For the love of teaching.

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For the love of teaching.
For the love of teaching.
Grade 6
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Grade 8
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table of
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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
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Nonfiction and Informational Texts
Reading Informational Materials
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PUBLIC SERVICE
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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
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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
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