection Allusions

hiStory connection The Great Depression (illustrated)

hiStory connection Marching for Freedom


conSuMer docuMent Savannah Belles Ferry Schedule

Map Savannah Belles Ferry Route

Richard and Joyce

Wolkomir

Sun Suckers and Moon Cursers

Scientific article Electric Circuits and Power

James D. Hart, Editor from The Oxford Companion to American

Literature, Summary of “The Tell-Tale Heart”

Anna Sheets Nesbitt,

Editor

from Short Story Criticism,

Summary of “The Tell-Tale Heart”

advertiSeMent For Extra Days in Florida, Take the Train!

advertiSeMent Amtrak

advertiSeMent Jumpstart’s Read for the Record

advertiSeMent City Harvest

textBook from The American Nation,

The War in Vietnam

puBlic docuMent Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

letter On the Situation in Vietnam

editorial Hands-Free Law Won’t Solve the Problem

Speech Hands-Free Cell Phone Legislation Signing

recipe Thumbprint Cookies

product inforMation Explanation of Nutrition Facts Label

Menu Sarasota County Schools

technical directionS Using Your Answering Machine

conSuMer docuMent Limited Warranty for Answering Machine

puBlic docuMent U.S. Department of Labor,

Wage and Hour Division: Basic Information

contract Work-Study Contract

application Be a Museum Volunteer!

weB Site Florida Holocaust Museum

preSS releaSe Local Holocaust Survivors and Liberators

Attend Opening Event for Exhibition

Zakia Carter Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters

taBle of contentS A Life in Letters: Contents

index A Life in Letters: Index

radio tranScript Paralyzed Veterans of America

photo eSSay Readjustment

political cartoon Happy Day


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table of contents

Unit 3: Nonfiction

THE BIG QUESTION

Is knowledge the same as understanding?

Rebecca Walker What Is Nonfiction?

Before Hip-Hop Was Hip-Hop

Rudolfo A. Anaya A Celebration of Grandfathers

Lorraine Hansberry On Summer

Sally Ride Single Room, Earth View

Neil Postman The News

Carl Sandburg from A Lincoln Preface

John McPhee Arthur Ashe Remembered

Lian Dolan Carry Your Own Skis

Pete Hamill Libraries Face Sad Chapter

Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have a Dream

Franklin Delano Roosevelt First Inaugural Address

Gary Soto The Talk

Harold Courlander and

George Herzog (retellers)

Talk

Unit 4: Poetry

THE BIG QUESTION

How does communication change us?


Uncoiling

A Voice

Langston Hughes Dream Deferred

Dreams

Jean de Sponde Sonnet on Love XIII

Gabriela Mistral Meciendo/Rocking

William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Richard Brautigan All Watched Over by Machines

of Loving Grace

Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with feathers

Much Madness is divinest Sense

Stanley Kunitz The War Against the Trees

Walter Dean Myers Summer

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Eagle

May Swenson Analysis of Baseball

Edgar Allan Poe The Bells

Yusef Komunkayaa Slam, Dunk & Hook

Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky

Mary Tall Mountain There Is No Word for Goodbye

Naomi Shihab Nye Daily

David T. Hilbun Hope

Tyroneca “Ty” Booker The Day of the Storm

Ernest Lawrence Thayer Casey at the Bat

William Stafford Fifteen

Sandra Cisneros Twister Hits Houston

Edwin Muir The Horses

Richard Wilbur The Writer

Edgar Allan Poe The Raven


T. S. Eliot Macavity: The Mystery Cat

Emily Dickinson We never know how high we are

E. E. Cummings maggie and milly and molly and may

William Shakespeare The Seven Ages of Man

Robert Frost Fire and Ice

Walt Whitman I Hear America Singing

Basho and Chiyojo Three Haiku

Alice Walker Women

William Shakespeare Sonnet 30

Unit 5: Drama

THE BIG QUESTION

Do our differences define us?

Gary L. Blackwood What Is Drama?

excerpt from The Shakespeare Stealer

William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

Ovid Pyramus and Thisbe

William Shakespeare from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Anton Chekhov The Inspector-General

Oscar Wilde from The Importance of Being Earnest

Henry Alford from Big Kiss


THE BIG QUESTION

Can truth change?

Elizabeth McCracken What Are Fiction and Nonfiction?

from The Giant’s House

Desiderata

Isaac Bashevis Singer The Washwoman

Maya Angelou New Directions

Joan Aiken Sonata for Harp and Bicycle

Edgar Allan Poe The Cask of Amontillado

Cynthia Rylant Checkouts

Ama Ata Aidoo The Girl Who Can

Lady Bird Johnson from A White House Diary

Julia Alvarez My English

James Thurber The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Isabel Allende Uncle Marcos

Arthur C. Clarke If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth…

Rachel Carson from Silent Spring


THE BIG QUESTION

Is conflict necessary?

Wayson Choy What Is a Short Story?

The Jade Peony

Richard Connell The Most Dangerous Game

Judith Ortiz Cofer American History

O. Henry The Gift of the Magi

Saki (H. H. Munro) The Interlopers

Leslie Marmon Silko The Man to Send Rain Clouds

R. K. Narayan Old Man of the Temple

Amy Tan Rules of the Game

Guy de Maupassant The Necklace

Toni Cade Bambara Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird

Mark Twain The Invalid’s Story

James Hurst The Scarlet Ibis

Ray Bradbury The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind

Selection Choices

grade 9

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Unit 3: Nonfiction

THE BIG QUESTION

Is knowledge the same as understanding?











Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have a Dream


Gary Soto The Talk

Harold Courlander and

George Herzog (retellers)

Talk

Unit 4: Poetry

THE BIG QUESTION

How does communication change us?


Uncoiling

A Voice

Langston Hughes Dream Deferred

Dreams

Jean de Sponde Sonnet on Love XIII

Gabriela Mistral Meciendo/Rocking

William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Richard Brautigan All Watched Over by Machines

of Loving Grace

Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with feathers

Much Madness is divinest Sense

Stanley Kunitz The War Against the Trees

Walter Dean Myers Summer

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Eagle

May Swenson Analysis of Baseball

Edgar Allan Poe The Bells

Yusef Komunkayaa Slam, Dunk & Hook

Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky

Mary Tall Mountain There Is No Word for Goodbye

Naomi Shihab Nye Daily

David T. Hilbun Hope


Ernest Lawrence Thayer Casey at the Bat

William Stafford Fifteen

Sandra Cisneros Twister Hits Houston

Edwin Muir The Horses

Richard Wilbur The Writer

Edgar Allan Poe The Raven


T. S. Eliot Macavity: The Mystery Cat

Emily Dickinson We never know how high we are

E. E. Cummings maggie and milly and molly and may

William Shakespeare The Seven Ages of Man

Robert Frost Fire and Ice

Walt Whitman I Hear America Singing

Basho and Chiyojo Three Haiku

Alice Walker Women


Unit 5: Drama

THE BIG QUESTION

Do our differences define us?


excerpt from The Shakespeare Stealer

William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

Ovid Pyramus and Thisbe

William Shakespeare from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Anton Chekhov The Inspector-General

Oscar Wilde from The Importance of Being Earnest

Henry Alford from Big Kiss


THE BIG QUESTION

Can truth change?


from The Giant’s House

Desiderata


Maya Angelou New Directions

Joan Aiken Sonata for Harp and Bicycle

Edgar Allan Poe The Cask of Amontillado

Cynthia Rylant Checkouts

Ama Ata Aidoo The Girl Who Can



James Thurber The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Isabel Allende Uncle Marcos

Arthur C. Clarke If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth…



THE BIG QUESTION

Is conflict necessary?


The Jade Peony

Richard Connell The Most Dangerous Game

Judith Ortiz Cofer American History

O. Henry The Gift of the Magi

Saki (H. H. Munro) The Interlopers

Leslie Marmon Silko The Man to Send Rain Clouds

R. K. Narayan Old Man of the Temple

Amy Tan Rules of the Game

Guy de Maupassant The Necklace

Toni Cade Bambara Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird

Mark Twain The Invalid’s Story

James Hurst The Scarlet Ibis

Ray Bradbury The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind

Selection Choices

grade 9

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literature connection Poe and the Gothic Tradition

Social StudieS connection Country Profile: Ghana (illustrated)

Social StudieS connection The Dominican Republic

Social StudieS connection The Royal Air Force

huManitieS connection Magical Realists

Science connection International Space Station

hiStory connection World War I Trenches (illustrated)

culture connection Watch Fob Chain

culture connection Hinduism

cultural connection Endgame

Science connection Hawks: Tales and Truths (illustrated)

cultural connection Limburger Cheese

Science connection Scarlet Ibis

cultural connection Anaya’s Best-Known Work

hiStory connection The Emancipation Proclamation

hiStory connection Andrew Carnegie

Social StudieS connection Getting Back to Work: FDR and the

WPA (illustrated)

lanGuaGe connection Carroll’s Invented Language

culture connection Shorthand and Speedwriting (illustrated)

hiStory connection Prince of Verona

culture connection Falconry (illustrated)

hiStory connection Mercutio’s Allusions

hiStory connection Cockatrice

literature connection The Nightingale and the Lark

culture connection Rosemary

hiStory connection Plague Searchers

Science connection Almanacs

Media connection Recipe for a Monster (illustrated)

GeoGraphy connection Real Places and Imaginary Events

in the Odyssey (illustrated)

cultural connection Athena

Math connection Pound Conversions

culture connection Hansoms

Science connection Cyclones



Desiderata
















Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have a Dream


Gary Soto The Talk




ShakeSpeare introduction The Shakespearean Theater

Dean Smith What Are Leadership and Heroism?


recipe The Book Lovers Cookbook,

New Road Chicken Pies

how-to article Incubating Eggs in Small Quantities

train Schedule Pascack Valley Line Train Schedule

Brochure Georgia Railway Museum

SiGnS and inStructionS Beach Safety Guide

technical inStructionS Rock Climbing Equipment

and Techniques

uSer Guide Spanish–English Dictionary

application State Job Application

technical docuMent Space Shuttle Basics

weB article NASA Launch Schedule 101

Alan Axelrod from Nothing to Fear:

Lessons in Leadership from FDR

Speech from Address of the President Delivered

by Radio from the White House

Stephanie Watson How Podcasting Works

newS article Georgia School Displays iPod Ingenuity

caSe Study Careers in Robotics

Elizabeth A. Thompson Team Builds ‘Sociable’ Robot

Dorling Kindersley Italy

travel Brochure Italy

weB Site Tornadoes

weB encyclopedia entry Tropical Cyclone

Justice Paul E. Pfeifer A Hero in Our Midst

Rebecca Murray World Trade Center

John Nadel Dodgers Celebrate Jackie Robinson Day

Sharyn Moore Emily Dickinson Poetfans:

Sharyn Moore and Her Students


Unit 6: Themes in Literature: Heroism

THE BIG QUESTION

Do heroes have responsibilities?


The Carolina Way

Homer (translated by from The Odyssey, Part 1Robert Fitzgerald)

from The Odyssey, Part 2

Edna St. Vincent Millay An Ancient Gesture

Margaret Atwood Siren Song

Derek Walcott from the Odyssey

Constantine Cavafy Ithaca

George Toudouze Three Skeleton Key

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Red-Headed League

Chief Dan George There Is a Longing

Nelson Mandela Glory and Hope

Harold W. Felton Pecos Bill: The Cyclone

Edith Hamilton Perseus

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literature connection Poe and the Gothic Tradition

Social StudieS connection Country Profile: Ghana (illustrated)

Social StudieS connection The Dominican Republic

Social StudieS connection The Royal Air Force

huManitieS connection Magical Realists

Science connection International Space Station

hiStory connection World War I Trenches (illustrated)

culture connection Watch Fob Chain

culture connection Hinduism

cultural connection Endgame

Science connection Hawks: Tales and Truths (illustrated)

cultural connection Limburger Cheese

Science connection Scarlet Ibis

cultural connection Anaya’s Best-Known Work

hiStory connection The Emancipation Proclamation

hiStory connection Andrew Carnegie

Social StudieS connection Getting Back to Work: FDR and the

WPA (illustrated)

lanGuaGe connection Carroll’s Invented Language

culture connection Shorthand and Speedwriting (illustrated)

hiStory connection Prince of Verona

culture connection Falconry (illustrated)

hiStory connection Mercutio’s Allusions

hiStory connection Cockatrice

literature connection The Nightingale and the Lark

culture connection Rosemary

hiStory connection Plague Searchers

Science connection Almanacs

Media connection Recipe for a Monster (illustrated)

GeoGraphy connection Real Places and Imaginary Events

in the Odyssey (illustrated)

cultural connection Athena

Math connection Pound Conversions

culture connection Hansoms

Science connection Cyclones



Desiderata
















Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have a Dream


Gary Soto The Talk




ShakeSpeare introduction The Shakespearean Theater



recipe The Book Lovers Cookbook,

New Road Chicken Pies

how-to article Incubating Eggs in Small Quantities

train Schedule Pascack Valley Line Train Schedule

Brochure Georgia Railway Museum

SiGnS and inStructionS Beach Safety Guide

technical inStructionS Rock Climbing Equipment

and Techniques

uSer Guide Spanish–English Dictionary

application State Job Application

technical docuMent Space Shuttle Basics

weB article NASA Launch Schedule 101

Alan Axelrod from Nothing to Fear:

Lessons in Leadership from FDR

Speech from Address of the President Delivered

by Radio from the White House

Stephanie Watson How Podcasting Works

newS article Georgia School Displays iPod Ingenuity

caSe Study Careers in Robotics

Elizabeth A. Thompson Team Builds ‘Sociable’ Robot

Dorling Kindersley Italy

travel Brochure Italy

weB Site Tornadoes

weB encyclopedia entry Tropical Cyclone

Justice Paul E. Pfeifer A Hero in Our Midst

Rebecca Murray World Trade Center

John Nadel Dodgers Celebrate Jackie Robinson Day

Sharyn Moore Emily Dickinson Poetfans:

Sharyn Moore and Her Students


Unit 6: Themes in Literature: Heroism

THE BIG QUESTION

Do heroes have responsibilities?


The Carolina Way

Homer (translated by from The Odyssey, Part 1Robert Fitzgerald)

from The Odyssey, Part 2

Edna St. Vincent Millay An Ancient Gesture

Margaret Atwood Siren Song

Derek Walcott from the Odyssey

Constantine Cavafy Ithaca

George Toudouze Three Skeleton Key

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Red-Headed League

Chief Dan George There Is a Longing

Nelson Mandela Glory and Hope

Harold W. Felton Pecos Bill: The Cyclone

Edith Hamilton Perseus

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THE BIG QUESTION

What kind of knowledge changes our lives?

Erik Weihenmayer What Is Nonfiction?

“Everest” from Touch the Top of the World

Alexander Petrunkevitch The Spider and the Wasp

Dava Sobel from Longitude

Dorothy West The Sun Parlor

Rudolfo A. Anaya from In Commemoration:

One Million Volumes

Mark Twain A Toast to the Oldest Inhabitant:

The Weather of New England

James Thurber The Dog That Bit People

Elie Wiesel Keep Memory Alive

Alexander Solzhenitsyn from Nobel Lecture

Theodore H. White The American Idea

Richard Mühlberger What Makes a Degas a Degas?

Yoshiko Uchida from Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a

Japanese-American Family

N. Scott Momaday from The Way to Rainy Mountain

Unit 4: Poetry

THE BIG QUESTION

Does all communication serve a positive purpose?

Cornelius Eady What Is Poetry?

The Poetic Interpretation of the Twist

The Empty Dance Shoes

Alexander Pushkin The Bridegroom

Federico Garcia Lorca The Guitar

Elizabeth Bishop The Fish

Rudyard Kipling Danny Deever

Robert Frost Mowing

Denise Levertov A Tree Telling of Orpheus

Naomi Shihab Nye Making a Fist

William Carlos Williams Spring and All

James Weldon Johnson My City

Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Minamoto no Toshiyori The clustering clouds…

Ki Tsurayuki When I went to visit…

Theodore Roethke The Waking


Gabriela Mistral Fear

Priest Jakuren One cannot ask loneliness...

Ono Komachi Was it that I went to sleep

Gwendolyn Brooks The Bean Eaters

Umberto Eco How to React to Familiar Faces

Emily Dickinson The Wind—tapped like a tired Man

Yusef Komunyakaa Glory

Eve Merriam Metaphor

Edna St. Vincent Millay Conscientious Objector

Dahlia Ravikovitch Pride

Emily Dickinson Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—

Langston Hughes The Weary Blues

John McCrae In Flanders Fields

Carl Sandburg Jazz Fantasia

Robert Browning Meeting at Night

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Kraken

Jean Toomer Reapers

Billy Joel Hold Fast Your Dreams—and Trust

Your Mistakes

Bei Dao All

Shu Ting Also All

Unit 5: Drama

THE BIG QUESTION

To what extent does experience determine what we perceive?

David Henry Hwang What Is Drama?

excerpt from Tibet Through the Red Box

Sophocles Antigone, Part 1(translated by Dudley Fitts

and Robert Fitzgerald)Antigone, Part 2

Henrik Ibsen from An Enemy of the People

William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

Lorraine Hansberry from A Raisin in the Sun


THE BIG QUESTION

What is the difference between reality and truth?

Susan Vreeland What Are Fiction and Nonfiction?

Magdalena Looking

Artful Research

W. W. Jacobs The Monkey’s Paw

Louise Erdrich The Leap

Lynne Cox from Swimming to Antarctica

Maya Angelou “Occupation Conductorette”

from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Langston Hughes Marian Anderson, Famous Concert Singer

Sandra Cisneros Tepeyac

Jack Finney Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket

Anita Desai Games at Twilight

Rachel Carson The Marginal World

Penny Le Couteur and

Jay Burreson

Making History With Vitamin C

R. K. Narayan Like the Sun

Saki (H. H. Munro) The Open Window


THE BIG QUESTION

Can progress be made without conflict?

C. J. Cherryh What Is a Short Story?

The Threads of Time

William Melvin Kelley A Visit to Grandmother

Anton Chekhov A Problem

Josephina Niggli The Street of the Cañon

Ray Bradbury There Will Come Soft Rains

O. Henry One Thousand Dollars

Stephen Vincent Benet By the Waters of Babylon

Leo Tolstoy How Much Land Does a Man Need?

Chinua Achebe Civil Peace

Edgar Allan Poe The Masque of the Red Death

Italo Calvino The Garden of Stubborn Cats

Luisa Valenzuela The Censors

Pat Mora The Leader in the Mirror

Selection Choices

grade 10

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THE BIG QUESTION

What kind of knowledge changes our lives?






Rudolfo A. Anaya from In Commemoration:

One Million Volumes

Mark Twain A Toast to the Oldest Inhabitant:

The Weather of New England



Alexander Solzhenitsyn from Nobel Lecture



Yoshiko Uchida from Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a

Japanese-American Family


Unit 4: Poetry

THE BIG QUESTION

Does all communication serve a positive purpose?


The Poetic Interpretation of the Twist

The Empty Dance Shoes

Alexander Pushkin The Bridegroom

Federico Garcia Lorca The Guitar

Elizabeth Bishop The Fish

Rudyard Kipling Danny Deever

Robert Frost Mowing

Denise Levertov A Tree Telling of Orpheus

Naomi Shihab Nye Making a Fist

William Carlos Williams Spring and All

James Weldon Johnson My City

Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Minamoto no Toshiyori The clustering clouds…

Ki Tsurayuki When I went to visit…

Theodore Roethke The Waking


Gabriela Mistral Fear

Priest Jakuren One cannot ask loneliness...

Ono Komachi Was it that I went to sleep

Gwendolyn Brooks The Bean Eaters


Emily Dickinson The Wind—tapped like a tired Man

Yusef Komunyakaa Glory

Eve Merriam Metaphor

Edna St. Vincent Millay Conscientious Objector

Dahlia Ravikovitch Pride

Emily Dickinson Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—

Langston Hughes The Weary Blues

John McCrae In Flanders Fields

Carl Sandburg Jazz Fantasia

Robert Browning Meeting at Night

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Kraken

Jean Toomer Reapers


Your Mistakes

Bei Dao All

Shu Ting Also All

Unit 5: Drama

THE BIG QUESTION

To what extent does experience determine what we perceive?


excerpt from Tibet Through the Red Box

Sophocles Antigone, Part 1(translated by Dudley Fitts

and Robert Fitzgerald)Antigone, Part 2

Henrik Ibsen from An Enemy of the People

William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

Lorraine Hansberry from A Raisin in the Sun


THE BIG QUESTION

What is the difference between reality and truth?


Magdalena Looking

Artful Research

W. W. Jacobs The Monkey’s Paw

Louise Erdrich The Leap


Maya Angelou “Occupation Conductorette”

from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings


Sandra Cisneros Tepeyac

Jack Finney Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket

Anita Desai Games at Twilight



Jay Burreson

Making History With Vitamin C

R. K. Narayan Like the Sun

Saki (H. H. Munro) The Open Window


THE BIG QUESTION

Can progress be made without conflict?


The Threads of Time

William Melvin Kelley A Visit to Grandmother

Anton Chekhov A Problem

Josephina Niggli The Street of the Cañon

Ray Bradbury There Will Come Soft Rains

O. Henry One Thousand Dollars

Stephen Vincent Benet By the Waters of Babylon

Leo Tolstoy How Much Land Does a Man Need?

Chinua Achebe Civil Peace

Edgar Allan Poe The Masque of the Red Death

Italo Calvino The Garden of Stubborn Cats

Luisa Valenzuela The Censors


Selection Choices

grade 10

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hiStory connection Encyclopedias and the Enlightenment

(illustrated)

GeoGraphy connection Antarctica: The Coldest Place on Earth

(illustrated)

hiStory connection San Francisco and the Gold Rushes

Science connection Physics

hiStory connection The Voyages of Captain James Cook

(illustrated)

hiStory connection The Great Migration (illustrated)

lanGuaGe connection Spanish Vocabulary

hiStory connection The Babylonian Captivity

hiStory connection The Emancipation of the Serfs

(illustrated)

GeoGraphy connection Nigerian Civil War

architecture connection Architectural Connection

Science connection Studying Animal Behavior

Science connection Longitude and Latitude

cultural connection Mexican American Pride (illustrated)

world eventS connection Repression in the Soviet Union

(illustrated)

huManitieS connection Greek Chorus (illustrated)

culture connection Ancient Greek Funeral Rites

hiStory connection Roman Society (illustrated)

lanGuaGe connection Archaic Word Forms

culture connection Roman Augurs (illustrated)

hiStory connection The Roman Senate (illustrated)

hiStory connection The Roman Forum (illustrated)

huManitieS connection Stoicism

hiStory connection Roman Triumphs

culture connection The Twelve Olympian Gods

culture connection Traditional Great Plains Culture

culture connection Griot: The Mind of the People

hiStory connection Tournaments

Science connection Eclipses (illustrated)



Artful Research


Maya Angelou Occupation: Conductorette




Jay Burreson

Making History With Vitamin C?








Rudolfo A. Anaya In Commemoration: One Million Volumes

Mark Twain A Toast to the Oldest Inhabitant



Alexander Solzhenitsyn Nobel Lecture



Yoshiko Uchida The Uprooting of a Japanese-American

Family from Desert Exile





Your Mistakes


John Phillip Santos What Is the Oral Tradition?

John Phillip Santos from Places Left Unfinished at the

Time of Creation


feature article Feel the City’s Pulse? It’s Be-bop, Man!

newSletter Healdsburg Jazz Festival

weB Site Egyptology Resources

priMary Source Interactive Dig

technical article Tides

newS releaSe Black Water Turns the Tide on

Florida Coral

newSpaper editorial The New York Times, November 10, 1999

priMary Source narrative Voices from the Wall

technical directionS Compass Instructions and Warranty

uSer’S Guide GPS Quick-Start Guide

reSearch Source The History of the Guitar

courSe cataloG California State University at Fullerton

Course Catalog

SiGnS Folger Shakespeare Library Hours and

Exhibit Placards

weB Site Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System:

Borrowers Services

atlaS Mali

MaGaZine article Will All the Blue Men End Up in Timbuktu?

draMa review Santa Claus Meets Sophocles

draMa review A “Prequel” to Antigone

JoB application County of Sonoma Volunteer Application

puBlic docuMent BLS Career Information: Urban Planner

interview Careers in Science: Firefighter

puBlic docuMent Firefighters Physical Agility Test

Book review Mothers and Daughters

Movie review The Joy Luck Club



THE BIG QUESTION

Can anyone be a hero?


Places Left Unfinished at the

Time of Creation

Ancient Greek Myth

Retold by Olivia Coolidge

Prometheus and the First People

Native American Myth The Orphan Boy and the Elk Dog

D. T. Naine from Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

R. K. Narayan “Rama’s Initiation” from Ramayana

Lucius Apuleius

(retold by Sally Benson)

Cupid and Psyche

Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm Ashputtle

T. H. White “Arthur Becomes King of Britain”

from The Once and Future King

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Morte d’Arthur

Mark Twain from A Connecticut Yankee in King

Arthur’s Court

Miguel de Cervantes from Don Quixote

retold by William F. Russell Damon and Pythias

Guy de Maupassant Two Friends

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hiStory connection Encyclopedias and the Enlightenment

(illustrated)

GeoGraphy connection Antarctica: The Coldest Place on Earth

(illustrated)

hiStory connection San Francisco and the Gold Rushes

Science connection Physics

hiStory connection The Voyages of Captain James Cook

(illustrated)

hiStory connection The Great Migration (illustrated)

lanGuaGe connection Spanish Vocabulary

hiStory connection The Babylonian Captivity

hiStory connection The Emancipation of the Serfs

(illustrated)

GeoGraphy connection Nigerian Civil War

architecture connection Architectural Connection

Science connection Studying Animal Behavior

Science connection Longitude and Latitude

cultural connection Mexican American Pride (illustrated)

world eventS connection Repression in the Soviet Union

(illustrated)

huManitieS connection Greek Chorus (illustrated)

culture connection Ancient Greek Funeral Rites

hiStory connection Roman Society (illustrated)

lanGuaGe connection Archaic Word Forms

culture connection Roman Augurs (illustrated)

hiStory connection The Roman Senate (illustrated)

hiStory connection The Roman Forum (illustrated)

huManitieS connection Stoicism

hiStory connection Roman Triumphs

culture connection The Twelve Olympian Gods

culture connection Traditional Great Plains Culture

culture connection Griot: The Mind of the People

hiStory connection Tournaments

Science connection Eclipses (illustrated)



Artful Research


Maya Angelou Occupation: Conductorette




Jay Burreson

Making History With Vitamin C?








Rudolfo A. Anaya In Commemoration: One Million Volumes

Mark Twain A Toast to the Oldest Inhabitant



Alexander Solzhenitsyn Nobel Lecture



Yoshiko Uchida The Uprooting of a Japanese-American

Family from Desert Exile





Your Mistakes



John Phillip Santos from Places Left Unfinished at the

Time of Creation


feature article Feel the City’s Pulse? It’s Be-bop, Man!

newSletter Healdsburg Jazz Festival

weB Site Egyptology Resources

priMary Source Interactive Dig

technical article Tides

newS releaSe Black Water Turns the Tide on

Florida Coral

newSpaper editorial The New York Times, November 10, 1999

priMary Source narrative Voices from the Wall

technical directionS Compass Instructions and Warranty

uSer’S Guide GPS Quick-Start Guide

reSearch Source The History of the Guitar

courSe cataloG California State University at Fullerton

Course Catalog

SiGnS Folger Shakespeare Library Hours and

Exhibit Placards

weB Site Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System:

Borrowers Services

atlaS Mali

MaGaZine article Will All the Blue Men End Up in Timbuktu?

draMa review Santa Claus Meets Sophocles

draMa review A “Prequel” to Antigone

JoB application County of Sonoma Volunteer Application

puBlic docuMent BLS Career Information: Urban Planner

interview Careers in Science: Firefighter

puBlic docuMent Firefighters Physical Agility Test

Book review Mothers and Daughters

Movie review The Joy Luck Club



THE BIG QUESTION

Can anyone be a hero?


Places Left Unfinished at the

Time of Creation

Ancient Greek Myth

Retold by Olivia Coolidge

Prometheus and the First People

Native American Myth The Orphan Boy and the Elk Dog

D. T. Naine from Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

R. K. Narayan “Rama’s Initiation” from Ramayana

Lucius Apuleius

(retold by Sally Benson)

Cupid and Psyche

Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm Ashputtle

T. H. White “Arthur Becomes King of Britain”

from The Once and Future King

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Morte d’Arthur

Mark Twain from A Connecticut Yankee in King

Arthur’s Court

Miguel de Cervantes from Don Quixote

retold by William F. Russell Damon and Pythias

Guy de Maupassant Two Friends

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Unit 2: A Growing Nation

Gretel Ehrlich Inspired by Nature

Washington Irving The Devil and Tom Walker

Henry Wadsworth from The Song of HiawathaLongfellow The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis

Oliver Wendell Holmes Old Ironsides

Nathaniel Hawthorne The Minister’s Black Veil

Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher

On Writing “The Raven”`

The Raven

Joyce Carol Oates Where is Here?

Herman Melville from Moby-Dick

Charles Johnson On Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson from Nature

from Self-Reliance

Concord Hymn

Gretel Ehrlich Introduces Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau from Walden

from Civil Disobedience

Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death

I heard a Fly buzz—when I died

There’s a certain slant of light

My life closed twice before its close

The Soul selects her own Society

The Brain—is wider than the Sky

There is a solitude of space

Water, is taught by thirst

Galway Kinnell Reckless Genius

Walt Whitman from Preface to the 1855 Edition of

Leaves of Grass

from Song of Myself

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame

I Hear America Singing

A Noiseless Patient Spider

James Miller, Jr. America’s Epic

Unit 3: Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion

Nell Irvin Painter Defining an Era

Ambrose Bierce An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge


Frederick Douglass from My Bondage and My Freedom

Traditional Go Down, Moses

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address

Robert E. Lee Letter to His Son

Anthony Minghella from Cold Mountain

Nell Irvin Painter On Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth An Account of an Experience

with Discrimination

Mark Twain from Life on the Mississippi

How to Tell a Story

The Notorious Jumping Frog of

Calaveras Country

Bill Bryson from The Life and Times of the

Thunderbolt Kid

Jack London To Build a Fire

Miriam Davis Colt Heading West

Chief Joseph I Will Fight No More Forever

Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour

Paul Laurence Dunbar Douglass

We Wear the Mask

Edward Arlington Luke HavergalRobinson Richard Cory

Edgar Lee Masters Lucinda Matlock

Richard Bone

Willa Cather A Wagner Matinée

THE ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

What is the relationship between place and literature?What makes American literature American?How does literature shape or reflect society?

Unit 1: A Gathering of Voices

Susan Power The Oral Tradition Links the Past with

the Present

Onondaga The Earth on Turtle’s Back

Modoc When Grizzlies Walked Upright

Navajo from The Navajo Origin Legend

Susan Power Introduces “Museum Indians”

Museum Indians

Dekanawidah from The Iroquois Constitution

Alvar Nuñez Cabeza

de Vaca

A Journey Through Texas

García López de

Cárdenas

Boulders Taller Than the Great Tower

of Seville

William Bradford from Of Plymouth Plantation

Steve Squyres from Mars Rover Mission Update

Anne Bradstreet To My Dear and Loving Husband

Edward Taylor Huswifery

Jonathan Edwards from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Patrick Henry Speech in the Virginia Convention

Benjamin Franklin Speech in the Convention

Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence

Thomas Paine from The American Crisis

Phillis Wheatley To His Excellency, General Washington

Benjamin Franklin from The Autobiography

William L. Andrews Benjamin Franklin: America’s Everyman

Benjamin Franklin from Poor Richard’s Almanack

Sandra Cisneros from Straw into Gold: Metamorphosis

of the Everyday

William L. Andrews Introduces Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano from The Interesting Narrative of the

Life of Olaudah Equiano

Literature Selections

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Unit 2: A Growing Nation


Washington Irving The Devil and Tom Walker

Henry Wadsworth from The Song of HiawathaLongfellow The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis

Oliver Wendell Holmes Old Ironsides

Nathaniel Hawthorne The Minister’s Black Veil

Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher

On Writing “The Raven”`

The Raven

Joyce Carol Oates Where is Here?

Herman Melville from Moby-Dick

Charles Johnson On Ralph Waldo Emerson


from Self-Reliance

Concord Hymn

Gretel Ehrlich Introduces Henry David Thoreau



Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death

I heard a Fly buzz—when I died

There’s a certain slant of light

My life closed twice before its close

The Soul selects her own Society

The Brain—is wider than the Sky

There is a solitude of space

Water, is taught by thirst

Galway Kinnell Reckless Genius


Leaves of Grass

from Song of Myself

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame

I Hear America Singing

A Noiseless Patient Spider

James Miller, Jr. America’s Epic

Unit 3: Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion


Ambrose Bierce An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge



Traditional Go Down, Moses

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot



Anthony Minghella from Cold Mountain

Nell Irvin Painter On Sojourner Truth


with Discrimination


How to Tell a Story

The Notorious Jumping Frog of

Calaveras Country

Bill Bryson from The Life and Times of the

Thunderbolt Kid

Jack London To Build a Fire



Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour

Paul Laurence Dunbar Douglass

We Wear the Mask

Edward Arlington Luke HavergalRobinson Richard Cory

Edgar Lee Masters Lucinda Matlock

Richard Bone

Willa Cather A Wagner Matinée


What is the relationship between place and literature?What makes American literature American?How does literature shape or reflect society?

Unit 1: A Gathering of Voices

Susan Power The Oral Tradition Links the Past with

the Present

Onondaga The Earth on Turtle’s Back

Modoc When Grizzlies Walked Upright

Navajo from The Navajo Origin Legend

Susan Power Introduces “Museum Indians”

Museum Indians

Dekanawidah from The Iroquois Constitution

Alvar Nuñez Cabeza

de Vaca


García López de

Cárdenas

Boulders Taller Than the Great Tower

of Seville



Anne Bradstreet To My Dear and Loving Husband

Edward Taylor Huswifery

Jonathan Edwards from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God




Thomas Paine from The American Crisis

Phillis Wheatley To His Excellency, General Washington


William L. Andrews Benjamin Franklin: America’s Everyman

Benjamin Franklin from Poor Richard’s Almanack

Sandra Cisneros from Straw into Gold: Metamorphosis

of the Everyday

William L. Andrews Introduces Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano from The Interesting Narrative of the

Life of Olaudah Equiano


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Literature Selections continued

Unit 4: Disillusion, Defiance, and Discontent

Tim O’Brien Literature as a Magic Carpet

T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Ezra Pound A Few Don’ts

In a Station of the Metro

William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow

This Is Just to Say

The Great Figure

H. D. Pear Tree

F. Scott Fitzgerald Winter Dreams

John Steinbeck “The Turtle” from The Grapes of Wrath

W. H. Auden The Unknown Citizen

E. E. Cummings old age sticks

anyone lived in a pretty how town

Wallace Stevens Of Modern Poetry

Archibald MacLeish Ars Poetica

Marianne Moore Poetry

Ernest Hemingway In Another Country

Tim O’Brien Introduces Ambush

Ambush

William Faulkner A Rose for Emily

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Katherine Anne Porter The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

Eudora Welty A Worn Path

James Thurber The Night the Ghost Got In

Carl Sandburg Chicago

Grass

Robert Frost Birches

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Mending Wall

“Out, Out—“

Acquainted with the Night

The Gift Outright

Jules Feiffer Trapped in a Comic Book

Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers

I, Too

Dream Variations

Refugee in America

Lucille Clifton Study the Masters

Colleen McElroy For My Children

Claude McKay The Tropics in New York

Arna Bontemps A Black Man Talks of Reaping

Countee Cullen from The Dark Tower

Zora Neale Hurston from Dust Tracks on a Road

Unit 5: Prosperity and Protest

Arthur Miller The Purpose of Theater

John Hersey from Hiroshima

Randall Jarrell The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

Flannery O’Connor The Life You Save May Be Your Own

Bernard Malamud The First Seven Years

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Constantly Risking Absurdity

Sylvia Plath Mirror

Anne Sexton Courage

Theodore Roethke Cuttings

Cuttings (later)

Gwendolyn Brooks The Explorer

Robert Hayden Frederick Douglass

Elizabeth Bishop One Art

The Filling Station

James Baldwin The Rock Pile

Toni Morrison Life in His Language

John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address

Martin Luther King, Jr. from Letter from Birmingham City Jail

Arthur Miller On The Crucible

The Crucible

George Clooney and

Grant Heslov

from Good Night, and Good Luck

Unit 6: New Voices, New Frontiers

Julia Alvarez Introduces “Antojos”

Antojos

Alice Walker Everyday Use

Raymond Carver Everything Stuck to Him

William Stafford Traveling Through the Dark

Denise Levertov The Secret

Li-Young Lee The Gift

Martin Espada Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper

Yusef Komunyakaa Camouflaging the Chimera

Naomi Shihab Nye Streets

Stanley Kunitz Halley’s Comet

Judith Ortiz-Cofer The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica

Will Smith Mama Knows

William Safire Onomatopoeia

Ian Frazier Coyote v. Acme

Anna Quindlen One Day, Now Broken in Two

Amy Tan Mother Tongue

Rita Dove For the Love of Books

Maxine Hong Kingston from The Woman Warrior

N. Scott Momaday from The Names

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Unit 4: Disillusion, Defiance, and Discontent


T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock


In a Station of the Metro

William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow

This Is Just to Say

The Great Figure

H. D. Pear Tree

F. Scott Fitzgerald Winter Dreams

John Steinbeck “The Turtle” from The Grapes of Wrath

W. H. Auden The Unknown Citizen

E. E. Cummings old age sticks

anyone lived in a pretty how town

Wallace Stevens Of Modern Poetry

Archibald MacLeish Ars Poetica

Marianne Moore Poetry

Ernest Hemingway In Another Country

Tim O’Brien Introduces Ambush

Ambush

William Faulkner A Rose for Emily

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Katherine Anne Porter The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

Eudora Welty A Worn Path


Carl Sandburg Chicago

Grass

Robert Frost Birches

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Mending Wall

“Out, Out—“

Acquainted with the Night

The Gift Outright

Jules Feiffer Trapped in a Comic Book

Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers

I, Too

Dream Variations

Refugee in America

Lucille Clifton Study the Masters

Colleen McElroy For My Children

Claude McKay The Tropics in New York

Arna Bontemps A Black Man Talks of Reaping

Countee Cullen from The Dark Tower


Unit 5: Prosperity and Protest

Arthur Miller The Purpose of Theater


Randall Jarrell The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

Flannery O’Connor The Life You Save May Be Your Own

Bernard Malamud The First Seven Years

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Constantly Risking Absurdity

Sylvia Plath Mirror

Anne Sexton Courage

Theodore Roethke Cuttings

Cuttings (later)

Gwendolyn Brooks The Explorer

Robert Hayden Frederick Douglass

Elizabeth Bishop One Art

The Filling Station

James Baldwin The Rock Pile

Toni Morrison Life in His Language



Arthur Miller On The Crucible

The Crucible

George Clooney and

Grant Heslov

from Good Night, and Good Luck

Unit 6: New Voices, New Frontiers

Julia Alvarez Introduces “Antojos”

Antojos

Alice Walker Everyday Use

Raymond Carver Everything Stuck to Him

William Stafford Traveling Through the Dark

Denise Levertov The Secret

Li-Young Lee The Gift

Martin Espada Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper

Yusef Komunyakaa Camouflaging the Chimera

Naomi Shihab Nye Streets

Stanley Kunitz Halley’s Comet

Judith Ortiz-Cofer The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica

Will Smith Mama Knows








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Nonfiction and Informational TextsReading Informational Materials

Manual How to Watch a Debate

puBlic Service

advertiSeMent

Help North Texas Vote

John Adams Letter from the President’s House

Abigail Adams Letter to her Daughter from the New

White House

Benjamin Henry Latrobe Floor Plan of the President’s House

Thomas Jefferson Commission of Meriwether Lewis

Meriwether Lewis Crossing the Great Divide

conSuMer Guide Water on Tap

report South Florida Environmental Report

Mary Chesnut from Mary Chesnut’s Civil War

Warren Lee Goss Recollections of a Private

Randolph McKim A Confederate Account of the Battle

of Gettysburg

periodical aBStract A Community’s Roots

GovernMent forM Virginia Archaeological Site Record



Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother

Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Blues

on line citation orGaniZer Citation Machine

online article Atlanta Braves

poSter Junk Rally

Dr. Seuss The Battle of the Easy Chair

editorial Backing the Attack

Brooks Atkinson The Crucible

Kenneth Turan Hysteria Resides at the Heart of a

Frantic Crucible

Mel Gussow A Rock of the Modern Age,

Arthur Miller is Everywhere

Sean Ramsay Urban Renewal

William Harvey Playing for the Fighting Sixty-Ninth

technical report W3C Team Submission

policy StateMent Web Accessibility Policy


Alvar Núñez Cabeza

de Vaca


García López de

Cárdenas

Boulders Taller Than the

Great Tower of Seville





Sandra Cisneros Straw Into Gold: The Metamorphosis

of the Everyday

Olaudah Equiano from The Interesting Narrative of the Life

of Olaudah Equiano


Bill Bryson from The Life and Times of

The Thunderbolt Kid




Benjamin Henry Latrobe Floor Plan for the President’s House


Junk Rally



Iroquois from The Iroquois Constitution




Thomas Paine from The American Crisis, Number 1



William Faulkner Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech




Abigail Adams Letter to Her Daughter From the

New White House



Randolph McKim A Confederate Account of the

Battle of Gettysburg



with Discrimination



Susan Power Museum Indians


from Self-Reliance




Leaves of Grass








Historical and Literary Background

Richard Lederer Our Native American Heritage

Susan Power The Oral Tradition Links the Past

with the Present

Richard Lederer The Truth About O.K.


Richard Lederer Mark Twain and the American Language


Richard Lederer Sliding with Slang


Arthur Miller From Quiet Pride to Activism

Richard Lederer Brave New Words

Julia Alvarez All-American Writer

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Nonfiction and Informational TextsReading Informational Materials

Manual How to Watch a Debate

puBlic Service

advertiSeMent

Help North Texas Vote


Abigail Adams Letter to her Daughter from the New

White House

Benjamin Henry Latrobe Floor Plan of the President’s House

Thomas Jefferson Commission of Meriwether Lewis


conSuMer Guide Water on Tap

report South Florida Environmental Report



Randolph McKim A Confederate Account of the Battle

of Gettysburg

periodical aBStract A Community’s Roots

GovernMent forM Virginia Archaeological Site Record




Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Blues

on line citation orGaniZer Citation Machine

online article Atlanta Braves

poSter Junk Rally


editorial Backing the Attack

Brooks Atkinson The Crucible

Kenneth Turan Hysteria Resides at the Heart of a

Frantic Crucible

Mel Gussow A Rock of the Modern Age,

Arthur Miller is Everywhere

Sean Ramsay Urban Renewal

William Harvey Playing for the Fighting Sixty-Ninth

technical report W3C Team Submission

policy StateMent Web Accessibility Policy


Alvar Núñez Cabeza

de Vaca


García López de

Cárdenas

Boulders Taller Than the

Great Tower of Seville





Sandra Cisneros Straw Into Gold: The Metamorphosis

of the Everyday

Olaudah Equiano from The Interesting Narrative of the Life

of Olaudah Equiano


Bill Bryson from The Life and Times of

The Thunderbolt Kid




Benjamin Henry Latrobe Floor Plan for the President’s House


Junk Rally



Iroquois from The Iroquois Constitution




Thomas Paine from The American Crisis, Number 1



William Faulkner Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech




Abigail Adams Letter to Her Daughter From the

New White House



Randolph McKim A Confederate Account of the

Battle of Gettysburg



with Discrimination



Susan Power Museum Indians


from Self-Reliance




Leaves of Grass








Historical and Literary Background

Richard Lederer Our Native American Heritage

Susan Power The Oral Tradition Links the Past

with the Present

Richard Lederer The Truth About O.K.


Richard Lederer Mark Twain and the American Language


Richard Lederer Sliding with Slang


Arthur Miller From Quiet Pride to Activism

Richard Lederer Brave New Words

Julia Alvarez All-American Writer

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What is the relationship between place and literature?What is the relationship of the writer to tradition?How does literature shape or reflect society?

Unit 1: From Legend to History

Burton Raffel England’s Green, Fertile Land

Burton Raffel, Translator The Seafarer

Charles W. Kennedy,

Translator

The Wanderer

Ann Stanford, Translator The Wife’s Lament

Burton Raffel Introduces Beowulf

Burton Raffel, Translator from Beowulf

Seamus Heaney On Beowulf

Gareth Hinds from Beowulf

Bede from A History of the English Church

and People

Geoffrey Chaucer from The Canterbury Tales

The Prologue

The Pardoner’s Tale

The Wife of Bath’s Tale

Giovanni Boccaccio Federigo’s Falcon

Marie Borroff, Translator from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Sir Thomas Malory from Morte d’Arthur


grade 12

Unit 2: Celebrating Humanity

Frank Kermode Life in Elizabethan and Jacobean England

Edmund Spenser Sonnet 1

Sonnet 35

Sonnet 75

Sir Philip Sidney Sonnet 31

Sonnet 39

Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

Sir Walter Raleigh The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd


Sonnet 106

Sonnet 116

Sonnet 130

John Lahr from Disappearing Act, An Interview with

Cate Blanchett

Commissioned by from The King James BibleKing James Psalm 23

Psalm 137

from The Sermon on the Mount

Frank Kermode Introduces Macbeth

William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Macbeth

Sophocles from Oedipus the King

Johann Wolfgang

von Goethe

from Faust

Unit 3: A Turbulent Time

Richard Rodriguez From Small Towns to Big Cities

John Donne Song

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

Holy Sonnet 10

Meditation 17

Ben Jonson On My First Son

Still to Be Neat

Song: To Celia

Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress

Robert Herrick To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

Sir John Suckling Song

John Milton Sonnet VII

Sonnet XIX

from Paradise Lost

Dante Alighieri from The Inferno

John Bunyan Pilgrim’s Progress

Amelia Lanier from Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women

Richard Lovelace To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars

To Althea, from Prison

Neil Gaiman from Neverwhere

Daniel DeFoe from A Journal of the Plague Year

Jonathan Swift from Gulliver’s Travels

A Modest Proposal

Alexander Pope from An Essay on Man

from The Rape of the Lock

Samuel Johnson from A Dictionary of the English Language

James Boswell from The Life of Samuel Johnson

Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Anne Finch A Nocturnal Reverie

Joseph Addison from The Aims of the Spectator

Richard Rodriguez from Days of Obligation

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What is the relationship between place and literature?What is the relationship of the writer to tradition?How does literature shape or reflect society?

Unit 1: From Legend to History


Burton Raffel, Translator The Seafarer

Charles W. Kennedy,

Translator

The Wanderer

Ann Stanford, Translator The Wife’s Lament

Burton Raffel Introduces Beowulf

Burton Raffel, Translator from Beowulf

Seamus Heaney On Beowulf

Gareth Hinds from Beowulf


and People

Geoffrey Chaucer from The Canterbury Tales

The Prologue

The Pardoner’s Tale

The Wife of Bath’s Tale

Giovanni Boccaccio Federigo’s Falcon

Marie Borroff, Translator from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Sir Thomas Malory from Morte d’Arthur


grade 12

Unit 2: Celebrating Humanity

Frank Kermode Life in Elizabethan and Jacobean England

Edmund Spenser Sonnet 1

Sonnet 35

Sonnet 75

Sir Philip Sidney Sonnet 31

Sonnet 39

Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

Sir Walter Raleigh The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd


Sonnet 106

Sonnet 116

Sonnet 130

John Lahr from Disappearing Act, An Interview with

Cate Blanchett

Commissioned by from The King James BibleKing James Psalm 23

Psalm 137

from The Sermon on the Mount

Frank Kermode Introduces Macbeth

William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Macbeth

Sophocles from Oedipus the King

Johann Wolfgang

von Goethe

from Faust

Unit 3: A Turbulent Time


John Donne Song

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

Holy Sonnet 10

Meditation 17

Ben Jonson On My First Son

Still to Be Neat

Song: To Celia

Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress

Robert Herrick To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

Sir John Suckling Song

John Milton Sonnet VII

Sonnet XIX

from Paradise Lost

Dante Alighieri from The Inferno

John Bunyan Pilgrim’s Progress

Amelia Lanier from Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women

Richard Lovelace To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars

To Althea, from Prison

Neil Gaiman from Neverwhere

Daniel DeFoe from A Journal of the Plague Year

Jonathan Swift from Gulliver’s Travels

A Modest Proposal

Alexander Pope from An Essay on Man

from The Rape of the Lock



Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Anne Finch A Nocturnal Reverie



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Unit 4: Rebels and Dreamers

Elizabeth McCracken Creating a Legend

Robert Burns To a Mouse

To a Louse

Joanna Baillie Woo’d and Married and A’

William Blake The Lamb

The Tyger

The Chimney Sweep

Infant Sorrow

Elizabeth McCracken Introduces Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft

Shelley

Introduction to Frankenstein

William Wordsworth Lines Composed a Few Miles Above

Tintern Abbey

from The Prelude

The World Is Too Much With Us

London, 1802

Alexander Pushkin I Have Visited Again

Charles Baudelaire Invitation to the Voyage

Arthur Waley, Translator Thick Grow the Rush Leaves

Tu Fu Jade Flower Palace

Ki Tsurayuki,

Ono Komachi, and

Priest Jakuren

Three Tanka

Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Kubla Khan

George Gordon, She Walks in Beauty

Lord Byron from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

from Don Juan

Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias

Ode to the West Wind

To a Skylark

John Keats On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be

Ode to a Nightingale

Jane Austen On Making an Agreeable Marriage

Mary Wollstonecraft

Shelley

from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Unit 5: Progress and Decline

James Berry Growing Up in Colonial Jamaica

Alfred, Lord Tennyson from In Memoriam, A. H. H.

The Lady of Shalott

from The Princess: Tears, Idle Tears

Ulysses

Robert Browning My Last Duchess

Life in a Love

Porphyria’s Lover

Elizabeth Barrett

Browning

Sonnet 43

Charles Dickens from Hard Times

Anton Chekhov An Upheaval

Matthew Arnold Dover Beach

Rudyard Kipling Recessional

The Widow at Windsor

James Berry Introduces Three Poems

from Lucy: Englan’ Lady

Freedom

Time Removed

Colin Meloy Eli, The Barrow Boy

Emily Brontë Remembrance

Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush

“Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?”

Gerald Manley Hopkins God’s Grandeur

Spring and Fall: To a Young Child

A. E. Housman To an Athlete Dying Young

When I Was One-and-Twenty

Unit 6: A Time of Rapid Change

Anita Desai The English Language Takes Root in India

William Butler Yeats When You Are Old

The Lake Isle of Innisfre

The Wild Swans at Coole

The Second Coming

Sailing to Byzantium

T. S. Eliot Preludes

Journey of the Magi

The Hollow Men

W. H. Auden In Memory of W. B. Yeats

Musée des Beaux Arts

Louis MacNeice Carrick Revisited

Stephen Spender Not Palaces

Virginia Woolf The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection

from Mrs. Dalloway

from A Room of One’s Own

Juan Rulfo from Pedro Páramo

Rosario Castellanos from The Nine Guardians

Joseph Conrad The Lagoon

James Joyce Araby

D. H. Lawrence The Rocking-Horse Winner

Graham Greene A Shocking Accident

Rupert Brooke The Soldier

Siegfried Sassoon Wirers

Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth

Riverbend Iraqi War Blog

Elizabeth Bowen The Demon Lover

Keith Douglas Vergissmeinnicht (Forget Me Not)

Alun Lewis Postscript: For Gweno

Henry Reed Naming of Parts

George Orwell Shooting an Elephant

Doris Lessing No Witchcraft for Sale

Nadine Gordimer The Train from Rhodesia

V. S. Naipaul B. Wordsworth

Derek Walcott from Midsummer XXIII

from Omeros

Seamus Heaney Follower

Two Lorries

Eavan Boland Outside History

Samuel Beckett Come and Go

Harold Pinter That’s All

Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Fern Hill

Ted Hughes The Horses

Philip Larkin An Arundel Tomb

The Explosion

Peter Redgrove On the Patio

Stevie Smith Not Waving But Drowning

Carol Anne Duffy Prayer

Penelope Shuttle In the Kitchen

Anita Desai Introduces A Devoted Son

A Devoted Son

Penelope Lively Next Term, We’ll Mash You

Arthur C. Clarke from We’ll Never Conquer Space

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Unit 4: Rebels and Dreamers


Robert Burns To a Mouse

To a Louse

Joanna Baillie Woo’d and Married and A’

William Blake The Lamb

The Tyger

The Chimney Sweep

Infant Sorrow

Elizabeth McCracken Introduces Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft

Shelley


William Wordsworth Lines Composed a Few Miles Above

Tintern Abbey

from The Prelude

The World Is Too Much With Us

London, 1802

Alexander Pushkin I Have Visited Again

Charles Baudelaire Invitation to the Voyage

Arthur Waley, Translator Thick Grow the Rush Leaves

Tu Fu Jade Flower Palace

Ki Tsurayuki,

Ono Komachi, and

Priest Jakuren

Three Tanka

Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Kubla Khan

George Gordon, She Walks in Beauty

Lord Byron from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

from Don Juan

Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias

Ode to the West Wind

To a Skylark

John Keats On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be

Ode to a Nightingale


Mary Wollstonecraft

Shelley


Unit 5: Progress and Decline

James Berry Growing Up in Colonial Jamaica

Alfred, Lord Tennyson from In Memoriam, A. H. H.

The Lady of Shalott

from The Princess: Tears, Idle Tears

Ulysses

Robert Browning My Last Duchess

Life in a Love

Porphyria’s Lover

Elizabeth Barrett

Browning

Sonnet 43

Charles Dickens from Hard Times

Anton Chekhov An Upheaval

Matthew Arnold Dover Beach

Rudyard Kipling Recessional

The Widow at Windsor

James Berry Introduces Three Poems

from Lucy: Englan’ Lady

Freedom

Time Removed

Colin Meloy Eli, The Barrow Boy

Emily Brontë Remembrance

Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush

“Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?”

Gerald Manley Hopkins God’s Grandeur

Spring and Fall: To a Young Child

A. E. Housman To an Athlete Dying Young

When I Was One-and-Twenty

Unit 6: A Time of Rapid Change

Anita Desai The English Language Takes Root in India

William Butler Yeats When You Are Old

The Lake Isle of Innisfre

The Wild Swans at Coole

The Second Coming

Sailing to Byzantium

T. S. Eliot Preludes

Journey of the Magi

The Hollow Men

W. H. Auden In Memory of W. B. Yeats

Musée des Beaux Arts

Louis MacNeice Carrick Revisited

Stephen Spender Not Palaces

Virginia Woolf The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection

from Mrs. Dalloway

from A Room of One’s Own

Juan Rulfo from Pedro Páramo

Rosario Castellanos from The Nine Guardians

Joseph Conrad The Lagoon

James Joyce Araby

D. H. Lawrence The Rocking-Horse Winner

Graham Greene A Shocking Accident

Rupert Brooke The Soldier

Siegfried Sassoon Wirers

Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth


Elizabeth Bowen The Demon Lover

Keith Douglas Vergissmeinnicht (Forget Me Not)

Alun Lewis Postscript: For Gweno

Henry Reed Naming of Parts


Doris Lessing No Witchcraft for Sale

Nadine Gordimer The Train from Rhodesia

V. S. Naipaul B. Wordsworth

Derek Walcott from Midsummer XXIII

from Omeros

Seamus Heaney Follower

Two Lorries

Eavan Boland Outside History

Samuel Beckett Come and Go

Harold Pinter That’s All

Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Fern Hill

Ted Hughes The Horses

Philip Larkin An Arundel Tomb

The Explosion

Peter Redgrove On the Patio

Stevie Smith Not Waving But Drowning

Carol Anne Duffy Prayer

Penelope Shuttle In the Kitchen

Anita Desai Introduces A Devoted Son

A Devoted Son

Penelope Lively Next Term, We’ll Mash You


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Nonfiction and Informational TextsHistorical and Literacy Background

Richard Lederer The Beginnings of English


Richard Lederer A Man of Fire – New Words

Frank Kermode Life in Elizabethan and

Jacobean England

Richard Lederer No Harmless Drudge, He


Richard Lederer The Romantic Age


Richard Lederer Euphemisms: The Fig Leaves

of Language

James Berry Growing up in Colonial Jamaica

Richard Lederer Britspeak, A to ZED

Anita Desai The English Language Takes Root

in India



and People

Queen Elizabeth I from Speech Before Her Troops

Charles II Declaration to London 1666


Selected Entries from A Dictionary of the English Language

Lord John Russell Speech in Favor of Reform

Sir Robert Peel Speech Against Reform

Margaret Paston Letters

Eyewitness Account Examination on

Don Luis de Córdoba

Samuel Pepys from The Diary

Thomas Babington

Macaulay

On The Passing Of The Reform Bill

Mary Wollstonecraft

Shelley



Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal



Mary Wollstonecraft

Shelley



Sydney Smith Progress in Personal Comfort

Virginia Woolf from A Room of One’s Own

Winston Churchill Wartime Speech


Nick Hornby from Songbook




online encyclopedia article English Literature

wikipedia article Davy Crockett

Margaret Paston Letters of Margaret Paston

four folk BalladS Ballads

Queen Elizabeth I Speech Before Her Troops

eyewitneSS account Examination of Don Luis de Córdoba

feature article Eric Joffee/Recasting Shakespeare’s Stage

theater review The Scottish Play, Told with Sound

and Fury and Puppets


Charles II Declaration to London, 1666

annual report The Mayor’s Annual Report 2004

tranSit Map and Schedule MARTA Metrorail map and schedule

GovernMent report Traffic Management, Lake District,

National Park Authority

travel Guide Exploring Lancashire and the Lakes



Thomas Babington

Macaulay

On the Passing of the Reform Bill

weB Site Charles Dickens Museum

Brochure Andalusia: Home of Flannery O’Connor


advertiSeMent Thomas Cook & Sons


policy Evacuation Scheme

technical article Extra-Terrestrial Relays:

Can Rocket Stations Give World-Wide

Radio Coverage?

preSS releaSe Space Science and Engineering Center

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Nonfiction and Informational TextsHistorical and Literacy Background

Richard Lederer The Beginnings of English


Richard Lederer A Man of Fire – New Words

Frank Kermode Life in Elizabethan and

Jacobean England

Richard Lederer No Harmless Drudge, He


Richard Lederer The Romantic Age


Richard Lederer Euphemisms: The Fig Leaves

of Language

James Berry Growing up in Colonial Jamaica

Richard Lederer Britspeak, A to ZED

Anita Desai The English Language Takes Root

in India



and People

Queen Elizabeth I from Speech Before Her Troops

Charles II Declaration to London 1666


Selected Entries from A Dictionary of the English Language



Margaret Paston Letters

Eyewitness Account Examination on

Don Luis de Córdoba


Thomas Babington

Macaulay

On The Passing Of The Reform Bill

Mary Wollstonecraft

Shelley



Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal



Mary Wollstonecraft

Shelley




Virginia Woolf from A Room of One’s Own



Nick Hornby from Songbook




online encyclopedia article English Literature

wikipedia article Davy Crockett

Margaret Paston Letters of Margaret Paston

four folk BalladS Ballads

Queen Elizabeth I Speech Before Her Troops

eyewitneSS account Examination of Don Luis de Córdoba

feature article Eric Joffee/Recasting Shakespeare’s Stage

theater review The Scottish Play, Told with Sound

and Fury and Puppets


Charles II Declaration to London, 1666

annual report The Mayor’s Annual Report 2004

tranSit Map and Schedule MARTA Metrorail map and schedule

GovernMent report Traffic Management, Lake District,

National Park Authority

travel Guide Exploring Lancashire and the Lakes



Thomas Babington

Macaulay

On the Passing of the Reform Bill

weB Site Charles Dickens Museum

Brochure Andalusia: Home of Flannery O’Connor


advertiSeMent Thomas Cook & Sons


policy Evacuation Scheme

technical article Extra-Terrestrial Relays:

Can Rocket Stations Give World-Wide

Radio Coverage?

preSS releaSe Space Science and Engineering Center

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