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


Selection Choices.............. 10 Nonfiction and Informational Texts............. 12



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


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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

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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


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


Robert Frost

Dust of Snow

know ?


Helen Keller

Water

Matsuo Bashò

Haiku

Cynthia Rylant

Stray

Russell Baker

Hard as Nails

Lillian Morrison

The Sidewalk Racer

Laurence Yep

The Homecoming


Anonymous

Limerick

Gary Soto

The Drive-In Movies


Muso Soseki

Haiku

Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack, Jr.

The Shutout

Dorthi Charles

Concrete Cat

Anonymous

Limerick

Julia Alvarez


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


Naomi Shihab Nye

Alphabet

James Herriot


Julius Lester

Why Monkeys Live in Trees

Susan E. Quinlan


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


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?


Unit 4: Poetry

Unit 5: Types of Drama

THE BIG QUESTION

THE BIG QUESTION


Do we need words to communicate Gary Soto

Joyce Hansen

The Tail

John Gardner

Dragon, Dragon


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

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Nikki Giovanni

THE BIG QUESTION

How do we decide what is Jane Yolen


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

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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


Science Connection

Living Layers

Gary Soto

The Drive-In Movies

Literature Connection

Twain Makes His Mark

James Herriot


Science Connection

Spin Cycle (illustrated)


Safety Connection

Pet Precautions


Traditional Dragon Stories

Susy Clemens

My Papa, Mark Twain


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


History Connection

Cossacks



Culture Connection

Journalism

Zlata Filipovic

What Is Nonfiction?

History Connection

Making History (illustrated)


Science Connection

Leaving the Nest (illustrated)

Water

Biography Connection

The Man Langston Terrace Honors

Hard as Nails

Culture Connection

Turnpike Tollbooth


Science Connection

Measuring Time (illustrated)

Culture Connection

Plumb Line

History Connection

Trail Riders (illustrated)

What Is Folk Literature?

Rudyard Kipling

Chinua Achebe

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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


application

Forsyth County Public Library Card Application

Patricia C. McKissack and The Shutout Fredrick McKissack, Jr.


Allusions

online article

NASA Finally Goes Metric

Julia Alvarez


Culture Connection

Athene

persuative text

Metric Metric: It’s so nice, we’ll say it twice!™

Russell Freedman

A Backwoods Boy


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


Joseph Bruchac

What Is Drama?

Julius Lester


Helen Keller Russell Baker

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Unit 6: Types of Folk Literature


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




Drive-In Movies


Science Connection

Living Layers

Gary Soto

The Drive-In Movies


Twain Makes His Mark

James Herriot


Science Connection

Spin Cycle (illustrated)


Safety Connection

Pet Precautions


Traditional Dragon Stories

Susy Clemens

My Papa, Mark Twain


Home on the Range

Race to the End of the Earth

Mark Twain

Stagefright


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


History Connection

Cossacks



Culture Connection

Journalism

Zlata Filipovic

What Is Nonfiction?

History Connection

Making History (illustrated)


Science Connection

Leaving the Nest (illustrated)

Water

Biography Connection

The Man Langston Terrace Honors

Hard as Nails

Culture Connection

Turnpike Tollbooth


Science Connection

Measuring Time (illustrated)

Culture Connection

Plumb Line

History Connection

Trail Riders (illustrated)


Rudyard Kipling

Chinua Achebe

4

communities shape us?


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


application

Forsyth County Public Library Card Application

Patricia C. McKissack and The Shutout Fredrick McKissack, Jr.


Allusions

online article

NASA Finally Goes Metric

Julia Alvarez


Culture Connection

Athene

persuative text

Metric Metric: It’s so nice, we’ll say it twice!™

Russell Freedman

A Backwoods Boy


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


Joseph Bruchac

What Is Drama?

Julius Lester


Helen Keller Russell Baker

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Selection Choices Unit 1: Fiction and Nonfiction


THE BIG QUESTION

truth ?


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


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

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THE BIG QUESTION

truth ?


Richard Peck

What should we Richard Mühlberger

The Three Century Woman


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


Jean Fritz

mk


Annie Dillard



Lucille Clifton

The Luckiest Time of All

Chief Dan George


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


Edgar Allan Poe

Annabel Lee

Jane Yolen

Suzy and Leah

Russell Baker

No Gumption

Raymond R. Patterson

Martin Luther King

Julia Alvarez


Barbara Jordan

All Together Now

Emily Dickinson

I’m Nobody

Frank McCourt


Louis L’Amour


Lewis Carroll

Father William

James Thurber


Geoffrey C. Ward


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


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


El desierto es mi madre


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


The Courage That My Mother Had

Langston Hughes

Mother to Son


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



Unit 6: Themes in the Oral Tradition


THE BIG QUESTION

East Asia

Richard Peck



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


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


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)


Techniques Rembrandt Used (illustrated)

Science Connection

Weighted Down

Language Connection

Scientific Words From Greek Origins


Union Workhouse

Media Connection

The Many Faces of Scrooge (illustrated)

Media Connection

Onscreen Aliens (illustrated)


Gods and Goddesses (illustrated)


Tenochtitlan


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


Atlas

Community or individual—which is more important? Jon Scieszka


How the Snake Got Poison

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY

Indian Grey Mongoose

Julia Alvarez


GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION

Walking for Exercise & Pleasure

Frank McCourt


WEB SITE

Safe Routes to School

James Thurber


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




Chief Dan George


Judith Ortiz Cofer

Volar: To Fly

Barbara Eaglesham


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


Aesop

The Fox and the Crow

RADIO INTERVIEW

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

Geoffrey C. Ward


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


EDITORIAL

Kid Territory: Why Do We Need Zoos?

9





THE BIG QUESTION

East Asia

Richard Peck



Tragedy Strikes

PUBLIC DOCUMENT

Discovering a Paper Son

Michael Morrison

The Fall of the Hindenburg

Science Connection


APPLICATION

Flat Rock Playhouse

Jean Fritz

mk

Do parrots like Rocky understand language?

Grasshopper Logic

CONTRACT

Crystal Springs Uplands School Theatre

Annie Dillard


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


The Pueblo (illustrated)

Science Connection

Cobra Fact and Fiction

Language Connection

New English Words


A Star is Born

Language Connection

Spanish Terms


Dancing en Pointe (illustrated)


Techniques Rembrandt Used (illustrated)

Science Connection

Weighted Down

Language Connection

Scientific Words From Greek Origins


Union Workhouse

Media Connection

The Many Faces of Scrooge (illustrated)

Media Connection

Onscreen Aliens (illustrated)


Gods and Goddesses (illustrated)


Tenochtitlan


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


Sun and Moon in a Box

Zora Neale Hurston


Atlas

Community or individual—which is more important? Jon Scieszka


How the Snake Got Poison

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY

Indian Grey Mongoose

Julia Alvarez


GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION

Walking for Exercise & Pleasure

Frank McCourt


WEB SITE

Safe Routes to School

James Thurber


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


How to Download Ringtones for a Cell Phone

PRODUCT WARRANTY

Limited Warranty for Telephones

What Makes a Rembrandt a Rembrandt Robert Zimmerman




Chief Dan George


Judith Ortiz Cofer

Volar: To Fly

Barbara Eaglesham


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


Aesop

The Fox and the Crow

RADIO INTERVIEW

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

Geoffrey C. Ward


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


EDITORIAL

Kid Territory: Why Do We Need Zoos?

9


Is


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


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


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


Paul Revere’s Ride

Maya Angelou Anaïs Nin

Forest Fire


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


Judith Ortiz Cofer

Pablo Neruda

THE BIG QUESTION

truth the same for everyone?

Can all


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


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


Is




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


Jesse Stuart

Old Ben

Lensey Namioka

Fox Hunt

Annie Dillard



The Adventure of the Speckled Band

John Steinbeck



The American Dream


The Finish of Patsy Barnes

Ray Bradbury

The Drummer Boy of Shiloh


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


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


Emily Lazarus

The New Colossus



Paul Revere’s Ride

Maya Angelou Anaïs Nin

Forest Fire


Harriet Beecher Stowe

Diane Ackerman


John Updike

January

Mary C. Curtis


N. Scott Momaday

New World

Robert MacNeil

The Trouble With Television

Alice Walker

For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties

Susan B. Anthony


E. E. Cummings

your little voice/ Over the wires came leaping

How much

information is enough?

Andrew Mishkin

Lionel G. Garcia


Judith Ortiz Cofer

Pablo Neruda

THE BIG QUESTION

truth the same for everyone?

Can all


Ann Petry

Colin Powell


Isaac Asimov


Wendy Rose

Drum Song


Amy Ling

Grandma Ling

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken


Walt Whitman

O Captain! My Captain!

Russell Freedman Walter Dean Myers

Unit 4: Poetry


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.)


Shirley Jackson

Charles


Ring Out, Wild Bells


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


Saki (H.H. Munro)

The Story-Teller

Langston Hughes

Harlem Night Song

Miep Gies


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



Unit 6: Themes in American Stories


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





Making Tracks (illustrated)

from The Baker Heater League Nonfiction

Language Connection

Why Use an Allusion?

Mark Twain


History Connection

Managing the Mississippi

Jesse Stuart

Old Ben

Science Connection

DNA Fingerprinting (illustrated)



A Bloody Battle Gateways to a New World (illustrated)


Water Names

Richard and Joyce Wolkomir


Coyote Steals the Sun and Moon

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE

Electric Circuits and Power

James D. Hart, Editor Why the Waves Have Whitecaps

John Steinbeck


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


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



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


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


Science Connection

Lord of the Rings

Debts

LETTER

On the Situation in Vietnam

Maya Angelou


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


History Connection

SPEECH

Air Raids

Joseph Bruchac

Ellis Island

Thumbprint Cookies

Mary C. Curtis


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


Taking the Beaches, Ending the War (illustrated)


Using Your Answering Machine


The Long River (illustrated)

Poetry (La Poesía)

Colin Powell


Pablo Neruda

CONSUMER DOCUMENT

Limited Warranty for Answering Machine


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


Machine Age

Words to Sit in, Like Chairs

Russell Freedman


Naomi Shihab Nye

History Connection

Allusions


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


Miep Gies


Lan Samantha Chang

What is Storytelling?

Alice Walker


Pat Mora


Naomi Shihab Nye


13



Unit 6: Themes in American Stories


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





Making Tracks (illustrated)

from The Baker Heater League Nonfiction

Language Connection

Why Use an Allusion?

Mark Twain


History Connection

Managing the Mississippi

Jesse Stuart

Old Ben

Science Connection

DNA Fingerprinting (illustrated)



A Bloody Battle Gateways to a New World (illustrated)


Water Names

Richard and Joyce Wolkomir


Coyote Steals the Sun and Moon

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE

Electric Circuits and Power

James D. Hart, Editor Why the Waves Have Whitecaps

John Steinbeck


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


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



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


Inspired by Words (illustrated)

TEXTBOOK


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


Science Connection

Lord of the Rings

Debts

LETTER

On the Situation in Vietnam

Maya Angelou


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


History Connection

SPEECH

Air Raids

Joseph Bruchac

Ellis Island

Thumbprint Cookies

Mary C. Curtis



Safe Havens

RECIPE

Alice Walker


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


Taking the Beaches, Ending the War (illustrated)


Using Your Answering Machine


The Long River (illustrated)

Poetry (La Poesía)

Colin Powell


Pablo Neruda

CONSUMER DOCUMENT

Limited Warranty for Answering Machine


Kachinas


Isaac Asimov

Culture Connection

Pat Mora

PUBLIC DOCUMENT

U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division: Basic Information


Machine Age


Russell Freedman


Naomi Shihab Nye

History Connection

Allusions


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


Miep Gies


Lan Samantha Chang

What is Storytelling?

Alice Walker


Pat Mora


Naomi Shihab Nye


13


Can truth

grade 9


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


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


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


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


The Eagle

May Swenson

Analysis of Baseball


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


Can truth

grade 9


Yusef Komunkayaa

Slam, Dunk & Hook

Rebecca Walker

What Is Nonfiction?

Lewis Carroll

Jabberwocky


Mary Tall Mountain

There Is No Word for Goodbye

understanding ?

Desiderata

Rudolfo A. Anaya


Naomi Shihab Nye

Daily


The Washwoman

Lorraine Hansberry

On Summer

David T. Hilbun

Hope

Maya Angelou

New Directions

Sally Ride




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


William Stafford

Fifteen

Cynthia Rylant

Checkouts

John McPhee


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


Pete Hamill


Richard Wilbur

The Writer

Julia Alvarez

My English


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


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


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


The Eagle

May Swenson

Analysis of Baseball


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



Unit 6: Themes in Literature: Heroism


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


SIGNS AND INSTRUCTIONS

Beach Safety Guide


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


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




Poe and the Gothic Tradition

Desiderata


Country Profile: Ghana (illustrated)


The Washwoman


The Dominican Republic

Lady Bird Johnson



The Royal Air Force

Julia Alvarez

My English

Humanities Connection

Magical Realists

Rachel Carson

from Silent Spring

Science Connection

International Space Station

Wayson Choy


History Connection

World War I Trenches (illustrated)

Rebecca Walker

What Is Nonfiction?

Culture Connection

Watch Fob Chain


Culture Connection

Hinduism

Rudolfo A. Anaya


Cultural Connection

Endgame

Lorraine Hansberry

On Summer

Science Connection

Hawks: Tales and Truths (illustrated)

Sally Ride


Cultural Connection

Limburger Cheese

Neil Postman

The News

Science Connection

Scarlet Ibis

Carl Sandburg


Cultural Connection

Anaya’s Best-Known Work

John McPhee


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



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



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



The Nightingale and the Lark

Culture Connection

Rosemary

History Connection

Plague Searchers

Science Connection

Almanacs

Media Connection

Recipe for a Monster (illustrated)


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


World Trade Center Dodgers Celebrate Jackie Robinson Day Emily Dickinson Poetfans: Sharyn Moore and Her Students

Dean Smith

17



Unit 6: Themes in Literature: Heroism


THE BIG QUESTION

RECIPE

The Book Lovers Cookbook, New Road Chicken Pies

Elizabeth McCracken


HOW-TO ARTICLE

Incubating Eggs in Small Quantities

The Carolina Way

TRAIN SCHEDULE

Pascack Valley Line Train Schedule


BROCHURE

Georgia Railway Museum


SIGNS AND INSTRUCTIONS

Beach Safety Guide


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


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




Poe and the Gothic Tradition

Desiderata


Country Profile: Ghana (illustrated)


The Washwoman


The Dominican Republic

Lady Bird Johnson



The Royal Air Force

Julia Alvarez

My English


Magical Realists

Rachel Carson

from Silent Spring

Science Connection

International Space Station

Wayson Choy


History Connection

World War I Trenches (illustrated)

Rebecca Walker

What Is Nonfiction?

Culture Connection

Watch Fob Chain


Culture Connection

Hinduism

Rudolfo A. Anaya


Cultural Connection

Endgame

Lorraine Hansberry

On Summer

Science Connection

Hawks: Tales and Truths (illustrated)

Sally Ride


Cultural Connection

Limburger Cheese

Neil Postman

The News

Science Connection

Scarlet Ibis

Carl Sandburg


Cultural Connection

Anaya’s Best-Known Work

John McPhee


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



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



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



The Nightingale and the Lark

Culture Connection

Rosemary

History Connection

Plague Searchers

Science Connection

Almanacs

Media Connection

Recipe for a Monster (illustrated)


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


World Trade Center Dodgers Celebrate Jackie Robinson Day Emily Dickinson Poetfans: Sharyn Moore and Her Students

Dean Smith

17



THE BIG QUESTION

Susan Vreeland

reality and truth?


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


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


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 ?


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


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…


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



THE BIG QUESTION

Susan Vreeland

reality and truth?


What kind of

grade 10

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 18

Erik Weihenmayer

What Is Nonfiction?

Gabriela Mistral

Fear


Priest Jakuren

One cannot ask loneliness...

Artful Research



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


Lynne Cox


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


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


The Kraken

Jean Toomer

Reapers

Billy Joel


Bei Dao

All

Shu Ting

Also All

Langston Hughes


Sandra Cisneros

Tepeyac

James Thurber


Jack Finney

Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket

Elie Wiesel

Keep Memory Alive

Anita Desai

Games at Twilight


from Nobel Lecture

Rachel Carson

The Marginal World

Theodore H. White

The American Idea

Richard Mühlberger


Yoshiko Uchida

from Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family

N. Scott Momaday



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 ?


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


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


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


Minamoto no Toshiyori

The clustering clouds…

Ki Tsurayuki

When I went to visit…


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





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


Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation

PRIMARY SOURCE

Interactive Dig

Maya Angelou

Occupation: Conductorette

TECHNICAL ARTICLE

Tides

Langston Hughes


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


Two Friends

Susan Vreeland


Literature in Context—Reading in the Content Areas History Connection

Encyclopedias and the Enlightenment (illustrated)


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)


Nigerian Civil War

Architecture Connection

Architectural Connection

Science Connection

Studying Animal Behavior

Science Connection

Longitude and Latitude

Cultural Connection

Mexican American Pride (illustrated)


Repression in the Soviet Union (illustrated)

Artful Research

NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL

The New York Times, November 10, 1999


PRIMARY SOURCE NARRATIVE

Voices from the Wall

C. J. Cherryh



Compass Instructions and Warranty

Pat Mora


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



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


Elie Wiesel

Keep Memory Alive


Nobel Lecture


Greek Chorus (illustrated)

Theodore H. White

The American Idea

Culture Connection

Ancient Greek Funeral Rites

Richard Mühlberger


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


History Connection

The Roman Senate (illustrated)

Cornelius Eady

What Is Poetry?

History Connection

The Roman Forum (illustrated)

Umberto Eco



Stoicism

Billy Joel


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


David Henry Hwang

What Is Drama?

John Phillip Santos


John Phillip Santos

from Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation

21





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


WEB SITE

Egyptology Resources

Lynne Cox


Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation

PRIMARY SOURCE

Interactive Dig

Maya Angelou

Occupation: Conductorette

TECHNICAL ARTICLE

Tides

Langston Hughes


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


Two Friends

Susan Vreeland


Literature in Context—Reading in the Content Areas History Connection

Encyclopedias and the Enlightenment (illustrated)


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)


Nigerian Civil War

Architecture Connection

Architectural Connection

Science Connection

Studying Animal Behavior

Science Connection

Longitude and Latitude

Cultural Connection

Mexican American Pride (illustrated)


Repression in the Soviet Union (illustrated)

Artful Research

NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL

The New York Times, November 10, 1999


PRIMARY SOURCE NARRATIVE

Voices from the Wall

C. J. Cherryh



Compass Instructions and Warranty

Pat Mora


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



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


Elie Wiesel

Keep Memory Alive


Nobel Lecture


Greek Chorus (illustrated)

Theodore H. White

The American Idea

Culture Connection

Ancient Greek Funeral Rites

Richard Mühlberger


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


History Connection

The Roman Senate (illustrated)

Cornelius Eady

What Is Poetry?

History Connection

The Roman Forum (illustrated)

Umberto Eco



Stoicism

Billy Joel


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


David Henry Hwang

What Is Drama?

John Phillip Santos


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?


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


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


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


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


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


22

Unit 1: A Gathering of Voices Susan Power


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


from The Song of Hiawatha

Stephen Crane

An Episode of War

The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

Frederick Douglass


William Cullen Bryant

Thanatopsis

Traditional

Go Down, Moses

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Old Ironsides

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Minister’s Black Veil

Abraham Lincoln


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


Charles Johnson

On Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mark Twain


Ralph Waldo Emerson

from Nature

How to Tell a Story

from Self-Reliance

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country

Dekanawidah


Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca




William Bradford


Steve Squyres


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


The Soul selects her own Society

Benjamin Franklin


The Brain—is wider than the Sky

Thomas Jefferson


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


Walt Whitman

William L. Andrews

Benjamin Franklin: America’s Everyman


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


Olaudah Equiano


A Noiseless Patient Spider

Concord Hymn Gretel Ehrlich

Introduces Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau


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


Kate Chopin

The Story of an Hour


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

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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


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


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

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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


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


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


Ernest Hemingway

In Another Country

John F. Kennedy

Inaugural Address

Amy Tan

Mother Tongue

Tim O’Brien

Introduces Ambush



Rita Dove


Ambush

Arthur Miller

On The Crucible



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


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

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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


Historical and Literary Background


Rita Dove


Richard Lederer

Our Native American Heritage

Patrick Henry



Susan Power

Benjamin Franklin


Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca


Thomas Jefferson




Richard Lederer

The Truth About O.K.

Thomas Paine

from The American Crisis, Number 1

William Bradford


Gretel Ehrlich

Inspired by Nature

Abraham Lincoln


Meriwether Lewis


Richard Lederer

Mark Twain and the American Language

Chief Joseph


John Hersey

from Hiroshima

Nell Irvin Painter

Defining an Era

William Faulkner

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Benjamin Franklin


Richard Lederer

Sliding with Slang

John F. Kennedy

Inaugural Address

Sandra Cisneros

Tim O’Brien

Literature as a Magic Carpet

Steve Squyres


Straw Into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday

Arthur Miller

From Quiet Pride to Activism

John Adams


Olaudah Equiano

Richard Lederer

Brave New Words

Abigail Adams

Letter to Her Daughter From the New White House


Julia Alvarez

All-American Writer

Frederick Douglass


Mary Chesnut


Bill Bryson

Warren Lee Goss


from The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid

Randolph McKim


Mark Twain


Zora Neale Hurston


Robert E. Lee

Letter to His Son



Sojourner Truth



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


Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother

Woody Guthrie

Dust Bowl Blues

Miriam Davis Colt

Heading West

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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


Mel Gussow

A Rock of the Modern Age, Arthur Miller is Everywhere

Ezra Pound

A Few Don’ts

James Thurber


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


POLICY STATEMENT

Web Accessibility Policy

Amy Tan

Mother Tongue

N. Scott Momaday

from The Names

Junk Rally Dr. Seuss


from Self-Reliance Henry David Thoreau


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John Adams


Abigail Adams

Letter to her Daughter from the New White House


Floor Plan of the President’s House

Thomas Jefferson

Commission of Meriwether Lewis

Meriwether Lewis


CONSUMER GUIDE

Water on Tap

REPORT

South Florida Environmental Report

Mary Chesnut


Warren Lee Goss


Randolph McKim



Historical and Literary Background


Rita Dove


Richard Lederer

Our Native American Heritage

Patrick Henry



Susan Power

Benjamin Franklin


Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca


Thomas Jefferson




Richard Lederer

The Truth About O.K.

Thomas Paine

from The American Crisis, Number 1

William Bradford


Gretel Ehrlich

Inspired by Nature

Abraham Lincoln


Meriwether Lewis


Richard Lederer

Mark Twain and the American Language

Chief Joseph


John Hersey

from Hiroshima

Nell Irvin Painter

Defining an Era

William Faulkner

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

Benjamin Franklin


Richard Lederer

Sliding with Slang

John F. Kennedy

Inaugural Address

Sandra Cisneros

Tim O’Brien

Literature as a Magic Carpet

Steve Squyres


Straw Into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday

Arthur Miller

From Quiet Pride to Activism

John Adams


Olaudah Equiano

Richard Lederer

Brave New Words

Abigail Adams

Letter to Her Daughter From the New White House


Julia Alvarez

All-American Writer

Frederick Douglass


Mary Chesnut


Bill Bryson

Warren Lee Goss


from The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid

Randolph McKim


Mark Twain


Zora Neale Hurston


Robert E. Lee

Letter to His Son



Sojourner Truth



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


Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother

Woody Guthrie

Dust Bowl Blues

Miriam Davis Colt

Heading West

ON LINE CITATION ORGANIZER

Citation Machine



ONLINE ARTICLE

Atlanta Braves

Susan Power

Museum Indians

POSTER

Junk Rally

Ralph Waldo Emerson

from Nature

Dr. Seuss


EDITORIAL

Backing the Attack

Brooks Atkinson

The Crucible

Kenneth Turan

Hysteria Resides at the Heart of a Frantic Crucible

Walt Whitman


Mel Gussow

A Rock of the Modern Age, Arthur Miller is Everywhere

Ezra Pound

A Few Don’ts

James Thurber


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


POLICY STATEMENT

Web Accessibility Policy

Amy Tan

Mother Tongue

N. Scott Momaday

from The Names

Junk Rally Dr. Seuss


from Self-Reliance Henry David Thoreau


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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?


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


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

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What is the relationship between place and literature?

Unit 2: Celebrating Humanity Frank Kermode


Richard Rodriguez


Edmund Spenser

Sonnet 1

John Donne

Song

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


Unit 1: From Legend to History Burton Raffel



The Seafarer

Charles W. Kennedy, Translator

The Wanderer

Ann Stanford, Translator

The Wife’s Lament

Burton Raffel

Introduces Beowulf


from Beowulf

Seamus Heaney

On Beowulf

Gareth Hinds

from Beowulf

Bede


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


James Boswell


Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Anne Finch

A Nocturnal Reverie

Joseph Addison


Richard Rodriguez


from The Rape of the Lock

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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


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


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

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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


Robert Burns

To a Mouse


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



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


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


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


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


V. S. Naipaul

B. Wordsworth



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

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Unit 6: A Time of Rapid Change

Gerald Manley Hopkins

A. E. Housman

from Omeros

31

Nonfiction and Informational Texts Reading Informational Materials


ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE English Literature

Bede


Richard Lederer

The Beginnings of English

Burton Raffel


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



EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT

Examination of Don Luis de Córdoba

Selected Entries


Richard Lederer

No Harmless Drudge, He

FEATURE ARTICLE

Eric Joffee/Recasting Shakespeare’s Stage

Lord John Russell

Speech in Favor of Reform

Richard Rodriguez


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




Riverbend

Iraqi War Blog

Jonathan Swift

A Modest Proposal

Joseph Addison


Richard Rodriguez




Jane Austen


Sydney Smith

Progress in Personal Comfort

Virginia Woolf


Winston Churchill

Wartime Speech

Arthur C. Clarke


Nick Hornby

from Songbook

James Boswell


George Orwell


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


Sir Robert Peel



On the Passing of the Reform Bill

WEB SITE

Charles Dickens Museum

BROCHURE

Andalusia: Home of Flannery O’Connor

Sydney Smith


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


ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE English Literature

Bede


Richard Lederer

The Beginnings of English

Burton Raffel


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



EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT

Examination of Don Luis de Córdoba

Selected Entries


Richard Lederer

No Harmless Drudge, He

FEATURE ARTICLE

Eric Joffee/Recasting Shakespeare’s Stage

Lord John Russell


Richard Rodriguez


THEATER REVIEW

The Scottish Play, Told with Sound and Fury and Puppets

Sir Robert Peel


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


On The Passing Of The Reform Bill

Richard Lederer

Britspeak, A to ZED

Anita Desai




Riverbend

Iraqi War Blog

Jonathan Swift

A Modest Proposal

Joseph Addison


Richard Rodriguez




Jane Austen


Sydney Smith


Virginia Woolf


Winston Churchill

Wartime Speech

Arthur C. Clarke


Nick Hornby

from Songbook

James Boswell


George Orwell


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


Sir Robert Peel



On the Passing of the Reform Bill

WEB SITE

Charles Dickens Museum

BROCHURE

Andalusia: Home of Flannery O’Connor

Sydney Smith


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

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