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FICTION UNIT
“Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto
https://hansonlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/7th-Grade-Short-Story.pdf
“Thank You, Ma’am” by Langston Hughes
https://www.chino.k12.ca.us/cms/lib/ca01902308/centricity/domain/1689/thank%20you%20%20ma%20am.pdf
“The White Umbrella” by Gish Jen
https://mrcampbellrocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/whiteumbrella.pdf
“Zebra” by Chaim Potok
https://teacherspondering.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/zebra-short-story-r4vock.pd
“Cricket in the Road” by Michael Anthony
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“One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts” by Shirley Jackson
https://englishteachingwithcreativity.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/oneordinarydaywithpeanuts-pdf.pdf
“Nadia the Willful” by Sue Alexander
ttps://iblog.dearbornschools.org/nasserl/wp-content/uploads/sites/1568/2019/03/Nadia-the-Willful-Narrative.pdf
“Flowers and Freckle Cream” by Elizabeth Ellis
https://www.paulding.k12.ga.us/cms/lib/GA01903603/Centricity/Domain/2941/Flowers%20and%20Freckle%20Cream.pdf
NONFICTION UNIT
“Dirk the Protector” by Gary Paulsen
https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/dobertn7/wp-content/uploads/sites/405/2014/01/dirk.the_.protector.pdf
“A Brief History of Chocolate” by Amanda Fiegl
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-brief-history-of-chocolate-21860917/
Abdul Rahman Biography
http://slaveryandremembrance.org/people/person/?id=PP005
“Oh Broom, Get to Work” by Yushiko Uchida
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“Waiting for the Second Table” – Dallas News (Knott)*
“How Long, O Lord How Long? – Byrne in the New Your Call*
*Note: refer to the cartoon drawing in the literature textbook
“The Night the Bed Fell” by James Thurber
https://saintdorothy.org/documents/2015/2/The_Night_the_Bed_Fell.pdf
“Healthy Sleep Habits” by Clare Kittredge
https://woodrivermattress.com/healthy-sleep-habits
NOVEL UNIT
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Mildred Taylor (INCLUDED)
POETRY UNIT
“Under the Back Porch” by Virginia Hamilton
https://kempelementary.typepad.com/files/poem.pdf
“My Bed Is a Boat” by Robert Louis Stevenson
https://allpoetry.com/My-Bed-Is-A-Boat
“The Walrus and the Carpenter” by Lewis Carroll
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43914/the-walrus-and-the-carpenter-56d222cbc80a9
“The Owl and the Pussycat” by Edward Lear
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43188/the-owl-and-the-pussy-cat
“Opportunity” by Edward Roland Sill
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8543567-Opportunity-by-Edward-Rowland-Sill
“Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Thayer
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/casey-bat
“All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter” by J.R.R. Tolkien
https://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/all_that_is_gold.html
“A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43812/a-red-red-rose
“Growing Pains” by Jean Little
https://mrlsclass.blogspot.com/2008/04/poetry.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR37VUB_hTZbhwEfcfiCECgjNBBKfSLZAiKKeIsJhckirbZCHs3pWRA0AtM
“Love That Boy” by Walter Dean Myers
https://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/walter-dean-myers/love-that-boy/
“It Seems I Test People” by James Berry
https://kauffmanm.weebly.com/uploads/2/6/3/4/26347773/itseemsitestpeople.pdf
“The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be” by Nikki Giovanni
https://nikkigiovannipoetryinfo.weebly.com/the-world-is-not-a-pleasant-place-to-be.html
“Abandoned Farmhouse” by Ted Kooser
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52935/abandoned-farmhouse
Level 8
FICTION UNIT
Stop the Sun – Gary Paulson
https://mrskarin.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/8/2/57827335/stop_the_sun_full_story.pdf
A Mother in Mannville – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
https://englishliterature.net/marjorie-kinnan-rawlings/a-mother-in-mannville
The Ransom of Red Chief – O. Henry
https://www.classicshorts.com/stories/redchief.html
Checkouts – Cynthia Ryland
https://mrsbonakdar.weebly.com/uploads/7/9/3/2/7932245/checkouts.pdf
Raymond’s Run – Toni Cade Bambara
https://public.wsu.edu/~bryanfry/Bambara_RaymondsRun.pdf
The Treasure of Lemon Brown – Walter Dean Myers
https://1.cdn.edl.io/Ryb1yzQSlpuTgwDqLaL4jtBNZNSN5yI3Em2yaUiYvwJPBxbI.pdf
The Dinner Party – Mona Gardner
https://my.hrw.com/support/hos/hostpdf/host_text_103.pdf
NONFICTION UNIT
Louisa’s Civil War – Harriet Reisen
https://www.louisamayalcott.net/the_book/from_the_book/excerpt_from_chapter_eleven/index.html
Roughing It: Chapter XLII– Mark Twain
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Roughing_It/Chapter_XLII
Ten Top Touring Areas – Edited by Aaron Teasdale
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Virginia Hamilton – (Scholastic Interview Transcript)
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The Jews Are Guilty! – Joseph Goebbels
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-goebbels-quot-the-jews-are-guilty-quot
The Great Rat Hunt – Lawrence Yep
http://teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/short_pump/douthit_c/Site/Rat_Hunt.html
NOVEL UNIT
Night – Elie Wiesel (INCLUDED)
POETRY UNIT
“Mother to Son” – Langston Hughes
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47559/mother-to-son
“Mother ‘O Mine” – Rudyard Kipling
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/mother-o-mine
“I Am in Need of Music” – Elizabeth Bishop,
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-am-in-need-of-music/
“Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” – Robert Frost
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171621
“Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out” – Shel Silverstein
https://curriculum640essaywriting.weebly.com/uploads/2/3/9/5/23952407/sarah_cynthia_sylvia_stout.pdf
“I’m Nobody Who Are You?” – Emily Dickinson
https://poets.org/poem/im-nobody-who-are-you-260
“Sonnet 18” – Shakespeare
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/18.html
“Lady of Shalott” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45359/the-lady-of-shalott-1832
“Barter” – Sarah Teasdale
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46006/barter-56d225c3374d8
Note: Poems that are public domain are printed within the summative assessment.
Level 9
FICTION UNIT
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” – James Thurber
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1939/03/18/the-secret-life-of-walter-mitty-james-thurber
“The Most Dangerous Game” – Richard Connell
http://www.dukeofdefinition.com/dangerous_game.pdf
“Born Worker” – Gary Soto
https://www.chino.k12.ca.us/cms/lib8/CA01902308/Centricity/Domain/3749/7.1.1_born_worker.pdf
“The Monkey’s Paw” – W.W. Jacobs
https://americanliterature.com/author/w-w-jacobs/short-story/the-monkeys-paw/#google_vignette
“A White Heron” – Sarah Orne Jewett
https://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/webpub/english/artandcraftoffiction1e/Fiction-11_short_stories/Jewett%20A%20White%20Heron.pdf
“The Bet” – Anton Chekhov
https://web.seducoahuila.gob.mx/biblioweb/upload/the-bet_pdf.pdf
“Blues Ain’t No Mockin’ Bird” – Toni Cade Bambara
https://www.fairfieldprep.org/uploaded/Bookstore/Summer_Assignments_2015/English_9th_Grade_Summer_Reading…Blues_Ain%27t_No_Mockingbird.pdf
NONFICTION UNIT
“Charles Martel Biography”
https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/french-history-biographies/charles-martel
“Origin of Blue Jeans” – Joseph Stromberg
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/the-origin-of-blue-jeans-89612175/
“Farewell Letter to the Pilgrims” – John Robinson
https://pilgrimhall.org/pdf/John_Robinson_Farewell_Letter_to_Pilgrims.pdf
Book Review: A Wrinkle in Time – NPR Staff
https://www.npr.org/2012/03/05/146161011/the-unlikely-best-seller-a-wrinkle-in-time-turns-50
Letter: “John Steinbeck on Falling in Love”
https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/01/12/john-steinbeck-on-love-1958/
The Guardian Review: Mockingbird – Kathryn Erskine
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/feb/03/mockingbird-kathryn-erskine-review
NOVEL UNIT
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien (INCLUDED)
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE/POETRY UNIT
“Dreams” – Langston Hughes
http://www.eggplant.org/pdf/dreams.pdf
“Red Roses” – Langston Hughes
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=17393
“Still I Rise” – Maya Angelou
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46446/still-i-rise
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” – Robert Frost
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148652/nothing-gold-can-stay-5c095cc5ab679
“The Poison Tree” – William Blake
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45952/a-poison-tree
“Fire and Ice” – Robert Frost
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44263/fire-and-ice
“Sonnet 29” – William Shakespeare
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45090/sonnet-29-when-in-disgrace-with-fortune-and-mens-eyes
“The Naming of Cats” – T.S. Eliot
https://poets.org/poem/naming-cats
“The Wind Begun to Rock the Grass” – Emily Dickinson
https://allpoetry.com/The-wind-begun-to-rock-the-grass
“Spring Storm” – Jim Wayne Miller
https://owlcation.com/humanities/Analysis-of-Poem-Spring-Storm-by-Jim-Miller
“When It is Snowing” – Siv Cedering
https://s3.amazonaws.com/scschoolfiles/200/reading_poetrypoppies.pdf
“Poppies” – Roy Scheele
https://s3.amazonaws.com/scschoolfiles/200/reading_poetrypoppies.pdf
“The Raven” – Edgar Allan Poe
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven
“The Eagle” – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45322/the-eagle-56d224c9a41d1
“The Rose That Grew From Concrete” – Tupac Shakur
https://allpoetry.com/The-Rose-That-Grew-From-Concrete
“The Wise Old Apple Tree in Spring” – Robert Hillyer
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/pastoral-20
Level 10
FICTION UNIT
“Bernice Bobs Her Hair” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
https://americanliterature.com/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/short-story/bernice-bobs-her-hair
“Amigo Brothers” – Piri Thomas
https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/dobertn7/wp-content/uploads/sites/405/2016/04/amigo.brothers.pdf
“The Necklace” – Guy de Maupassant
https://americanliterature.com/author/guy-de-maupassant/short-story/the-necklace
“Harrison Bergeron” – Kurt Vonnegut
https://americanliterature.com/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/short-story/harrison-bergeron
“The Yellow Wallpaper” – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
https://americanliterature.com/author/charlotte-perkins-gilman/short-story/the-yellow-wallpaper
“The Speckled Band” – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/AdveSpec.shtml
“A Worn Path” – Eudora Welty
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1941/02/a-worn-path/376236/
“A Doll’s House” – Katherine Mansfield
https://americanliterature.com/author/katherine-mansfield/short-story/the-dolls-house/
DRAMA UNIT
Trifles – Susan Glaspell
https://americanliterature.com/author/susan-glaspell/play/trifles/summary
The Boor – Anton Chekov
http://www.theatrehistory.com/plays/boor.html
While the Auto Waits – O. Henry (adapted by Walter Wykes)
https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/while-the-auto-waits
NOVEL UNIT
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (INCLUDED)
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE/POETRY UNIT
“Introduction to Poetry” – Billy Collins
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46712/introduction-to-poetry
“A Loaf of Poetry” – Naoshi Koriyama
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/poetry/loaf.html
“If—” – Rudyard Kipling
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if—
“Women” – Alice Walker
https://genius.com/Alice-walker-women-annotated
“Ah, are you digging on my grave?” – Thomas Hardy
https://allpoetry.com/Ah,-Are-You-Digging-On-My-Grave-
“Go and catch a falling star” – John Donne
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44127/song-go-and-catch-a-falling-star
“One Art” – Elizabeth Bishop
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art
“How Do I Love Thee?” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43742/sonnets-from-the-portuguese-43-how-do-i-love-thee-let-me-count-the-ways
“Having a Coke with you” – Frank O’Hara
https://poets.org/poem/having-coke-you
“[in Just-]” – e. e. Cummings
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47247/in-just
“We Real Cool” – Gwendolyn Brooks
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/28112/we-real-cool
“On Being Brought from Africa to America” – Phillis Wheatley
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45465/on-being-brought-from-africa-to-america
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” – William Wordsworth
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45521/i-wandered-lonely-as-a-cloud
Level 11
FICTION UNIT
“American History” – Judith Ortiz Cofer
https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1560883341/sandyspring/psdflzfbhjvwuasxxcym/AmericanHistory.pdf
“Shooting an Elephant” – George Orwell
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/shooting-an-elephant/
“The Alligator War” – Horatio Quiroga
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46051/46051-h/46051-h.htm#st5
“Masque of the Red Death” – Edgar Allan Poe
https://poemuseum.org/the-masque-of-the-red-death/
The Odyssey, Book IX – Homer [Translated by Samuel Butler]
https://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.9.ix.html
“The Lottery” – Shirley Jackson
http://fullreads.com/literature/the-lottery/
“Lather and Nothing Else” – Hernando Tellez
https://englishiva1011.pbworks.com/f/LATHER.PDF
“Hills Like White Elephants” – Ernest Hemingway
https://jerrywbrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Hills-Like-White-Elephants-Hemingway-Ernest.pdf
“The Veldt” – Ray Bradbury
https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/163728/The Veldt – Ray Bradbury.pdf
DRAMA UNIT
Our Town – Thornton Wilder
https://irp.cdn-website.com/b5cf95f0/files/uploaded/ourtownpdf.pdf
NOVEL UNIT
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (INCLUDED)
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE/POETRY UNIT
“My Papa’s Waltz” – Theodore Roethke
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43330/my-papas-waltz
“Woman and Child” – Judith Beveridge
https://www.poemist.com/judith-beveridge/woman-and-child
“The Buried Life” – Matthew Arnold
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43585/the-buried-life
“Carrying Food Home in Winter” – Margaret Atwood
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=31179
“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” – Walt Whitman
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45480/when-lilacs-last-in-the-dooryard-bloomd
“Clock-Beat, Heart-Beat” – Marya Zaturenska;
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=19507
“Ah, Ah” – Joy Harjo
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49620/ah-ah
“Ozymandias” – Percy Shelly
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias
“To an Athlete Dying Young” – A. E. Housman
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46452/to-an-athlete-dying-young
“The Author to Her Book” – Anne Bradstreet
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43697/the-author-to-her-book
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” – John Keats
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn
“The Builders” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
https://www.artofmanliness.com/builders-henry-wadsworth-longfellow/
Level 12
FICTION UNIT
“Perseus” – retold by Edith Hamilton
https://online.fliphtml5.com/lijzq/zneh/?s=&search=Cupid%2Band%2BPsyche#p=186
(pages 187-195)
“Cupid and Psyche” – retold by Edith Hamilton
https://online.fliphtml5.com/lijzq/zneh/?s=&search=Cupid+and+Psyche#p=125
(pages 125-132)
“Brownies” – ZZ Packer
http://www.litandwriting.umb.edu/engl210-5/spg09/documents/Packer–Brownies.pdf
“Rappaccini’s Daughter” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
https://www.columbia.edu/itc/english/f1124y-001/resources/Rappaccinis_Daughter.pdf
“The Paper Menagerie” – Ken Liu
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5838a24729687f08e0321a15/t/5bf2bdfa562fa782871c6252/1542635003373/The-Paper-Menagerie+by+Ken+Liu.pdf
The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto I, stanzas I-XXVIII – Edmund Spenser
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45192/the-faerie-queene-book-i-canto-i
(stanzas I – XXVIII only)
“The Stolen Party” – Liliana Heker
https://www.grant.kyschools.us/Downloads/9_2_58_Text.pdf
DRAMA UNIT
Macbeth – William Shakespeare (INCLUDED)
https://mseffie.com/assignments/macbeth/Macbeth%20eNotes%20Parallel%20Text.pdf
NOVEL UNIT
Lord of the Flies – William Golding (INCLUDED)
POETRY UNIT
“Dulce et Decorum Est” – Wilfred Owen
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est
“Who’s for the Game?” – Jessie Pope
https://allpoetry.com/who’s-for-the-Game-
“Ode to the Moon” – Mary Darby Robinson
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8517807-Ode-to-the-Moon-by-Mary-Darby-Robinson
“Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market” – Pablo Neruda
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49322/ode-to-a-large-tuna-in-the-market
“Paul Revere’s Ride” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
https://poets.org/poem/paul-reveres-ride
“Alexander Hamilton” – Lin-Manuel Miranda
https://www.blumenthalarts.org/assets/doc/Hamilton-Lyrics-ACT-I1-e82b4f261a.pdf
“The Starry Night” – Anne Sexton
https://allpoetry.com/The-Starry-Night
“Empty Chairs” – Liu Xia
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/57517/empty-chairs
“Where did the handsome beloved go?” – Jalal Al-Din Rumi
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/144612/where-did-the-handsome-beloved-go
“Ghazal: America the Beautiful” – Alicia Ostriker
https://poets.org/poem/ghazal-america-beautiful
“The New Colossus” – Emma Lazarus
https://poets.org/poem/new-colossus
“Digging” – Seamus Heaney
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47555/digging
“From Blossoms” – Li-Young Lee
https://poets.org/poem/blossoms-0
