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GradeStudent Edition Selection Title/Lexile6UnitSelection TitleAuthorGenreInformationalLiteraryLexileRMMUnit 1: Is Conflict Always Bad?Part 1 Close ReadingWorkshopThe Old Grandfather and His Little GrandsonLeo TolstoyShort Story1The Wounded WolfJean C. GeorgeShort Story1StrayCynthia RylantShort Story1780L5.5Part 2 Genre Study:Short StoryThe TailJoyce HansenShort Story1570L5Comparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:The Gold Rush870LZlateh the GoatI.B. SingerShort Story1830L5.3The CircuitFrancisco JiménezShort Story1730L5.2Lob’s GirlJoan AikenShort Story1970L7.5Jeremiah’s SongWalter Dean MyersShort Story1970L6.611250L8The King of Mazy MayJack LondonShort StoryTo Klondike We’ve Paid Our FareH.J. DunhamSong1Gold Rush: The Journey by LandFunctional Text1A Woman’s View of the Gold RushMary BallouLetter11230LChinese and African Americans in the Gold RushJohns Hopkins UniversityWeb Article1890LBirds Struggle to Recover from Egg Theftsof 1800sEdie LauNews Article11150Lfrom This Land Was Made for You and MeElizabeth PartridgeBiography11020Lfrom Zlata’s DiaryZlata FilipoviNarrativeNonfiction1640LThe Drive-In MoviesGary SotoNonfiction1920LUnit 2: What is important to know?Part 1 Close ReadingWorkshopPart 2 Genre Study:Essays and SpeechesComparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:BaseballNames/NombresJulia AlvarezNonfiction11060L8.9Langston TerraceEloise GreenfieldNonfiction11000L6.2840L6.96.9from The Pigman and MePaul ZindelNonfiction1The Seven Wonders of the Worldfrom InfopleaseOnline Almanac1Art, Architecture, and Learning in EgyptPH Ancient CivilizationsTextbook Article1Jackie Robinson: Justice at LastGeoffrey C. Ward andKen BurnsExpository Essay1710LMemories of an All-American GirlCarmen PaulsNews Article1990LPreserving a Great American SymbolRichard DurbinArgument11130LThe SouthpawJudith ViorstShort StoryFenway Park Celebrates 100 YearsMolly LineNews Article11200LWhy We Love BaseballMark NewmanWeb Article1840LImage1Ted Williams Baseball Card1Unit 3: Do we need words to communicate well?Part 1 Close ReadingWorkshopPart 2 Genre Study:Poetry Collection 1Collection 2Twelfth Song of ThunderNavajoPoem1OrangesGary SotoPoem1Ode to Family PhotographsGary SotoPoem1A Dream Within a DreamE. A. PoePoem1Adventures of IsabelOgden NashPoem1Life Doesn’t Frighten MeMaya AngelouPoem1The Walrus and the CarpenterLewis CarrollPoem1Abuelito WhoSandra CisnerosPoem1April Rain SongLangston HughesPoem1The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to BeNikki GiovanniPoem1Fame is a BeeEmily DickinsonMatsuo Basho–Poem1Poem1HaikuCollection 347The Sidewalk RacerLillian MorrisonPoem1Concrete CatDorthi CharlesPoem1Limerick (Spring and Fall)AnonymousPoem1650L6.9
UnitCollection 4Comparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:DeterminationSelection TitleAuthorGenreInformationalWind and Water and StoneOctavio PazPoem1LiteraryLexileNo Thank YouShel SilversteinPoem1The Fairies’ LullabyWilliam ShakespearePoem1Cynthia in the SnowGwendolyn BrooksPoem1who knows if the moon’se. e. cummingsPoem1Dust of SnowRobert FrostPoem1Simile: Willow and GinkgoEve MerriamPoem1Angela Duckworth and the Research on “Grit”Emily HanfordRace to the End of the EarthWM. G. SchellerWeb Article11070LExpository Essay11000LThe Sound of Summer RunningRay BradburyShort Storyfrom Letter on Thomas JeffersonJohn AdamsLetterWaterHelen Image1Unit 4: How do we decide who we are?Part 1 Close ReadingWorkshopPart 2 Genre Study:DramaComparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:Mark TwainFrom Brighton Beach MemoirsNeil SimonDrama1Gluskabe and Old Man WinterJoseph BruchacDrama1The Phantom Tollbooth, Act 1Susan NanusDrama17The Phantom Tollbooth, Act 2Susan NanusDrama16.3from You’re a Good Man, Charlie BrownClark GesnerDrama17.9Happiness is a Charming Charlie Brown atOrlando RepMatthew MacDermidReviewThe Prince and the PauperMark TwainPlay1from The Prince and the PauperMark TwainNovel Excerpt111580L12.81240LStage FrightMark TwainSpeech1880L8.8My Papa, Mark TwainSusy ClemensBiography11360L9.2940LMark Twain’s First “Vacation”New York WorldInterview1According to Mark TwainMark TwainQuotations1An Encounter With An InterviewerMark TwainShort Story1from Black Ships Before TroyRosemary SutcliffRetelling of Epic11300LBlack Cowboy, Wild HorsesJulius LesterFolk Literature1710L520LUnit 5: How much do our communities shape us?Part 1 Close ReadingWorkshopPart 2 Genre Study:FolktalesComparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:People and AnimalsThe Tiger Who Would Be KingJames ThurberFolk Literature1860L7The Ant and the DoveLeo TolstoyFolk Literature1750L4.9ArachneOlivia E. CoolidgeFolk Literature11270L8.1The StoneLloyd AlexanderFolk Literature1740L6.1Why the Tortoise’s Shell Is Not SmoothChinua AchebeFolk Literature1770L5.8Mowgli’s BrothersRudyard KiplingShort Story1970L6.8from James and the Giant PeachRoald DahlFiction1790L5.2Prologue from The Whale RiderWiti IhimaeraMyth1970L8.6The Case of the Monkeys That Fell fromthe TreesSusan E. QuinlanMagazineArticle11110L8.3Rescuers to Carry Oxygen Masks for PetsAssoc. PressWeb Article1700LInfographic12012 Pet Ownership StatisticsThe Old Woman Who Lived With the WolvesChief LutherStanding BearShort StorySatellites and Sea LionsNASANews ReleaseTurkeysBailey WhiteNarrative Essay11310L117.21360L890L7.45
GradeStudent Edition Selection Title/Lexile7UnitSelection TitleAuthorGenreInformationalLiteraryLexileRMMThe Dinner PartyMona GardnerShort Story17.6The Treasure of Lemon BrownWalter Dean MyersShort Story16Unit 1: Does every conflict have a winner?Part 1 Close ReadingWorkshopPart 2 Genre Study:Short StoryComparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:CompetitionRikki-tikki-taviRudyard KiplingShort Story11010L7.3Two Kinds from The Joy Luck ClubAmy TanShort Story1870L7.4The Third WishJoan AikenShort Story11110L7.5RibbonsLaurence YepShort Story1720L6.4The Night the Bed FellJames ThurberHumorousEssay11170L8.6Stolen DaySherwood AndersonShort Story1690L5.21Amigo BrothersPiri ThomasShort Story900L7.7Get More From CompetitionChristopher FunkWeb Article1880L10.1Forget Fun, Embrace EnjoymentAdam NaylorWeb Article11000L11.2Video Game Competitiveness, Not Violence,Spurs Aggression, Study SuggestsJenifer LaRue HugetNewspaperArticle11400L12.1Win Some, Lose SomeCharles OsgoodMagazineArticle11060L10.5Orlando MagicLeRoy NeimanImage11110L7.3Unit 2: What should we learn?Part 1 Close ReadingWorkshopfrom Freedom WalkersRussell FreedmanHistoricalAcccount1from What Makes a Rembrandt a Rembrandt?Richard MuhlbergerNarrative Essay1Life Without GravityRobert ZimmermanNonfiction1980L7.3Part 2 Genre Study:Types of NonfictionI Am a Native of North AmericaChief Dan GeorgeNonfiction1940L7.1Comparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:MotivationAll Together NowBarbara JordanNonfiction1940L8.7Rattlesnake HuntMarjorie Kinnan RawlingsNonfiction11030L8from Barrio BoyErnesto GalarzaReflective Essay11110L8.8A Day’s WaitErnest HemingwayShort Story1900L5.6No GumptionRussell BakerAutobiography11090L8.6Intrinsic Motivation Doesn’t Exist,Researcher SaysJeff GrabmeierWeb Article11380L12.8The Cremation of Sam McGeeRobert ServicePoemA Special Gift —The Legacy of “Snowflake” BentleyBarbara EagleshamMagazineArticleAll Stories Are Anansi’sHarold CourlanderFolk TalkMaslow’s Theory of Motivation and HumanNeedsMaslowImage1Part 2 Genre Study:Poetry Collection 1Collection 2:Figurative LanguageCollection 3:Sound Devices68.2111Unit 3: What is the best way to communicate?Close ReadingWorkshop9.5The Railway TrainEmily DickinsonPoem1Maestro / The Desert Is My Mother / BailandoPat MoraPoem1WinterNikki GiovanniPoem1The RiderNaomi Shihab NyePoem1SealWilliam Jay SmithPoem1HaikuMatsuo BashoPoem1LifeNaomi Long MadgettPoem1The Courage That My Mother HadEdna St. Vincent MillayPoem1Mother to SonLangston HughesPoem1FogCarl SandburgPoem1Train TuneLouise BoganPoem1Full Fathom FiveWilliam ShakespearePoem1Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not TaketheGarbage OutShel SilversteinPoem1OnomatopoeiaEve MerriamPoem11320L9.4560L5.3
UnitCollection 4:Rhythm & RhymeComparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:Heroes and OutlawsSelection TitleAuthorGenreInformationalStopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningRobert FrostPoem1Annabel LeeEdgar Allan PoePoem1Father WilliamLewis CarrollPoem1JimGwendolyn BrooksPoem1MiraclesWalt WhitmanPoem1in Just--E. E. CummingsPoem1The HighwaymanAlfred NoyesNarrative Poem1Carnegie Hero Fund CommissionThe Myth of the OutlawRuth M. HamelThe Real Story of a Cowboy’s LifeGeoffrey C. WardAfter Twenty YearsLiteraryLexileRMMWeb Site11390L12.5MagazineArticle11090L8.7Expository Essay11160L7.9Short Story1860L7.11010L8.8Harriet TubmanWeb Article1Harriet Tubman Wanted PosterImage1Unit 4: Do others see us more clearly than we see ourselves?Close ReadingWorkshopfrom Sorry, Wrong Numberfrom DragonwingsPart 2 Genre Study:DramaA Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, Act 1A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, Act 2Zoos: Joys or Jails?Comparing TextsLucille FletcherDrama1Laurence YepDrama1Israel HorovitzDrama1Israel HorovitzDrama1Rachel F.EditorialKid Territory: Why Do We Need Zoos?San Diego Zoo StaffEditorialThe Monsters Are Due on Maple StreetRod SerlingTeleplay1All Summer in a DayRay BradburyShort Story1Follow the Leader: Democracy inHerd Mentality57.75.719.6176.2940L5.8Textbook Article11300L10The Salem Witch MuseumWeb Article11200L11.2Stephen J. DubnerBlog Post11470L10.5Michael ShirberWeb Article11120L11.8Image1Joseph R. McCarthyThe Salem Witch Trials of 1692Part 3 Text Set:Leaders and Followers Herd Mentality? The Freakonomics ofBoarding a Bus870LMartin Luther King, Jr. MemorialUnit 5: Community or individual—which is more important?The Travelers and The Bear from Aesop’s Fables Jerry PinkneyClose ReadingWorkshopPart 2 Genre Study:FolktalesComparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:Becoming AmericanFable16Grasshopper LogicJon Scieszka andLane SmithFolk Literature15.5The Other Frog PrinceJon Scieszka andLane SmithFolk Literature13.7Duckbilled Platypus vs. BeefSnakStikJon Scieszka andLane SmithFolk Literature15.9Demeter and PersephoneAnne Terry WhiteGreek Myth1790L7Popocatepetl and IxtlaccihuatlJuliet Piggott WoodMexican Legend1870L8.8Sun and Moon in a BoxAlfonso Ortiz andRichard ErdoesZuni Folk Tale1630L5.8The People Could FlyVirginia HamiltonAfrican American Folk Tale1450L4.91The Voyage from Tales from the OdysseyMary Pope OsborneGreek Myth800L6.1To the Top of EverestSamantha LarsonBlog Post11080L8.7My First Free SummerJulia AlvarezNarrative Essay1760L7.4How I Learned EnglishGregory DjanikianNarrative Poem1mkJean FritzAutobiography1820L6.9Discovering a Paper SonByron YeeFunctional Text1900L81070L9.3from Grandpa and the StatueArthur MillerPlay1Melting PotAnna QuindlenNews Article1Census Data on ImmigrationUS Dept of HomelandSecurityImage167
GradeStudent Edition Selection Title/Lexile8UnitSelection TitleAuthorGenreInformationalLiteraryLexileRMMUnit 1: Does every conflict have a winner?Part 1 Close ReadingWorkshopPart 2 Genre Study:Short StoryComparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:Human vs Machinefrom Peter and RosaIsak DinesenShort Story1An Hour With AbueloJudith Ortiz CoferShort Story1Raymond’s RunToni Cade BambaraShort Story1920L6.8The Tell-Tale HeartEdgar Allan PoeShort Story1860L6.4860LFlowers for AlgernonDaniel KeyesShort Story1830L6.6The Story-TellerSakiShort Story11110L8.4The Finish of Patsy BarnesPaul Laurence DunbarShort Story1950L8.8The Drummer Boy of ShilohRay BradburyShort Story11010L7.4800L8.5Who Can Replace a Man?Brian AldissShort Story1John HenryAnonymousBallad1Julie and the Turing TestLinda FormichelliMagazineArticle“The good news, Dave,. . . .”Chris MaddenImageRobots Get a Feel for the World at USC ViterbiUniversity of SouthernCalifornia ViterbiPress Releasefrom The Measure of a Man from Star Trek:The Next GenerationMelinda M. SnodgrassTV Script11090L11360L11340L11Unit 2: How much information is enough?Part 1 Close ReadingWorkshopPart 2 Genre Study:Essays and SpeechesComparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:Belonging to a PlaceWe the People from Words We Live ByLinda R. MonkNonfictionMaking Tracks on MarsAndrew MishkinNarrativeNonfictionfrom Harriet Tubman: Conductor on theUnderground RailroadAnn PetryNarrative Essay11030L7.5from Always to Remember: The Vision ofMaya Ying LinBrent AshabrannerBiographicalEssay11180L9.7The Trouble With TelevisionRobert MacNeilPersuasiveSpeech11160L12.6Science and the Sense of WonderIsaac AsimovCritical Essay11420L11.6Forest FireAnaïs NinEssay11010L8.1The Season’s Curmudgeon Sees the LightMary C. CurtisEssay820L8.1Why Leaves Turn Color in the FallDiane AckermanEssay11160L9.511070L8.1from Travels with CharleyJohn SteinbeckAutobiographyGentleman of Río en MedioJuan A. A. SedilloShort StoryChoice: A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.Alice WalkerSpeechTears of AutumnYoshiko UchidaShort Story1111Part 2 Genre Study:Poetry Collection 1Collection 2Collection 3871180L9.21160L8.68.7from I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsMaya AngelouAutobiography11030LStudy Finds Americans Increasingly RootedCindy WeissOnline Article11150LRelationships to Place from What Is Senseof Place?Jennifer E. CrossChart1A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. LongNikki GiovanniPoem1Describe Somebody and Almost a Summer SkyJacqueline WoodsonPoem11Unit 3: What is the secret to reaching someone with words?Part 1 Close ReadingWorkshop840LSilverWalter de la MarePoemRing Out, Wild BellsAlfred, Lord TennysonPoem1Cat!Eleanor FarjeonPoem1ThumbprintEve MerriamPoem1The Sky Is Low, the Clouds Are MeanEmily DickinsonPoem1Concrete MixersPatricia HubbellPoem1Harlem Night SongLangston HughesPoem1The City Is So BigRichard GarcíaPoem1The New ColossusEmma LazarusLyric Poem1Blow, Blow, Thou Winter WindWilliam ShakespeareLyric Poem1Paul Revere’s RideHenry WadsworthLongfellowNarrative Poem1
UnitCollection 4Comparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:GenerationsSelection TitleAuthorGenreInformationalGrandma LingAmy LingPoem1your little voice/Over the wires came leapingE.E. CummingsPoem1New WorldN. Scott MomadayPoem1JanuaryJohn UpdikePoem1The Road Not TakenRobert FrostPoem1O Captain! My Captain!Walt WhitmanPoem1Old ManRicardo SánchezLyric Poem1For My Sister Molly Who in the FiftiesAlice WalkerPoem1The Medicine BagVirginia Driving HawkSneveShort Story1Cub Pilot on the MississippiMark 850L6.2Thank You, Ma’mLangston HughesShort StoryTutoring Benefits Seniors’ Health, Students’SkillsDavid CraryNews Article11340LThe Return of the Multi-Generational FamilyHouseholdPew Research CenterResearch Article11290Lfrom Billy ElliotLee HallDrama1from The Miracle WorkerWilliam GibsonDrama1The Diary of Anne Frank, Act IFrances Goodrich andAlbert HackettDrama16.5The Diary of Anne Frank, Act IIFrances Goodrich andAlbert HackettDrama16.4The GovernessNeil SimonDramaticAdaptation16.31Unit 4: Is it our differences or our similarities that matter most?Part 1 Close ReadingWorkshopPart 2 Genre Study:DramaComparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:The HolocaustThe NinnyAnton ChekhovShort Story1from KindertransportDiane SamuelsDrama1from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young GirlAnne FrankDiary Entries1from Anne Frank RememberedMiep Gies(with Allison Leslie Gold)Memoir11000Lfrom NightElie WieselAutobiographicalNarrative1450Lfrom Remarks on a Visit to BuchenwaldElie WieselSpeech1890LExpository Text11190LLocal Holocaust Survivors and LiberatorsAttend Opening Event for Exhibition450L6.11010L8.2Unit 5: Are yesterday’s heroes important today?Part 1 Close ReadingWorkshopPart 2 Genre Study:FolktalesComparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:Freedom Fightersfrom The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark TwainFiction1Water NamesLan Samantha ChangFiction1Coyote Steals the Sun and MoonRichard Erdoes andAlfonso OrtizZuni Myth1590L5.2ChicoriaRudolfo A. Anaya andJosé Griego y MaestasMexicanAmerican Cuento11020L6.5from The People, YesCarl SandburgPoem1from Out of the DustKaren HessePoem1An Episode of WarStephen CraneShort Story11110L9.5Davy Crockett’s DreamDavy CrockettTall Tale11530L9.7Paul Bunyan of the North WoodsCarl SandburgTall Tale11210L7.6Invocation from John Brown’s BodyStephen Vincent BenétPoem1from The American DreamMartin Luther King, Jr.PersuasiveSpeech11100L10.5Runagate RunagateRobert HaydenNarrative PoemEmancipation from Lincoln: A PhotobiographyRussell FreedmanHistorical Essay11010L8.8Harriet Beecher StowePaul Laurence DunbarLyric PoemBrown vs. Board of EducationWalter Dean MyersHistorical Essay11160L8.7On Woman’s Right to SuffrageSusan B. AnthonyPersuasiveSpeech11290L12.7from Address to the Commonwealth Club ofSan FranciscoCésar ChávezSpeech11090LChart1Nonviolence Tree970L119
GradeStudent Edition Selection Title/Lexile9UnitSelection 8.8Unit 1: Is conflict necessary?Part 1 Close ReadingWorkshopPart 2 Genre Study:Short StoryComparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:Social ConformityOld Man at the BridgeErnest HemingwayShort Story1The Jade PeonyWayson ChoyShort Story16.3The Most Dangerous GameRichard ConnellShort Story1890L7.9The Gift of the MagiO. HenryShort Story1990L6.7Rules of the GameAmy TanShort Story1800L7.8The Cask of AmontilladoEdgar Allan PoeShort Story11350L7.7CheckoutsCynthia RylantShort Story1870L9.2The Girl Who CanAma Ata AidooShort Story11070L6.2The Scarlet IbisJames HurstShort Story1Much madness is divinest senseEmily DickinsonPoem17.51070LMy EnglishJulia AlvarezPersonal Essay11180L8.2The Case for Fitting InDavid BerrebyExpository Essay11390L11.8from The Geeks Shall Inherit the EarthAlexandra RobbinsExpository Essay11200L11.9from Blue Nines and Red Words from Bornon a Blue DayDaniel TammetMemoir110.9from The New Yorkercartoon1Unit 2: Is knowledge the same as understanding?Part 1 Close ReadingWorkshopPart 2 Genre Study:Essays and SpeechesComparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:The Great DepressionI am an American Day AddressLearned HandSpeech19.6Before Hip-Hop was Hip-HopRebecca WalkerEssay19.8On SummerLorraine HansberryReflective Essay11180L10.1The NewsNeil PostmanExpository Essay11180L11.1Libraries Face Sad ChapterPete HamillPersuasiveEssay11070L10.4I Have a DreamMartin Luther King, Jr.Speech11140L8.2from Silent SpringRachel CarsonArgumentativeEssay11080L6.4If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth Arthur C. ClarkeShort StoryFirst Inaugural AddressFranklin Delano RooseveltSpeech11190L11.3from Nothing to FearAlan AxelrodExpository Essay1from Americans in the Great DepressionEric RauchwayHistory11280L11.4940L8.21Women on the BreadlinesMeridel Le SueurMemoir1Bread Line, New York City, 1932Dorothea LangePhoto1Sara TeasdalePoem1Unit 3: How does communication change us?BarterPart 1 Close ReadingWorkshopPart 2 GenreStudy: P oetryCollection 1Collection 2Collection 3108.9UncoilingPat MoraPoem1A VoicePat MoraPoem1Dream DeferredLangston HughesPoem1DreamsLangston HughesPoem1Sonnet on Love XIIIJean de SpondePoem1Meciendo/RockingGabriela MistralPoem1“Hope” is the thing with feathersEmily DickinsonPoem1The BellsEdgar Allan PoePoem1Analysis of BaseballMay SwensonPoem1Slam, Dunk, & HookYusef KomunyakaaPoem1JabberwockyLewis CarrollPoem1FifteenWilliam StaffordPoem1Casey at the BatErnest Lawrence ThayerPoem1Twister Hits HoustonSandra CisnerosPoem1The RavenEdgar Allan PoePoem110.1
UnitCollection 4Comparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:The KennedyAssassinationSelection TitleAuthorGenreInformationalThe Road Not TakenRobert FrostPoem1Macavity: The Mystery CatT.S. EliotPoem1The Seven Ages of ManShakespearePoem1We never know how high we are--Emily DickinsonPoem1I Hear America SingingWalt WhitmanPoem1Three HaikuBasho, ChiyojoPoem1WomenAlice WalkerPoem1Sonnet 30ShakespearePoem1The Assassination of John F. KennedyGwendolyn BrooksPoem1Instead of an ElegyG. S. Fraserfrom A White House DiaryLady Bird JohnsonAmerican HistoryJudith Ortiz tobiographyShort Story1Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress Lyndon JohnsonSpeech1Images of a TragedyImage1Unit 4: Do our differences define us?Part 1 Close ReadingWorkshopPart 2 Genre Study:DramaComparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:Aspirationfrom The Glass MenagerieTennessee WilliamsDrama1The Inspector-GeneralAnton ChekovDrama11The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Act IShakespeareDramaThe Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Act IIShakespeareDramaThe Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Act IIIShakespeareDramaThe Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Act IVShakespeareDramaThe Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Act VShakespeareDramaPyrammus and ThisbeOvidShort Story1from A Midsummer Night’s DreamShakespeareDrama1from The Importance of Being EarnestOscar WildeDrama116.5The NecklaceGuy de MaupassantShort Story910L8.8New DirectionsMaya AngelouNarrative Essay11360L9.8from Fragile Self-WorthTim KasserExpositoryNonfiction11530L13.8My Possessions, MyselfRussell BelkMagazineArticle11250L11.2from The New YorkerImage1Unit 5: Do heroes have responsibilities?Part 1 Close ReadingWorkshopPart 2 Genre Study:EpicComparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:What is a hero?Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind CrockettCaron Lee CohenTall Tale1610L4.1Pecos Bill: The CycloneHarold FeltonTall Tale1790L7.4The Odyssey, Part 1HomerEpic11090LThe Odyssey, Part 2HomerEpic1930LAn Ancient GestureEdna St. Vincent MillayPoem1Siren SongMargaret AtwoodPoem1Prologue and Epilogue from The OdysseyDerek WalcottPoem1IthacaConstantine CavafyPoem1from The RamayanaR.K. NarayanMyth1950L9.6PerseusEdith HamiltonMyth11060L7.9The WashwomanI.B. SingerNarrative Essay1870L8.5from The Hero’s AdventureJoseph Campbell/Bill MoyersInterview11200L10.3from My Hero’s HeroElie WieselArgumentativeEssay1980L10Of Altruism, Heroism, and Nature’s Gifts inthe Face of TerrorNatalie AngierExpository Essay(science)11340L12.7American Blood DonationExecutive HealthcareManagement MagazineImage111
GradeStudent Edition Selection Title/Lexile10UnitSelection TitleAuthorGenreEarly AutumnThe LeapThe Monkey’s PawA ProblemThe Street of the CañonCivil PeaceLike the SunThe Open WindowContents of the Dead Man’s Pocketfrom Swimming to AntarcticaOccupation: Conductorette from I Know Whythe Caged Bird SingsLangston HughesLouise ErdrichW.W. JacobsAnton ChekhovJosefina NiggliChinua AchebeR.K. NarayanSakiJack FinneyLynne CoxShort StoryShort StoryShort StoryShort StoryShort StoryShort StoryShort StoryShort StoryShort StoryMemoirMaya Angeloufrom The Upside of QuittingInformationalPart 1 Close ReadingWorkshopPart 2 Genre Study:Short StoryComparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:PerseveranceLexileRMMPart 2 Genre Study:Essays and SpeechesComparing TextsPart 3 Text Set: 10Stephen Dubner/othersRadio Transcript1850L8.7from The Winning EdgePeter DoskochMagazineArticle11320L12.1Science Fiction and the Future from Dancingat the Edge of the WorldUrsula K. Le GuinSpeech11030L10.7Lewis HineImage1from the series Empire State (Laying Beams),1930-31Unit 2: What Kind of Knowledge Changes Our Lives?Address to Students of Moscow StatePart 1 Close ReadingUniversityWorkshopEverest from Touch the Top of the WorldErik WeihenmayerHistoricalAccountNarrative essayfrom LongitudeThe Sun ParlorKeep Memory AliveThe American IdeaA Toast to the Oldest Inhabitant:The Weather of New EnglandDava SobelDorothy WestElie WieselTheodore H. WhiteEssayReflective rk TwainHumorousSpeech11030L10.6The Dog that Bit PeopleJames Thurber11180L8.5How to React to Familiar Facesfrom Magdalena Lookingfrom The Statue That Didn’t Look Right fromBlink: The Power of Thinking Without ThinkingUmberto EcoSusan Vreeland11110L1138L98.711040L9.7from The Shape of the World from Life by theNumbersRonald ReaganMalcolm GladwellHumorousEssayAnalytic EssayFictionExpositoryNonfiction111Collection 2Collection 39.211250L9.8John McCrone11130L10.6James ElkinsScience Writing11160L10Richard EstesImage1I Am Offering This PoemJimmy Santiago BacaPoemThe Poetic Interpretation of the TwistCornelius EadyPoemThe Empty Dance ShoesCornelius EadyPoemMaking a FistNaomi Shihab NyePoem [lyric]1The FishElizabeth BishopPoem1The GuitarFederico Garcia LorcaPoem [lyric]1The BridegroomAlexander PushkinPoem[narrative]1Sonnet 18ShakespearePoem [Sonnet]1Do Not Go Gentle into That Good NightDylan ThomasPoem [villanelle]1My CityJames Weldon JohnsonPoem [Sonnet]1One cannot ask lonelinessPriest JakurenPoem [Tanka]1Was it that I went to sleepOno KomachiPoem [Tanka]1PrideDahlia RavikovitchPoem1Keith DevlinUnit 3: Does All Communication Serve a Positive Purpose?Part 1 Close ReadingWorkshop10.6ExpositoryNonfictionScience WritingSeeing Things from How the Brain WorksHow to Look at Nothing from How to UseYour EyesCar Reflections, 197012LiteraryUnit 1: Can Progress Be Made Without Conflict?The Wind--tapped like a tired ManEmily DickinsonPoem1GloryYusef KomunyakaaPoem1MetaphorEve MerriamPoem1
UnitCollection 4Comparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:Lost Civilizations(The Uses of the Past)Selection TitleAuthorGenreInformationalJazz FantasiaCarl SandburgPoem1Meeting at NightRobert BrowningPoem1LiteraryLexileRMMThe Weary BluesLangston HughesPoem1ReapersJean ToomerPoem1Hold Fast Your Dreams--and Trust Your MistakesBilly JoelSpeechAllBei DaoPoem1Also AllShu TingPoem1A Tree Telling of OrpheusDenise Levertovpoem1By the Waters of BabylonStephen Vincent Benetshort story1810L5.5There Will Come Soft RainsRay Bradburyshort story1800L7.91from The Way to Rainy MountainN. Scott MomadayReflective Essay11020L9Understanding StonehengeRosella LorenziJournalism11370L11.8from Collapse: How Societies Choose to Failor SucceedJared DiamondHistory11417L12.8Image1Aquae Sulis, Roman BathsUnit 4: To What Extent Does Experience Determine What We Perceive?Part 1 Close ReadingWorkshopPart 2 Genre Study:DramaComparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:ConscientiousObjectionsfrom A Doll’s HouseHenrik IbsenDrama1from An Enemy of the PeopleHenrik IbsenDrama119.4The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act IShakespeareDramaThe Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act IIShakespeareDramaThe Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act IIIShakespeareDramaThe Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act IVShakespeareDramaThe Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act VShakespeareDramafrom A Raisin in the SunLorraine HansberryDrama1from Antigone, Part 1SophoclesGreek Tragedy18.5from Antigone, Part 2SophoclesGreek Tragedy18.7Conscientious ObjectorEdna St. Vincent MillayPoem1from Nobel LectureAlexander SolzhenitsynSpeechThe CensorsLuisa Valenzuelashort storyCulture of ShockStephen Reicher;S. Alexander HaslamMagazineArticlefrom Army Regulation 600-43: ConscientiousObjector PolicyUS Department ofDefensetiananmen Square “Tank ument11640L14Image11Unit 5: Can Anyone Be a Hero?Part 1 Close ReadingWorkshopPart 2 Genre Study:EpicComparing TextsPart 3 Text Set:King Arthur andMedieval Traditionfrom Things Fall ApartChinua AchebeFiction1890L7.5Games at TwilightAnita DesaiShort Story11200L8.8Prometheus and the First PeopleOlivia E. CoolidgeMyth11090L7.4from Sundiata: An Epic of Old MaliD. T. NianeEpic1920L8.8Damon and PythiasWilliam F. RussellLegends andHeroes11550L11.511.9from Don QuixoteMiguel de CervantesParody11350LCupid and PsycheApuleiusMyth11240L10AshputtleGrimmFairy Tale1900L6.3Arthur Becomes King of Britain from The Onceand Future KingT. H. WhiteLegend1980L7.7Morte d’ArthurAlfred, Lord TennysonPoem11180Lfrom A Connecticut Yankee in K ing Arthur’sCourtMark TwainParody11030L9.4Youth and Chivalry from A Distant Mirror:The Calamitous 14th CenturyBarbara TuchmanHistory11410L12from The Birth of BritainWinston ChurchillHistory11220L11.4Caroline AlexanderMemoir/Magazine Article11360L11.9Image1A Pilgrim’s Search for Relics of the Once andFuture KingThe New Yorker13
GradeStudent Edition Selection Title/Lexile11TitleAuthorInformationalLexileThe Earth on Turtle’s BackOnondaga1730LWhen Grizzlies Walked UprightModoc11060Lfrom The Navajo Origin LegendNavajo1940LSusan Power Introduces Museum IndiansSusan Power1Museum IndiansSusan Power1from The Iroquois ConstitutionDekanawidah11510Lfrom A Journey Through TexasAlva Nunez Cabeza de Vaca11400LBoulders Taller Than the Great Tower of SevilleGarcia Lopez de Cardenas11270Lfrom of Plymouth PlantationWilliam Bradford11440Lfrom Mars Rover Mission UpdateSteve Squyres1To My Dear and Loving HusbandAnne BradstreetHuswiferyEdward Taylor1from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry GodJonathan Edwards1from What to the Slave Is the Fourth of JulyFrederick Douglass1Speech in the Virginia ConventionPatrick Henry1980LSpeech in the ConventionBenjamin Franklin11490LThe Declaration of IndependenceThomas Jefferson11390Lfrom The American CrisisThomas Paine11200LTo His Excellency, General WashingtonPhillis Wheatley11How to Watch a Debate (Manual)1210L1Help North Texas Vote (Public Service Announcement)1from The AutobiographyBenjamin Franklin11400Lfrom Poor Richard’s AlmanacBenjamin Franklin1500LStraw Into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the EverydaySandra Cisneros1from the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah EquianoOlaudah Equiano11240LLetter from the President’s HouseJohn Adams1980LLetter to Her Daughter From the New White HouseAbigail Adams11120LFloor Plan of the President’s HouseBenjamin Henry Latrobe1The Devil and Tom WalkerWashington Irving11130LCommission of Meriwether LewisThomas Jefferson11340LCrossing the Great DivideMeriwether Lewis11450Lfrom the Song of HiawathaHenry Wadsworth Longfellow1The Tide Rises, The Tide FallsHenry Wadsworth Longfellow1ThanatopsisWilliam Cullen Bryant1Old IronsidesOliver Wendell Holmes1The Minister’s Black VeilNathaniel Hawthorne11250LThe Fall of the House of UsherEdgar Allan Poe11410LThe RavenEdgar Allan Poe1Where Is Here?Joyce Carol Oates1from Moby DickHerman Melville1from NatureRalph Waldo Emerson1960Lfrom Self-RelianceRalph Waldo Emerson1980LConcord HymnRalph Waldo EmersonIntroduces Henry David ThoreauGretel Ehrlich1from WaldenHenry David Thoreau11200Lfrom Civil Disobed
The Tiger Who Would Be King James Thurber Folk Literature 1 860L 7 The Ant and the Dove Leo Tolstoy Folk Literature 1 750L 4.9 Arachne Olivia E. Coolidge Folk Literature 1 1270L 8.1 The Stone Lloyd Alexander Folk Literature 1 740L 6.1 Why the Tortoise’s Shell Is Not Smooth
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