For the love of teaching.
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For the love of teaching.
For the love of teaching. Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 contents table of Grade 10 Grade 11 PearsonSchool.com 800-848-9500 Copyright © 2008 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliate(s). All rights reserved. ADV: 978-4182-9991-0 (FOR REP ORDERS) Grade 12 Lit08064 Grade 9 contents table of grade 6 grade 7 grade 8 grade 9 grade 10 grade 11 grade 12 Selection Choices................ 2 Nonfiction and Informational Texts............... 4 Selection Choices................ 6 Nonfiction and Informational Texts............... 8 Selection Choices.............. 10 Nonfiction and Informational Texts............. 12 Selection Choices.............. 14 Nonfiction and Informational Texts............. 16 Selection Choices.............. 18 Nonfiction and Informational Texts............. 20 Literature Selections........... 22 Nonfiction and Informational Texts............. 26 Literature Selections........... 28 Nonfiction and Informational Texts............. 32 contents table of grade 6 grade 7 grade 8 grade 9 grade 10 grade 11 grade 12 Selection Choices................ 2 Nonfiction and Informational Texts............... 4 Selection Choices................ 6 Nonfiction and Informational Texts............... 8 Selection Choices.............. 10 Nonfiction and Informational Texts............. 12 Selection Choices.............. 14 Nonfiction and Informational Texts............. 16 Selection Choices.............. 18 Nonfiction and Informational Texts............. 20 Literature Selections........... 22 Nonfiction and Informational Texts............. 26 Literature Selections........... 28 Nonfiction and Informational Texts............. 32 Selection Choices Unit 1: Fiction and Nonfiction THE BIG QUESTION true ? grade 6 What is Fiction and Nonfiction? Theodore Roethke Child on Top of a Greenhouse Zlata Filipovic What Is Nonfiction? E. E. Cummings who knows if the moon’s from Zlata’s Diary Robert Frost Dust of Snow know ? My Heart Is in the Highlands Helen Keller Water Matsuo Bashò Haiku Cynthia Rylant Stray Russell Baker Hard as Nails Lillian Morrison The Sidewalk Racer Laurence Yep The Homecoming Jackie Robinson: Justice at Last Anonymous Limerick Gary Soto The Drive-In Movies Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns Muso Soseki Haiku Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack, Jr. The Shutout Dorthi Charles Concrete Cat Anonymous Limerick Julia Alvarez from Something to Declare 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 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 Russell Freedman A Backwoods Boy Susy Clemens My Papa, Mark Twain Bailey White Turkeys Mark Twain Stage Fright Eloise Greenfield Langston Terrace Julia Alvarez Names/Nombres John Phillip Santos La Leña Buena The Lady and the Spider Paul Zindel from The Pigman & Me The Sound of Summer Running Yoshiko Uchida Letter From a Concentration Camp F. Scott Fitzgerald Letter to Scottie Robert Fulghum Ray Bradbury Sandra Cisneros Eleven Unit 2: Short Stories Is conflict always bad? Jean Craighead George Unit 4: Poetry Unit 5: Types of Drama THE BIG QUESTION THE BIG QUESTION What Is a Short Story? Do we need words to communicate Gary Soto 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 well? What Is Poetry? THE BIG QUESTION How do we decide Joseph Bruchac Oranges The Wounded Wolf 2 The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be What is important to Greyling table of contents Nikki Giovanni THE BIG QUESTION How do we decide what is Jane Yolen Unit 3: Types of Nonfiction 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 who we are? 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 3 Selection Choices Unit 1: Fiction and Nonfiction THE BIG QUESTION true ? grade 6 What is Fiction and Nonfiction? Theodore Roethke Child on Top of a Greenhouse Zlata Filipovic What Is Nonfiction? E. E. Cummings who knows if the moon’s from Zlata’s Diary Robert Frost Dust of Snow know ? My Heart Is in the Highlands Helen Keller Water Matsuo Bashò Haiku Cynthia Rylant Stray Russell Baker Hard as Nails Lillian Morrison The Sidewalk Racer Laurence Yep The Homecoming Jackie Robinson: Justice at Last Anonymous Limerick Gary Soto The Drive-In Movies Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns Muso Soseki Haiku Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack, Jr. The Shutout Dorthi Charles Concrete Cat Anonymous Limerick Julia Alvarez from Something to Declare 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 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 Russell Freedman A Backwoods Boy Susy Clemens My Papa, Mark Twain Bailey White Turkeys Mark Twain Stage Fright Eloise Greenfield Langston Terrace Julia Alvarez Names/Nombres John Phillip Santos La Leña Buena The Lady and the Spider Paul Zindel from The Pigman & Me The Sound of Summer Running Yoshiko Uchida Letter From a Concentration Camp F. Scott Fitzgerald Letter to Scottie Robert Fulghum Ray Bradbury Sandra Cisneros Eleven Unit 2: Short Stories Is conflict always bad? Jean Craighead George Unit 4: Poetry Unit 5: Types of Drama THE BIG QUESTION THE BIG QUESTION What Is a Short Story? Do we need words to communicate Gary Soto 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 well? What Is Poetry? THE BIG QUESTION How do we decide Joseph Bruchac Oranges The Wounded Wolf 2 The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be What is important to Greyling table of contents Nikki Giovanni THE BIG QUESTION How do we decide what is Jane Yolen Unit 3: Types of Nonfiction 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 who we are? 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 3 Selection Choices continued Nonfiction and Info rmational Texts Unit 6: Types of Folk Literature Reading Informational Materials THE BIG QUESTION web site www.aspca.org news article Rescuers to Carry Oxygen Masks for Pets Black Cowboy, Wild Horses atlas entry The Caribbean James Thurber The Tiger Who Would Be King travel brochure Florida Keys Brochure Leo Tolstoy The Ant and the Dove almanac The Seven Wonders of the World Aesop The Lion and the Bulls textbook Egyptian Pyramids My-Van Tran A Crippled Boy essay Olivia E. Coolidge Arachne “Prologue” from The Whale Rider How much do our Julius Lester Witi Ihimaera Mowgli’s Brothers Roald Dahl from James and the Giant Peach Virginia Hamilton Ricardo E. Alegria Why the Tortoise’s Shell Is Not Smooth He Lion, Bruh Bear, and Bruh Rabbit The Three Wishes Lloyd Alexander The Stone Joan Aiken Lob’s Girl Walter Dean Myers Jeremiah’s Song Literature in Context—Reading in the Content Areas What Is Fiction and Nonfiction? Social Studies Connection Drive-In Movies My Heart Is in the Highlands Science Connection Living Layers Gary Soto The Drive-In Movies Literature Connection Twain Makes His Mark James Herriot The Market Square Dog Science Connection Spin Cycle (illustrated) The Case of the Monkeys That Fell From the Trees Safety Connection Pet Precautions Literature Connection Traditional Dragon Stories Susy Clemens My Papa, Mark Twain Social Studies Connection Home on the Range Race to the End of the Earth Mark Twain Stagefright Geography Connection Agricultural Seasons annotated map Gold Rush: Journey By Land Julia Alvarez Names/Nombres History Connection “Cold” Rush (illustrated) Richard Durbin Preserving a Great American Symbol Robert Fulghum The Lady and the Spider History Connection Cossacks Jean Craighead George What Is a Short Story? Culture Connection Journalism Zlata Filipovic What Is Nonfiction? History Connection Making History (illustrated) from Zlata’s Diary Science Connection Leaving the Nest (illustrated) Water Biography Connection The Man Langston Terrace Honors Hard as Nails Culture Connection Turnpike Tollbooth Jackie Robinson: Justice at Last Science Connection Measuring Time (illustrated) Culture Connection Plumb Line History Connection Trail Riders (illustrated) What Is Folk Literature? Rudyard Kipling Chinua Achebe 4 communities shape us? Additional Nonfiction Reginald T. Dogan Jake Wood Baseball is the start of something special Jane Yolen Susan E. Quinlan advertisement Ball Band Shoes advertisement Neolite Soles instructional manual Origami: Apatosaurus entry form World of Escher: Contest Entry Form policies document Library Card Information Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns application Forsyth County Public Library Card Application Patricia C. McKissack and The Shutout Fredrick McKissack, Jr. Literature Connection Allusions online article NASA Finally Goes Metric Julia Alvarez from Something to Declare Culture Connection Athene persuative text Metric Metric: It’s so nice, we’ll say it twice!™ Russell Freedman A Backwoods Boy Literature Connection Rocks and Roles Bailey White Turkeys Music Connection What Is the Delta Blues? (illustrated) news release Satellites and Sea Lions: Working Together to Improve Ocean Models Eloise Greenfield Langston Terrace encyclopedia entry California Sea Lions John Philip Santos La Leña Buena encyclopedia entry How to Read a Road Map Paul Zindel from The Pigman and Me street map Downtown Atlanta F. Scott Fitzgerald Letter to Scottie Gary Soto What Is Poetry? Pablo Neruda Childhood and Poetry Joseph Bruchac What Is Drama? Julius Lester What Is Folk Literature? Helen Keller Russell Baker 5 Selection Choices continued Nonfiction and Info rmational Texts Unit 6: Types of Folk Literature Reading Informational Materials THE BIG QUESTION web site www.aspca.org news article Rescuers to Carry Oxygen Masks for Pets Black Cowboy, Wild Horses atlas entry The Caribbean James Thurber The Tiger Who Would Be King travel brochure Florida Keys Brochure Leo Tolstoy The Ant and the Dove almanac The Seven Wonders of the World Aesop The Lion and the Bulls textbook Egyptian Pyramids My-Van Tran A Crippled Boy essay Olivia E. Coolidge Arachne “Prologue” from The Whale Rider How much do our Julius Lester Witi Ihimaera Mowgli’s Brothers Roald Dahl from James and the Giant Peach Virginia Hamilton Ricardo E. Alegria Why the Tortoise’s Shell Is Not Smooth He Lion, Bruh Bear, and Bruh Rabbit The Three Wishes Lloyd Alexander The Stone Joan Aiken Lob’s Girl Walter Dean Myers Jeremiah’s Song Literature in Context—Reading in the Content Areas What Is Fiction and Nonfiction? Social Studies Connection Drive-In Movies My Heart Is in the Highlands Science Connection Living Layers Gary Soto The Drive-In Movies Literature Connection Twain Makes His Mark James Herriot The Market Square Dog Science Connection Spin Cycle (illustrated) The Case of the Monkeys That Fell From the Trees Safety Connection Pet Precautions Literature Connection Traditional Dragon Stories Susy Clemens My Papa, Mark Twain Social Studies Connection Home on the Range Race to the End of the Earth Mark Twain Stagefright Geography Connection Agricultural Seasons annotated map Gold Rush: Journey By Land Julia Alvarez Names/Nombres History Connection “Cold” Rush (illustrated) Richard Durbin Preserving a Great American Symbol Robert Fulghum The Lady and the Spider History Connection Cossacks Jean Craighead George What Is a Short Story? Culture Connection Journalism Zlata Filipovic What Is Nonfiction? History Connection Making History (illustrated) from Zlata’s Diary Science Connection Leaving the Nest (illustrated) Water Biography Connection The Man Langston Terrace Honors Hard as Nails Culture Connection Turnpike Tollbooth Jackie Robinson: Justice at Last Science Connection Measuring Time (illustrated) Culture Connection Plumb Line History Connection Trail Riders (illustrated) What Is Folk Literature? Rudyard Kipling Chinua Achebe 4 communities shape us? Additional Nonfiction Reginald T. Dogan Jake Wood Baseball is the start of something special Jane Yolen Susan E. Quinlan advertisement Ball Band Shoes advertisement Neolite Soles instructional manual Origami: Apatosaurus entry form World of Escher: Contest Entry Form policies document Library Card Information Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns application Forsyth County Public Library Card Application Patricia C. McKissack and The Shutout Fredrick McKissack, Jr. Literature Connection Allusions online article NASA Finally Goes Metric Julia Alvarez from Something to Declare Culture Connection Athene persuative text Metric Metric: It’s so nice, we’ll say it twice!™ Russell Freedman A Backwoods Boy Literature Connection Rocks and Roles Bailey White Turkeys Music Connection What Is the Delta Blues? (illustrated) news release Satellites and Sea Lions: Working Together to Improve Ocean Models Eloise Greenfield Langston Terrace encyclopedia entry California Sea Lions John Philip Santos La Leña Buena encyclopedia entry How to Read a Road Map Paul Zindel from The Pigman and Me street map Downtown Atlanta F. Scott Fitzgerald Letter to Scottie Gary Soto What Is Poetry? Pablo Neruda Childhood and Poetry Joseph Bruchac What Is Drama? Julius Lester What Is Folk Literature? Helen Keller Russell Baker 5 Selection Choices Unit 1: Fiction and Nonfiction Unit 3: Types of Nonfiction THE BIG QUESTION truth ? What Is Fiction and Nonfiction? Richard Peck What should we Richard Mühlberger The Three Century Woman grade 7 table of contents Fog Alfred Noyes The Highwayman What Is Nonfiction? Gregory Djanikian How I Learned English What Makes a Rembrandt a Rembrandt? Shel Silverstein Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out James Berry One Eve Merriam Weather learn ? Cynthia Rylant Papa’s Parrot Robert Zimmerman Life Without Gravity Jean Fritz mk Conversational Ballgames Annie Dillard from An American Childhood Nancy Masterson Sakamoto Lucille Clifton The Luckiest Time of All Chief Dan George I Am a Native of North America William Shakespeare Full Fathom Five Ernesto Galarza from Barrio Boy Judith Ortiz Cofer Volar: To Fly Louise Bogan Train Tune Ernest Hemingway A Day’s Wait Barbara Eaglesham Eve Merriam Onomatopoeia Ray Bradbury All Summer in a Day A Special Gift: The Legacy of “Snowflake” Bentley Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee Jane Yolen Suzy and Leah Russell Baker No Gumption Raymond R. Patterson Martin Luther King Julia Alvarez My First Free Summer Barbara Jordan All Together Now Emily Dickinson I’m Nobody Frank McCourt from Angela’s Ashes Louis L’Amour The Eternal Frontier Lewis Carroll Father William James Thurber The Night the Bed Fell Geoffrey C. Ward The Real Story of a Cowboy’s Life Robert Frost Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Rattlesnake Hunt Gwendolyn Brooks Jim Bailey White Alligator Walt Whitman Miracles Robert Service Cremation of Sam McGee E. E. Cummings in Just- Sherwood Anderson Stolen Day Unit 2: Short Stories THE BIG QUESTION Does every Walter Dean Myers conflict have a winner? What Is a Short Story? The Treasure of Lemon Brown 6 Carl Sandburg THE BIG QUESTION What is the best way to find the 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! Unit 4: Poetry Unit 5: Drama THE BIG QUESTION What is the best way to Pat Mora communicate ? What Is Poetry? Maestro THE BIG QUESTION Do others see us more clearly than we ourselves? Laurence Yep see What Is Drama? The Desert Is My Mother excerpt from Dragonwings El desierto es mi madre excerpt from Dragonwings Bailando Israel Horovitz A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley Act I Naomi Shihab Nye The Rider William Jay Smith Seal Buson Haiku Nikki Giovanni Winter Mary Ellen Solt Forsythia Rod Serling The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street Matsuo Basho Haiku Arthur Miller from Grandpa and the Statue Naomi Long Madgett Life Peg Kehret My Head Is Full of Starshine 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 A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley Act II from A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, Act I, Scene 2; Act I, Scene 5 7 Selection Choices Unit 1: Fiction and Nonfiction Unit 3: Types of Nonfiction THE BIG QUESTION truth ? What Is Fiction and Nonfiction? Richard Peck What should we Richard Mühlberger The Three Century Woman grade 7 table of contents Fog Alfred Noyes The Highwayman What Is Nonfiction? Gregory Djanikian How I Learned English What Makes a Rembrandt a Rembrandt? Shel Silverstein Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out James Berry One Eve Merriam Weather learn ? Cynthia Rylant Papa’s Parrot Robert Zimmerman Life Without Gravity Jean Fritz mk Conversational Ballgames Annie Dillard from An American Childhood Nancy Masterson Sakamoto Lucille Clifton The Luckiest Time of All Chief Dan George I Am a Native of North America William Shakespeare Full Fathom Five Ernesto Galarza from Barrio Boy Judith Ortiz Cofer Volar: To Fly Louise Bogan Train Tune Ernest Hemingway A Day’s Wait Barbara Eaglesham Eve Merriam Onomatopoeia Ray Bradbury All Summer in a Day A Special Gift: The Legacy of “Snowflake” Bentley Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee Jane Yolen Suzy and Leah Russell Baker No Gumption Raymond R. Patterson Martin Luther King Julia Alvarez My First Free Summer Barbara Jordan All Together Now Emily Dickinson I’m Nobody Frank McCourt from Angela’s Ashes Louis L’Amour The Eternal Frontier Lewis Carroll Father William James Thurber The Night the Bed Fell Geoffrey C. Ward The Real Story of a Cowboy’s Life Robert Frost Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Rattlesnake Hunt Gwendolyn Brooks Jim Bailey White Alligator Walt Whitman Miracles Robert Service Cremation of Sam McGee E. E. Cummings in Just- Sherwood Anderson Stolen Day Unit 2: Short Stories THE BIG QUESTION Does every Walter Dean Myers conflict have a winner? What Is a Short Story? The Treasure of Lemon Brown 6 Carl Sandburg THE BIG QUESTION What is the best way to find the 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! Unit 4: Poetry Unit 5: Drama THE BIG QUESTION What is the best way to Pat Mora communicate ? What Is Poetry? Maestro THE BIG QUESTION Do others see us more clearly than we ourselves? Laurence Yep see What Is Drama? The Desert Is My Mother excerpt from Dragonwings El desierto es mi madre excerpt from Dragonwings Bailando Israel Horovitz A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley Act I Naomi Shihab Nye The Rider William Jay Smith Seal Buson Haiku Nikki Giovanni Winter Mary Ellen Solt Forsythia Rod Serling The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street Matsuo Basho Haiku Arthur Miller from Grandpa and the Statue Naomi Long Madgett Life Peg Kehret My Head Is Full of Starshine 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 A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley Act II from A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, Act I, Scene 2; Act I, Scene 5 7 Selection Choices continued Nonfiction and Info rmational Texts Unit 6: Themes in the Oral Tradition Reading Informational Materials THE BIG QUESTION East Asia Richard Peck What Is Fiction and Nonfiction? Social Studies Connection Tragedy Strikes PUBLIC DOCUMENT Discovering a Paper Son Michael Morrison The Fall of the Hindenburg Science Connection What Is Storytelling? APPLICATION Flat Rock Playhouse Jean Fritz mk Do parrots like Rocky understand language? Grasshopper Logic CONTRACT Crystal Springs Uplands School Theatre Annie Dillard from An American Childhood Culture Connection A Matter of Luck The Other Frog Prince MAGAZINE ARTICLE Mongoose on the Loose Ernesto Galarza from Barrio Boy 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) 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 Mary Pope Osborne 8 Popocatepetl and Ixtlaccihuatl “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 Literature in Context—Reading in the Content Areas Atlas Community or individual—which is more important? Jon Scieszka Additional Nonfiction How the Snake Got Poison ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY Indian Grey Mongoose Julia Alvarez My First Free Summer GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION Walking for Exercise & Pleasure Frank McCourt from Angela’s Ashes WEB SITE Safe Routes to School James Thurber The Night the Bed Fell TEXTBOOK ARTICLE Keeping It Quiet Richard Mühlberger What Is Nonfiction? 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 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 Virginia Hamilton The People Could Fly Kathiann M. Kowalski The Rhythms of Rap Russell Baker No Gumption Harold Courlander All Stories are Anansi’s EDUCATIONAL SONG Conjunction Junction Barbara Jordan All Together Now William Cleary The Fox Outwits the Crow REVIEW Reviews of A Christmas Carol Louis L’Amour The Eternal Frontier Aesop The Fox and the Crow RADIO INTERVIEW Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Geoffrey C. Ward The Real Story of a Cowboy’s Life EDITORIAL Veteran Returns, Becomes Symbol Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Rattlesnake Hunt EDITORIAL The Wrong Orbit Bailey White Alligator TEXTBOOK ARTICLE The Seasons on Earth Pat Mora What Is Poetry? QUESTION AND ANSWER The Benefits of Community Gardens Laurence Yep What Is Drama? EDITORIAL Zoos: Joys or Jails? Jon Scieszka What Is Storytelling? EDITORIAL Kid Territory: Why Do We Need Zoos? 9 Selection Choices continued Nonfiction and Info rmational Texts Unit 6: Themes in the Oral Tradition Reading Informational Materials THE BIG QUESTION East Asia Richard Peck What Is Fiction and Nonfiction? Social Studies Connection Tragedy Strikes PUBLIC DOCUMENT Discovering a Paper Son Michael Morrison The Fall of the Hindenburg Science Connection What Is Storytelling? APPLICATION Flat Rock Playhouse Jean Fritz mk Do parrots like Rocky understand language? Grasshopper Logic CONTRACT Crystal Springs Uplands School Theatre Annie Dillard from An American Childhood Culture Connection A Matter of Luck The Other Frog Prince MAGAZINE ARTICLE Mongoose on the Loose Ernesto Galarza from Barrio Boy 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) 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 Mary Pope Osborne 8 Popocatepetl and Ixtlaccihuatl “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 Literature in Context—Reading in the Content Areas Atlas Community or individual—which is more important? Jon Scieszka Additional Nonfiction How the Snake Got Poison ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY Indian Grey Mongoose Julia Alvarez My First Free Summer GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION Walking for Exercise & Pleasure Frank McCourt from Angela’s Ashes WEB SITE Safe Routes to School James Thurber The Night the Bed Fell TEXTBOOK ARTICLE Keeping It Quiet Richard Mühlberger What Is Nonfiction? 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 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 Virginia Hamilton The People Could Fly Kathiann M. Kowalski The Rhythms of Rap Russell Baker No Gumption Harold Courlander All Stories are Anansi’s EDUCATIONAL SONG Conjunction Junction Barbara Jordan All Together Now William Cleary The Fox Outwits the Crow REVIEW Reviews of A Christmas Carol Louis L’Amour The Eternal Frontier Aesop The Fox and the Crow RADIO INTERVIEW Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Geoffrey C. Ward The Real Story of a Cowboy’s Life EDITORIAL Veteran Returns, Becomes Symbol Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Rattlesnake Hunt EDITORIAL The Wrong Orbit Bailey White Alligator TEXTBOOK ARTICLE The Seasons on Earth Pat Mora What Is Poetry? QUESTION AND ANSWER The Benefits of Community Gardens Laurence Yep What Is Drama? EDITORIAL Zoos: Joys or Jails? Jon Scieszka What Is Storytelling? EDITORIAL Kid Territory: Why Do We Need Zoos? 9 Selection Choices Unit 1: Fiction and Nonfiction THE BIG QUESTION Is grade 8 table of contents Patricia C. McKissack What Are Fiction and Nonfiction? Patricia C. McKissack and Frederick C. McKissack from The Baker Heater League 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 Annie Dillard from An American Childhood 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 Unit 2: Short Stories THE BIG QUESTION conflicts be resolved? What Is a Short Story? An Hour with Abuelo 10 Ode to Enchanted Light Emily Dickinson The Sky is Low, the Clouds Are Mean What Is Nonfiction? David Bottoms Snake on the Etowah Making Tracks on Mars Bailey White Vanishing Species Baseball Ricardo Sánchez Old Man from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad Robert Hayden Runagate Runagate William Shakespeare Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind Brent Ashabranner from Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin Emily Lazarus The New Colossus from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Paul Revere’s Ride Maya Angelou Anaïs Nin Forest Fire Paul Laurence Dunbar Harriet Beecher Stowe Diane Ackerman Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall John Updike January Mary C. Curtis The Season’s Curmudgeon Sees the Light N. Scott Momaday New World Robert MacNeil The Trouble With Television Alice Walker For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties Susan B. Anthony On Woman’s Right to Suffrage E. E. Cummings your little voice/ Over the wires came leaping How much information is enough? Andrew Mishkin Lionel G. Garcia Patricia C. McKissack Judith Ortiz Cofer Pablo Neruda THE BIG QUESTION truth the same for everyone? Can all Unit 3: Types of Nonfiction Ann Petry Colin Powell from Sharing in the American Dream Isaac Asimov Science and the Sense of Wonder Wendy Rose Drum Song “Emancipation” from Lincoln: A Photobiography Amy Ling Grandma Ling Robert Frost The Road Not Taken Brown vs. Board of Education Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain! Russell Freedman Walter Dean Myers Unit 4: Poetry Unit 5: Drama THE BIG QUESTION THE BIG QUESTION What is the secret to Jacqueline Woodson reaching someone with words? What is Poetry? Is it our differences or our matter most? Cherie Bennett similarities that What is Drama? Brian Wilson Aldiss Who Can Replace a Man? Describe Somebody Yoshiko Uchida Tears of Autumn Almost a Summer Sky Naomi Shihab Nye Hamadi Eleanor Farjeon Cat! Neil Simon The Governess Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart Walter de la Mare Silver Anton Chekhov The Ninny Jack London Up the Slide Georgia Douglas Johnson Your World The Diary of Anne Frank, Act I Gary Paulsen “A Glow in the Dark” from Woodsong Nikki Giovanni The Drum (for Martin Luther King, Jr.) Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett Shirley Jackson Charles Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ring Out, Wild Bells Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett The Diary of Anne Frank, Act II Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon Eve Merriam Thumbprint Anne Frank Langston Hughes Thank you, M’am Patricia Hubbell Concrete Mixers from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Saki (H.H. Munro) The Story-Teller Langston Hughes Harlem Night Song Miep Gies from Anne Frank Remembered Gish Jen The White Umbrella Richard Garcia The City Is So Big Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve The Medicine Bag Elizabeth Bishop Little Exercise from Anne Frank & Me 11 Selection Choices Unit 1: Fiction and Nonfiction THE BIG QUESTION Is grade 8 table of contents Patricia C. McKissack What Are Fiction and Nonfiction? Patricia C. McKissack and Frederick C. McKissack from The Baker Heater League 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 Annie Dillard from An American Childhood 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 Unit 2: Short Stories THE BIG QUESTION conflicts be resolved? What Is a Short Story? An Hour with Abuelo 10 Ode to Enchanted Light Emily Dickinson The Sky is Low, the Clouds Are Mean What Is Nonfiction? David Bottoms Snake on the Etowah Making Tracks on Mars Bailey White Vanishing Species Baseball Ricardo Sánchez Old Man from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad Robert Hayden Runagate Runagate William Shakespeare Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind Brent Ashabranner from Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin Emily Lazarus The New Colossus from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Paul Revere’s Ride Maya Angelou Anaïs Nin Forest Fire Paul Laurence Dunbar Harriet Beecher Stowe Diane Ackerman Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall John Updike January Mary C. Curtis The Season’s Curmudgeon Sees the Light N. Scott Momaday New World Robert MacNeil The Trouble With Television Alice Walker For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties Susan B. Anthony On Woman’s Right to Suffrage E. E. Cummings your little voice/ Over the wires came leaping How much information is enough? Andrew Mishkin Lionel G. Garcia Patricia C. McKissack Judith Ortiz Cofer Pablo Neruda THE BIG QUESTION truth the same for everyone? Can all Unit 3: Types of Nonfiction Ann Petry Colin Powell from Sharing in the American Dream Isaac Asimov Science and the Sense of Wonder Wendy Rose Drum Song “Emancipation” from Lincoln: A Photobiography Amy Ling Grandma Ling Robert Frost The Road Not Taken Brown vs. Board of Education Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain! Russell Freedman Walter Dean Myers Unit 4: Poetry Unit 5: Drama THE BIG QUESTION THE BIG QUESTION What is the secret to Jacqueline Woodson reaching someone with words? What is Poetry? Is it our differences or our matter most? Cherie Bennett similarities that What is Drama? Brian Wilson Aldiss Who Can Replace a Man? Describe Somebody Yoshiko Uchida Tears of Autumn Almost a Summer Sky Naomi Shihab Nye Hamadi Eleanor Farjeon Cat! Neil Simon The Governess Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart Walter de la Mare Silver Anton Chekhov The Ninny Jack London Up the Slide Georgia Douglas Johnson Your World The Diary of Anne Frank, Act I Gary Paulsen “A Glow in the Dark” from Woodsong Nikki Giovanni The Drum (for Martin Luther King, Jr.) Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett Shirley Jackson Charles Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ring Out, Wild Bells Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett The Diary of Anne Frank, Act II Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon Eve Merriam Thumbprint Anne Frank Langston Hughes Thank you, M’am Patricia Hubbell Concrete Mixers from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Saki (H.H. Munro) The Story-Teller Langston Hughes Harlem Night Song Miep Gies from Anne Frank Remembered Gish Jen The White Umbrella Richard Garcia The City Is So Big Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve The Medicine Bag Elizabeth Bishop Little Exercise from Anne Frank & Me 11 Selection Choices continued Nonfiction and Info rmational Texts Unit 6: Themes in American Stories Reading Informational Materials THE BIG QUESTION Are yesterday’s Lan Samantha Chang 12 heroes important today? What Is Storytelling? CONSUMER DOCUMENT Savannah Belles Ferry Schedule MAP Savannah Belles Ferry Route Sun Suckers and Moon Cursers Additional Nonfiction Literature in Context—Reading in the Content Areas What Are Fiction and Nonfiction? Social Studies Connection Making Tracks (illustrated) from The Baker Heater League Nonfiction Language Connection Why Use an Allusion? Mark Twain Cub Pilot on the Mississippi History Connection Managing the Mississippi Jesse Stuart Old Ben Science Connection DNA Fingerprinting (illustrated) from An American Childhood Social Studies Connection A Bloody Battle Gateways to a New World (illustrated) Patricia C. McKissack Water Names Richard and Joyce Wolkomir Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz Coyote Steals the Sun and Moon SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE Electric Circuits and Power James D. Hart, Editor Why the Waves Have Whitecaps John Steinbeck from Travels with Charley History Connection Zora Neale Hurtston from The Oxford Companion to American Literature, Summary of “The Tell-Tale Heart” Judith Ortiz Cofer What is a Short Story? Phosphorescence John Henry from Short Story Criticism, Summary of “The Tell-Tale Heart” Science Connection Traditional Anna Sheets Nesbitt, Editor The American Dream Guided by Gibran Brer Possum’s Dilemma Martin Luther King, Jr. Culture Connection Jackie Torrence ADVERTISEMENT Andrew Mishkin What Is Nonfiction? Test Inventors (illustrated) Chicoria For Extra Days in Florida, Take the Train! Science Connection Rudolfo A. Anaya and Jose Griego y Maestas ADVERTISEMENT Amtrak Making Tracks on Mars Social Studies Connection The Sioux Nation Carl Sandburg from The People, Yes History Connection Jumpstart’s Read for the Record Frederick Douglass: Fighter for Freedom ADVERTISEMENT Davy Crockett Davy Crockett’s Dream Arts Connection Honoring Civil Rights ADVERTISEMENT City Harvest Carl Sandburg Paul Bunyan of the North Woods Literature Connection Inspired by Words (illustrated) TEXTBOOK Stephen Vincent Benet Invocation from John Brown’s Body from The American Nation, The War in Vietnam Culture Connection The Television Age (illustrated) Karen Hesse from Out of the Dust PUBLIC DOCUMENT Gulf of Tonkin Resolution from Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin Science Connection Lord of the Rings Debts LETTER On the Situation in Vietnam Maya Angelou from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Law Connection Civil Rights Pioneer Fields of Flashing Light Hands-Free Law Won’t Solve the Problem Anaïs Nin Forest Fire History Connection EDITORIAL What Is Women’s Work? Migrants Hands-Free Cell Phone Legislation Signing Diane Ackerman Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall History Connection SPEECH Air Raids Joseph Bruchac Ellis Island Thumbprint Cookies Mary C. Curtis The Season’s Curmudgeon Sees the Light World Events Connection Safe Havens RECIPE Alice Walker Choice: A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. PRODUCT INFORMATION Explanation of Nutrition Facts Label Robert MacNeil The Trouble with Television History Connection Stephen Crane An Episode of War MENU Sarasota County Schools Susan B. Anthony On Woman’s Right to Suffrage Taking the Beaches, Ending the War (illustrated) TECHNICAL DIRECTIONS Using Your Answering Machine from Sharing in the American Dream The Long River (illustrated) Poetry (La Poesía) Colin Powell Geography Connection Pablo Neruda CONSUMER DOCUMENT Limited Warranty for Answering Machine Science and the Sense of Wonder Kachinas from My Own True Name Isaac Asimov Culture Connection Pat Mora PUBLIC DOCUMENT U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division: Basic Information “Emancipation” from Lincoln: A Photobiography Machine Age Words to Sit in, Like Chairs Russell Freedman Social Studies Connection Naomi Shihab Nye History Connection Allusions Brown vs. Board of Education The Great Depression (illustrated) Work-Study Contract Walter Dean Myers History Connection CONTRACT History Connection Marching for Freedom 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 Annie Dillard Lionel G. García Baseball Ann Petry Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad Brent Ashabranner Jacqueline Woodson What is Poetry? Cherie Bennett What is Drama? Anne Frank from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Miep Gies from Anne Frank Remembered Lan Samantha Chang What is Storytelling? Alice Walker Choice: A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. Pat Mora from My Own True Name Naomi Shihab Nye Words to Sit in, Like Chairs 13 Selection Choices continued Nonfiction and Info rmational Texts Unit 6: Themes in American Stories Reading Informational Materials THE BIG QUESTION Are yesterday’s Lan Samantha Chang 12 heroes important today? What Is Storytelling? CONSUMER DOCUMENT Savannah Belles Ferry Schedule MAP Savannah Belles Ferry Route Sun Suckers and Moon Cursers Additional Nonfiction Literature in Context—Reading in the Content Areas What Are Fiction and Nonfiction? Social Studies Connection Making Tracks (illustrated) from The Baker Heater League Nonfiction Language Connection Why Use an Allusion? Mark Twain Cub Pilot on the Mississippi History Connection Managing the Mississippi Jesse Stuart Old Ben Science Connection DNA Fingerprinting (illustrated) from An American Childhood Social Studies Connection A Bloody Battle Gateways to a New World (illustrated) Patricia C. McKissack Water Names Richard and Joyce Wolkomir Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz Coyote Steals the Sun and Moon SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE Electric Circuits and Power James D. Hart, Editor Why the Waves Have Whitecaps John Steinbeck from Travels with Charley History Connection Zora Neale Hurtston from The Oxford Companion to American Literature, Summary of “The Tell-Tale Heart” Judith Ortiz Cofer What is a Short Story? Phosphorescence John Henry from Short Story Criticism, Summary of “The Tell-Tale Heart” Science Connection Traditional Anna Sheets Nesbitt, Editor The American Dream Guided by Gibran Brer Possum’s Dilemma Martin Luther King, Jr. Culture Connection Jackie Torrence ADVERTISEMENT Andrew Mishkin What Is Nonfiction? Test Inventors (illustrated) Chicoria For Extra Days in Florida, Take the Train! Science Connection Rudolfo A. Anaya and Jose Griego y Maestas ADVERTISEMENT Amtrak Making Tracks on Mars Social Studies Connection The Sioux Nation Carl Sandburg from The People, Yes History Connection Jumpstart’s Read for the Record Frederick Douglass: Fighter for Freedom ADVERTISEMENT Davy Crockett Davy Crockett’s Dream Arts Connection Honoring Civil Rights ADVERTISEMENT City Harvest Carl Sandburg Paul Bunyan of the North Woods Literature Connection Inspired by Words (illustrated) TEXTBOOK Stephen Vincent Benet Invocation from John Brown’s Body from The American Nation, The War in Vietnam Culture Connection The Television Age (illustrated) Karen Hesse from Out of the Dust PUBLIC DOCUMENT Gulf of Tonkin Resolution from Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin Science Connection Lord of the Rings Debts LETTER On the Situation in Vietnam Maya Angelou from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Law Connection Civil Rights Pioneer Fields of Flashing Light Hands-Free Law Won’t Solve the Problem Anaïs Nin Forest Fire History Connection EDITORIAL What Is Women’s Work? Migrants Hands-Free Cell Phone Legislation Signing Diane Ackerman Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall History Connection SPEECH Air Raids Joseph Bruchac Ellis Island Thumbprint Cookies Mary C. Curtis The Season’s Curmudgeon Sees the Light World Events Connection Safe Havens RECIPE Alice Walker Choice: A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. PRODUCT INFORMATION Explanation of Nutrition Facts Label Robert MacNeil The Trouble with Television History Connection Stephen Crane An Episode of War MENU Sarasota County Schools Susan B. Anthony On Woman’s Right to Suffrage Taking the Beaches, Ending the War (illustrated) TECHNICAL DIRECTIONS Using Your Answering Machine from Sharing in the American Dream The Long River (illustrated) Poetry (La Poesía) Colin Powell Geography Connection Pablo Neruda CONSUMER DOCUMENT Limited Warranty for Answering Machine Science and the Sense of Wonder Kachinas from My Own True Name Isaac Asimov Culture Connection Pat Mora PUBLIC DOCUMENT U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division: Basic Information “Emancipation” from Lincoln: A Photobiography Machine Age Words to Sit in, Like Chairs Russell Freedman Social Studies Connection Naomi Shihab Nye History Connection Allusions Brown vs. Board of Education The Great Depression (illustrated) Work-Study Contract Walter Dean Myers History Connection CONTRACT History Connection Marching for Freedom 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 Annie Dillard Lionel G. García Baseball Ann Petry Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad Brent Ashabranner Jacqueline Woodson What is Poetry? Cherie Bennett What is Drama? Anne Frank from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Miep Gies from Anne Frank Remembered Lan Samantha Chang What is Storytelling? Alice Walker Choice: A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. Pat Mora from My Own True Name Naomi Shihab Nye Words to Sit in, Like Chairs 13 Selection Choices Unit 1: Fiction and Nonfiction THE BIG QUESTION Can truth grade 9 What Are Fiction and Nonfiction? Yusef Komunkayaa Slam, Dunk & Hook Rebecca Walker What Is Nonfiction? Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky Before Hip-Hop Was Hip-Hop Mary Tall Mountain There Is No Word for Goodbye understanding ? Desiderata Rudolfo A. Anaya A Celebration of Grandfathers Naomi Shihab Nye Daily Isaac Bashevis Singer The Washwoman Lorraine Hansberry On Summer David T. Hilbun Hope Maya Angelou New Directions Sally Ride Single Room, Earth View Tyroneca “Ty” Booker The Day of the Storm Joan Aiken Sonata for Harp and Bicycle Neil Postman The News Ernest Lawrence Thayer Casey at the Bat Edgar Allan Poe The Cask of Amontillado Carl Sandburg from A Lincoln Preface William Stafford Fifteen Cynthia Rylant Checkouts John McPhee Arthur Ashe Remembered Sandra Cisneros Twister Hits Houston Ama Ata Aidoo The Girl Who Can Lian Dolan Carry Your Own Skis Edwin Muir The Horses Lady Bird Johnson from A White House Diary Pete Hamill Libraries Face Sad Chapter Richard Wilbur The Writer Julia Alvarez My English Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have a Dream Edgar Allan Poe The Raven James Thurber The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Franklin Delano Roosevelt First Inaugural Address Robert Frost The Road Not Taken Macavity: The Mystery Cat Isabel Allende Uncle Marcos Gary Soto The Talk T. S. Eliot Arthur C. Clarke If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth… Talk Emily Dickinson We never know how high we are Rachel Carson from Silent Spring Harold Courlander and George Herzog (retellers) 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 2: Short Stories Is conflict necessary? Wayson Choy Unit 4: Poetry THE BIG QUESTION THE BIG QUESTION 14 The Bells Is knowledge the same as from The Giant’s House table of contents Edgar Allan Poe THE BIG QUESTION change ? Elizabeth McCracken Unit 3: Nonfiction What Is a Short Story? How does communication change us? Pat Mora What Is Poetry? The Jade Peony Uncoiling Richard Connell The Most Dangerous Game A Voice Judith Ortiz Cofer American History O. Henry The Gift of the Magi Saki (H. H. Munro) The Interlopers Jean de Sponde Sonnet on Love XIII Leslie Marmon Silko The Man to Send Rain Clouds Gabriela Mistral Meciendo/Rocking R. K. Narayan Old Man of the Temple William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Amy Tan Rules of the Game Richard Brautigan Guy de Maupassant The Necklace All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace Toni Cade Bambara Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with feathers Mark Twain The Invalid’s Story James Hurst The Scarlet Ibis Ray Bradbury The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind Langston Hughes Dream Deferred Dreams 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 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 15 Selection Choices Unit 1: Fiction and Nonfiction THE BIG QUESTION Can truth grade 9 What Are Fiction and Nonfiction? Yusef Komunkayaa Slam, Dunk & Hook Rebecca Walker What Is Nonfiction? Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky Before Hip-Hop Was Hip-Hop Mary Tall Mountain There Is No Word for Goodbye understanding ? Desiderata Rudolfo A. Anaya A Celebration of Grandfathers Naomi Shihab Nye Daily Isaac Bashevis Singer The Washwoman Lorraine Hansberry On Summer David T. Hilbun Hope Maya Angelou New Directions Sally Ride Single Room, Earth View Tyroneca “Ty” Booker The Day of the Storm Joan Aiken Sonata for Harp and Bicycle Neil Postman The News Ernest Lawrence Thayer Casey at the Bat Edgar Allan Poe The Cask of Amontillado Carl Sandburg from A Lincoln Preface William Stafford Fifteen Cynthia Rylant Checkouts John McPhee Arthur Ashe Remembered Sandra Cisneros Twister Hits Houston Ama Ata Aidoo The Girl Who Can Lian Dolan Carry Your Own Skis Edwin Muir The Horses Lady Bird Johnson from A White House Diary Pete Hamill Libraries Face Sad Chapter Richard Wilbur The Writer Julia Alvarez My English Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have a Dream Edgar Allan Poe The Raven James Thurber The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Franklin Delano Roosevelt First Inaugural Address Robert Frost The Road Not Taken Macavity: The Mystery Cat Isabel Allende Uncle Marcos Gary Soto The Talk T. S. Eliot Arthur C. Clarke If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth… Talk Emily Dickinson We never know how high we are Rachel Carson from Silent Spring Harold Courlander and George Herzog (retellers) 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 2: Short Stories Is conflict necessary? Wayson Choy Unit 4: Poetry THE BIG QUESTION THE BIG QUESTION 14 The Bells Is knowledge the same as from The Giant’s House table of contents Edgar Allan Poe THE BIG QUESTION change ? Elizabeth McCracken Unit 3: Nonfiction What Is a Short Story? How does communication change us? Pat Mora What Is Poetry? The Jade Peony Uncoiling Richard Connell The Most Dangerous Game A Voice Judith Ortiz Cofer American History O. Henry The Gift of the Magi Saki (H. H. Munro) The Interlopers Jean de Sponde Sonnet on Love XIII Leslie Marmon Silko The Man to Send Rain Clouds Gabriela Mistral Meciendo/Rocking R. K. Narayan Old Man of the Temple William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Amy Tan Rules of the Game Richard Brautigan Guy de Maupassant The Necklace All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace Toni Cade Bambara Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with feathers Mark Twain The Invalid’s Story James Hurst The Scarlet Ibis Ray Bradbury The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind Langston Hughes Dream Deferred Dreams 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 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 15 Selection Choices continued Nonfiction and Info rmational Texts Unit 6: Themes in Literature: Heroism Reading Informational Materials THE BIG QUESTION RECIPE The Book Lovers Cookbook, New Road Chicken Pies Elizabeth McCracken What Are Leadership and Heroism? HOW-TO ARTICLE Incubating Eggs in Small Quantities The Carolina Way TRAIN SCHEDULE Pascack Valley Line Train Schedule from The Odyssey, Part 1 BROCHURE Georgia Railway Museum from The Odyssey, Part 2 SIGNS AND INSTRUCTIONS Beach Safety Guide Edna St. Vincent Millay An Ancient Gesture TECHNICAL INSTRUCTIONS Margaret Atwood Siren Song Rock Climbing Equipment and Techniques Derek Walcott from the Odyssey USER GUIDE Spanish–English Dictionary Constantine Cavafy Ithaca APPLICATION State Job Application George Toudouze Three Skeleton Key TECHNICAL DOCUMENT Space Shuttle Basics Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Red-Headed League 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 Do heroes have Dean Smith Homer (translated by Robert Fitzgerald) responsibilities? Chief Dan George There Is a Longing Nelson Mandela Glory and Hope Harold W. Felton Pecos Bill: The Cyclone Edith Hamilton Perseus Literature in Context—Reading in the Content Areas What Are Fiction and Nonfiction? Literature Connection Poe and the Gothic Tradition Desiderata Social Studies Connection Country Profile: Ghana (illustrated) Isaac Bashevis Singer The Washwoman Social Studies Connection The Dominican Republic Lady Bird Johnson from A White House Diary Social Studies Connection The Royal Air Force Julia Alvarez My English Humanities Connection Magical Realists Rachel Carson from Silent Spring Science Connection International Space Station Wayson Choy What Is a Short Story? History Connection World War I Trenches (illustrated) Rebecca Walker What Is Nonfiction? Culture Connection Watch Fob Chain Before Hip-Hop Was Hip-Hop Culture Connection Hinduism Rudolfo A. Anaya A Celebration of Grandfathers Cultural Connection Endgame Lorraine Hansberry On Summer Science Connection Hawks: Tales and Truths (illustrated) Sally Ride Single Room, Earth View Cultural Connection Limburger Cheese Neil Postman The News Science Connection Scarlet Ibis Carl Sandburg from A Lincoln Preface Cultural Connection Anaya’s Best-Known Work John McPhee Arthur Ashe Remembered History Connection The Emancipation Proclamation Stephanie Watson How Podcasting Works Lian Dolan Carry Your Own Skis History Connection Andrew Carnegie NEWS ARTICLE Georgia School Displays iPod Ingenuity Pete Hamill Libraries Face Sad Chapter Social Studies Connection CASE STUDY Careers in Robotics Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have a Dream Getting Back to Work: FDR and the WPA (illustrated) Elizabeth A. Thompson Team Builds ‘Sociable’ Robot Franklin Delano Roosevelt First Inaugural Address Language Connection Carroll’s Invented Language Dorling Kindersley Italy Gary Soto The Talk Culture Connection Shorthand and Speedwriting (illustrated) TRAVEL BROCHURE Italy Pat Mora What Is Poetry? History Connection Prince of Verona WEB SITE Tornadoes Tyroneca “Ty” Booker The Day of the Storm Culture Connection Falconry (illustrated) WEB ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY Tropical Cyclone Gary L. Blackwood What Is Drama? History Connection Mercutio’s Allusions Justice Paul E. Pfeifer A Hero in Our Midst Shakespeare Introduction The Shakespearean Theater History Connection Cockatrice What Are Leadership and Heroism? 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 Rebecca Murray John Nadel Sharyn Moore 16 Additional Nonfiction World Trade Center Dodgers Celebrate Jackie Robinson Day Emily Dickinson Poetfans: Sharyn Moore and Her Students Dean Smith 17 Selection Choices continued Nonfiction and Info rmational Texts Unit 6: Themes in Literature: Heroism Reading Informational Materials THE BIG QUESTION RECIPE The Book Lovers Cookbook, New Road Chicken Pies Elizabeth McCracken What Are Leadership and Heroism? HOW-TO ARTICLE Incubating Eggs in Small Quantities The Carolina Way TRAIN SCHEDULE Pascack Valley Line Train Schedule from The Odyssey, Part 1 BROCHURE Georgia Railway Museum from The Odyssey, Part 2 SIGNS AND INSTRUCTIONS Beach Safety Guide Edna St. Vincent Millay An Ancient Gesture TECHNICAL INSTRUCTIONS Margaret Atwood Siren Song Rock Climbing Equipment and Techniques Derek Walcott from the Odyssey USER GUIDE Spanish–English Dictionary Constantine Cavafy Ithaca APPLICATION State Job Application George Toudouze Three Skeleton Key TECHNICAL DOCUMENT Space Shuttle Basics Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Red-Headed League 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 Do heroes have Dean Smith Homer (translated by Robert Fitzgerald) responsibilities? Chief Dan George There Is a Longing Nelson Mandela Glory and Hope Harold W. Felton Pecos Bill: The Cyclone Edith Hamilton Perseus Literature in Context—Reading in the Content Areas What Are Fiction and Nonfiction? Literature Connection Poe and the Gothic Tradition Desiderata Social Studies Connection Country Profile: Ghana (illustrated) Isaac Bashevis Singer The Washwoman Social Studies Connection The Dominican Republic Lady Bird Johnson from A White House Diary Social Studies Connection The Royal Air Force Julia Alvarez My English Humanities Connection Magical Realists Rachel Carson from Silent Spring Science Connection International Space Station Wayson Choy What Is a Short Story? History Connection World War I Trenches (illustrated) Rebecca Walker What Is Nonfiction? Culture Connection Watch Fob Chain Before Hip-Hop Was Hip-Hop Culture Connection Hinduism Rudolfo A. Anaya A Celebration of Grandfathers Cultural Connection Endgame Lorraine Hansberry On Summer Science Connection Hawks: Tales and Truths (illustrated) Sally Ride Single Room, Earth View Cultural Connection Limburger Cheese Neil Postman The News Science Connection Scarlet Ibis Carl Sandburg from A Lincoln Preface Cultural Connection Anaya’s Best-Known Work John McPhee Arthur Ashe Remembered History Connection The Emancipation Proclamation Stephanie Watson How Podcasting Works Lian Dolan Carry Your Own Skis History Connection Andrew Carnegie NEWS ARTICLE Georgia School Displays iPod Ingenuity Pete Hamill Libraries Face Sad Chapter Social Studies Connection CASE STUDY Careers in Robotics Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have a Dream Getting Back to Work: FDR and the WPA (illustrated) Elizabeth A. Thompson Team Builds ‘Sociable’ Robot Franklin Delano Roosevelt First Inaugural Address Language Connection Carroll’s Invented Language Dorling Kindersley Italy Gary Soto The Talk Culture Connection Shorthand and Speedwriting (illustrated) TRAVEL BROCHURE Italy Pat Mora What Is Poetry? History Connection Prince of Verona WEB SITE Tornadoes Tyroneca “Ty” Booker The Day of the Storm Culture Connection Falconry (illustrated) WEB ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY Tropical Cyclone Gary L. Blackwood What Is Drama? History Connection Mercutio’s Allusions Justice Paul E. Pfeifer A Hero in Our Midst Shakespeare Introduction The Shakespearean Theater History Connection Cockatrice What Are Leadership and Heroism? 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 Rebecca Murray John Nadel Sharyn Moore 16 Additional Nonfiction World Trade Center Dodgers Celebrate Jackie Robinson Day Emily Dickinson Poetfans: Sharyn Moore and Her Students Dean Smith 17 Selection Choices Unit 1: Fiction and Nonfiction Unit 3: Types of Nonfiction THE BIG QUESTION Susan Vreeland reality and truth? What Are Fiction and Nonfiction? What kind of grade 10 William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 Erik Weihenmayer What Is Nonfiction? Gabriela Mistral Fear “Everest” from Touch the Top of the World Priest Jakuren One cannot ask loneliness... Artful Research Alexander Petrunkevitch The Spider and the Wasp Ono Komachi Was it that I went to sleep W. W. Jacobs The Monkey’s Paw Dava Sobel from Longitude Gwendolyn Brooks The Bean Eaters Louise Erdrich The Leap Dorothy West The Sun Parlor Umberto Eco How to React to Familiar Faces Lynne Cox from Swimming to Antarctica Rudolfo A. Anaya Emily Dickinson The Wind—tapped like a tired Man Maya Angelou “Occupation Conductorette” from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings from In Commemoration: One Million Volumes Yusef Komunyakaa Glory Mark Twain A Toast to the Oldest Inhabitant: The Weather of New England 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 Langston Hughes Marian Anderson, Famous Concert Singer Sandra Cisneros Tepeyac James Thurber The Dog That Bit People Jack Finney Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket Elie Wiesel Keep Memory Alive Anita Desai Games at Twilight Alexander Solzhenitsyn from Nobel Lecture Rachel Carson The Marginal World 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 Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson Making History With Vitamin C R. K. Narayan Like the Sun Saki (H. H. Munro) The Open Window Unit 4: Poetry Unit 2: Short Stories THE BIG QUESTION THE BIG QUESTION Can progress be made without C. J. Cherryh William Melvin Kelley 18 The Waking knowledge changes our lives? Magdalena Looking table of contents Theodore Roethke THE BIG QUESTION What is the difference between conflict ? What Is a Short Story? Does all communication serve a positive purpose? Cornelius Eady What Is Poetry? The Threads of Time The Poetic Interpretation of the Twist A Visit to Grandmother The Empty Dance Shoes The Bridegroom Anton Chekhov A Problem Alexander Pushkin Josephina Niggli The Street of the Cañon Federico Garcia Lorca The Guitar Ray Bradbury There Will Come Soft Rains Elizabeth Bishop The Fish O. Henry One Thousand Dollars Rudyard Kipling Danny Deever Stephen Vincent Benet By the Waters of Babylon Robert Frost Mowing Leo Tolstoy How Much Land Does a Man Need? Denise Levertov A Tree Telling of Orpheus Chinua Achebe Civil Peace Naomi Shihab Nye Making a Fist Edgar Allan Poe The Masque of the Red Death William Carlos Williams Spring and All Italo Calvino The Garden of Stubborn Cats James Weldon Johnson My City Luisa Valenzuela The Censors Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Pat Mora The Leader in the Mirror Minamoto no Toshiyori The clustering clouds… Ki Tsurayuki When I went to visit… Unit 5: Drama THE BIG QUESTION To what extent does what we perceive? David Henry Hwang experience determine What Is Drama? excerpt from Tibet Through the Red Box Sophocles (translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald) Antigone, Part 1 Henrik Ibsen from An Enemy of the People William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Lorraine Hansberry from A Raisin in the Sun Antigone, Part 2 19 Selection Choices Unit 1: Fiction and Nonfiction Unit 3: Types of Nonfiction THE BIG QUESTION Susan Vreeland reality and truth? What Are Fiction and Nonfiction? What kind of grade 10 William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 Erik Weihenmayer What Is Nonfiction? Gabriela Mistral Fear “Everest” from Touch the Top of the World Priest Jakuren One cannot ask loneliness... Artful Research Alexander Petrunkevitch The Spider and the Wasp Ono Komachi Was it that I went to sleep W. W. Jacobs The Monkey’s Paw Dava Sobel from Longitude Gwendolyn Brooks The Bean Eaters Louise Erdrich The Leap Dorothy West The Sun Parlor Umberto Eco How to React to Familiar Faces Lynne Cox from Swimming to Antarctica Rudolfo A. Anaya Emily Dickinson The Wind—tapped like a tired Man Maya Angelou “Occupation Conductorette” from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings from In Commemoration: One Million Volumes Yusef Komunyakaa Glory Mark Twain A Toast to the Oldest Inhabitant: The Weather of New England 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 Langston Hughes Marian Anderson, Famous Concert Singer Sandra Cisneros Tepeyac James Thurber The Dog That Bit People Jack Finney Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket Elie Wiesel Keep Memory Alive Anita Desai Games at Twilight Alexander Solzhenitsyn from Nobel Lecture Rachel Carson The Marginal World 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 Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson Making History With Vitamin C R. K. Narayan Like the Sun Saki (H. H. Munro) The Open Window Unit 4: Poetry Unit 2: Short Stories THE BIG QUESTION THE BIG QUESTION Can progress be made without C. J. Cherryh William Melvin Kelley 18 The Waking knowledge changes our lives? Magdalena Looking table of contents Theodore Roethke THE BIG QUESTION What is the difference between conflict ? What Is a Short Story? Does all communication serve a positive purpose? Cornelius Eady What Is Poetry? The Threads of Time The Poetic Interpretation of the Twist A Visit to Grandmother The Empty Dance Shoes The Bridegroom Anton Chekhov A Problem Alexander Pushkin Josephina Niggli The Street of the Cañon Federico Garcia Lorca The Guitar Ray Bradbury There Will Come Soft Rains Elizabeth Bishop The Fish O. Henry One Thousand Dollars Rudyard Kipling Danny Deever Stephen Vincent Benet By the Waters of Babylon Robert Frost Mowing Leo Tolstoy How Much Land Does a Man Need? Denise Levertov A Tree Telling of Orpheus Chinua Achebe Civil Peace Naomi Shihab Nye Making a Fist Edgar Allan Poe The Masque of the Red Death William Carlos Williams Spring and All Italo Calvino The Garden of Stubborn Cats James Weldon Johnson My City Luisa Valenzuela The Censors Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Pat Mora The Leader in the Mirror Minamoto no Toshiyori The clustering clouds… Ki Tsurayuki When I went to visit… Unit 5: Drama THE BIG QUESTION To what extent does what we perceive? David Henry Hwang experience determine What Is Drama? excerpt from Tibet Through the Red Box Sophocles (translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald) Antigone, Part 1 Henrik Ibsen from An Enemy of the People William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Lorraine Hansberry from A Raisin in the Sun Antigone, Part 2 19 Selection Choices continued Nonfiction and Info rmational Texts Unit 6: Themes in the Oral Tradition Reading Informational Materials THE BIG QUESTION Can anyone be a John Phillip Santos FEATURE ARTICLE Feel the City’s Pulse? It’s Be-bop, Man! NEWSLETTER Healdsburg Jazz Festival What Is the Oral Tradition? WEB SITE Egyptology Resources Lynne Cox from Swimming to Antarctica Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation PRIMARY SOURCE Interactive Dig Maya Angelou Occupation: Conductorette TECHNICAL ARTICLE Tides Langston Hughes Marian Anderson, Famous Concert Singer NEWS RELEASE Black Water Turns the Tide on Florida Coral Rachel Carson The Marginal World Making History With Vitamin C? hero ? 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 Mark Twain Miguel de Cervantes Morte d’Arthur from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court from Don Quixote retold by William F. Russell Damon and Pythias Guy de Maupassant 20 Additional Nonfiction Two Friends Susan Vreeland What Are Fiction and Nonfiction? Literature in Context—Reading in the Content Areas 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) Artful Research NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL The New York Times, November 10, 1999 Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson PRIMARY SOURCE NARRATIVE Voices from the Wall C. J. Cherryh What Is a Short Story? TECHNICAL DIRECTIONS Compass Instructions and Warranty Pat Mora The Leader in the Mirror USER’S GUIDE GPS Quick-Start Guide Erik Weihenmayer What Is Nonfiction? RESEARCH SOURCE The History of the Guitar COURSE CATALOG California State University at Fullerton Course Catalog Alexander Petrunkevitch The Spider and the Wasp Dava Sobel from Longitude Folger Shakespeare Library Hours and Exhibit Placards Dorothy West The Sun Parlor Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System: Borrowers Services Rudolfo A. Anaya In Commemoration: One Million Volumes Mark Twain A Toast to the Oldest Inhabitant James Thurber The Dog That Bit People Elie Wiesel Keep Memory Alive Alexander Solzhenitsyn Nobel Lecture Humanities Connection Greek Chorus (illustrated) Theodore H. White The American Idea Culture Connection Ancient Greek Funeral Rites Richard Mühlberger What Makes a Degas a Degas? History Connection Roman Society (illustrated) Yoshiko Uchida The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family from Desert Exile Language Connection Archaic Word Forms Culture Connection Roman Augurs (illustrated) N. Scott Momaday from The Way to Rainy Mountain History Connection The Roman Senate (illustrated) Cornelius Eady What Is Poetry? History Connection The Roman Forum (illustrated) Umberto Eco How to React to Familiar Faces Humanities Connection Stoicism Billy Joel Hold Fast Your Dreams—and Trust Your Mistakes 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) SIGNS WEB SITE 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 “Everest” from Touch the Top of the World David Henry Hwang What Is Drama? John Phillip Santos What Is the Oral Tradition? John Phillip Santos from Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation 21 Selection Choices continued Nonfiction and Info rmational Texts Unit 6: Themes in the Oral Tradition Reading Informational Materials THE BIG QUESTION Can anyone be a John Phillip Santos FEATURE ARTICLE Feel the City’s Pulse? It’s Be-bop, Man! NEWSLETTER Healdsburg Jazz Festival What Is the Oral Tradition? WEB SITE Egyptology Resources Lynne Cox from Swimming to Antarctica Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation PRIMARY SOURCE Interactive Dig Maya Angelou Occupation: Conductorette TECHNICAL ARTICLE Tides Langston Hughes Marian Anderson, Famous Concert Singer NEWS RELEASE Black Water Turns the Tide on Florida Coral Rachel Carson The Marginal World Making History With Vitamin C? hero ? 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 Mark Twain Miguel de Cervantes Morte d’Arthur from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court from Don Quixote retold by William F. Russell Damon and Pythias Guy de Maupassant 20 Additional Nonfiction Two Friends Susan Vreeland What Are Fiction and Nonfiction? Literature in Context—Reading in the Content Areas 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) Artful Research NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL The New York Times, November 10, 1999 Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson PRIMARY SOURCE NARRATIVE Voices from the Wall C. J. Cherryh What Is a Short Story? TECHNICAL DIRECTIONS Compass Instructions and Warranty Pat Mora The Leader in the Mirror USER’S GUIDE GPS Quick-Start Guide Erik Weihenmayer What Is Nonfiction? RESEARCH SOURCE The History of the Guitar COURSE CATALOG California State University at Fullerton Course Catalog Alexander Petrunkevitch The Spider and the Wasp Dava Sobel from Longitude Folger Shakespeare Library Hours and Exhibit Placards Dorothy West The Sun Parlor Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System: Borrowers Services Rudolfo A. Anaya In Commemoration: One Million Volumes Mark Twain A Toast to the Oldest Inhabitant James Thurber The Dog That Bit People Elie Wiesel Keep Memory Alive Alexander Solzhenitsyn Nobel Lecture Humanities Connection Greek Chorus (illustrated) Theodore H. White The American Idea Culture Connection Ancient Greek Funeral Rites Richard Mühlberger What Makes a Degas a Degas? History Connection Roman Society (illustrated) Yoshiko Uchida The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family from Desert Exile Language Connection Archaic Word Forms Culture Connection Roman Augurs (illustrated) N. Scott Momaday from The Way to Rainy Mountain History Connection The Roman Senate (illustrated) Cornelius Eady What Is Poetry? History Connection The Roman Forum (illustrated) Umberto Eco How to React to Familiar Faces Humanities Connection Stoicism Billy Joel Hold Fast Your Dreams—and Trust Your Mistakes 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) SIGNS WEB SITE 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 “Everest” from Touch the Top of the World David Henry Hwang What Is Drama? John Phillip Santos What Is the Oral Tradition? John Phillip Santos from Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation 21 Literature Selections THE ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What is the relationship between place and literature? What makes American literature American? How does literature shape or reflect society? grade 11 table of contents 22 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 Unit 2: A Growing Nation Unit 3: Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion Gretel Ehrlich Inspired by Nature Nell Irvin Painter Defining an Era Washington Irving The Devil and Tom Walker Ambrose Bierce An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from The Song of Hiawatha Stephen Crane An Episode of War The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls Frederick Douglass from My Bondage and My Freedom William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis Traditional Go Down, Moses Oliver Wendell Holmes Old Ironsides Nathaniel Hawthorne The Minister’s Black Veil Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher Robert E. Lee Letter to His Son On Writing “The Raven”` Anthony Minghella from Cold Mountain The Raven Nell Irvin Painter On Sojourner Truth Joyce Carol Oates Where is Here? Sojourner Truth Herman Melville from Moby-Dick An Account of an Experience with Discrimination Charles Johnson On Ralph Waldo Emerson Mark Twain from Life on the Mississippi Ralph Waldo Emerson from Nature How to Tell a Story from Self-Reliance The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country 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 I heard a Fly buzz—when I died Edward Taylor Huswifery There’s a certain slant of light Jonathan Edwards from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God My life closed twice before its close Patrick Henry Speech in the Virginia Convention The Soul selects her own Society Benjamin Franklin Speech in the Convention The Brain—is wider than the Sky Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence There is a solitude of space Thomas Paine from The American Crisis Water, is taught by thirst Phillis Wheatley To His Excellency, General Washington Galway Kinnell Reckless Genius Benjamin Franklin from The Autobiography Walt Whitman William L. Andrews Benjamin Franklin: America’s Everyman from Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass Benjamin Franklin from Poor Richard’s Almanack from Song of Myself Sandra Cisneros from Straw into Gold: Metamorphosis of the Everyday When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer William L. Andrews Introduces Olaudah Equiano I Hear America Singing Olaudah Equiano from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano A Noiseless Patient Spider 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 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 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 Robinson Luke Havergal Edgar Lee Masters Lucinda Matlock Richard Cory Richard Bone Willa Cather A Wagner Matinée By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame James Miller, Jr. America’s Epic 23 Literature Selections THE ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What is the relationship between place and literature? What makes American literature American? How does literature shape or reflect society? grade 11 table of contents 22 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 Unit 2: A Growing Nation Unit 3: Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion Gretel Ehrlich Inspired by Nature Nell Irvin Painter Defining an Era Washington Irving The Devil and Tom Walker Ambrose Bierce An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from The Song of Hiawatha Stephen Crane An Episode of War The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls Frederick Douglass from My Bondage and My Freedom William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis Traditional Go Down, Moses Oliver Wendell Holmes Old Ironsides Nathaniel Hawthorne The Minister’s Black Veil Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher Robert E. Lee Letter to His Son On Writing “The Raven”` Anthony Minghella from Cold Mountain The Raven Nell Irvin Painter On Sojourner Truth Joyce Carol Oates Where is Here? Sojourner Truth Herman Melville from Moby-Dick An Account of an Experience with Discrimination Charles Johnson On Ralph Waldo Emerson Mark Twain from Life on the Mississippi Ralph Waldo Emerson from Nature How to Tell a Story from Self-Reliance The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country 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 I heard a Fly buzz—when I died Edward Taylor Huswifery There’s a certain slant of light Jonathan Edwards from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God My life closed twice before its close Patrick Henry Speech in the Virginia Convention The Soul selects her own Society Benjamin Franklin Speech in the Convention The Brain—is wider than the Sky Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence There is a solitude of space Thomas Paine from The American Crisis Water, is taught by thirst Phillis Wheatley To His Excellency, General Washington Galway Kinnell Reckless Genius Benjamin Franklin from The Autobiography Walt Whitman William L. Andrews Benjamin Franklin: America’s Everyman from Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass Benjamin Franklin from Poor Richard’s Almanack from Song of Myself Sandra Cisneros from Straw into Gold: Metamorphosis of the Everyday When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer William L. Andrews Introduces Olaudah Equiano I Hear America Singing Olaudah Equiano from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano A Noiseless Patient Spider 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 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 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 Robinson Luke Havergal Edgar Lee Masters Lucinda Matlock Richard Cory Richard Bone Willa Cather A Wagner Matinée By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame James Miller, Jr. America’s Epic 23 Literature Selections continued Unit 4: Disillusion, Defiance, and Discontent Tim O’Brien T.S. Eliot Ezra Pound Unit 5: Prosperity and Protest Trapped in a Comic Book Arthur Miller The Purpose of Theater Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers John Hersey from Hiroshima I, Too Randall Jarrell The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Alice Walker Everyday Use Dream Variations Flannery O’Connor The Life You Save May Be Your Own Raymond Carver Everything Stuck to Him Refugee in America Bernard Malamud The First Seven Years William Stafford Traveling Through the Dark Lucille Clifton Study the Masters Lawrence Ferlinghetti Constantly Risking Absurdity Denise Levertov The Secret Colleen McElroy For My Children Sylvia Plath Mirror Li-Young Lee The Gift Claude McKay The Tropics in New York Anne Sexton Courage Martin Espada Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper Arna Bontemps A Black Man Talks of Reaping Theodore Roethke Cuttings Yusef Komunyakaa Camouflaging the Chimera Countee Cullen from The Dark Tower Cuttings (later) Naomi Shihab Nye Streets Zora Neale Hurston from Dust Tracks on a Road Gwendolyn Brooks The Explorer Stanley Kunitz Halley’s Comet old age sticks Robert Hayden Frederick Douglass Judith Ortiz-Cofer The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica anyone lived in a pretty how town Elizabeth Bishop One Art Will Smith Mama Knows The Filling Station William Safire Onomatopoeia Literature as a Magic Carpet The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 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. F. Scott Fitzgerald John Steinbeck W. H. Auden E. E. Cummings Unit 6: New Voices, New Frontiers Jules Feiffer Pear Tree Winter Dreams “The Turtle” from The Grapes of Wrath The Unknown Citizen Julia Alvarez Introduces “Antojos” Antojos Wallace Stevens Of Modern Poetry Archibald MacLeish Ars Poetica James Baldwin The Rock Pile Ian Frazier Coyote v. Acme Marianne Moore Poetry Toni Morrison Life in His Language Anna Quindlen One Day, Now Broken in Two Ernest Hemingway In Another Country John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address Amy Tan Mother Tongue Tim O’Brien Introduces Ambush Martin Luther King, Jr. from Letter from Birmingham City Jail Rita Dove For the Love of Books Ambush Arthur Miller On The Crucible Maxine Hong Kingston from The Woman Warrior The Crucible N. Scott Momaday from The Names 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 George Clooney and Grant Heslov from Good Night, and Good Luck Grass Robert Frost Birches Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Mending Wall “Out, Out—“ Acquainted with the Night The Gift Outright 24 25 Literature Selections continued Unit 4: Disillusion, Defiance, and Discontent Tim O’Brien T.S. Eliot Ezra Pound Unit 5: Prosperity and Protest Trapped in a Comic Book Arthur Miller The Purpose of Theater Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers John Hersey from Hiroshima I, Too Randall Jarrell The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Alice Walker Everyday Use Dream Variations Flannery O’Connor The Life You Save May Be Your Own Raymond Carver Everything Stuck to Him Refugee in America Bernard Malamud The First Seven Years William Stafford Traveling Through the Dark Lucille Clifton Study the Masters Lawrence Ferlinghetti Constantly Risking Absurdity Denise Levertov The Secret Colleen McElroy For My Children Sylvia Plath Mirror Li-Young Lee The Gift Claude McKay The Tropics in New York Anne Sexton Courage Martin Espada Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper Arna Bontemps A Black Man Talks of Reaping Theodore Roethke Cuttings Yusef Komunyakaa Camouflaging the Chimera Countee Cullen from The Dark Tower Cuttings (later) Naomi Shihab Nye Streets Zora Neale Hurston from Dust Tracks on a Road Gwendolyn Brooks The Explorer Stanley Kunitz Halley’s Comet old age sticks Robert Hayden Frederick Douglass Judith Ortiz-Cofer The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica anyone lived in a pretty how town Elizabeth Bishop One Art Will Smith Mama Knows The Filling Station William Safire Onomatopoeia Literature as a Magic Carpet The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 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. F. Scott Fitzgerald John Steinbeck W. H. Auden E. E. Cummings Unit 6: New Voices, New Frontiers Jules Feiffer Pear Tree Winter Dreams “The Turtle” from The Grapes of Wrath The Unknown Citizen Julia Alvarez Introduces “Antojos” Antojos Wallace Stevens Of Modern Poetry Archibald MacLeish Ars Poetica James Baldwin The Rock Pile Ian Frazier Coyote v. Acme Marianne Moore Poetry Toni Morrison Life in His Language Anna Quindlen One Day, Now Broken in Two Ernest Hemingway In Another Country John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address Amy Tan Mother Tongue Tim O’Brien Introduces Ambush Martin Luther King, Jr. from Letter from Birmingham City Jail Rita Dove For the Love of Books Ambush Arthur Miller On The Crucible Maxine Hong Kingston from The Woman Warrior The Crucible N. Scott Momaday from The Names 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 George Clooney and Grant Heslov from Good Night, and Good Luck Grass Robert Frost Birches Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Mending Wall “Out, Out—“ Acquainted with the Night The Gift Outright 24 25 Nonfiction and Informational Texts Reading Informational Materials MANUAL PUBLIC SERVICE How to Watch a Debate Help North Texas Vote ADVERTISEMENT 26 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 Additional Nonfiction Historical and Literary Background from The Iroquois Constitution Rita Dove For the Love of Books Richard Lederer Our Native American Heritage Patrick Henry Speech in the Virginia Convention A Journey Through Texas Susan Power Benjamin Franklin Speech in the Convention Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca The Oral Tradition Links the Past with the Present Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence García López de Cárdenas Boulders Taller Than the Great Tower of Seville Richard Lederer The Truth About O.K. Thomas Paine from The American Crisis, Number 1 William Bradford from Of Plymouth Plantation Gretel Ehrlich Inspired by Nature Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address Meriwether Lewis Crossing the Great Divide Richard Lederer Mark Twain and the American Language Chief Joseph I Will Fight No More Forever John Hersey from Hiroshima Nell Irvin Painter Defining an Era William Faulkner Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech Benjamin Franklin from The Autobiography Richard Lederer Sliding with Slang John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address Sandra Cisneros Tim O’Brien Literature as a Magic Carpet Steve Squyres from Mars Rover Mission Update Straw Into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday Arthur Miller From Quiet Pride to Activism John Adams Letter from the President’s House Olaudah Equiano Richard Lederer Brave New Words Abigail Adams Letter to Her Daughter From the New White House from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Julia Alvarez All-American Writer Frederick Douglass from My Bondage and My Freedom Mary Chesnut from Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Bill Bryson Warren Lee Goss Recollections of a Private from The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid Randolph McKim A Confederate Account of the Battle of Gettysburg Mark Twain from Life on the Mississippi Zora Neale Hurston from Dust Tracks on a Road Robert E. Lee Letter to His Son Maxine Hong Kingston from The Woman Warrior Sojourner Truth An Account of an Experience with Discrimination Benjamin Henry Latrobe Floor Plan for the President’s House Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother Iroquois PERIODICAL ABSTRACT A Community’s Roots GOVERNMENT FORM Virginia Archaeological Site Record Miriam Davis Colt Heading West Chief Joseph I Will Fight No More Forever Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Blues Miriam Davis Colt Heading West ON LINE CITATION ORGANIZER Citation Machine Martin Luther King, Jr. from Letter from Birmingham City Jail ONLINE ARTICLE Atlanta Braves Susan Power Museum Indians POSTER Junk Rally Ralph Waldo Emerson from Nature 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 Walt Whitman from Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass Mel Gussow A Rock of the Modern Age, Arthur Miller is Everywhere Ezra Pound A Few Don’ts James Thurber The Night the Ghost Got In Sean Ramsay Urban Renewal William Safire Onomatopoeia William Harvey Playing for the Fighting Sixty-Ninth Ian Frazier Coyote v. Acme TECHNICAL REPORT W3C Team Submission Anna Quindlen One Day, Now Broken in Two POLICY STATEMENT Web Accessibility Policy Amy Tan Mother Tongue N. Scott Momaday from The Names Junk Rally Dr. Seuss The Battle of the Easy Chair from Self-Reliance Henry David Thoreau from Walden from Civil Disobedience 27 Nonfiction and Informational Texts Reading Informational Materials MANUAL PUBLIC SERVICE How to Watch a Debate Help North Texas Vote ADVERTISEMENT 26 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 Additional Nonfiction Historical and Literary Background from The Iroquois Constitution Rita Dove For the Love of Books Richard Lederer Our Native American Heritage Patrick Henry Speech in the Virginia Convention A Journey Through Texas Susan Power Benjamin Franklin Speech in the Convention Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca The Oral Tradition Links the Past with the Present Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence García López de Cárdenas Boulders Taller Than the Great Tower of Seville Richard Lederer The Truth About O.K. Thomas Paine from The American Crisis, Number 1 William Bradford from Of Plymouth Plantation Gretel Ehrlich Inspired by Nature Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address Meriwether Lewis Crossing the Great Divide Richard Lederer Mark Twain and the American Language Chief Joseph I Will Fight No More Forever John Hersey from Hiroshima Nell Irvin Painter Defining an Era William Faulkner Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech Benjamin Franklin from The Autobiography Richard Lederer Sliding with Slang John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address Sandra Cisneros Tim O’Brien Literature as a Magic Carpet Steve Squyres from Mars Rover Mission Update Straw Into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday Arthur Miller From Quiet Pride to Activism John Adams Letter from the President’s House Olaudah Equiano Richard Lederer Brave New Words Abigail Adams Letter to Her Daughter From the New White House from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Julia Alvarez All-American Writer Frederick Douglass from My Bondage and My Freedom Mary Chesnut from Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Bill Bryson Warren Lee Goss Recollections of a Private from The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid Randolph McKim A Confederate Account of the Battle of Gettysburg Mark Twain from Life on the Mississippi Zora Neale Hurston from Dust Tracks on a Road Robert E. Lee Letter to His Son Maxine Hong Kingston from The Woman Warrior Sojourner Truth An Account of an Experience with Discrimination Benjamin Henry Latrobe Floor Plan for the President’s House Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother Iroquois PERIODICAL ABSTRACT A Community’s Roots GOVERNMENT FORM Virginia Archaeological Site Record Miriam Davis Colt Heading West Chief Joseph I Will Fight No More Forever Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl Blues Miriam Davis Colt Heading West ON LINE CITATION ORGANIZER Citation Machine Martin Luther King, Jr. from Letter from Birmingham City Jail ONLINE ARTICLE Atlanta Braves Susan Power Museum Indians POSTER Junk Rally Ralph Waldo Emerson from Nature 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 Walt Whitman from Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass Mel Gussow A Rock of the Modern Age, Arthur Miller is Everywhere Ezra Pound A Few Don’ts James Thurber The Night the Ghost Got In Sean Ramsay Urban Renewal William Safire Onomatopoeia William Harvey Playing for the Fighting Sixty-Ninth Ian Frazier Coyote v. Acme TECHNICAL REPORT W3C Team Submission Anna Quindlen One Day, Now Broken in Two POLICY STATEMENT Web Accessibility Policy Amy Tan Mother Tongue N. Scott Momaday from The Names Junk Rally Dr. Seuss The Battle of the Easy Chair from Self-Reliance Henry David Thoreau from Walden from Civil Disobedience 27 Literature Selections THE ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What is the relationship between place and literature? Unit 2: Celebrating Humanity Frank Kermode Life in Elizabethan and Jacobean England Richard Rodriguez From Small Towns to Big Cities Edmund Spenser Sonnet 1 John Donne Song What is the relationship of the writer to tradition? How does literature shape or reflect society? grade 12 table of contents 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 Sir Philip Sidney 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 Sonnet 35 A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Sonnet 75 Holy Sonnet 10 Sonnet 31 Meditation 17 Sonnet 39 Ben Jonson On My First Son Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Still to Be Neat Sir Walter Raleigh The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd Song: To Celia William Shakespeare Sonnet 29 Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress Sonnet 106 Robert Herrick To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Sonnet 116 Sir John Suckling Song Sonnet 130 John Milton Sonnet VII John Lahr from Disappearing Act, An Interview with Cate Blanchett Commissioned by King James from The King James Bible Dante Alighieri from The Inferno Psalm 23 John Bunyan Pilgrim’s Progress Psalm 137 Amelia Lanier from Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women from The Sermon on the Mount Richard Lovelace To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars from The Canterbury Tales The Prologue Unit 3: A Turbulent Time Sonnet XIX from Paradise Lost Frank Kermode Introduces Macbeth William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Macbeth Neil Gaiman from Neverwhere Sophocles from Oedipus the King Daniel DeFoe from A Journal of the Plague Year Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from Faust Jonathan Swift from Gulliver’s Travels To Althea, from Prison A Modest Proposal Alexander Pope from An Essay on Man 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 from The Rape of the Lock 28 29 Literature Selections THE ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What is the relationship between place and literature? Unit 2: Celebrating Humanity Frank Kermode Life in Elizabethan and Jacobean England Richard Rodriguez From Small Towns to Big Cities Edmund Spenser Sonnet 1 John Donne Song What is the relationship of the writer to tradition? How does literature shape or reflect society? grade 12 table of contents 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 Sir Philip Sidney 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 Sonnet 35 A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Sonnet 75 Holy Sonnet 10 Sonnet 31 Meditation 17 Sonnet 39 Ben Jonson On My First Son Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Still to Be Neat Sir Walter Raleigh The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd Song: To Celia William Shakespeare Sonnet 29 Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress Sonnet 106 Robert Herrick To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Sonnet 116 Sir John Suckling Song Sonnet 130 John Milton Sonnet VII John Lahr from Disappearing Act, An Interview with Cate Blanchett Commissioned by King James from The King James Bible Dante Alighieri from The Inferno Psalm 23 John Bunyan Pilgrim’s Progress Psalm 137 Amelia Lanier from Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women from The Sermon on the Mount Richard Lovelace To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars from The Canterbury Tales The Prologue Unit 3: A Turbulent Time Sonnet XIX from Paradise Lost Frank Kermode Introduces Macbeth William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Macbeth Neil Gaiman from Neverwhere Sophocles from Oedipus the King Daniel DeFoe from A Journal of the Plague Year Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from Faust Jonathan Swift from Gulliver’s Travels To Althea, from Prison A Modest Proposal Alexander Pope from An Essay on Man 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 from The Rape of the Lock 28 29 Literature Selections continued Unit 4: Rebels and Dreamers Unit 5: Progress and Decline Elizabeth McCracken Creating a Legend James Berry Growing Up in Colonial Jamaica Anita Desai The English Language Takes Root in India Robert Burns To a Mouse Alfred, Lord Tennyson from In Memoriam, A. H. H. William Butler Yeats When You Are Old Seamus Heaney Follower Two Lorries To a Louse The Lady of Shalott The Lake Isle of Innisfre Eavan Boland Outside History Joanna Baillie Woo’d and Married and A’ from The Princess: Tears, Idle Tears The Wild Swans at Coole Samuel Beckett Come and Go William Blake The Lamb Ulysses The Second Coming Harold Pinter That’s All My Last Duchess Sailing to Byzantium Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night The Tyger Robert Browning Fern Hill The Chimney Sweep Life in a Love Infant Sorrow Porphyria’s Lover Journey of the Magi Ted Hughes The Horses Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet 43 The Hollow Men Philip Larkin An Arundel Tomb Charles Dickens from Hard Times Elizabeth McCracken Introduces Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Introduction to Frankenstein William Wordsworth Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey Anton Chekhov An Upheaval Matthew Arnold Dover Beach from The Prelude Rudyard Kipling Recessional The World Is Too Much With Us London, 1802 James Berry T. S. Eliot W. H. Auden Preludes The Explosion In Memory of W. B. Yeats Musée des Beaux Arts Peter Redgrove On the Patio Louis MacNeice Carrick Revisited Stevie Smith Not Waving But Drowning Stephen Spender Not Palaces Carol Anne Duffy Prayer Virginia Woolf The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection Penelope Shuttle In the Kitchen The Widow at Windsor from Mrs. Dalloway Anita Desai Introduces A Devoted Son Introduces Three Poems from A Room of One’s Own A Devoted Son Alexander Pushkin I Have Visited Again from Lucy: Englan’ Lady Juan Rulfo from Pedro Páramo Penelope Lively Next Term, We’ll Mash You Charles Baudelaire Invitation to the Voyage Freedom Rosario Castellanos from The Nine Guardians Arthur C. Clarke from We’ll Never Conquer Space Arthur Waley, Translator Thick Grow the Rush Leaves Time Removed Joseph Conrad The Lagoon Tu Fu Jade Flower Palace Colin Meloy Eli, The Barrow Boy James Joyce Araby Ki Tsurayuki, Ono Komachi, and Priest Jakuren Three Tanka Emily Brontë Remembrance D. H. Lawrence The Rocking-Horse Winner Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush Graham Greene A Shocking Accident Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” Rupert Brooke The Soldier God’s Grandeur Siegfried Sassoon Wirers Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth To an Athlete Dying Young Riverbend Iraqi War Blog When I Was One-and-Twenty Elizabeth Bowen The Demon Lover Ozymandias Keith Douglas Vergissmeinnicht (Forget Me Not) Ode to the West Wind Alun Lewis Postscript: For Gweno To a Skylark Henry Reed Naming of Parts On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer George Orwell Shooting an Elephant When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be Doris Lessing No Witchcraft for Sale Ode to a Nightingale Nadine Gordimer The Train from Rhodesia Jane Austen On Making an Agreeable Marriage V. S. Naipaul B. Wordsworth Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Derek Walcott from Midsummer XXIII Kubla Khan George Gordon, She Walks in Beauty Lord Byron from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage from Don Juan Percy Bysshe Shelley John Keats 30 Unit 6: A Time of Rapid Change Gerald Manley Hopkins A. E. Housman from Omeros 31 Literature Selections continued Unit 4: Rebels and Dreamers Unit 5: Progress and Decline Elizabeth McCracken Creating a Legend James Berry Growing Up in Colonial Jamaica Anita Desai The English Language Takes Root in India Robert Burns To a Mouse Alfred, Lord Tennyson from In Memoriam, A. H. H. William Butler Yeats When You Are Old Seamus Heaney Follower Two Lorries To a Louse The Lady of Shalott The Lake Isle of Innisfre Eavan Boland Outside History Joanna Baillie Woo’d and Married and A’ from The Princess: Tears, Idle Tears The Wild Swans at Coole Samuel Beckett Come and Go William Blake The Lamb Ulysses The Second Coming Harold Pinter That’s All My Last Duchess Sailing to Byzantium Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night The Tyger Robert Browning Fern Hill The Chimney Sweep Life in a Love Infant Sorrow Porphyria’s Lover Journey of the Magi Ted Hughes The Horses Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet 43 The Hollow Men Philip Larkin An Arundel Tomb Charles Dickens from Hard Times Elizabeth McCracken Introduces Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Introduction to Frankenstein William Wordsworth Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey Anton Chekhov An Upheaval Matthew Arnold Dover Beach from The Prelude Rudyard Kipling Recessional The World Is Too Much With Us London, 1802 James Berry T. S. Eliot W. H. Auden Preludes The Explosion In Memory of W. B. Yeats Musée des Beaux Arts Peter Redgrove On the Patio Louis MacNeice Carrick Revisited Stevie Smith Not Waving But Drowning Stephen Spender Not Palaces Carol Anne Duffy Prayer Virginia Woolf The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection Penelope Shuttle In the Kitchen The Widow at Windsor from Mrs. Dalloway Anita Desai Introduces A Devoted Son Introduces Three Poems from A Room of One’s Own A Devoted Son Alexander Pushkin I Have Visited Again from Lucy: Englan’ Lady Juan Rulfo from Pedro Páramo Penelope Lively Next Term, We’ll Mash You Charles Baudelaire Invitation to the Voyage Freedom Rosario Castellanos from The Nine Guardians Arthur C. Clarke from We’ll Never Conquer Space Arthur Waley, Translator Thick Grow the Rush Leaves Time Removed Joseph Conrad The Lagoon Tu Fu Jade Flower Palace Colin Meloy Eli, The Barrow Boy James Joyce Araby Ki Tsurayuki, Ono Komachi, and Priest Jakuren Three Tanka Emily Brontë Remembrance D. H. Lawrence The Rocking-Horse Winner Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush Graham Greene A Shocking Accident Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” Rupert Brooke The Soldier God’s Grandeur Siegfried Sassoon Wirers Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth To an Athlete Dying Young Riverbend Iraqi War Blog When I Was One-and-Twenty Elizabeth Bowen The Demon Lover Ozymandias Keith Douglas Vergissmeinnicht (Forget Me Not) Ode to the West Wind Alun Lewis Postscript: For Gweno To a Skylark Henry Reed Naming of Parts On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer George Orwell Shooting an Elephant When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be Doris Lessing No Witchcraft for Sale Ode to a Nightingale Nadine Gordimer The Train from Rhodesia Jane Austen On Making an Agreeable Marriage V. S. Naipaul B. Wordsworth Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Derek Walcott from Midsummer XXIII Kubla Khan George Gordon, She Walks in Beauty Lord Byron from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage from Don Juan Percy Bysshe Shelley John Keats 30 Unit 6: A Time of Rapid Change Gerald Manley Hopkins A. E. Housman from Omeros 31 Nonfiction and Informational Texts Reading Informational Materials Additional Nonfiction ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE English Literature Bede from A History of the English Church and People Richard Lederer The Beginnings of English Burton Raffel England’s Green, Fertile Land Letters of Margaret Paston Queen Elizabeth I from Speech Before Her Troops Richard Lederer A Man of Fire – New Words Ballads Charles II Declaration to London 1666 Frank Kermode Queen Elizabeth I Speech Before Her Troops Samuel Johnson from A Dictionary of the English Language Life in Elizabethan and Jacobean England EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT Examination of Don Luis de Córdoba Selected Entries from A Dictionary of the English Language Richard Lederer No Harmless Drudge, He FEATURE ARTICLE Eric Joffee/Recasting Shakespeare’s Stage Lord John Russell Speech in Favor of Reform Richard Rodriguez From Small Towns to Big Cities THEATER REVIEW The Scottish Play, Told with Sound and Fury and Puppets Sir Robert Peel Speech Against Reform Richard Lederer The Romantic Age Margaret Paston Letters Elizabeth McCracken Creating a Legend Samuel Pepys from The Diary Eyewitness Account Richard Lederer Charles II Declaration to London, 1666 Examination on Don Luis de Córdoba Euphemisms: The Fig Leaves of Language ANNUAL REPORT The Mayor’s Annual Report 2004 Samuel Pepys from The Diary James Berry Growing up in Colonial Jamaica TRANSIT MAP AND SCHEDULE MARTA Metrorail map and schedule Thomas Babington Macaulay On The Passing Of The Reform Bill Richard Lederer Britspeak, A to ZED Anita Desai Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman The English Language Takes Root in India Riverbend Iraqi War Blog Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal Joseph Addison from The Aims of the Spectator Richard Rodriguez from Days of Obligation Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Introduction to Frankenstein Jane Austen On Making an Agreeable Marriage Sydney Smith Progress in Personal Comfort Virginia Woolf from A Room of One’s Own Winston Churchill Wartime Speech Arthur C. Clarke from We’ll Never Conquer Space Nick Hornby from Songbook James Boswell from The Life of Samuel Johnson George Orwell Shooting an Elephant WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE Margaret Paston FOUR FOLK BALLADS GOVERNMENT REPORT Traffic Management, Lake District, National Park Authority TRAVEL GUIDE Exploring Lancashire and the Lakes Lord John Russell Speech in Favor of Reform Sir Robert Peel Speech Against Reform Thomas Babington Macaulay On the Passing of the Reform Bill WEB SITE Charles Dickens Museum BROCHURE Andalusia: Home of Flannery O’Connor Sydney Smith Progress in Personal Comfort ADVERTISEMENT Thomas Cook & Sons Winston Churchill Wartime Speech POLICY Evacuation Scheme TECHNICAL ARTICLE Extra-Terrestrial Relays: Can Rocket Stations Give World-Wide Radio Coverage? PRESS RELEASE 32 Davy Crockett Space Science and Engineering Center Historical and Literacy Background 33 Nonfiction and Informational Texts Reading Informational Materials Additional Nonfiction ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE English Literature Bede from A History of the English Church and People Richard Lederer The Beginnings of English Burton Raffel England’s Green, Fertile Land Letters of Margaret Paston Queen Elizabeth I from Speech Before Her Troops Richard Lederer A Man of Fire – New Words Ballads Charles II Declaration to London 1666 Frank Kermode Queen Elizabeth I Speech Before Her Troops Samuel Johnson from A Dictionary of the English Language Life in Elizabethan and Jacobean England EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT Examination of Don Luis de Córdoba Selected Entries from A Dictionary of the English Language Richard Lederer No Harmless Drudge, He FEATURE ARTICLE Eric Joffee/Recasting Shakespeare’s Stage Lord John Russell Speech in Favor of Reform Richard Rodriguez From Small Towns to Big Cities THEATER REVIEW The Scottish Play, Told with Sound and Fury and Puppets Sir Robert Peel Speech Against Reform Richard Lederer The Romantic Age Margaret Paston Letters Elizabeth McCracken Creating a Legend Samuel Pepys from The Diary Eyewitness Account Richard Lederer Charles II Declaration to London, 1666 Examination on Don Luis de Córdoba Euphemisms: The Fig Leaves of Language ANNUAL REPORT The Mayor’s Annual Report 2004 Samuel Pepys from The Diary James Berry Growing up in Colonial Jamaica TRANSIT MAP AND SCHEDULE MARTA Metrorail map and schedule Thomas Babington Macaulay On The Passing Of The Reform Bill Richard Lederer Britspeak, A to ZED Anita Desai Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman The English Language Takes Root in India Riverbend Iraqi War Blog Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal Joseph Addison from The Aims of the Spectator Richard Rodriguez from Days of Obligation Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Introduction to Frankenstein Jane Austen On Making an Agreeable Marriage Sydney Smith Progress in Personal Comfort Virginia Woolf from A Room of One’s Own Winston Churchill Wartime Speech Arthur C. Clarke from We’ll Never Conquer Space Nick Hornby from Songbook James Boswell from The Life of Samuel Johnson George Orwell Shooting an Elephant WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE Margaret Paston FOUR FOLK BALLADS GOVERNMENT REPORT Traffic Management, Lake District, National Park Authority TRAVEL GUIDE Exploring Lancashire and the Lakes Lord John Russell Speech in Favor of Reform Sir Robert Peel Speech Against Reform Thomas Babington Macaulay On the Passing of the Reform Bill WEB SITE Charles Dickens Museum BROCHURE Andalusia: Home of Flannery O’Connor Sydney Smith Progress in Personal Comfort ADVERTISEMENT Thomas Cook & Sons Winston Churchill Wartime Speech POLICY Evacuation Scheme TECHNICAL ARTICLE Extra-Terrestrial Relays: Can Rocket Stations Give World-Wide Radio Coverage? PRESS RELEASE 32 Davy Crockett Space Science and Engineering Center Historical and Literacy Background 33 For the love of teaching. 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