English Language Arts List of Text Sets 2014-20152014-2015 To prepare for 2014- 2015 English...
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English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
To prepare for 2014-2015 English language arts curriculum the Department will publish a set of ELA Guidebooks These guidebooks will include 4-6 unit plans for every grade level from kindergarten through 12th grade While these guidebooks will be released throughout the spring the Department is publishing the complete list of texts included in the guidebooks This list should help districts begin planning and purchasing decisions for the 2014-15 school year
As always districts are free to choose any instructional materials they deem appropriate for their students If districts choose to use the Departments unit plans district leaders school leaders and teachers will need to choose which of the units will be taught in their schools On average teachers will teach 4 units during the year The Department will publish up to 6 units per grade level As such the decisions whether to use a unit are left entirely to local school authorities How to Use this List
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
21 The Best Place Susan Meddaugh
Literary Student copy
21 My House is Singing ldquoOne Giant Hugrdquo and ldquoMy House is Singingrdquo
Betsy Rosenthal Literary (Poem) Student copy
21 ldquoYour Worldrdquo Georgia Douglas Johnson Literary (Poem) Read aloud
21 My House Has Stars Megan McDonald Literary Groups
21 Children From Australia to Zimbabwe A Photographic Journey around the World
ldquoVietnamrdquo and ldquoYemenrdquo ldquoBrazilrdquo ldquoJapanrdquo ldquoPhilippinesrdquo and ldquoUnited Statesrdquo
Maya Ajmera and Anna Rhesa Versola Informational Groups
21 The Treasure Uri Shulevitz Literary Assessment
Column 1 GradeSet The grade level and unit for a particular text set (eg 21 means second grade first unit for labeled texts)
Column 2 Text Title Texts available electronically are linked (blueunderline)
Column 3 ExcerptSection If a text is not used in its entirety this column identifies the excerpt or section that is included in the unit plan
Column 4 AuthorSource
Column 5 Anchor symbol Indicates the text is the main or anchor text of the unit and thus a higher priority for purchasing
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Column 6 Type Indicates the type of text Informational (Nonfiction) Literary (Fiction) Nonprint (Video art multimediawebsite wordless picture book etc)
Column 7 Use in Set Indicates a suggested use and number of texts to purchase bull Read aloud One per teacher per grade bull Student Copy Grades K-1 classroom set or one per teacher per grade in ldquobig bookrdquo format or for projecting grades 2+ classroom set bull Groups About 5 copies per classroom bull Assessment 1 copy per student
Column 8 Access symbol provides a link to an electronic version of the text Basal or Anthology indicates the text is commonly included in purchased textbook materials
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
KINDERGARTEN Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
K1 Chrysanthemum Kevin Henkes
Literary Read aloud
K1 We Are All Alike We Are All Different Cheltenham Elementary School Kindergarteners Informational Read aloud
K1 Wersquore Different Wersquore the Same Bobbie Jane Kates Informational Read aloud K1 A Porcupine Named Fluffy Helen Lester Literary Read aloud K1 The Name Jar Yangsook Choi Literary Read aloud
K1 ldquoMy Teacher Calls Me Sweetie Cakesrdquo Kenn Nesbitt Literary (Poem) Read aloud
K1 ldquoIsnrsquot My Name Magicalrdquo James Berry Literary (Poem) Read aloud
K1 ldquoMe I Amrdquo Jack Prelutsky Literary (Poem) Read aloud K1 Andy (Thatrsquos My Name) Tomie dePaola Literary Read aloud
K2 Mama Panyarsquos Pancakes Mary and Rich Chamberlain
Literary Read aloud
K2 Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Peoplersquos Ears A West African Tale Verna Aardema Literary Read aloud
K2 HoneyhellipHoneyhellipLion Jan Brett Literary Read aloud K2 Here is the African Savanna Madeleine Dunphy Informational Read aloud K2 The Greedy Python Richard Buckley Literary Read aloud K2 The Selfish Crocodile Faustin Charles Literary Read aloud
K2 The Lion and the Mouse Jerry Pinkney Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Student Copy
K3 Thanksgiving Ishellip Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
K3 Me on the Map Joan Sweeney Informational Groups
K3 ldquoThe Spice Seekersrdquo Pages 9-21 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
K3 ldquoFerdinand and Isabellardquo Pages 22-31 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
K3 The Very First Americans Cara Ashrose Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquo1492rdquo Pages 32-45 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquoNot the Indiesrdquo Pages 46-57 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquoFurther Adventures of Christopher Columbusrdquo Pages 58-69 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquoColonies in Native American Landsrdquo Pages 74-83 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquoThe Voyage of the Mayflowerrdquo Pages 84-93 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
K3 hellipIf You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 Excerpts Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquoThe Wampanoagrdquo Pages 94-102 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 Squantorsquos Journey The Story of the First Thanksgiving Joseph Bruchac Literary Read aloud
K3 ldquoThanksgivingrdquo Pages 103-111 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 Franklinrsquos Thanksgiving Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark Literary Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
K4 The Year at Maple Hill Farm Alice and Martin Provensen Informational Read aloud
K4 The Mitten Jan Brett Literary Read aloud
K4 ldquoSomething Told the Wild Geeserdquo Rachel Field Literary Read aloud
K4 ldquoChange is in the Airrdquo Pages 11-15 National Geographic Young Explorer March 2012 Informational Student copy
K4 What Do Animals Do in the Winter How Animals Survive the Cold
Melvin Berger Gilda Berger and Susan Harrison Informational Read aloud
K4 Animals in Winter Henrietta Bancroft Informational AssessmentRead aloud
K4 ldquoFour Seasonsrdquo PBS Kids Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
K4 ldquoThe Seasons of Farmingrdquo Pages 82-91 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 5 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
K5 From Seed to Plant Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
K5 The Tiny Seed Eric Carle Literary Read aloud
K5 One Bean Anne Rockwell Informational AssessmentRead aloud
K5 A Seed is Sleepy Dianna Hutts Aston Informational Read aloud
K5 ldquoPlant Partsrdquo Pages 19-30 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read Aloud
K5 ldquoPolly the Honeybeersquos Flower Tourrdquo Pages 56-64 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read Aloud
K5 ldquoJohnny Appleseedrdquo Pages 75-82 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read Aloud
K5 Leaf Stephen Michael King Nonprint (wordless Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
picture book) K5 The Carrot Seed Ruth Krauss Literary Read aloud K5 The Gigantic Sweet Potato Dianne De Las Casas Literary Read aloud
K5 ldquoPlants and Peoplerdquo Pages 100-108 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read Aloud
K5 Compost Stew Mary McKenna Siddals Informational Read aloud
K6 A is for America Devin Scillian
Informational Read aloud
K6 The Scrambled States of America Laurie Keller Literary Read aloud K6 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud K6 America Ishellip Louise Borden Literary Read aloud
K6 ldquoThe Home of the President Washington DCrdquo
Pages 10-21 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoA Dishonest Story About an Honest Manrdquo Pages 22-31 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrdquo Pages 55-65 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoAbraham Lincolnrdquo Pages 70-84 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoTeddy Rooseveltrdquo Pages 85-96 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoCarving Mount Rushmorerdquo Pages 107-117 of the Read-Aloud
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
K7 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Judi Barrett
Literary Read aloud
K7 ldquoThe Weather Outsiderdquo Pages 18-23 National Geographic Young Explorer September 2011 Informational Read aloud
K7 Weather Words Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud K7 The Wind Blew Pat Hitchens Literary Read aloud
K7 ldquoThe Windrdquo James Reeves Literary Read aloud
K7 The Cloud Book Tomie dePaolo Informational Read aloud
K7 ldquoApril Rain Songrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Read aloud
K7 Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Verna Aardema Literary Read aloud K7 The Rain Came Down David Shannon Literary Read aloud K7 Franklin and the Thunderstorm Paulette Bourgeois Literary Read aloud K7 Weather Forecasting Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIRST GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
11 Mooncake Frank Asch
Literary Read aloud
11 Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown Literary Student copy 11 The Moon Carmen Bredeson Informational Read aloud
11 The Moon ldquoVisiting the Moonrdquo Allison Lassieur Informational Read aloud
11 The Moon Book Pages 1-4 7 and 21-25 Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
11 Kittenrsquos First Full Moon
Kevin Henkes (Read aloud video available at httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=yToGxm5aQBs)
Literary Student copy
11 Moondance Frank Asch Literary Read aloud 11 Bear Shadow Frank Asch Literary Read aloud 11 Me and My Shadow Pages 1-19 Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud
11 ldquoMoon Picturesrdquo Curiosity on Discoverycom Nonprint (Photographs) Read aloud
11 Papa Please Get the Moon for Me Eric Carle Literary Assessment Read aloud
12 Frogs Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
12 ldquoFrog Facts Frogs vs Toadsrdquo KidZone Informational Read aloud
12 Frog and Toad are Friends Arnold Lobel Literary Read aloud 12 Frog and Toad All Year Arnold Lobel Literary Read aloud 12 The Mysterious Tadpole Stephen Kellogg Literary Read aloud
12 Tuesday David Wiesner Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
12 Something Froggy WiredSchool (The Franklin Institute) Nonprint (Website) Groups
12 ldquoThe Life Cycle of a Frogrdquo Pages 90-100 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
12 Texts from A Boy A Dog and A Frog (series) (eg One Frog Too Many Frog Goes to Dinner or Frog on His Own)
Mercer Mayer (Video available at DiscoveryEducationcom)
Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Read aloud
13 Rumpelstiltskin Pages 25-39 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 A Handful of Beans Six Fairy Tales Retold by Jeanne Steig Literary Read aloud 13 Seven Blind Mice Ed Young Literary Student copy
13 Sleeping Beauty Pages 11-24 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 The Frog-Prince Pages 54-79 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Rapunzel Pages 40-53 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Hansel and Gretel Pages 87-111 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Jack and the Beanstalk Pages 112-134 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 The Emperorrsquos New Clothes Hans Christian Andersen Literary Read aloud
14 Spiders Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
14 How Spider Tricked Snake Mirna Benitez Literary Groups 14 One-Hundred-and-One African-American Read- ldquoAnansi Saves Susan Kantor Literary Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Aloud Stories Anteloperdquo 14 Be Nice to Spiders Margaret Bloy Graham Literary Read aloud 14 Spiders Illa Podendorf Informational Read aloud 14 Mighty Spiders Fay Robinson Informational Read aloud 14 Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock Eric A Kimmel Literary Read aloud 14 The Very Busy Spider Eric Carle Literary Student copy 14 Diary of a Spider Doreen Cronin Literary Groups 14 Spiders Are Not Insects Allan Fowler Informational Groups
14 All Stories are Anansirsquos Pages 105-115 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 1 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
15 Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish
Literary Read aloud
15 Thank You Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Literary Groups 15 Teach Us Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Literary text Groups 15 Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day Robin Pulver Literary Read aloud 15 Punctuation Takes a Vacation Robin Pulver Literary Read aloud 15 In English Of Course Josephine Nobisso Literary Read aloud 15 A Day With a Carpenter Joanne Winne Informational Groups 15 A Day With a Doctor Jan Kottke Informational Groups 15 Hairy Scary Ordinary What is an Adjective Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud 15 A Mink a Fink a Skating Rink What is a Noun Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud 15 To Root to Toot Parachute What is a Verb Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud
16 Duck for President Doreen Cronin Literary Read aloud
16 If I Ran for President Catherine Stier Literary Read aloud 16 If I Were President Catherine Stier Literary Groups 16 Today on Election Day Catherine Stier Literary Read aloud 16 My Teacher for President Kay Winters Literary Groups
16 We Live Here Too Kids Talk About Good Citizenship
Nancy Loewen Literary Read aloud
16 If Everybody Did Jo Ann Stover Literary Student copy 16 Being a Leader (First Step Nonfiction) Robin Nelson Informational Student copy 16 Celebrating Presidentrsquos Day What Is a Kimberly Jordano and Trisha Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
President Callella-Jones 16 So You Want to be President Excerpt Judith St George Informational Read aloud
16 Why Are Elections Important (Know Your Government)
Jacqueline Laks Gorman Informational Groups
16 D is for Democracy Excerpt Elissa Grodin Informational Read aloud
16 We the Kids The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States
David Catrow Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SECOND GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
21 The Best Place Susan Meddaugh
Literary Student copy
21 My House is Singing ldquoOne Giant Hugrdquo and ldquoMy House is Singingrdquo
Betsy Rosenthal Literary (Poem) Student copy
21 ldquoYour Worldrdquo Georgia Douglas Johnson Literary (Poem) Read aloud
21 Fly Away Home Eve Bunting Literary Student copy 21 My House Has Stars Megan McDonald Literary Groups
21 Children From Australia to Zimbabwe A Photographic Journey around the World
ldquoVietnamrdquo and ldquoYemenrdquo ldquoBrazilrdquo ldquoJapanrdquo ldquoPhilippinesrdquo and ldquoUnited Statesrdquo
Maya Ajmera and Anna Rhesa Versola Informational Groups
21 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
ldquoThe Cyclonerdquo ldquoThe Council with the MunchkinsrdquoldquoHow the Balloon Was Launchedrdquo ldquoGlinda the Good Witch Grantrsquos Dorothyrsquos Wishrdquo (from the beginning until ldquoget back to Kansasrdquo in paragraph 8 and then paragraph 22 until the end) and ldquoHome Againrdquo
L Frank Baum Literary Read aloud
21 The Treasure Uri Shulevitz Literary Assessment 21 If You Lived Here Houses of the World Giles Laroche Informational Groups
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
22 Cinderella or online version Pages 10-22 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Marcia Brown or free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoThe Girl with the Red Slippersrdquo (Egyptian) Pages 23-36 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoBilly Begrdquo (Ireland) Pages 37-49 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 The Way Meat Loves Salt (Israel) Nina Jaffe Literary Groups 22 Domitila (Mexico) Jewell Reinhart Cobum Literary Groups 22 Yeh-Shen (China) Ai-Ling Louie Literary Groups 22 The Turkey Girl (American Indian) Penny Pollock Literary Groups 22 Mufarorsquos Beautiful Daughters (Africa) John Steptoe Literary Groups 22 Cendrillon (Caribbean) Robert San Souci Literary Groups
23 ldquoThirsty Planetrdquo October 2010 Pages 18-23 of the Projectable Edition
Beth Geiger (National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition)
Informational Read aloud
23 One Well The Story of Water on Earth Rochelle Strauss and Rosemary Woods Informational Read aloud
23 The Raft Jim LaMarche Literary Student copy
23 Down Comes the Rain Franklyn Branley and James Graham Hale Informational Student copy
23 A Drop of Water A Book of Science and Wonder Walter Wick Informational Read aloud
23 River Song with the Banana Slug String Band Steve Van Zandt and Katherine Zecca Literary Read aloud
23 A Drop Around the World Barbara Shaw McKinney Literary Read aloud
23 ldquoWilly the Water Droprdquo Pages 97-107 of the Read-
Free through Domain 11 of Core Knowledge Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
AloudAnthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
23 ldquoThe Water Cyclerdquo Pages 111-122 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
24 The Ox-Cart Man Donald Hall and Barbara Cooney
Literary Student copy
24 Charlottersquos Web Excerpt EB White Literary Read aloud
24 County Fair (My First Little House) Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jody Wheeler Literary Student copy
24 My Rows and Piles of Coins Tololwa Mollel Literary Read aloud Basal 24 The Paper Crane Molly Bang Literary Student copy 24 The Kamishibai Man Allan Say Literary Read aloud 24 The Stranger Chris Van Allsburg Literary Read aloud 24 The Little House Virginia Lee Burton Literary Student copy
24 Whorsquos Buying Whorsquos Selling Understanding Consumers and Producers Jennifer S Larson Informational Student copy
24 Horse-Drawn Days A Century of Farming with Horses Excerpt Jerry Apps Informational Read Aloud
24 Window Jeannine Baker Nonprint (wordless picture book) Student copy
24 ldquoFrom Farm to Marketrdquo Pages 92-101 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 5 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Student copy
25 Lives Poems About Famous Americans Lee Bennett Hopkins
Literary (Poems) Read aloud
25 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet Dennis Denenberg Informational Read aloud 25 Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary Read aloud 25 Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Literary Student copy 25 When Marian Sang Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Informational Read aloud
25 rdquoSusan B Anthony An Advocate for Womenrsquos Rightsrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Strand
25 ldquoEleanor Roosevelt A Voice for Human Rightsrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMary McLeod Bethune A Dedicated Teacherrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoJackie Robinson Champion of Equalityrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoRosa Parks The Mother of the Civil Rights Movementrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMartin Luther King Jr Defender of the Dreamrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 George Washington Carver Teacher Scientist and Inventor Lori Mortensen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture Book of Davy Crockett David Adler Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture of Book of Thomas Alva Edison David Adler Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
25 Pocahontas Shannon Zemlicka Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Teammates Peter Golenbock Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Martin Luther King Jr and the March on Washington Frances Ruffin Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Whatrsquos the Big Idea Ben Franklin Jean Fritz Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Helen Keller Courageous Advocate Scott Welvaert Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Vision of Beauty The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker Kathryn Lasky Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
THIRD GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
31 The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
Literary Student copy
31 The Bee Tree Patricia Polacco Literary Read aloud
31 ldquoA Page is a Doorrdquo Remy Charlip Informational Read aloud
31 My Librarian is a Camel How Books are Brought to Children Around the World Margriet Ruurs Informational Groups
31 The Red Book Barbara Lehman Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Literary Student copy
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
31 More Stories Julian Tells
ldquoI Learn Firefightingrdquo (ldquoI Wish for Smokey the Bearrdquo ldquoSuperboy and Merdquo and ldquoHuey Makes the Leaprdquo)
Ann Cameron Literary Assessment
32 A Logrsquos Life Wendy Pfeffer
Informational Student copy
32 Tell Me Tree All about Trees for Kids Gail Gibbons Informational Student copy
32 ldquoPrayer of the Woodsrdquo Unknown Literary (Poem) Student copy
32 ldquoWindy Treerdquo Aileen Fisher Literary Student copy
32 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein Literary Read aloud 32 The Lorax Dr Seuss Literary Student copy 32 A Tree is Growing Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud Basal 32 One Small Place in a Tree Barbara Brenner Literary Assessment Basal
33 Lapin Plays Possum Trickster Tales From the Louisiana Bayou Sharon Arms Doucet
Literary Read Aloud
33 Why Lapinrsquos Ears are Long And Other Tales Sharon Arms Doucet Literary Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
from the Louisiana Bayou
33 ldquoMrsquosu Carencro and Mangeur de Pouletrdquo JJ Reneaux Literary Groups
33 Dear Peter Rabbit Alma Flor Ada Literary Read Aloud
33 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Literary Student copy
33 Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens Literary Student copy 33 ldquoThe Giant of La Costa Villagerdquo S Noel Rideau Literary Assessment
33 Scott Foresman Social Studies Louisiana (Third Grade Textbook) Chapters 2 and 4 Scott Foresman Informational Read Aloud
Social Studies
Textbook
33 Writerrsquos Toolbox Learn How to Write Letters Fairy Tales Scary Stories Journals Poems and Reports
Nancy Loewen Informational Read Aloud
33 The Cajun Experience Historycom Nonnprint (Video) Read Aloud
33 The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Introduction ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit Brer Bear and the Peanut Patchrdquo ldquoThe Great Racerdquo ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit and the Tar Babyrdquo
Don Daily and Joel Chandler Harris Literary Student copy
34 Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson
Literary Student copy
34 The Ballad of the Pirate Queens Jane Yolen Literary Read Aloud 34 Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard Informational Groups
34 ldquoGeocaching Fact Sheetrdquo Geocachingcom Informational Read Aloud
34 Do California ldquoThe Gold Rushrdquo Splashpublicationscom Informational Read Aloud
34 ldquoThe Curse of King Tutrdquo Spencer Kayden Literary (Play) Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
34 ldquoThe Curse of the Hope Diamondrdquo The Lazy Editor Scholastic SCOPE Magazine Informational Groups
34 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Pirates Chapter 6 Pirate Treasure
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
34 The Mona Lisa Caper Rick Jacobson Literary Groups 34 The Stolen Smile J Patrick Lewis Groups
34 ldquoMissing Monardquo Scholastic Student copy
34 ldquoThe Legend of the Pharaohrsquos Curserdquo ReadWorksorg Informational Assessment
34 Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Travel Channel Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
35 The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal (What Would You Do) Elaine Landau Informational Student copy
35 The Louisiana Purchase From Independence to Lewis and Clark Michael Burgan Informational Student copy
35 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud
35 How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis and Clark Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
35 Lewis and Clark and Me A Dogrsquos Tale
Chapter 6 ldquoBuffalordquo and Chapter 7 ldquoKidnappedrdquo
Laurie Myers Literary Student copy
35 ldquoFreeman and Curtis Red River Expeditionrdquo wwwencyclopediaofarkansasnet Informational Student copy
35 ldquoGo West Across America With Lewis and Clarkrdquo National Geographic Kids Nonprint (website) Student copy
35 Mike Fink Steven Kellogg Literary Groups 35 Thunder Rose Jerdine Nolen Literary Groups 35 Swamp Angel Anne Isaacs Literary Groups
35 ldquoHome on the Rangerdquo Dr Brewster M Higley Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoThe Happy Wandererrdquo Florenz Friedrich Sigismund Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoVikings amp European Explorers Ferdinand Magellanrdquo ReadWorks Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
36 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog amp The Piglet And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Jennifer S Holland Informational Student copy
36 Amos amp Boris William Steig Literary Student copy
36 The Cricket in Time Square Pages 11-15 from Chapter 2 George Selden Literary Read aloud
36 Rosie A Visiting Dogrsquos Story Stephanie Calmenson Informational Student copy
36 ldquoLong-Leg Lou and Short Leg Suerdquo Shel Silverstein Literary Student copy
36 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Chapter 1 Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Creature Features Clown Anemonefish National Geographic Kids Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
36 My Life and Times Autobiography of a Stray Cat
Louisiana EAGLE Literary Assessment
36 Wild Wings Gill Lewis Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Paint the Wind Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Charlottersquos Web EB White Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 A Dogrsquos Way Home Bobbie Pyron Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 How to Steal a Dog Barbara OrsquoConnor Literary Groups (choice for independent
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FOURTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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2014-2015
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Column 6 Type Indicates the type of text Informational (Nonfiction) Literary (Fiction) Nonprint (Video art multimediawebsite wordless picture book etc)
Column 7 Use in Set Indicates a suggested use and number of texts to purchase bull Read aloud One per teacher per grade bull Student Copy Grades K-1 classroom set or one per teacher per grade in ldquobig bookrdquo format or for projecting grades 2+ classroom set bull Groups About 5 copies per classroom bull Assessment 1 copy per student
Column 8 Access symbol provides a link to an electronic version of the text Basal or Anthology indicates the text is commonly included in purchased textbook materials
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
KINDERGARTEN Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
K1 Chrysanthemum Kevin Henkes
Literary Read aloud
K1 We Are All Alike We Are All Different Cheltenham Elementary School Kindergarteners Informational Read aloud
K1 Wersquore Different Wersquore the Same Bobbie Jane Kates Informational Read aloud K1 A Porcupine Named Fluffy Helen Lester Literary Read aloud K1 The Name Jar Yangsook Choi Literary Read aloud
K1 ldquoMy Teacher Calls Me Sweetie Cakesrdquo Kenn Nesbitt Literary (Poem) Read aloud
K1 ldquoIsnrsquot My Name Magicalrdquo James Berry Literary (Poem) Read aloud
K1 ldquoMe I Amrdquo Jack Prelutsky Literary (Poem) Read aloud K1 Andy (Thatrsquos My Name) Tomie dePaola Literary Read aloud
K2 Mama Panyarsquos Pancakes Mary and Rich Chamberlain
Literary Read aloud
K2 Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Peoplersquos Ears A West African Tale Verna Aardema Literary Read aloud
K2 HoneyhellipHoneyhellipLion Jan Brett Literary Read aloud K2 Here is the African Savanna Madeleine Dunphy Informational Read aloud K2 The Greedy Python Richard Buckley Literary Read aloud K2 The Selfish Crocodile Faustin Charles Literary Read aloud
K2 The Lion and the Mouse Jerry Pinkney Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Student Copy
K3 Thanksgiving Ishellip Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
K3 Me on the Map Joan Sweeney Informational Groups
K3 ldquoThe Spice Seekersrdquo Pages 9-21 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
K3 ldquoFerdinand and Isabellardquo Pages 22-31 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
K3 The Very First Americans Cara Ashrose Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquo1492rdquo Pages 32-45 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquoNot the Indiesrdquo Pages 46-57 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquoFurther Adventures of Christopher Columbusrdquo Pages 58-69 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquoColonies in Native American Landsrdquo Pages 74-83 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquoThe Voyage of the Mayflowerrdquo Pages 84-93 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
K3 hellipIf You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 Excerpts Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquoThe Wampanoagrdquo Pages 94-102 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 Squantorsquos Journey The Story of the First Thanksgiving Joseph Bruchac Literary Read aloud
K3 ldquoThanksgivingrdquo Pages 103-111 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 Franklinrsquos Thanksgiving Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark Literary Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
K4 The Year at Maple Hill Farm Alice and Martin Provensen Informational Read aloud
K4 The Mitten Jan Brett Literary Read aloud
K4 ldquoSomething Told the Wild Geeserdquo Rachel Field Literary Read aloud
K4 ldquoChange is in the Airrdquo Pages 11-15 National Geographic Young Explorer March 2012 Informational Student copy
K4 What Do Animals Do in the Winter How Animals Survive the Cold
Melvin Berger Gilda Berger and Susan Harrison Informational Read aloud
K4 Animals in Winter Henrietta Bancroft Informational AssessmentRead aloud
K4 ldquoFour Seasonsrdquo PBS Kids Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
K4 ldquoThe Seasons of Farmingrdquo Pages 82-91 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 5 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
K5 From Seed to Plant Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
K5 The Tiny Seed Eric Carle Literary Read aloud
K5 One Bean Anne Rockwell Informational AssessmentRead aloud
K5 A Seed is Sleepy Dianna Hutts Aston Informational Read aloud
K5 ldquoPlant Partsrdquo Pages 19-30 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read Aloud
K5 ldquoPolly the Honeybeersquos Flower Tourrdquo Pages 56-64 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read Aloud
K5 ldquoJohnny Appleseedrdquo Pages 75-82 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read Aloud
K5 Leaf Stephen Michael King Nonprint (wordless Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
picture book) K5 The Carrot Seed Ruth Krauss Literary Read aloud K5 The Gigantic Sweet Potato Dianne De Las Casas Literary Read aloud
K5 ldquoPlants and Peoplerdquo Pages 100-108 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read Aloud
K5 Compost Stew Mary McKenna Siddals Informational Read aloud
K6 A is for America Devin Scillian
Informational Read aloud
K6 The Scrambled States of America Laurie Keller Literary Read aloud K6 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud K6 America Ishellip Louise Borden Literary Read aloud
K6 ldquoThe Home of the President Washington DCrdquo
Pages 10-21 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoA Dishonest Story About an Honest Manrdquo Pages 22-31 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrdquo Pages 55-65 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoAbraham Lincolnrdquo Pages 70-84 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoTeddy Rooseveltrdquo Pages 85-96 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoCarving Mount Rushmorerdquo Pages 107-117 of the Read-Aloud
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
K7 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Judi Barrett
Literary Read aloud
K7 ldquoThe Weather Outsiderdquo Pages 18-23 National Geographic Young Explorer September 2011 Informational Read aloud
K7 Weather Words Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud K7 The Wind Blew Pat Hitchens Literary Read aloud
K7 ldquoThe Windrdquo James Reeves Literary Read aloud
K7 The Cloud Book Tomie dePaolo Informational Read aloud
K7 ldquoApril Rain Songrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Read aloud
K7 Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Verna Aardema Literary Read aloud K7 The Rain Came Down David Shannon Literary Read aloud K7 Franklin and the Thunderstorm Paulette Bourgeois Literary Read aloud K7 Weather Forecasting Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIRST GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
11 Mooncake Frank Asch
Literary Read aloud
11 Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown Literary Student copy 11 The Moon Carmen Bredeson Informational Read aloud
11 The Moon ldquoVisiting the Moonrdquo Allison Lassieur Informational Read aloud
11 The Moon Book Pages 1-4 7 and 21-25 Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
11 Kittenrsquos First Full Moon
Kevin Henkes (Read aloud video available at httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=yToGxm5aQBs)
Literary Student copy
11 Moondance Frank Asch Literary Read aloud 11 Bear Shadow Frank Asch Literary Read aloud 11 Me and My Shadow Pages 1-19 Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud
11 ldquoMoon Picturesrdquo Curiosity on Discoverycom Nonprint (Photographs) Read aloud
11 Papa Please Get the Moon for Me Eric Carle Literary Assessment Read aloud
12 Frogs Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
12 ldquoFrog Facts Frogs vs Toadsrdquo KidZone Informational Read aloud
12 Frog and Toad are Friends Arnold Lobel Literary Read aloud 12 Frog and Toad All Year Arnold Lobel Literary Read aloud 12 The Mysterious Tadpole Stephen Kellogg Literary Read aloud
12 Tuesday David Wiesner Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
12 Something Froggy WiredSchool (The Franklin Institute) Nonprint (Website) Groups
12 ldquoThe Life Cycle of a Frogrdquo Pages 90-100 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
12 Texts from A Boy A Dog and A Frog (series) (eg One Frog Too Many Frog Goes to Dinner or Frog on His Own)
Mercer Mayer (Video available at DiscoveryEducationcom)
Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Read aloud
13 Rumpelstiltskin Pages 25-39 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 A Handful of Beans Six Fairy Tales Retold by Jeanne Steig Literary Read aloud 13 Seven Blind Mice Ed Young Literary Student copy
13 Sleeping Beauty Pages 11-24 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 The Frog-Prince Pages 54-79 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Rapunzel Pages 40-53 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Hansel and Gretel Pages 87-111 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Jack and the Beanstalk Pages 112-134 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 The Emperorrsquos New Clothes Hans Christian Andersen Literary Read aloud
14 Spiders Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
14 How Spider Tricked Snake Mirna Benitez Literary Groups 14 One-Hundred-and-One African-American Read- ldquoAnansi Saves Susan Kantor Literary Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Aloud Stories Anteloperdquo 14 Be Nice to Spiders Margaret Bloy Graham Literary Read aloud 14 Spiders Illa Podendorf Informational Read aloud 14 Mighty Spiders Fay Robinson Informational Read aloud 14 Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock Eric A Kimmel Literary Read aloud 14 The Very Busy Spider Eric Carle Literary Student copy 14 Diary of a Spider Doreen Cronin Literary Groups 14 Spiders Are Not Insects Allan Fowler Informational Groups
14 All Stories are Anansirsquos Pages 105-115 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 1 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
15 Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish
Literary Read aloud
15 Thank You Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Literary Groups 15 Teach Us Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Literary text Groups 15 Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day Robin Pulver Literary Read aloud 15 Punctuation Takes a Vacation Robin Pulver Literary Read aloud 15 In English Of Course Josephine Nobisso Literary Read aloud 15 A Day With a Carpenter Joanne Winne Informational Groups 15 A Day With a Doctor Jan Kottke Informational Groups 15 Hairy Scary Ordinary What is an Adjective Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud 15 A Mink a Fink a Skating Rink What is a Noun Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud 15 To Root to Toot Parachute What is a Verb Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud
16 Duck for President Doreen Cronin Literary Read aloud
16 If I Ran for President Catherine Stier Literary Read aloud 16 If I Were President Catherine Stier Literary Groups 16 Today on Election Day Catherine Stier Literary Read aloud 16 My Teacher for President Kay Winters Literary Groups
16 We Live Here Too Kids Talk About Good Citizenship
Nancy Loewen Literary Read aloud
16 If Everybody Did Jo Ann Stover Literary Student copy 16 Being a Leader (First Step Nonfiction) Robin Nelson Informational Student copy 16 Celebrating Presidentrsquos Day What Is a Kimberly Jordano and Trisha Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
President Callella-Jones 16 So You Want to be President Excerpt Judith St George Informational Read aloud
16 Why Are Elections Important (Know Your Government)
Jacqueline Laks Gorman Informational Groups
16 D is for Democracy Excerpt Elissa Grodin Informational Read aloud
16 We the Kids The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States
David Catrow Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SECOND GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
21 The Best Place Susan Meddaugh
Literary Student copy
21 My House is Singing ldquoOne Giant Hugrdquo and ldquoMy House is Singingrdquo
Betsy Rosenthal Literary (Poem) Student copy
21 ldquoYour Worldrdquo Georgia Douglas Johnson Literary (Poem) Read aloud
21 Fly Away Home Eve Bunting Literary Student copy 21 My House Has Stars Megan McDonald Literary Groups
21 Children From Australia to Zimbabwe A Photographic Journey around the World
ldquoVietnamrdquo and ldquoYemenrdquo ldquoBrazilrdquo ldquoJapanrdquo ldquoPhilippinesrdquo and ldquoUnited Statesrdquo
Maya Ajmera and Anna Rhesa Versola Informational Groups
21 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
ldquoThe Cyclonerdquo ldquoThe Council with the MunchkinsrdquoldquoHow the Balloon Was Launchedrdquo ldquoGlinda the Good Witch Grantrsquos Dorothyrsquos Wishrdquo (from the beginning until ldquoget back to Kansasrdquo in paragraph 8 and then paragraph 22 until the end) and ldquoHome Againrdquo
L Frank Baum Literary Read aloud
21 The Treasure Uri Shulevitz Literary Assessment 21 If You Lived Here Houses of the World Giles Laroche Informational Groups
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
22 Cinderella or online version Pages 10-22 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Marcia Brown or free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoThe Girl with the Red Slippersrdquo (Egyptian) Pages 23-36 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoBilly Begrdquo (Ireland) Pages 37-49 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 The Way Meat Loves Salt (Israel) Nina Jaffe Literary Groups 22 Domitila (Mexico) Jewell Reinhart Cobum Literary Groups 22 Yeh-Shen (China) Ai-Ling Louie Literary Groups 22 The Turkey Girl (American Indian) Penny Pollock Literary Groups 22 Mufarorsquos Beautiful Daughters (Africa) John Steptoe Literary Groups 22 Cendrillon (Caribbean) Robert San Souci Literary Groups
23 ldquoThirsty Planetrdquo October 2010 Pages 18-23 of the Projectable Edition
Beth Geiger (National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition)
Informational Read aloud
23 One Well The Story of Water on Earth Rochelle Strauss and Rosemary Woods Informational Read aloud
23 The Raft Jim LaMarche Literary Student copy
23 Down Comes the Rain Franklyn Branley and James Graham Hale Informational Student copy
23 A Drop of Water A Book of Science and Wonder Walter Wick Informational Read aloud
23 River Song with the Banana Slug String Band Steve Van Zandt and Katherine Zecca Literary Read aloud
23 A Drop Around the World Barbara Shaw McKinney Literary Read aloud
23 ldquoWilly the Water Droprdquo Pages 97-107 of the Read-
Free through Domain 11 of Core Knowledge Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
AloudAnthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
23 ldquoThe Water Cyclerdquo Pages 111-122 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
24 The Ox-Cart Man Donald Hall and Barbara Cooney
Literary Student copy
24 Charlottersquos Web Excerpt EB White Literary Read aloud
24 County Fair (My First Little House) Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jody Wheeler Literary Student copy
24 My Rows and Piles of Coins Tololwa Mollel Literary Read aloud Basal 24 The Paper Crane Molly Bang Literary Student copy 24 The Kamishibai Man Allan Say Literary Read aloud 24 The Stranger Chris Van Allsburg Literary Read aloud 24 The Little House Virginia Lee Burton Literary Student copy
24 Whorsquos Buying Whorsquos Selling Understanding Consumers and Producers Jennifer S Larson Informational Student copy
24 Horse-Drawn Days A Century of Farming with Horses Excerpt Jerry Apps Informational Read Aloud
24 Window Jeannine Baker Nonprint (wordless picture book) Student copy
24 ldquoFrom Farm to Marketrdquo Pages 92-101 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 5 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Student copy
25 Lives Poems About Famous Americans Lee Bennett Hopkins
Literary (Poems) Read aloud
25 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet Dennis Denenberg Informational Read aloud 25 Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary Read aloud 25 Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Literary Student copy 25 When Marian Sang Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Informational Read aloud
25 rdquoSusan B Anthony An Advocate for Womenrsquos Rightsrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Strand
25 ldquoEleanor Roosevelt A Voice for Human Rightsrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMary McLeod Bethune A Dedicated Teacherrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoJackie Robinson Champion of Equalityrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoRosa Parks The Mother of the Civil Rights Movementrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMartin Luther King Jr Defender of the Dreamrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 George Washington Carver Teacher Scientist and Inventor Lori Mortensen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture Book of Davy Crockett David Adler Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture of Book of Thomas Alva Edison David Adler Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
25 Pocahontas Shannon Zemlicka Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Teammates Peter Golenbock Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Martin Luther King Jr and the March on Washington Frances Ruffin Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Whatrsquos the Big Idea Ben Franklin Jean Fritz Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Helen Keller Courageous Advocate Scott Welvaert Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Vision of Beauty The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker Kathryn Lasky Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
THIRD GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
31 The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
Literary Student copy
31 The Bee Tree Patricia Polacco Literary Read aloud
31 ldquoA Page is a Doorrdquo Remy Charlip Informational Read aloud
31 My Librarian is a Camel How Books are Brought to Children Around the World Margriet Ruurs Informational Groups
31 The Red Book Barbara Lehman Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Literary Student copy
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
31 More Stories Julian Tells
ldquoI Learn Firefightingrdquo (ldquoI Wish for Smokey the Bearrdquo ldquoSuperboy and Merdquo and ldquoHuey Makes the Leaprdquo)
Ann Cameron Literary Assessment
32 A Logrsquos Life Wendy Pfeffer
Informational Student copy
32 Tell Me Tree All about Trees for Kids Gail Gibbons Informational Student copy
32 ldquoPrayer of the Woodsrdquo Unknown Literary (Poem) Student copy
32 ldquoWindy Treerdquo Aileen Fisher Literary Student copy
32 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein Literary Read aloud 32 The Lorax Dr Seuss Literary Student copy 32 A Tree is Growing Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud Basal 32 One Small Place in a Tree Barbara Brenner Literary Assessment Basal
33 Lapin Plays Possum Trickster Tales From the Louisiana Bayou Sharon Arms Doucet
Literary Read Aloud
33 Why Lapinrsquos Ears are Long And Other Tales Sharon Arms Doucet Literary Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
from the Louisiana Bayou
33 ldquoMrsquosu Carencro and Mangeur de Pouletrdquo JJ Reneaux Literary Groups
33 Dear Peter Rabbit Alma Flor Ada Literary Read Aloud
33 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Literary Student copy
33 Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens Literary Student copy 33 ldquoThe Giant of La Costa Villagerdquo S Noel Rideau Literary Assessment
33 Scott Foresman Social Studies Louisiana (Third Grade Textbook) Chapters 2 and 4 Scott Foresman Informational Read Aloud
Social Studies
Textbook
33 Writerrsquos Toolbox Learn How to Write Letters Fairy Tales Scary Stories Journals Poems and Reports
Nancy Loewen Informational Read Aloud
33 The Cajun Experience Historycom Nonnprint (Video) Read Aloud
33 The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Introduction ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit Brer Bear and the Peanut Patchrdquo ldquoThe Great Racerdquo ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit and the Tar Babyrdquo
Don Daily and Joel Chandler Harris Literary Student copy
34 Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson
Literary Student copy
34 The Ballad of the Pirate Queens Jane Yolen Literary Read Aloud 34 Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard Informational Groups
34 ldquoGeocaching Fact Sheetrdquo Geocachingcom Informational Read Aloud
34 Do California ldquoThe Gold Rushrdquo Splashpublicationscom Informational Read Aloud
34 ldquoThe Curse of King Tutrdquo Spencer Kayden Literary (Play) Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
34 ldquoThe Curse of the Hope Diamondrdquo The Lazy Editor Scholastic SCOPE Magazine Informational Groups
34 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Pirates Chapter 6 Pirate Treasure
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
34 The Mona Lisa Caper Rick Jacobson Literary Groups 34 The Stolen Smile J Patrick Lewis Groups
34 ldquoMissing Monardquo Scholastic Student copy
34 ldquoThe Legend of the Pharaohrsquos Curserdquo ReadWorksorg Informational Assessment
34 Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Travel Channel Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
35 The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal (What Would You Do) Elaine Landau Informational Student copy
35 The Louisiana Purchase From Independence to Lewis and Clark Michael Burgan Informational Student copy
35 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud
35 How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis and Clark Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
35 Lewis and Clark and Me A Dogrsquos Tale
Chapter 6 ldquoBuffalordquo and Chapter 7 ldquoKidnappedrdquo
Laurie Myers Literary Student copy
35 ldquoFreeman and Curtis Red River Expeditionrdquo wwwencyclopediaofarkansasnet Informational Student copy
35 ldquoGo West Across America With Lewis and Clarkrdquo National Geographic Kids Nonprint (website) Student copy
35 Mike Fink Steven Kellogg Literary Groups 35 Thunder Rose Jerdine Nolen Literary Groups 35 Swamp Angel Anne Isaacs Literary Groups
35 ldquoHome on the Rangerdquo Dr Brewster M Higley Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoThe Happy Wandererrdquo Florenz Friedrich Sigismund Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoVikings amp European Explorers Ferdinand Magellanrdquo ReadWorks Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
36 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog amp The Piglet And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Jennifer S Holland Informational Student copy
36 Amos amp Boris William Steig Literary Student copy
36 The Cricket in Time Square Pages 11-15 from Chapter 2 George Selden Literary Read aloud
36 Rosie A Visiting Dogrsquos Story Stephanie Calmenson Informational Student copy
36 ldquoLong-Leg Lou and Short Leg Suerdquo Shel Silverstein Literary Student copy
36 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Chapter 1 Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Creature Features Clown Anemonefish National Geographic Kids Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
36 My Life and Times Autobiography of a Stray Cat
Louisiana EAGLE Literary Assessment
36 Wild Wings Gill Lewis Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Paint the Wind Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Charlottersquos Web EB White Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 A Dogrsquos Way Home Bobbie Pyron Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 How to Steal a Dog Barbara OrsquoConnor Literary Groups (choice for independent
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FOURTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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2014-2015
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
KINDERGARTEN Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
K1 Chrysanthemum Kevin Henkes
Literary Read aloud
K1 We Are All Alike We Are All Different Cheltenham Elementary School Kindergarteners Informational Read aloud
K1 Wersquore Different Wersquore the Same Bobbie Jane Kates Informational Read aloud K1 A Porcupine Named Fluffy Helen Lester Literary Read aloud K1 The Name Jar Yangsook Choi Literary Read aloud
K1 ldquoMy Teacher Calls Me Sweetie Cakesrdquo Kenn Nesbitt Literary (Poem) Read aloud
K1 ldquoIsnrsquot My Name Magicalrdquo James Berry Literary (Poem) Read aloud
K1 ldquoMe I Amrdquo Jack Prelutsky Literary (Poem) Read aloud K1 Andy (Thatrsquos My Name) Tomie dePaola Literary Read aloud
K2 Mama Panyarsquos Pancakes Mary and Rich Chamberlain
Literary Read aloud
K2 Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Peoplersquos Ears A West African Tale Verna Aardema Literary Read aloud
K2 HoneyhellipHoneyhellipLion Jan Brett Literary Read aloud K2 Here is the African Savanna Madeleine Dunphy Informational Read aloud K2 The Greedy Python Richard Buckley Literary Read aloud K2 The Selfish Crocodile Faustin Charles Literary Read aloud
K2 The Lion and the Mouse Jerry Pinkney Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Student Copy
K3 Thanksgiving Ishellip Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
K3 Me on the Map Joan Sweeney Informational Groups
K3 ldquoThe Spice Seekersrdquo Pages 9-21 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
K3 ldquoFerdinand and Isabellardquo Pages 22-31 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
K3 The Very First Americans Cara Ashrose Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquo1492rdquo Pages 32-45 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquoNot the Indiesrdquo Pages 46-57 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquoFurther Adventures of Christopher Columbusrdquo Pages 58-69 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquoColonies in Native American Landsrdquo Pages 74-83 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquoThe Voyage of the Mayflowerrdquo Pages 84-93 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
K3 hellipIf You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 Excerpts Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquoThe Wampanoagrdquo Pages 94-102 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 Squantorsquos Journey The Story of the First Thanksgiving Joseph Bruchac Literary Read aloud
K3 ldquoThanksgivingrdquo Pages 103-111 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 Franklinrsquos Thanksgiving Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark Literary Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
K4 The Year at Maple Hill Farm Alice and Martin Provensen Informational Read aloud
K4 The Mitten Jan Brett Literary Read aloud
K4 ldquoSomething Told the Wild Geeserdquo Rachel Field Literary Read aloud
K4 ldquoChange is in the Airrdquo Pages 11-15 National Geographic Young Explorer March 2012 Informational Student copy
K4 What Do Animals Do in the Winter How Animals Survive the Cold
Melvin Berger Gilda Berger and Susan Harrison Informational Read aloud
K4 Animals in Winter Henrietta Bancroft Informational AssessmentRead aloud
K4 ldquoFour Seasonsrdquo PBS Kids Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
K4 ldquoThe Seasons of Farmingrdquo Pages 82-91 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 5 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
K5 From Seed to Plant Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
K5 The Tiny Seed Eric Carle Literary Read aloud
K5 One Bean Anne Rockwell Informational AssessmentRead aloud
K5 A Seed is Sleepy Dianna Hutts Aston Informational Read aloud
K5 ldquoPlant Partsrdquo Pages 19-30 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read Aloud
K5 ldquoPolly the Honeybeersquos Flower Tourrdquo Pages 56-64 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read Aloud
K5 ldquoJohnny Appleseedrdquo Pages 75-82 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read Aloud
K5 Leaf Stephen Michael King Nonprint (wordless Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
picture book) K5 The Carrot Seed Ruth Krauss Literary Read aloud K5 The Gigantic Sweet Potato Dianne De Las Casas Literary Read aloud
K5 ldquoPlants and Peoplerdquo Pages 100-108 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read Aloud
K5 Compost Stew Mary McKenna Siddals Informational Read aloud
K6 A is for America Devin Scillian
Informational Read aloud
K6 The Scrambled States of America Laurie Keller Literary Read aloud K6 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud K6 America Ishellip Louise Borden Literary Read aloud
K6 ldquoThe Home of the President Washington DCrdquo
Pages 10-21 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoA Dishonest Story About an Honest Manrdquo Pages 22-31 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrdquo Pages 55-65 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoAbraham Lincolnrdquo Pages 70-84 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoTeddy Rooseveltrdquo Pages 85-96 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoCarving Mount Rushmorerdquo Pages 107-117 of the Read-Aloud
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
K7 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Judi Barrett
Literary Read aloud
K7 ldquoThe Weather Outsiderdquo Pages 18-23 National Geographic Young Explorer September 2011 Informational Read aloud
K7 Weather Words Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud K7 The Wind Blew Pat Hitchens Literary Read aloud
K7 ldquoThe Windrdquo James Reeves Literary Read aloud
K7 The Cloud Book Tomie dePaolo Informational Read aloud
K7 ldquoApril Rain Songrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Read aloud
K7 Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Verna Aardema Literary Read aloud K7 The Rain Came Down David Shannon Literary Read aloud K7 Franklin and the Thunderstorm Paulette Bourgeois Literary Read aloud K7 Weather Forecasting Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIRST GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
11 Mooncake Frank Asch
Literary Read aloud
11 Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown Literary Student copy 11 The Moon Carmen Bredeson Informational Read aloud
11 The Moon ldquoVisiting the Moonrdquo Allison Lassieur Informational Read aloud
11 The Moon Book Pages 1-4 7 and 21-25 Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
11 Kittenrsquos First Full Moon
Kevin Henkes (Read aloud video available at httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=yToGxm5aQBs)
Literary Student copy
11 Moondance Frank Asch Literary Read aloud 11 Bear Shadow Frank Asch Literary Read aloud 11 Me and My Shadow Pages 1-19 Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud
11 ldquoMoon Picturesrdquo Curiosity on Discoverycom Nonprint (Photographs) Read aloud
11 Papa Please Get the Moon for Me Eric Carle Literary Assessment Read aloud
12 Frogs Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
12 ldquoFrog Facts Frogs vs Toadsrdquo KidZone Informational Read aloud
12 Frog and Toad are Friends Arnold Lobel Literary Read aloud 12 Frog and Toad All Year Arnold Lobel Literary Read aloud 12 The Mysterious Tadpole Stephen Kellogg Literary Read aloud
12 Tuesday David Wiesner Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
12 Something Froggy WiredSchool (The Franklin Institute) Nonprint (Website) Groups
12 ldquoThe Life Cycle of a Frogrdquo Pages 90-100 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
12 Texts from A Boy A Dog and A Frog (series) (eg One Frog Too Many Frog Goes to Dinner or Frog on His Own)
Mercer Mayer (Video available at DiscoveryEducationcom)
Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Read aloud
13 Rumpelstiltskin Pages 25-39 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 A Handful of Beans Six Fairy Tales Retold by Jeanne Steig Literary Read aloud 13 Seven Blind Mice Ed Young Literary Student copy
13 Sleeping Beauty Pages 11-24 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 The Frog-Prince Pages 54-79 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Rapunzel Pages 40-53 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Hansel and Gretel Pages 87-111 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Jack and the Beanstalk Pages 112-134 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 The Emperorrsquos New Clothes Hans Christian Andersen Literary Read aloud
14 Spiders Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
14 How Spider Tricked Snake Mirna Benitez Literary Groups 14 One-Hundred-and-One African-American Read- ldquoAnansi Saves Susan Kantor Literary Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Aloud Stories Anteloperdquo 14 Be Nice to Spiders Margaret Bloy Graham Literary Read aloud 14 Spiders Illa Podendorf Informational Read aloud 14 Mighty Spiders Fay Robinson Informational Read aloud 14 Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock Eric A Kimmel Literary Read aloud 14 The Very Busy Spider Eric Carle Literary Student copy 14 Diary of a Spider Doreen Cronin Literary Groups 14 Spiders Are Not Insects Allan Fowler Informational Groups
14 All Stories are Anansirsquos Pages 105-115 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 1 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
15 Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish
Literary Read aloud
15 Thank You Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Literary Groups 15 Teach Us Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Literary text Groups 15 Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day Robin Pulver Literary Read aloud 15 Punctuation Takes a Vacation Robin Pulver Literary Read aloud 15 In English Of Course Josephine Nobisso Literary Read aloud 15 A Day With a Carpenter Joanne Winne Informational Groups 15 A Day With a Doctor Jan Kottke Informational Groups 15 Hairy Scary Ordinary What is an Adjective Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud 15 A Mink a Fink a Skating Rink What is a Noun Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud 15 To Root to Toot Parachute What is a Verb Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud
16 Duck for President Doreen Cronin Literary Read aloud
16 If I Ran for President Catherine Stier Literary Read aloud 16 If I Were President Catherine Stier Literary Groups 16 Today on Election Day Catherine Stier Literary Read aloud 16 My Teacher for President Kay Winters Literary Groups
16 We Live Here Too Kids Talk About Good Citizenship
Nancy Loewen Literary Read aloud
16 If Everybody Did Jo Ann Stover Literary Student copy 16 Being a Leader (First Step Nonfiction) Robin Nelson Informational Student copy 16 Celebrating Presidentrsquos Day What Is a Kimberly Jordano and Trisha Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
President Callella-Jones 16 So You Want to be President Excerpt Judith St George Informational Read aloud
16 Why Are Elections Important (Know Your Government)
Jacqueline Laks Gorman Informational Groups
16 D is for Democracy Excerpt Elissa Grodin Informational Read aloud
16 We the Kids The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States
David Catrow Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SECOND GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
21 The Best Place Susan Meddaugh
Literary Student copy
21 My House is Singing ldquoOne Giant Hugrdquo and ldquoMy House is Singingrdquo
Betsy Rosenthal Literary (Poem) Student copy
21 ldquoYour Worldrdquo Georgia Douglas Johnson Literary (Poem) Read aloud
21 Fly Away Home Eve Bunting Literary Student copy 21 My House Has Stars Megan McDonald Literary Groups
21 Children From Australia to Zimbabwe A Photographic Journey around the World
ldquoVietnamrdquo and ldquoYemenrdquo ldquoBrazilrdquo ldquoJapanrdquo ldquoPhilippinesrdquo and ldquoUnited Statesrdquo
Maya Ajmera and Anna Rhesa Versola Informational Groups
21 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
ldquoThe Cyclonerdquo ldquoThe Council with the MunchkinsrdquoldquoHow the Balloon Was Launchedrdquo ldquoGlinda the Good Witch Grantrsquos Dorothyrsquos Wishrdquo (from the beginning until ldquoget back to Kansasrdquo in paragraph 8 and then paragraph 22 until the end) and ldquoHome Againrdquo
L Frank Baum Literary Read aloud
21 The Treasure Uri Shulevitz Literary Assessment 21 If You Lived Here Houses of the World Giles Laroche Informational Groups
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
22 Cinderella or online version Pages 10-22 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Marcia Brown or free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoThe Girl with the Red Slippersrdquo (Egyptian) Pages 23-36 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoBilly Begrdquo (Ireland) Pages 37-49 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 The Way Meat Loves Salt (Israel) Nina Jaffe Literary Groups 22 Domitila (Mexico) Jewell Reinhart Cobum Literary Groups 22 Yeh-Shen (China) Ai-Ling Louie Literary Groups 22 The Turkey Girl (American Indian) Penny Pollock Literary Groups 22 Mufarorsquos Beautiful Daughters (Africa) John Steptoe Literary Groups 22 Cendrillon (Caribbean) Robert San Souci Literary Groups
23 ldquoThirsty Planetrdquo October 2010 Pages 18-23 of the Projectable Edition
Beth Geiger (National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition)
Informational Read aloud
23 One Well The Story of Water on Earth Rochelle Strauss and Rosemary Woods Informational Read aloud
23 The Raft Jim LaMarche Literary Student copy
23 Down Comes the Rain Franklyn Branley and James Graham Hale Informational Student copy
23 A Drop of Water A Book of Science and Wonder Walter Wick Informational Read aloud
23 River Song with the Banana Slug String Band Steve Van Zandt and Katherine Zecca Literary Read aloud
23 A Drop Around the World Barbara Shaw McKinney Literary Read aloud
23 ldquoWilly the Water Droprdquo Pages 97-107 of the Read-
Free through Domain 11 of Core Knowledge Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
AloudAnthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
23 ldquoThe Water Cyclerdquo Pages 111-122 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
24 The Ox-Cart Man Donald Hall and Barbara Cooney
Literary Student copy
24 Charlottersquos Web Excerpt EB White Literary Read aloud
24 County Fair (My First Little House) Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jody Wheeler Literary Student copy
24 My Rows and Piles of Coins Tololwa Mollel Literary Read aloud Basal 24 The Paper Crane Molly Bang Literary Student copy 24 The Kamishibai Man Allan Say Literary Read aloud 24 The Stranger Chris Van Allsburg Literary Read aloud 24 The Little House Virginia Lee Burton Literary Student copy
24 Whorsquos Buying Whorsquos Selling Understanding Consumers and Producers Jennifer S Larson Informational Student copy
24 Horse-Drawn Days A Century of Farming with Horses Excerpt Jerry Apps Informational Read Aloud
24 Window Jeannine Baker Nonprint (wordless picture book) Student copy
24 ldquoFrom Farm to Marketrdquo Pages 92-101 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 5 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Student copy
25 Lives Poems About Famous Americans Lee Bennett Hopkins
Literary (Poems) Read aloud
25 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet Dennis Denenberg Informational Read aloud 25 Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary Read aloud 25 Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Literary Student copy 25 When Marian Sang Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Informational Read aloud
25 rdquoSusan B Anthony An Advocate for Womenrsquos Rightsrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Strand
25 ldquoEleanor Roosevelt A Voice for Human Rightsrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMary McLeod Bethune A Dedicated Teacherrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoJackie Robinson Champion of Equalityrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoRosa Parks The Mother of the Civil Rights Movementrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMartin Luther King Jr Defender of the Dreamrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 George Washington Carver Teacher Scientist and Inventor Lori Mortensen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture Book of Davy Crockett David Adler Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture of Book of Thomas Alva Edison David Adler Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
25 Pocahontas Shannon Zemlicka Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Teammates Peter Golenbock Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Martin Luther King Jr and the March on Washington Frances Ruffin Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Whatrsquos the Big Idea Ben Franklin Jean Fritz Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Helen Keller Courageous Advocate Scott Welvaert Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Vision of Beauty The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker Kathryn Lasky Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
THIRD GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
31 The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
Literary Student copy
31 The Bee Tree Patricia Polacco Literary Read aloud
31 ldquoA Page is a Doorrdquo Remy Charlip Informational Read aloud
31 My Librarian is a Camel How Books are Brought to Children Around the World Margriet Ruurs Informational Groups
31 The Red Book Barbara Lehman Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Literary Student copy
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
31 More Stories Julian Tells
ldquoI Learn Firefightingrdquo (ldquoI Wish for Smokey the Bearrdquo ldquoSuperboy and Merdquo and ldquoHuey Makes the Leaprdquo)
Ann Cameron Literary Assessment
32 A Logrsquos Life Wendy Pfeffer
Informational Student copy
32 Tell Me Tree All about Trees for Kids Gail Gibbons Informational Student copy
32 ldquoPrayer of the Woodsrdquo Unknown Literary (Poem) Student copy
32 ldquoWindy Treerdquo Aileen Fisher Literary Student copy
32 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein Literary Read aloud 32 The Lorax Dr Seuss Literary Student copy 32 A Tree is Growing Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud Basal 32 One Small Place in a Tree Barbara Brenner Literary Assessment Basal
33 Lapin Plays Possum Trickster Tales From the Louisiana Bayou Sharon Arms Doucet
Literary Read Aloud
33 Why Lapinrsquos Ears are Long And Other Tales Sharon Arms Doucet Literary Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
from the Louisiana Bayou
33 ldquoMrsquosu Carencro and Mangeur de Pouletrdquo JJ Reneaux Literary Groups
33 Dear Peter Rabbit Alma Flor Ada Literary Read Aloud
33 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Literary Student copy
33 Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens Literary Student copy 33 ldquoThe Giant of La Costa Villagerdquo S Noel Rideau Literary Assessment
33 Scott Foresman Social Studies Louisiana (Third Grade Textbook) Chapters 2 and 4 Scott Foresman Informational Read Aloud
Social Studies
Textbook
33 Writerrsquos Toolbox Learn How to Write Letters Fairy Tales Scary Stories Journals Poems and Reports
Nancy Loewen Informational Read Aloud
33 The Cajun Experience Historycom Nonnprint (Video) Read Aloud
33 The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Introduction ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit Brer Bear and the Peanut Patchrdquo ldquoThe Great Racerdquo ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit and the Tar Babyrdquo
Don Daily and Joel Chandler Harris Literary Student copy
34 Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson
Literary Student copy
34 The Ballad of the Pirate Queens Jane Yolen Literary Read Aloud 34 Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard Informational Groups
34 ldquoGeocaching Fact Sheetrdquo Geocachingcom Informational Read Aloud
34 Do California ldquoThe Gold Rushrdquo Splashpublicationscom Informational Read Aloud
34 ldquoThe Curse of King Tutrdquo Spencer Kayden Literary (Play) Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
34 ldquoThe Curse of the Hope Diamondrdquo The Lazy Editor Scholastic SCOPE Magazine Informational Groups
34 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Pirates Chapter 6 Pirate Treasure
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
34 The Mona Lisa Caper Rick Jacobson Literary Groups 34 The Stolen Smile J Patrick Lewis Groups
34 ldquoMissing Monardquo Scholastic Student copy
34 ldquoThe Legend of the Pharaohrsquos Curserdquo ReadWorksorg Informational Assessment
34 Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Travel Channel Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
35 The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal (What Would You Do) Elaine Landau Informational Student copy
35 The Louisiana Purchase From Independence to Lewis and Clark Michael Burgan Informational Student copy
35 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud
35 How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis and Clark Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
35 Lewis and Clark and Me A Dogrsquos Tale
Chapter 6 ldquoBuffalordquo and Chapter 7 ldquoKidnappedrdquo
Laurie Myers Literary Student copy
35 ldquoFreeman and Curtis Red River Expeditionrdquo wwwencyclopediaofarkansasnet Informational Student copy
35 ldquoGo West Across America With Lewis and Clarkrdquo National Geographic Kids Nonprint (website) Student copy
35 Mike Fink Steven Kellogg Literary Groups 35 Thunder Rose Jerdine Nolen Literary Groups 35 Swamp Angel Anne Isaacs Literary Groups
35 ldquoHome on the Rangerdquo Dr Brewster M Higley Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoThe Happy Wandererrdquo Florenz Friedrich Sigismund Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoVikings amp European Explorers Ferdinand Magellanrdquo ReadWorks Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
36 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog amp The Piglet And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Jennifer S Holland Informational Student copy
36 Amos amp Boris William Steig Literary Student copy
36 The Cricket in Time Square Pages 11-15 from Chapter 2 George Selden Literary Read aloud
36 Rosie A Visiting Dogrsquos Story Stephanie Calmenson Informational Student copy
36 ldquoLong-Leg Lou and Short Leg Suerdquo Shel Silverstein Literary Student copy
36 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Chapter 1 Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Creature Features Clown Anemonefish National Geographic Kids Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
36 My Life and Times Autobiography of a Stray Cat
Louisiana EAGLE Literary Assessment
36 Wild Wings Gill Lewis Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Paint the Wind Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Charlottersquos Web EB White Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 A Dogrsquos Way Home Bobbie Pyron Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 How to Steal a Dog Barbara OrsquoConnor Literary Groups (choice for independent
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FOURTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
K3 The Very First Americans Cara Ashrose Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquo1492rdquo Pages 32-45 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquoNot the Indiesrdquo Pages 46-57 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquoFurther Adventures of Christopher Columbusrdquo Pages 58-69 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquoColonies in Native American Landsrdquo Pages 74-83 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquoThe Voyage of the Mayflowerrdquo Pages 84-93 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
K3 hellipIf You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 Excerpts Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud
K3 ldquoThe Wampanoagrdquo Pages 94-102 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 Squantorsquos Journey The Story of the First Thanksgiving Joseph Bruchac Literary Read aloud
K3 ldquoThanksgivingrdquo Pages 103-111 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K3 Franklinrsquos Thanksgiving Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark Literary Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
K4 The Year at Maple Hill Farm Alice and Martin Provensen Informational Read aloud
K4 The Mitten Jan Brett Literary Read aloud
K4 ldquoSomething Told the Wild Geeserdquo Rachel Field Literary Read aloud
K4 ldquoChange is in the Airrdquo Pages 11-15 National Geographic Young Explorer March 2012 Informational Student copy
K4 What Do Animals Do in the Winter How Animals Survive the Cold
Melvin Berger Gilda Berger and Susan Harrison Informational Read aloud
K4 Animals in Winter Henrietta Bancroft Informational AssessmentRead aloud
K4 ldquoFour Seasonsrdquo PBS Kids Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
K4 ldquoThe Seasons of Farmingrdquo Pages 82-91 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 5 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
K5 From Seed to Plant Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
K5 The Tiny Seed Eric Carle Literary Read aloud
K5 One Bean Anne Rockwell Informational AssessmentRead aloud
K5 A Seed is Sleepy Dianna Hutts Aston Informational Read aloud
K5 ldquoPlant Partsrdquo Pages 19-30 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read Aloud
K5 ldquoPolly the Honeybeersquos Flower Tourrdquo Pages 56-64 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read Aloud
K5 ldquoJohnny Appleseedrdquo Pages 75-82 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read Aloud
K5 Leaf Stephen Michael King Nonprint (wordless Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
picture book) K5 The Carrot Seed Ruth Krauss Literary Read aloud K5 The Gigantic Sweet Potato Dianne De Las Casas Literary Read aloud
K5 ldquoPlants and Peoplerdquo Pages 100-108 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read Aloud
K5 Compost Stew Mary McKenna Siddals Informational Read aloud
K6 A is for America Devin Scillian
Informational Read aloud
K6 The Scrambled States of America Laurie Keller Literary Read aloud K6 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud K6 America Ishellip Louise Borden Literary Read aloud
K6 ldquoThe Home of the President Washington DCrdquo
Pages 10-21 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoA Dishonest Story About an Honest Manrdquo Pages 22-31 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrdquo Pages 55-65 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoAbraham Lincolnrdquo Pages 70-84 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoTeddy Rooseveltrdquo Pages 85-96 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoCarving Mount Rushmorerdquo Pages 107-117 of the Read-Aloud
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
K7 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Judi Barrett
Literary Read aloud
K7 ldquoThe Weather Outsiderdquo Pages 18-23 National Geographic Young Explorer September 2011 Informational Read aloud
K7 Weather Words Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud K7 The Wind Blew Pat Hitchens Literary Read aloud
K7 ldquoThe Windrdquo James Reeves Literary Read aloud
K7 The Cloud Book Tomie dePaolo Informational Read aloud
K7 ldquoApril Rain Songrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Read aloud
K7 Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Verna Aardema Literary Read aloud K7 The Rain Came Down David Shannon Literary Read aloud K7 Franklin and the Thunderstorm Paulette Bourgeois Literary Read aloud K7 Weather Forecasting Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIRST GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
11 Mooncake Frank Asch
Literary Read aloud
11 Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown Literary Student copy 11 The Moon Carmen Bredeson Informational Read aloud
11 The Moon ldquoVisiting the Moonrdquo Allison Lassieur Informational Read aloud
11 The Moon Book Pages 1-4 7 and 21-25 Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
11 Kittenrsquos First Full Moon
Kevin Henkes (Read aloud video available at httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=yToGxm5aQBs)
Literary Student copy
11 Moondance Frank Asch Literary Read aloud 11 Bear Shadow Frank Asch Literary Read aloud 11 Me and My Shadow Pages 1-19 Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud
11 ldquoMoon Picturesrdquo Curiosity on Discoverycom Nonprint (Photographs) Read aloud
11 Papa Please Get the Moon for Me Eric Carle Literary Assessment Read aloud
12 Frogs Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
12 ldquoFrog Facts Frogs vs Toadsrdquo KidZone Informational Read aloud
12 Frog and Toad are Friends Arnold Lobel Literary Read aloud 12 Frog and Toad All Year Arnold Lobel Literary Read aloud 12 The Mysterious Tadpole Stephen Kellogg Literary Read aloud
12 Tuesday David Wiesner Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
12 Something Froggy WiredSchool (The Franklin Institute) Nonprint (Website) Groups
12 ldquoThe Life Cycle of a Frogrdquo Pages 90-100 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
12 Texts from A Boy A Dog and A Frog (series) (eg One Frog Too Many Frog Goes to Dinner or Frog on His Own)
Mercer Mayer (Video available at DiscoveryEducationcom)
Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Read aloud
13 Rumpelstiltskin Pages 25-39 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 A Handful of Beans Six Fairy Tales Retold by Jeanne Steig Literary Read aloud 13 Seven Blind Mice Ed Young Literary Student copy
13 Sleeping Beauty Pages 11-24 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 The Frog-Prince Pages 54-79 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Rapunzel Pages 40-53 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Hansel and Gretel Pages 87-111 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Jack and the Beanstalk Pages 112-134 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 The Emperorrsquos New Clothes Hans Christian Andersen Literary Read aloud
14 Spiders Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
14 How Spider Tricked Snake Mirna Benitez Literary Groups 14 One-Hundred-and-One African-American Read- ldquoAnansi Saves Susan Kantor Literary Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Aloud Stories Anteloperdquo 14 Be Nice to Spiders Margaret Bloy Graham Literary Read aloud 14 Spiders Illa Podendorf Informational Read aloud 14 Mighty Spiders Fay Robinson Informational Read aloud 14 Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock Eric A Kimmel Literary Read aloud 14 The Very Busy Spider Eric Carle Literary Student copy 14 Diary of a Spider Doreen Cronin Literary Groups 14 Spiders Are Not Insects Allan Fowler Informational Groups
14 All Stories are Anansirsquos Pages 105-115 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 1 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
15 Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish
Literary Read aloud
15 Thank You Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Literary Groups 15 Teach Us Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Literary text Groups 15 Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day Robin Pulver Literary Read aloud 15 Punctuation Takes a Vacation Robin Pulver Literary Read aloud 15 In English Of Course Josephine Nobisso Literary Read aloud 15 A Day With a Carpenter Joanne Winne Informational Groups 15 A Day With a Doctor Jan Kottke Informational Groups 15 Hairy Scary Ordinary What is an Adjective Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud 15 A Mink a Fink a Skating Rink What is a Noun Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud 15 To Root to Toot Parachute What is a Verb Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud
16 Duck for President Doreen Cronin Literary Read aloud
16 If I Ran for President Catherine Stier Literary Read aloud 16 If I Were President Catherine Stier Literary Groups 16 Today on Election Day Catherine Stier Literary Read aloud 16 My Teacher for President Kay Winters Literary Groups
16 We Live Here Too Kids Talk About Good Citizenship
Nancy Loewen Literary Read aloud
16 If Everybody Did Jo Ann Stover Literary Student copy 16 Being a Leader (First Step Nonfiction) Robin Nelson Informational Student copy 16 Celebrating Presidentrsquos Day What Is a Kimberly Jordano and Trisha Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
President Callella-Jones 16 So You Want to be President Excerpt Judith St George Informational Read aloud
16 Why Are Elections Important (Know Your Government)
Jacqueline Laks Gorman Informational Groups
16 D is for Democracy Excerpt Elissa Grodin Informational Read aloud
16 We the Kids The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States
David Catrow Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SECOND GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
21 The Best Place Susan Meddaugh
Literary Student copy
21 My House is Singing ldquoOne Giant Hugrdquo and ldquoMy House is Singingrdquo
Betsy Rosenthal Literary (Poem) Student copy
21 ldquoYour Worldrdquo Georgia Douglas Johnson Literary (Poem) Read aloud
21 Fly Away Home Eve Bunting Literary Student copy 21 My House Has Stars Megan McDonald Literary Groups
21 Children From Australia to Zimbabwe A Photographic Journey around the World
ldquoVietnamrdquo and ldquoYemenrdquo ldquoBrazilrdquo ldquoJapanrdquo ldquoPhilippinesrdquo and ldquoUnited Statesrdquo
Maya Ajmera and Anna Rhesa Versola Informational Groups
21 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
ldquoThe Cyclonerdquo ldquoThe Council with the MunchkinsrdquoldquoHow the Balloon Was Launchedrdquo ldquoGlinda the Good Witch Grantrsquos Dorothyrsquos Wishrdquo (from the beginning until ldquoget back to Kansasrdquo in paragraph 8 and then paragraph 22 until the end) and ldquoHome Againrdquo
L Frank Baum Literary Read aloud
21 The Treasure Uri Shulevitz Literary Assessment 21 If You Lived Here Houses of the World Giles Laroche Informational Groups
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
22 Cinderella or online version Pages 10-22 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Marcia Brown or free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoThe Girl with the Red Slippersrdquo (Egyptian) Pages 23-36 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoBilly Begrdquo (Ireland) Pages 37-49 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 The Way Meat Loves Salt (Israel) Nina Jaffe Literary Groups 22 Domitila (Mexico) Jewell Reinhart Cobum Literary Groups 22 Yeh-Shen (China) Ai-Ling Louie Literary Groups 22 The Turkey Girl (American Indian) Penny Pollock Literary Groups 22 Mufarorsquos Beautiful Daughters (Africa) John Steptoe Literary Groups 22 Cendrillon (Caribbean) Robert San Souci Literary Groups
23 ldquoThirsty Planetrdquo October 2010 Pages 18-23 of the Projectable Edition
Beth Geiger (National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition)
Informational Read aloud
23 One Well The Story of Water on Earth Rochelle Strauss and Rosemary Woods Informational Read aloud
23 The Raft Jim LaMarche Literary Student copy
23 Down Comes the Rain Franklyn Branley and James Graham Hale Informational Student copy
23 A Drop of Water A Book of Science and Wonder Walter Wick Informational Read aloud
23 River Song with the Banana Slug String Band Steve Van Zandt and Katherine Zecca Literary Read aloud
23 A Drop Around the World Barbara Shaw McKinney Literary Read aloud
23 ldquoWilly the Water Droprdquo Pages 97-107 of the Read-
Free through Domain 11 of Core Knowledge Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
AloudAnthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
23 ldquoThe Water Cyclerdquo Pages 111-122 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
24 The Ox-Cart Man Donald Hall and Barbara Cooney
Literary Student copy
24 Charlottersquos Web Excerpt EB White Literary Read aloud
24 County Fair (My First Little House) Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jody Wheeler Literary Student copy
24 My Rows and Piles of Coins Tololwa Mollel Literary Read aloud Basal 24 The Paper Crane Molly Bang Literary Student copy 24 The Kamishibai Man Allan Say Literary Read aloud 24 The Stranger Chris Van Allsburg Literary Read aloud 24 The Little House Virginia Lee Burton Literary Student copy
24 Whorsquos Buying Whorsquos Selling Understanding Consumers and Producers Jennifer S Larson Informational Student copy
24 Horse-Drawn Days A Century of Farming with Horses Excerpt Jerry Apps Informational Read Aloud
24 Window Jeannine Baker Nonprint (wordless picture book) Student copy
24 ldquoFrom Farm to Marketrdquo Pages 92-101 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 5 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Student copy
25 Lives Poems About Famous Americans Lee Bennett Hopkins
Literary (Poems) Read aloud
25 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet Dennis Denenberg Informational Read aloud 25 Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary Read aloud 25 Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Literary Student copy 25 When Marian Sang Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Informational Read aloud
25 rdquoSusan B Anthony An Advocate for Womenrsquos Rightsrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Strand
25 ldquoEleanor Roosevelt A Voice for Human Rightsrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMary McLeod Bethune A Dedicated Teacherrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoJackie Robinson Champion of Equalityrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoRosa Parks The Mother of the Civil Rights Movementrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMartin Luther King Jr Defender of the Dreamrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 George Washington Carver Teacher Scientist and Inventor Lori Mortensen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture Book of Davy Crockett David Adler Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture of Book of Thomas Alva Edison David Adler Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
25 Pocahontas Shannon Zemlicka Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Teammates Peter Golenbock Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Martin Luther King Jr and the March on Washington Frances Ruffin Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Whatrsquos the Big Idea Ben Franklin Jean Fritz Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Helen Keller Courageous Advocate Scott Welvaert Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Vision of Beauty The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker Kathryn Lasky Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
THIRD GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
31 The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
Literary Student copy
31 The Bee Tree Patricia Polacco Literary Read aloud
31 ldquoA Page is a Doorrdquo Remy Charlip Informational Read aloud
31 My Librarian is a Camel How Books are Brought to Children Around the World Margriet Ruurs Informational Groups
31 The Red Book Barbara Lehman Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Literary Student copy
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
31 More Stories Julian Tells
ldquoI Learn Firefightingrdquo (ldquoI Wish for Smokey the Bearrdquo ldquoSuperboy and Merdquo and ldquoHuey Makes the Leaprdquo)
Ann Cameron Literary Assessment
32 A Logrsquos Life Wendy Pfeffer
Informational Student copy
32 Tell Me Tree All about Trees for Kids Gail Gibbons Informational Student copy
32 ldquoPrayer of the Woodsrdquo Unknown Literary (Poem) Student copy
32 ldquoWindy Treerdquo Aileen Fisher Literary Student copy
32 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein Literary Read aloud 32 The Lorax Dr Seuss Literary Student copy 32 A Tree is Growing Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud Basal 32 One Small Place in a Tree Barbara Brenner Literary Assessment Basal
33 Lapin Plays Possum Trickster Tales From the Louisiana Bayou Sharon Arms Doucet
Literary Read Aloud
33 Why Lapinrsquos Ears are Long And Other Tales Sharon Arms Doucet Literary Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
from the Louisiana Bayou
33 ldquoMrsquosu Carencro and Mangeur de Pouletrdquo JJ Reneaux Literary Groups
33 Dear Peter Rabbit Alma Flor Ada Literary Read Aloud
33 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Literary Student copy
33 Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens Literary Student copy 33 ldquoThe Giant of La Costa Villagerdquo S Noel Rideau Literary Assessment
33 Scott Foresman Social Studies Louisiana (Third Grade Textbook) Chapters 2 and 4 Scott Foresman Informational Read Aloud
Social Studies
Textbook
33 Writerrsquos Toolbox Learn How to Write Letters Fairy Tales Scary Stories Journals Poems and Reports
Nancy Loewen Informational Read Aloud
33 The Cajun Experience Historycom Nonnprint (Video) Read Aloud
33 The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Introduction ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit Brer Bear and the Peanut Patchrdquo ldquoThe Great Racerdquo ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit and the Tar Babyrdquo
Don Daily and Joel Chandler Harris Literary Student copy
34 Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson
Literary Student copy
34 The Ballad of the Pirate Queens Jane Yolen Literary Read Aloud 34 Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard Informational Groups
34 ldquoGeocaching Fact Sheetrdquo Geocachingcom Informational Read Aloud
34 Do California ldquoThe Gold Rushrdquo Splashpublicationscom Informational Read Aloud
34 ldquoThe Curse of King Tutrdquo Spencer Kayden Literary (Play) Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
34 ldquoThe Curse of the Hope Diamondrdquo The Lazy Editor Scholastic SCOPE Magazine Informational Groups
34 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Pirates Chapter 6 Pirate Treasure
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
34 The Mona Lisa Caper Rick Jacobson Literary Groups 34 The Stolen Smile J Patrick Lewis Groups
34 ldquoMissing Monardquo Scholastic Student copy
34 ldquoThe Legend of the Pharaohrsquos Curserdquo ReadWorksorg Informational Assessment
34 Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Travel Channel Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
35 The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal (What Would You Do) Elaine Landau Informational Student copy
35 The Louisiana Purchase From Independence to Lewis and Clark Michael Burgan Informational Student copy
35 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud
35 How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis and Clark Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
35 Lewis and Clark and Me A Dogrsquos Tale
Chapter 6 ldquoBuffalordquo and Chapter 7 ldquoKidnappedrdquo
Laurie Myers Literary Student copy
35 ldquoFreeman and Curtis Red River Expeditionrdquo wwwencyclopediaofarkansasnet Informational Student copy
35 ldquoGo West Across America With Lewis and Clarkrdquo National Geographic Kids Nonprint (website) Student copy
35 Mike Fink Steven Kellogg Literary Groups 35 Thunder Rose Jerdine Nolen Literary Groups 35 Swamp Angel Anne Isaacs Literary Groups
35 ldquoHome on the Rangerdquo Dr Brewster M Higley Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoThe Happy Wandererrdquo Florenz Friedrich Sigismund Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoVikings amp European Explorers Ferdinand Magellanrdquo ReadWorks Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
36 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog amp The Piglet And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Jennifer S Holland Informational Student copy
36 Amos amp Boris William Steig Literary Student copy
36 The Cricket in Time Square Pages 11-15 from Chapter 2 George Selden Literary Read aloud
36 Rosie A Visiting Dogrsquos Story Stephanie Calmenson Informational Student copy
36 ldquoLong-Leg Lou and Short Leg Suerdquo Shel Silverstein Literary Student copy
36 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Chapter 1 Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Creature Features Clown Anemonefish National Geographic Kids Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
36 My Life and Times Autobiography of a Stray Cat
Louisiana EAGLE Literary Assessment
36 Wild Wings Gill Lewis Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Paint the Wind Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Charlottersquos Web EB White Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 A Dogrsquos Way Home Bobbie Pyron Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 How to Steal a Dog Barbara OrsquoConnor Literary Groups (choice for independent
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FOURTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
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44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
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53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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2014-2015
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
K4 The Year at Maple Hill Farm Alice and Martin Provensen Informational Read aloud
K4 The Mitten Jan Brett Literary Read aloud
K4 ldquoSomething Told the Wild Geeserdquo Rachel Field Literary Read aloud
K4 ldquoChange is in the Airrdquo Pages 11-15 National Geographic Young Explorer March 2012 Informational Student copy
K4 What Do Animals Do in the Winter How Animals Survive the Cold
Melvin Berger Gilda Berger and Susan Harrison Informational Read aloud
K4 Animals in Winter Henrietta Bancroft Informational AssessmentRead aloud
K4 ldquoFour Seasonsrdquo PBS Kids Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
K4 ldquoThe Seasons of Farmingrdquo Pages 82-91 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 5 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
K5 From Seed to Plant Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
K5 The Tiny Seed Eric Carle Literary Read aloud
K5 One Bean Anne Rockwell Informational AssessmentRead aloud
K5 A Seed is Sleepy Dianna Hutts Aston Informational Read aloud
K5 ldquoPlant Partsrdquo Pages 19-30 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read Aloud
K5 ldquoPolly the Honeybeersquos Flower Tourrdquo Pages 56-64 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read Aloud
K5 ldquoJohnny Appleseedrdquo Pages 75-82 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read Aloud
K5 Leaf Stephen Michael King Nonprint (wordless Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
picture book) K5 The Carrot Seed Ruth Krauss Literary Read aloud K5 The Gigantic Sweet Potato Dianne De Las Casas Literary Read aloud
K5 ldquoPlants and Peoplerdquo Pages 100-108 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read Aloud
K5 Compost Stew Mary McKenna Siddals Informational Read aloud
K6 A is for America Devin Scillian
Informational Read aloud
K6 The Scrambled States of America Laurie Keller Literary Read aloud K6 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud K6 America Ishellip Louise Borden Literary Read aloud
K6 ldquoThe Home of the President Washington DCrdquo
Pages 10-21 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoA Dishonest Story About an Honest Manrdquo Pages 22-31 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrdquo Pages 55-65 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoAbraham Lincolnrdquo Pages 70-84 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoTeddy Rooseveltrdquo Pages 85-96 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoCarving Mount Rushmorerdquo Pages 107-117 of the Read-Aloud
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
K7 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Judi Barrett
Literary Read aloud
K7 ldquoThe Weather Outsiderdquo Pages 18-23 National Geographic Young Explorer September 2011 Informational Read aloud
K7 Weather Words Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud K7 The Wind Blew Pat Hitchens Literary Read aloud
K7 ldquoThe Windrdquo James Reeves Literary Read aloud
K7 The Cloud Book Tomie dePaolo Informational Read aloud
K7 ldquoApril Rain Songrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Read aloud
K7 Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Verna Aardema Literary Read aloud K7 The Rain Came Down David Shannon Literary Read aloud K7 Franklin and the Thunderstorm Paulette Bourgeois Literary Read aloud K7 Weather Forecasting Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIRST GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
11 Mooncake Frank Asch
Literary Read aloud
11 Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown Literary Student copy 11 The Moon Carmen Bredeson Informational Read aloud
11 The Moon ldquoVisiting the Moonrdquo Allison Lassieur Informational Read aloud
11 The Moon Book Pages 1-4 7 and 21-25 Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
11 Kittenrsquos First Full Moon
Kevin Henkes (Read aloud video available at httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=yToGxm5aQBs)
Literary Student copy
11 Moondance Frank Asch Literary Read aloud 11 Bear Shadow Frank Asch Literary Read aloud 11 Me and My Shadow Pages 1-19 Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud
11 ldquoMoon Picturesrdquo Curiosity on Discoverycom Nonprint (Photographs) Read aloud
11 Papa Please Get the Moon for Me Eric Carle Literary Assessment Read aloud
12 Frogs Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
12 ldquoFrog Facts Frogs vs Toadsrdquo KidZone Informational Read aloud
12 Frog and Toad are Friends Arnold Lobel Literary Read aloud 12 Frog and Toad All Year Arnold Lobel Literary Read aloud 12 The Mysterious Tadpole Stephen Kellogg Literary Read aloud
12 Tuesday David Wiesner Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
12 Something Froggy WiredSchool (The Franklin Institute) Nonprint (Website) Groups
12 ldquoThe Life Cycle of a Frogrdquo Pages 90-100 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
12 Texts from A Boy A Dog and A Frog (series) (eg One Frog Too Many Frog Goes to Dinner or Frog on His Own)
Mercer Mayer (Video available at DiscoveryEducationcom)
Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Read aloud
13 Rumpelstiltskin Pages 25-39 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 A Handful of Beans Six Fairy Tales Retold by Jeanne Steig Literary Read aloud 13 Seven Blind Mice Ed Young Literary Student copy
13 Sleeping Beauty Pages 11-24 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 The Frog-Prince Pages 54-79 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Rapunzel Pages 40-53 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Hansel and Gretel Pages 87-111 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Jack and the Beanstalk Pages 112-134 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 The Emperorrsquos New Clothes Hans Christian Andersen Literary Read aloud
14 Spiders Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
14 How Spider Tricked Snake Mirna Benitez Literary Groups 14 One-Hundred-and-One African-American Read- ldquoAnansi Saves Susan Kantor Literary Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Aloud Stories Anteloperdquo 14 Be Nice to Spiders Margaret Bloy Graham Literary Read aloud 14 Spiders Illa Podendorf Informational Read aloud 14 Mighty Spiders Fay Robinson Informational Read aloud 14 Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock Eric A Kimmel Literary Read aloud 14 The Very Busy Spider Eric Carle Literary Student copy 14 Diary of a Spider Doreen Cronin Literary Groups 14 Spiders Are Not Insects Allan Fowler Informational Groups
14 All Stories are Anansirsquos Pages 105-115 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 1 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
15 Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish
Literary Read aloud
15 Thank You Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Literary Groups 15 Teach Us Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Literary text Groups 15 Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day Robin Pulver Literary Read aloud 15 Punctuation Takes a Vacation Robin Pulver Literary Read aloud 15 In English Of Course Josephine Nobisso Literary Read aloud 15 A Day With a Carpenter Joanne Winne Informational Groups 15 A Day With a Doctor Jan Kottke Informational Groups 15 Hairy Scary Ordinary What is an Adjective Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud 15 A Mink a Fink a Skating Rink What is a Noun Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud 15 To Root to Toot Parachute What is a Verb Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud
16 Duck for President Doreen Cronin Literary Read aloud
16 If I Ran for President Catherine Stier Literary Read aloud 16 If I Were President Catherine Stier Literary Groups 16 Today on Election Day Catherine Stier Literary Read aloud 16 My Teacher for President Kay Winters Literary Groups
16 We Live Here Too Kids Talk About Good Citizenship
Nancy Loewen Literary Read aloud
16 If Everybody Did Jo Ann Stover Literary Student copy 16 Being a Leader (First Step Nonfiction) Robin Nelson Informational Student copy 16 Celebrating Presidentrsquos Day What Is a Kimberly Jordano and Trisha Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
President Callella-Jones 16 So You Want to be President Excerpt Judith St George Informational Read aloud
16 Why Are Elections Important (Know Your Government)
Jacqueline Laks Gorman Informational Groups
16 D is for Democracy Excerpt Elissa Grodin Informational Read aloud
16 We the Kids The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States
David Catrow Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SECOND GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
21 The Best Place Susan Meddaugh
Literary Student copy
21 My House is Singing ldquoOne Giant Hugrdquo and ldquoMy House is Singingrdquo
Betsy Rosenthal Literary (Poem) Student copy
21 ldquoYour Worldrdquo Georgia Douglas Johnson Literary (Poem) Read aloud
21 Fly Away Home Eve Bunting Literary Student copy 21 My House Has Stars Megan McDonald Literary Groups
21 Children From Australia to Zimbabwe A Photographic Journey around the World
ldquoVietnamrdquo and ldquoYemenrdquo ldquoBrazilrdquo ldquoJapanrdquo ldquoPhilippinesrdquo and ldquoUnited Statesrdquo
Maya Ajmera and Anna Rhesa Versola Informational Groups
21 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
ldquoThe Cyclonerdquo ldquoThe Council with the MunchkinsrdquoldquoHow the Balloon Was Launchedrdquo ldquoGlinda the Good Witch Grantrsquos Dorothyrsquos Wishrdquo (from the beginning until ldquoget back to Kansasrdquo in paragraph 8 and then paragraph 22 until the end) and ldquoHome Againrdquo
L Frank Baum Literary Read aloud
21 The Treasure Uri Shulevitz Literary Assessment 21 If You Lived Here Houses of the World Giles Laroche Informational Groups
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
22 Cinderella or online version Pages 10-22 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Marcia Brown or free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoThe Girl with the Red Slippersrdquo (Egyptian) Pages 23-36 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoBilly Begrdquo (Ireland) Pages 37-49 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 The Way Meat Loves Salt (Israel) Nina Jaffe Literary Groups 22 Domitila (Mexico) Jewell Reinhart Cobum Literary Groups 22 Yeh-Shen (China) Ai-Ling Louie Literary Groups 22 The Turkey Girl (American Indian) Penny Pollock Literary Groups 22 Mufarorsquos Beautiful Daughters (Africa) John Steptoe Literary Groups 22 Cendrillon (Caribbean) Robert San Souci Literary Groups
23 ldquoThirsty Planetrdquo October 2010 Pages 18-23 of the Projectable Edition
Beth Geiger (National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition)
Informational Read aloud
23 One Well The Story of Water on Earth Rochelle Strauss and Rosemary Woods Informational Read aloud
23 The Raft Jim LaMarche Literary Student copy
23 Down Comes the Rain Franklyn Branley and James Graham Hale Informational Student copy
23 A Drop of Water A Book of Science and Wonder Walter Wick Informational Read aloud
23 River Song with the Banana Slug String Band Steve Van Zandt and Katherine Zecca Literary Read aloud
23 A Drop Around the World Barbara Shaw McKinney Literary Read aloud
23 ldquoWilly the Water Droprdquo Pages 97-107 of the Read-
Free through Domain 11 of Core Knowledge Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
AloudAnthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
23 ldquoThe Water Cyclerdquo Pages 111-122 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
24 The Ox-Cart Man Donald Hall and Barbara Cooney
Literary Student copy
24 Charlottersquos Web Excerpt EB White Literary Read aloud
24 County Fair (My First Little House) Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jody Wheeler Literary Student copy
24 My Rows and Piles of Coins Tololwa Mollel Literary Read aloud Basal 24 The Paper Crane Molly Bang Literary Student copy 24 The Kamishibai Man Allan Say Literary Read aloud 24 The Stranger Chris Van Allsburg Literary Read aloud 24 The Little House Virginia Lee Burton Literary Student copy
24 Whorsquos Buying Whorsquos Selling Understanding Consumers and Producers Jennifer S Larson Informational Student copy
24 Horse-Drawn Days A Century of Farming with Horses Excerpt Jerry Apps Informational Read Aloud
24 Window Jeannine Baker Nonprint (wordless picture book) Student copy
24 ldquoFrom Farm to Marketrdquo Pages 92-101 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 5 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Student copy
25 Lives Poems About Famous Americans Lee Bennett Hopkins
Literary (Poems) Read aloud
25 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet Dennis Denenberg Informational Read aloud 25 Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary Read aloud 25 Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Literary Student copy 25 When Marian Sang Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Informational Read aloud
25 rdquoSusan B Anthony An Advocate for Womenrsquos Rightsrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Strand
25 ldquoEleanor Roosevelt A Voice for Human Rightsrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMary McLeod Bethune A Dedicated Teacherrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoJackie Robinson Champion of Equalityrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoRosa Parks The Mother of the Civil Rights Movementrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMartin Luther King Jr Defender of the Dreamrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 George Washington Carver Teacher Scientist and Inventor Lori Mortensen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture Book of Davy Crockett David Adler Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture of Book of Thomas Alva Edison David Adler Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
25 Pocahontas Shannon Zemlicka Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Teammates Peter Golenbock Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Martin Luther King Jr and the March on Washington Frances Ruffin Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Whatrsquos the Big Idea Ben Franklin Jean Fritz Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Helen Keller Courageous Advocate Scott Welvaert Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Vision of Beauty The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker Kathryn Lasky Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
THIRD GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
31 The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
Literary Student copy
31 The Bee Tree Patricia Polacco Literary Read aloud
31 ldquoA Page is a Doorrdquo Remy Charlip Informational Read aloud
31 My Librarian is a Camel How Books are Brought to Children Around the World Margriet Ruurs Informational Groups
31 The Red Book Barbara Lehman Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Literary Student copy
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
31 More Stories Julian Tells
ldquoI Learn Firefightingrdquo (ldquoI Wish for Smokey the Bearrdquo ldquoSuperboy and Merdquo and ldquoHuey Makes the Leaprdquo)
Ann Cameron Literary Assessment
32 A Logrsquos Life Wendy Pfeffer
Informational Student copy
32 Tell Me Tree All about Trees for Kids Gail Gibbons Informational Student copy
32 ldquoPrayer of the Woodsrdquo Unknown Literary (Poem) Student copy
32 ldquoWindy Treerdquo Aileen Fisher Literary Student copy
32 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein Literary Read aloud 32 The Lorax Dr Seuss Literary Student copy 32 A Tree is Growing Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud Basal 32 One Small Place in a Tree Barbara Brenner Literary Assessment Basal
33 Lapin Plays Possum Trickster Tales From the Louisiana Bayou Sharon Arms Doucet
Literary Read Aloud
33 Why Lapinrsquos Ears are Long And Other Tales Sharon Arms Doucet Literary Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
from the Louisiana Bayou
33 ldquoMrsquosu Carencro and Mangeur de Pouletrdquo JJ Reneaux Literary Groups
33 Dear Peter Rabbit Alma Flor Ada Literary Read Aloud
33 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Literary Student copy
33 Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens Literary Student copy 33 ldquoThe Giant of La Costa Villagerdquo S Noel Rideau Literary Assessment
33 Scott Foresman Social Studies Louisiana (Third Grade Textbook) Chapters 2 and 4 Scott Foresman Informational Read Aloud
Social Studies
Textbook
33 Writerrsquos Toolbox Learn How to Write Letters Fairy Tales Scary Stories Journals Poems and Reports
Nancy Loewen Informational Read Aloud
33 The Cajun Experience Historycom Nonnprint (Video) Read Aloud
33 The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Introduction ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit Brer Bear and the Peanut Patchrdquo ldquoThe Great Racerdquo ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit and the Tar Babyrdquo
Don Daily and Joel Chandler Harris Literary Student copy
34 Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson
Literary Student copy
34 The Ballad of the Pirate Queens Jane Yolen Literary Read Aloud 34 Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard Informational Groups
34 ldquoGeocaching Fact Sheetrdquo Geocachingcom Informational Read Aloud
34 Do California ldquoThe Gold Rushrdquo Splashpublicationscom Informational Read Aloud
34 ldquoThe Curse of King Tutrdquo Spencer Kayden Literary (Play) Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
34 ldquoThe Curse of the Hope Diamondrdquo The Lazy Editor Scholastic SCOPE Magazine Informational Groups
34 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Pirates Chapter 6 Pirate Treasure
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
34 The Mona Lisa Caper Rick Jacobson Literary Groups 34 The Stolen Smile J Patrick Lewis Groups
34 ldquoMissing Monardquo Scholastic Student copy
34 ldquoThe Legend of the Pharaohrsquos Curserdquo ReadWorksorg Informational Assessment
34 Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Travel Channel Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
35 The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal (What Would You Do) Elaine Landau Informational Student copy
35 The Louisiana Purchase From Independence to Lewis and Clark Michael Burgan Informational Student copy
35 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud
35 How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis and Clark Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
35 Lewis and Clark and Me A Dogrsquos Tale
Chapter 6 ldquoBuffalordquo and Chapter 7 ldquoKidnappedrdquo
Laurie Myers Literary Student copy
35 ldquoFreeman and Curtis Red River Expeditionrdquo wwwencyclopediaofarkansasnet Informational Student copy
35 ldquoGo West Across America With Lewis and Clarkrdquo National Geographic Kids Nonprint (website) Student copy
35 Mike Fink Steven Kellogg Literary Groups 35 Thunder Rose Jerdine Nolen Literary Groups 35 Swamp Angel Anne Isaacs Literary Groups
35 ldquoHome on the Rangerdquo Dr Brewster M Higley Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoThe Happy Wandererrdquo Florenz Friedrich Sigismund Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoVikings amp European Explorers Ferdinand Magellanrdquo ReadWorks Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
36 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog amp The Piglet And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Jennifer S Holland Informational Student copy
36 Amos amp Boris William Steig Literary Student copy
36 The Cricket in Time Square Pages 11-15 from Chapter 2 George Selden Literary Read aloud
36 Rosie A Visiting Dogrsquos Story Stephanie Calmenson Informational Student copy
36 ldquoLong-Leg Lou and Short Leg Suerdquo Shel Silverstein Literary Student copy
36 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Chapter 1 Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Creature Features Clown Anemonefish National Geographic Kids Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
36 My Life and Times Autobiography of a Stray Cat
Louisiana EAGLE Literary Assessment
36 Wild Wings Gill Lewis Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Paint the Wind Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Charlottersquos Web EB White Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 A Dogrsquos Way Home Bobbie Pyron Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 How to Steal a Dog Barbara OrsquoConnor Literary Groups (choice for independent
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FOURTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
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52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
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53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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2014-2015
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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2014-2015
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independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
picture book) K5 The Carrot Seed Ruth Krauss Literary Read aloud K5 The Gigantic Sweet Potato Dianne De Las Casas Literary Read aloud
K5 ldquoPlants and Peoplerdquo Pages 100-108 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 4 of Core Knowledge Grade K Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read Aloud
K5 Compost Stew Mary McKenna Siddals Informational Read aloud
K6 A is for America Devin Scillian
Informational Read aloud
K6 The Scrambled States of America Laurie Keller Literary Read aloud K6 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud K6 America Ishellip Louise Borden Literary Read aloud
K6 ldquoThe Home of the President Washington DCrdquo
Pages 10-21 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoA Dishonest Story About an Honest Manrdquo Pages 22-31 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrdquo Pages 55-65 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoAbraham Lincolnrdquo Pages 70-84 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoTeddy Rooseveltrdquo Pages 85-96 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
K6 ldquoCarving Mount Rushmorerdquo Pages 107-117 of the Read-Aloud
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
K7 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Judi Barrett
Literary Read aloud
K7 ldquoThe Weather Outsiderdquo Pages 18-23 National Geographic Young Explorer September 2011 Informational Read aloud
K7 Weather Words Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud K7 The Wind Blew Pat Hitchens Literary Read aloud
K7 ldquoThe Windrdquo James Reeves Literary Read aloud
K7 The Cloud Book Tomie dePaolo Informational Read aloud
K7 ldquoApril Rain Songrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Read aloud
K7 Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Verna Aardema Literary Read aloud K7 The Rain Came Down David Shannon Literary Read aloud K7 Franklin and the Thunderstorm Paulette Bourgeois Literary Read aloud K7 Weather Forecasting Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIRST GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
11 Mooncake Frank Asch
Literary Read aloud
11 Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown Literary Student copy 11 The Moon Carmen Bredeson Informational Read aloud
11 The Moon ldquoVisiting the Moonrdquo Allison Lassieur Informational Read aloud
11 The Moon Book Pages 1-4 7 and 21-25 Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
11 Kittenrsquos First Full Moon
Kevin Henkes (Read aloud video available at httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=yToGxm5aQBs)
Literary Student copy
11 Moondance Frank Asch Literary Read aloud 11 Bear Shadow Frank Asch Literary Read aloud 11 Me and My Shadow Pages 1-19 Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud
11 ldquoMoon Picturesrdquo Curiosity on Discoverycom Nonprint (Photographs) Read aloud
11 Papa Please Get the Moon for Me Eric Carle Literary Assessment Read aloud
12 Frogs Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
12 ldquoFrog Facts Frogs vs Toadsrdquo KidZone Informational Read aloud
12 Frog and Toad are Friends Arnold Lobel Literary Read aloud 12 Frog and Toad All Year Arnold Lobel Literary Read aloud 12 The Mysterious Tadpole Stephen Kellogg Literary Read aloud
12 Tuesday David Wiesner Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
12 Something Froggy WiredSchool (The Franklin Institute) Nonprint (Website) Groups
12 ldquoThe Life Cycle of a Frogrdquo Pages 90-100 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
12 Texts from A Boy A Dog and A Frog (series) (eg One Frog Too Many Frog Goes to Dinner or Frog on His Own)
Mercer Mayer (Video available at DiscoveryEducationcom)
Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Read aloud
13 Rumpelstiltskin Pages 25-39 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 A Handful of Beans Six Fairy Tales Retold by Jeanne Steig Literary Read aloud 13 Seven Blind Mice Ed Young Literary Student copy
13 Sleeping Beauty Pages 11-24 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 The Frog-Prince Pages 54-79 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Rapunzel Pages 40-53 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Hansel and Gretel Pages 87-111 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Jack and the Beanstalk Pages 112-134 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 The Emperorrsquos New Clothes Hans Christian Andersen Literary Read aloud
14 Spiders Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
14 How Spider Tricked Snake Mirna Benitez Literary Groups 14 One-Hundred-and-One African-American Read- ldquoAnansi Saves Susan Kantor Literary Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Aloud Stories Anteloperdquo 14 Be Nice to Spiders Margaret Bloy Graham Literary Read aloud 14 Spiders Illa Podendorf Informational Read aloud 14 Mighty Spiders Fay Robinson Informational Read aloud 14 Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock Eric A Kimmel Literary Read aloud 14 The Very Busy Spider Eric Carle Literary Student copy 14 Diary of a Spider Doreen Cronin Literary Groups 14 Spiders Are Not Insects Allan Fowler Informational Groups
14 All Stories are Anansirsquos Pages 105-115 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 1 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
15 Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish
Literary Read aloud
15 Thank You Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Literary Groups 15 Teach Us Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Literary text Groups 15 Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day Robin Pulver Literary Read aloud 15 Punctuation Takes a Vacation Robin Pulver Literary Read aloud 15 In English Of Course Josephine Nobisso Literary Read aloud 15 A Day With a Carpenter Joanne Winne Informational Groups 15 A Day With a Doctor Jan Kottke Informational Groups 15 Hairy Scary Ordinary What is an Adjective Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud 15 A Mink a Fink a Skating Rink What is a Noun Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud 15 To Root to Toot Parachute What is a Verb Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud
16 Duck for President Doreen Cronin Literary Read aloud
16 If I Ran for President Catherine Stier Literary Read aloud 16 If I Were President Catherine Stier Literary Groups 16 Today on Election Day Catherine Stier Literary Read aloud 16 My Teacher for President Kay Winters Literary Groups
16 We Live Here Too Kids Talk About Good Citizenship
Nancy Loewen Literary Read aloud
16 If Everybody Did Jo Ann Stover Literary Student copy 16 Being a Leader (First Step Nonfiction) Robin Nelson Informational Student copy 16 Celebrating Presidentrsquos Day What Is a Kimberly Jordano and Trisha Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
President Callella-Jones 16 So You Want to be President Excerpt Judith St George Informational Read aloud
16 Why Are Elections Important (Know Your Government)
Jacqueline Laks Gorman Informational Groups
16 D is for Democracy Excerpt Elissa Grodin Informational Read aloud
16 We the Kids The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States
David Catrow Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SECOND GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
21 The Best Place Susan Meddaugh
Literary Student copy
21 My House is Singing ldquoOne Giant Hugrdquo and ldquoMy House is Singingrdquo
Betsy Rosenthal Literary (Poem) Student copy
21 ldquoYour Worldrdquo Georgia Douglas Johnson Literary (Poem) Read aloud
21 Fly Away Home Eve Bunting Literary Student copy 21 My House Has Stars Megan McDonald Literary Groups
21 Children From Australia to Zimbabwe A Photographic Journey around the World
ldquoVietnamrdquo and ldquoYemenrdquo ldquoBrazilrdquo ldquoJapanrdquo ldquoPhilippinesrdquo and ldquoUnited Statesrdquo
Maya Ajmera and Anna Rhesa Versola Informational Groups
21 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
ldquoThe Cyclonerdquo ldquoThe Council with the MunchkinsrdquoldquoHow the Balloon Was Launchedrdquo ldquoGlinda the Good Witch Grantrsquos Dorothyrsquos Wishrdquo (from the beginning until ldquoget back to Kansasrdquo in paragraph 8 and then paragraph 22 until the end) and ldquoHome Againrdquo
L Frank Baum Literary Read aloud
21 The Treasure Uri Shulevitz Literary Assessment 21 If You Lived Here Houses of the World Giles Laroche Informational Groups
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
22 Cinderella or online version Pages 10-22 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Marcia Brown or free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoThe Girl with the Red Slippersrdquo (Egyptian) Pages 23-36 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoBilly Begrdquo (Ireland) Pages 37-49 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 The Way Meat Loves Salt (Israel) Nina Jaffe Literary Groups 22 Domitila (Mexico) Jewell Reinhart Cobum Literary Groups 22 Yeh-Shen (China) Ai-Ling Louie Literary Groups 22 The Turkey Girl (American Indian) Penny Pollock Literary Groups 22 Mufarorsquos Beautiful Daughters (Africa) John Steptoe Literary Groups 22 Cendrillon (Caribbean) Robert San Souci Literary Groups
23 ldquoThirsty Planetrdquo October 2010 Pages 18-23 of the Projectable Edition
Beth Geiger (National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition)
Informational Read aloud
23 One Well The Story of Water on Earth Rochelle Strauss and Rosemary Woods Informational Read aloud
23 The Raft Jim LaMarche Literary Student copy
23 Down Comes the Rain Franklyn Branley and James Graham Hale Informational Student copy
23 A Drop of Water A Book of Science and Wonder Walter Wick Informational Read aloud
23 River Song with the Banana Slug String Band Steve Van Zandt and Katherine Zecca Literary Read aloud
23 A Drop Around the World Barbara Shaw McKinney Literary Read aloud
23 ldquoWilly the Water Droprdquo Pages 97-107 of the Read-
Free through Domain 11 of Core Knowledge Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
AloudAnthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
23 ldquoThe Water Cyclerdquo Pages 111-122 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
24 The Ox-Cart Man Donald Hall and Barbara Cooney
Literary Student copy
24 Charlottersquos Web Excerpt EB White Literary Read aloud
24 County Fair (My First Little House) Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jody Wheeler Literary Student copy
24 My Rows and Piles of Coins Tololwa Mollel Literary Read aloud Basal 24 The Paper Crane Molly Bang Literary Student copy 24 The Kamishibai Man Allan Say Literary Read aloud 24 The Stranger Chris Van Allsburg Literary Read aloud 24 The Little House Virginia Lee Burton Literary Student copy
24 Whorsquos Buying Whorsquos Selling Understanding Consumers and Producers Jennifer S Larson Informational Student copy
24 Horse-Drawn Days A Century of Farming with Horses Excerpt Jerry Apps Informational Read Aloud
24 Window Jeannine Baker Nonprint (wordless picture book) Student copy
24 ldquoFrom Farm to Marketrdquo Pages 92-101 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 5 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Student copy
25 Lives Poems About Famous Americans Lee Bennett Hopkins
Literary (Poems) Read aloud
25 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet Dennis Denenberg Informational Read aloud 25 Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary Read aloud 25 Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Literary Student copy 25 When Marian Sang Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Informational Read aloud
25 rdquoSusan B Anthony An Advocate for Womenrsquos Rightsrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Strand
25 ldquoEleanor Roosevelt A Voice for Human Rightsrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMary McLeod Bethune A Dedicated Teacherrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoJackie Robinson Champion of Equalityrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoRosa Parks The Mother of the Civil Rights Movementrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMartin Luther King Jr Defender of the Dreamrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 George Washington Carver Teacher Scientist and Inventor Lori Mortensen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture Book of Davy Crockett David Adler Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture of Book of Thomas Alva Edison David Adler Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
25 Pocahontas Shannon Zemlicka Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Teammates Peter Golenbock Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Martin Luther King Jr and the March on Washington Frances Ruffin Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Whatrsquos the Big Idea Ben Franklin Jean Fritz Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Helen Keller Courageous Advocate Scott Welvaert Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Vision of Beauty The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker Kathryn Lasky Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
THIRD GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
31 The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
Literary Student copy
31 The Bee Tree Patricia Polacco Literary Read aloud
31 ldquoA Page is a Doorrdquo Remy Charlip Informational Read aloud
31 My Librarian is a Camel How Books are Brought to Children Around the World Margriet Ruurs Informational Groups
31 The Red Book Barbara Lehman Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Literary Student copy
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
31 More Stories Julian Tells
ldquoI Learn Firefightingrdquo (ldquoI Wish for Smokey the Bearrdquo ldquoSuperboy and Merdquo and ldquoHuey Makes the Leaprdquo)
Ann Cameron Literary Assessment
32 A Logrsquos Life Wendy Pfeffer
Informational Student copy
32 Tell Me Tree All about Trees for Kids Gail Gibbons Informational Student copy
32 ldquoPrayer of the Woodsrdquo Unknown Literary (Poem) Student copy
32 ldquoWindy Treerdquo Aileen Fisher Literary Student copy
32 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein Literary Read aloud 32 The Lorax Dr Seuss Literary Student copy 32 A Tree is Growing Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud Basal 32 One Small Place in a Tree Barbara Brenner Literary Assessment Basal
33 Lapin Plays Possum Trickster Tales From the Louisiana Bayou Sharon Arms Doucet
Literary Read Aloud
33 Why Lapinrsquos Ears are Long And Other Tales Sharon Arms Doucet Literary Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
from the Louisiana Bayou
33 ldquoMrsquosu Carencro and Mangeur de Pouletrdquo JJ Reneaux Literary Groups
33 Dear Peter Rabbit Alma Flor Ada Literary Read Aloud
33 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Literary Student copy
33 Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens Literary Student copy 33 ldquoThe Giant of La Costa Villagerdquo S Noel Rideau Literary Assessment
33 Scott Foresman Social Studies Louisiana (Third Grade Textbook) Chapters 2 and 4 Scott Foresman Informational Read Aloud
Social Studies
Textbook
33 Writerrsquos Toolbox Learn How to Write Letters Fairy Tales Scary Stories Journals Poems and Reports
Nancy Loewen Informational Read Aloud
33 The Cajun Experience Historycom Nonnprint (Video) Read Aloud
33 The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Introduction ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit Brer Bear and the Peanut Patchrdquo ldquoThe Great Racerdquo ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit and the Tar Babyrdquo
Don Daily and Joel Chandler Harris Literary Student copy
34 Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson
Literary Student copy
34 The Ballad of the Pirate Queens Jane Yolen Literary Read Aloud 34 Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard Informational Groups
34 ldquoGeocaching Fact Sheetrdquo Geocachingcom Informational Read Aloud
34 Do California ldquoThe Gold Rushrdquo Splashpublicationscom Informational Read Aloud
34 ldquoThe Curse of King Tutrdquo Spencer Kayden Literary (Play) Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
34 ldquoThe Curse of the Hope Diamondrdquo The Lazy Editor Scholastic SCOPE Magazine Informational Groups
34 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Pirates Chapter 6 Pirate Treasure
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
34 The Mona Lisa Caper Rick Jacobson Literary Groups 34 The Stolen Smile J Patrick Lewis Groups
34 ldquoMissing Monardquo Scholastic Student copy
34 ldquoThe Legend of the Pharaohrsquos Curserdquo ReadWorksorg Informational Assessment
34 Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Travel Channel Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
35 The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal (What Would You Do) Elaine Landau Informational Student copy
35 The Louisiana Purchase From Independence to Lewis and Clark Michael Burgan Informational Student copy
35 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud
35 How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis and Clark Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
35 Lewis and Clark and Me A Dogrsquos Tale
Chapter 6 ldquoBuffalordquo and Chapter 7 ldquoKidnappedrdquo
Laurie Myers Literary Student copy
35 ldquoFreeman and Curtis Red River Expeditionrdquo wwwencyclopediaofarkansasnet Informational Student copy
35 ldquoGo West Across America With Lewis and Clarkrdquo National Geographic Kids Nonprint (website) Student copy
35 Mike Fink Steven Kellogg Literary Groups 35 Thunder Rose Jerdine Nolen Literary Groups 35 Swamp Angel Anne Isaacs Literary Groups
35 ldquoHome on the Rangerdquo Dr Brewster M Higley Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoThe Happy Wandererrdquo Florenz Friedrich Sigismund Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoVikings amp European Explorers Ferdinand Magellanrdquo ReadWorks Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
36 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog amp The Piglet And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Jennifer S Holland Informational Student copy
36 Amos amp Boris William Steig Literary Student copy
36 The Cricket in Time Square Pages 11-15 from Chapter 2 George Selden Literary Read aloud
36 Rosie A Visiting Dogrsquos Story Stephanie Calmenson Informational Student copy
36 ldquoLong-Leg Lou and Short Leg Suerdquo Shel Silverstein Literary Student copy
36 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Chapter 1 Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Creature Features Clown Anemonefish National Geographic Kids Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
36 My Life and Times Autobiography of a Stray Cat
Louisiana EAGLE Literary Assessment
36 Wild Wings Gill Lewis Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Paint the Wind Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Charlottersquos Web EB White Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 A Dogrsquos Way Home Bobbie Pyron Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 How to Steal a Dog Barbara OrsquoConnor Literary Groups (choice for independent
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FOURTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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2014-2015
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61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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2014-2015
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independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Kindergarten
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
K7 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Judi Barrett
Literary Read aloud
K7 ldquoThe Weather Outsiderdquo Pages 18-23 National Geographic Young Explorer September 2011 Informational Read aloud
K7 Weather Words Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud K7 The Wind Blew Pat Hitchens Literary Read aloud
K7 ldquoThe Windrdquo James Reeves Literary Read aloud
K7 The Cloud Book Tomie dePaolo Informational Read aloud
K7 ldquoApril Rain Songrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Read aloud
K7 Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Verna Aardema Literary Read aloud K7 The Rain Came Down David Shannon Literary Read aloud K7 Franklin and the Thunderstorm Paulette Bourgeois Literary Read aloud K7 Weather Forecasting Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIRST GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
11 Mooncake Frank Asch
Literary Read aloud
11 Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown Literary Student copy 11 The Moon Carmen Bredeson Informational Read aloud
11 The Moon ldquoVisiting the Moonrdquo Allison Lassieur Informational Read aloud
11 The Moon Book Pages 1-4 7 and 21-25 Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
11 Kittenrsquos First Full Moon
Kevin Henkes (Read aloud video available at httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=yToGxm5aQBs)
Literary Student copy
11 Moondance Frank Asch Literary Read aloud 11 Bear Shadow Frank Asch Literary Read aloud 11 Me and My Shadow Pages 1-19 Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud
11 ldquoMoon Picturesrdquo Curiosity on Discoverycom Nonprint (Photographs) Read aloud
11 Papa Please Get the Moon for Me Eric Carle Literary Assessment Read aloud
12 Frogs Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
12 ldquoFrog Facts Frogs vs Toadsrdquo KidZone Informational Read aloud
12 Frog and Toad are Friends Arnold Lobel Literary Read aloud 12 Frog and Toad All Year Arnold Lobel Literary Read aloud 12 The Mysterious Tadpole Stephen Kellogg Literary Read aloud
12 Tuesday David Wiesner Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
12 Something Froggy WiredSchool (The Franklin Institute) Nonprint (Website) Groups
12 ldquoThe Life Cycle of a Frogrdquo Pages 90-100 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
12 Texts from A Boy A Dog and A Frog (series) (eg One Frog Too Many Frog Goes to Dinner or Frog on His Own)
Mercer Mayer (Video available at DiscoveryEducationcom)
Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Read aloud
13 Rumpelstiltskin Pages 25-39 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 A Handful of Beans Six Fairy Tales Retold by Jeanne Steig Literary Read aloud 13 Seven Blind Mice Ed Young Literary Student copy
13 Sleeping Beauty Pages 11-24 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 The Frog-Prince Pages 54-79 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Rapunzel Pages 40-53 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Hansel and Gretel Pages 87-111 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Jack and the Beanstalk Pages 112-134 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 The Emperorrsquos New Clothes Hans Christian Andersen Literary Read aloud
14 Spiders Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
14 How Spider Tricked Snake Mirna Benitez Literary Groups 14 One-Hundred-and-One African-American Read- ldquoAnansi Saves Susan Kantor Literary Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Aloud Stories Anteloperdquo 14 Be Nice to Spiders Margaret Bloy Graham Literary Read aloud 14 Spiders Illa Podendorf Informational Read aloud 14 Mighty Spiders Fay Robinson Informational Read aloud 14 Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock Eric A Kimmel Literary Read aloud 14 The Very Busy Spider Eric Carle Literary Student copy 14 Diary of a Spider Doreen Cronin Literary Groups 14 Spiders Are Not Insects Allan Fowler Informational Groups
14 All Stories are Anansirsquos Pages 105-115 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 1 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
15 Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish
Literary Read aloud
15 Thank You Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Literary Groups 15 Teach Us Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Literary text Groups 15 Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day Robin Pulver Literary Read aloud 15 Punctuation Takes a Vacation Robin Pulver Literary Read aloud 15 In English Of Course Josephine Nobisso Literary Read aloud 15 A Day With a Carpenter Joanne Winne Informational Groups 15 A Day With a Doctor Jan Kottke Informational Groups 15 Hairy Scary Ordinary What is an Adjective Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud 15 A Mink a Fink a Skating Rink What is a Noun Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud 15 To Root to Toot Parachute What is a Verb Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud
16 Duck for President Doreen Cronin Literary Read aloud
16 If I Ran for President Catherine Stier Literary Read aloud 16 If I Were President Catherine Stier Literary Groups 16 Today on Election Day Catherine Stier Literary Read aloud 16 My Teacher for President Kay Winters Literary Groups
16 We Live Here Too Kids Talk About Good Citizenship
Nancy Loewen Literary Read aloud
16 If Everybody Did Jo Ann Stover Literary Student copy 16 Being a Leader (First Step Nonfiction) Robin Nelson Informational Student copy 16 Celebrating Presidentrsquos Day What Is a Kimberly Jordano and Trisha Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
President Callella-Jones 16 So You Want to be President Excerpt Judith St George Informational Read aloud
16 Why Are Elections Important (Know Your Government)
Jacqueline Laks Gorman Informational Groups
16 D is for Democracy Excerpt Elissa Grodin Informational Read aloud
16 We the Kids The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States
David Catrow Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SECOND GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
21 The Best Place Susan Meddaugh
Literary Student copy
21 My House is Singing ldquoOne Giant Hugrdquo and ldquoMy House is Singingrdquo
Betsy Rosenthal Literary (Poem) Student copy
21 ldquoYour Worldrdquo Georgia Douglas Johnson Literary (Poem) Read aloud
21 Fly Away Home Eve Bunting Literary Student copy 21 My House Has Stars Megan McDonald Literary Groups
21 Children From Australia to Zimbabwe A Photographic Journey around the World
ldquoVietnamrdquo and ldquoYemenrdquo ldquoBrazilrdquo ldquoJapanrdquo ldquoPhilippinesrdquo and ldquoUnited Statesrdquo
Maya Ajmera and Anna Rhesa Versola Informational Groups
21 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
ldquoThe Cyclonerdquo ldquoThe Council with the MunchkinsrdquoldquoHow the Balloon Was Launchedrdquo ldquoGlinda the Good Witch Grantrsquos Dorothyrsquos Wishrdquo (from the beginning until ldquoget back to Kansasrdquo in paragraph 8 and then paragraph 22 until the end) and ldquoHome Againrdquo
L Frank Baum Literary Read aloud
21 The Treasure Uri Shulevitz Literary Assessment 21 If You Lived Here Houses of the World Giles Laroche Informational Groups
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
22 Cinderella or online version Pages 10-22 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Marcia Brown or free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoThe Girl with the Red Slippersrdquo (Egyptian) Pages 23-36 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoBilly Begrdquo (Ireland) Pages 37-49 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 The Way Meat Loves Salt (Israel) Nina Jaffe Literary Groups 22 Domitila (Mexico) Jewell Reinhart Cobum Literary Groups 22 Yeh-Shen (China) Ai-Ling Louie Literary Groups 22 The Turkey Girl (American Indian) Penny Pollock Literary Groups 22 Mufarorsquos Beautiful Daughters (Africa) John Steptoe Literary Groups 22 Cendrillon (Caribbean) Robert San Souci Literary Groups
23 ldquoThirsty Planetrdquo October 2010 Pages 18-23 of the Projectable Edition
Beth Geiger (National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition)
Informational Read aloud
23 One Well The Story of Water on Earth Rochelle Strauss and Rosemary Woods Informational Read aloud
23 The Raft Jim LaMarche Literary Student copy
23 Down Comes the Rain Franklyn Branley and James Graham Hale Informational Student copy
23 A Drop of Water A Book of Science and Wonder Walter Wick Informational Read aloud
23 River Song with the Banana Slug String Band Steve Van Zandt and Katherine Zecca Literary Read aloud
23 A Drop Around the World Barbara Shaw McKinney Literary Read aloud
23 ldquoWilly the Water Droprdquo Pages 97-107 of the Read-
Free through Domain 11 of Core Knowledge Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
AloudAnthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
23 ldquoThe Water Cyclerdquo Pages 111-122 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
24 The Ox-Cart Man Donald Hall and Barbara Cooney
Literary Student copy
24 Charlottersquos Web Excerpt EB White Literary Read aloud
24 County Fair (My First Little House) Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jody Wheeler Literary Student copy
24 My Rows and Piles of Coins Tololwa Mollel Literary Read aloud Basal 24 The Paper Crane Molly Bang Literary Student copy 24 The Kamishibai Man Allan Say Literary Read aloud 24 The Stranger Chris Van Allsburg Literary Read aloud 24 The Little House Virginia Lee Burton Literary Student copy
24 Whorsquos Buying Whorsquos Selling Understanding Consumers and Producers Jennifer S Larson Informational Student copy
24 Horse-Drawn Days A Century of Farming with Horses Excerpt Jerry Apps Informational Read Aloud
24 Window Jeannine Baker Nonprint (wordless picture book) Student copy
24 ldquoFrom Farm to Marketrdquo Pages 92-101 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 5 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Student copy
25 Lives Poems About Famous Americans Lee Bennett Hopkins
Literary (Poems) Read aloud
25 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet Dennis Denenberg Informational Read aloud 25 Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary Read aloud 25 Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Literary Student copy 25 When Marian Sang Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Informational Read aloud
25 rdquoSusan B Anthony An Advocate for Womenrsquos Rightsrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning
Informational Read aloud
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Strand
25 ldquoEleanor Roosevelt A Voice for Human Rightsrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMary McLeod Bethune A Dedicated Teacherrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoJackie Robinson Champion of Equalityrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoRosa Parks The Mother of the Civil Rights Movementrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMartin Luther King Jr Defender of the Dreamrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 George Washington Carver Teacher Scientist and Inventor Lori Mortensen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture Book of Davy Crockett David Adler Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture of Book of Thomas Alva Edison David Adler Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
25 Pocahontas Shannon Zemlicka Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Teammates Peter Golenbock Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Martin Luther King Jr and the March on Washington Frances Ruffin Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Whatrsquos the Big Idea Ben Franklin Jean Fritz Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Helen Keller Courageous Advocate Scott Welvaert Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Vision of Beauty The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker Kathryn Lasky Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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THIRD GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
31 The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
Literary Student copy
31 The Bee Tree Patricia Polacco Literary Read aloud
31 ldquoA Page is a Doorrdquo Remy Charlip Informational Read aloud
31 My Librarian is a Camel How Books are Brought to Children Around the World Margriet Ruurs Informational Groups
31 The Red Book Barbara Lehman Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Literary Student copy
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
31 More Stories Julian Tells
ldquoI Learn Firefightingrdquo (ldquoI Wish for Smokey the Bearrdquo ldquoSuperboy and Merdquo and ldquoHuey Makes the Leaprdquo)
Ann Cameron Literary Assessment
32 A Logrsquos Life Wendy Pfeffer
Informational Student copy
32 Tell Me Tree All about Trees for Kids Gail Gibbons Informational Student copy
32 ldquoPrayer of the Woodsrdquo Unknown Literary (Poem) Student copy
32 ldquoWindy Treerdquo Aileen Fisher Literary Student copy
32 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein Literary Read aloud 32 The Lorax Dr Seuss Literary Student copy 32 A Tree is Growing Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud Basal 32 One Small Place in a Tree Barbara Brenner Literary Assessment Basal
33 Lapin Plays Possum Trickster Tales From the Louisiana Bayou Sharon Arms Doucet
Literary Read Aloud
33 Why Lapinrsquos Ears are Long And Other Tales Sharon Arms Doucet Literary Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
from the Louisiana Bayou
33 ldquoMrsquosu Carencro and Mangeur de Pouletrdquo JJ Reneaux Literary Groups
33 Dear Peter Rabbit Alma Flor Ada Literary Read Aloud
33 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Literary Student copy
33 Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens Literary Student copy 33 ldquoThe Giant of La Costa Villagerdquo S Noel Rideau Literary Assessment
33 Scott Foresman Social Studies Louisiana (Third Grade Textbook) Chapters 2 and 4 Scott Foresman Informational Read Aloud
Social Studies
Textbook
33 Writerrsquos Toolbox Learn How to Write Letters Fairy Tales Scary Stories Journals Poems and Reports
Nancy Loewen Informational Read Aloud
33 The Cajun Experience Historycom Nonnprint (Video) Read Aloud
33 The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Introduction ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit Brer Bear and the Peanut Patchrdquo ldquoThe Great Racerdquo ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit and the Tar Babyrdquo
Don Daily and Joel Chandler Harris Literary Student copy
34 Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson
Literary Student copy
34 The Ballad of the Pirate Queens Jane Yolen Literary Read Aloud 34 Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard Informational Groups
34 ldquoGeocaching Fact Sheetrdquo Geocachingcom Informational Read Aloud
34 Do California ldquoThe Gold Rushrdquo Splashpublicationscom Informational Read Aloud
34 ldquoThe Curse of King Tutrdquo Spencer Kayden Literary (Play) Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
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2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
34 ldquoThe Curse of the Hope Diamondrdquo The Lazy Editor Scholastic SCOPE Magazine Informational Groups
34 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Pirates Chapter 6 Pirate Treasure
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
34 The Mona Lisa Caper Rick Jacobson Literary Groups 34 The Stolen Smile J Patrick Lewis Groups
34 ldquoMissing Monardquo Scholastic Student copy
34 ldquoThe Legend of the Pharaohrsquos Curserdquo ReadWorksorg Informational Assessment
34 Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Travel Channel Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
35 The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal (What Would You Do) Elaine Landau Informational Student copy
35 The Louisiana Purchase From Independence to Lewis and Clark Michael Burgan Informational Student copy
35 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud
35 How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis and Clark Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
35 Lewis and Clark and Me A Dogrsquos Tale
Chapter 6 ldquoBuffalordquo and Chapter 7 ldquoKidnappedrdquo
Laurie Myers Literary Student copy
35 ldquoFreeman and Curtis Red River Expeditionrdquo wwwencyclopediaofarkansasnet Informational Student copy
35 ldquoGo West Across America With Lewis and Clarkrdquo National Geographic Kids Nonprint (website) Student copy
35 Mike Fink Steven Kellogg Literary Groups 35 Thunder Rose Jerdine Nolen Literary Groups 35 Swamp Angel Anne Isaacs Literary Groups
35 ldquoHome on the Rangerdquo Dr Brewster M Higley Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoThe Happy Wandererrdquo Florenz Friedrich Sigismund Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoVikings amp European Explorers Ferdinand Magellanrdquo ReadWorks Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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36 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog amp The Piglet And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Jennifer S Holland Informational Student copy
36 Amos amp Boris William Steig Literary Student copy
36 The Cricket in Time Square Pages 11-15 from Chapter 2 George Selden Literary Read aloud
36 Rosie A Visiting Dogrsquos Story Stephanie Calmenson Informational Student copy
36 ldquoLong-Leg Lou and Short Leg Suerdquo Shel Silverstein Literary Student copy
36 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Chapter 1 Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Creature Features Clown Anemonefish National Geographic Kids Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
36 My Life and Times Autobiography of a Stray Cat
Louisiana EAGLE Literary Assessment
36 Wild Wings Gill Lewis Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Paint the Wind Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Charlottersquos Web EB White Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 A Dogrsquos Way Home Bobbie Pyron Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 How to Steal a Dog Barbara OrsquoConnor Literary Groups (choice for independent
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FOURTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
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44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
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2014-2015
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51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
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53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
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2014-2015
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55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIRST GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
11 Mooncake Frank Asch
Literary Read aloud
11 Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown Literary Student copy 11 The Moon Carmen Bredeson Informational Read aloud
11 The Moon ldquoVisiting the Moonrdquo Allison Lassieur Informational Read aloud
11 The Moon Book Pages 1-4 7 and 21-25 Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
11 Kittenrsquos First Full Moon
Kevin Henkes (Read aloud video available at httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=yToGxm5aQBs)
Literary Student copy
11 Moondance Frank Asch Literary Read aloud 11 Bear Shadow Frank Asch Literary Read aloud 11 Me and My Shadow Pages 1-19 Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud
11 ldquoMoon Picturesrdquo Curiosity on Discoverycom Nonprint (Photographs) Read aloud
11 Papa Please Get the Moon for Me Eric Carle Literary Assessment Read aloud
12 Frogs Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
12 ldquoFrog Facts Frogs vs Toadsrdquo KidZone Informational Read aloud
12 Frog and Toad are Friends Arnold Lobel Literary Read aloud 12 Frog and Toad All Year Arnold Lobel Literary Read aloud 12 The Mysterious Tadpole Stephen Kellogg Literary Read aloud
12 Tuesday David Wiesner Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
12 Something Froggy WiredSchool (The Franklin Institute) Nonprint (Website) Groups
12 ldquoThe Life Cycle of a Frogrdquo Pages 90-100 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
12 Texts from A Boy A Dog and A Frog (series) (eg One Frog Too Many Frog Goes to Dinner or Frog on His Own)
Mercer Mayer (Video available at DiscoveryEducationcom)
Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Read aloud
13 Rumpelstiltskin Pages 25-39 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 A Handful of Beans Six Fairy Tales Retold by Jeanne Steig Literary Read aloud 13 Seven Blind Mice Ed Young Literary Student copy
13 Sleeping Beauty Pages 11-24 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 The Frog-Prince Pages 54-79 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Rapunzel Pages 40-53 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Hansel and Gretel Pages 87-111 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Jack and the Beanstalk Pages 112-134 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 The Emperorrsquos New Clothes Hans Christian Andersen Literary Read aloud
14 Spiders Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
14 How Spider Tricked Snake Mirna Benitez Literary Groups 14 One-Hundred-and-One African-American Read- ldquoAnansi Saves Susan Kantor Literary Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Aloud Stories Anteloperdquo 14 Be Nice to Spiders Margaret Bloy Graham Literary Read aloud 14 Spiders Illa Podendorf Informational Read aloud 14 Mighty Spiders Fay Robinson Informational Read aloud 14 Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock Eric A Kimmel Literary Read aloud 14 The Very Busy Spider Eric Carle Literary Student copy 14 Diary of a Spider Doreen Cronin Literary Groups 14 Spiders Are Not Insects Allan Fowler Informational Groups
14 All Stories are Anansirsquos Pages 105-115 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 1 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
15 Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish
Literary Read aloud
15 Thank You Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Literary Groups 15 Teach Us Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Literary text Groups 15 Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day Robin Pulver Literary Read aloud 15 Punctuation Takes a Vacation Robin Pulver Literary Read aloud 15 In English Of Course Josephine Nobisso Literary Read aloud 15 A Day With a Carpenter Joanne Winne Informational Groups 15 A Day With a Doctor Jan Kottke Informational Groups 15 Hairy Scary Ordinary What is an Adjective Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud 15 A Mink a Fink a Skating Rink What is a Noun Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud 15 To Root to Toot Parachute What is a Verb Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud
16 Duck for President Doreen Cronin Literary Read aloud
16 If I Ran for President Catherine Stier Literary Read aloud 16 If I Were President Catherine Stier Literary Groups 16 Today on Election Day Catherine Stier Literary Read aloud 16 My Teacher for President Kay Winters Literary Groups
16 We Live Here Too Kids Talk About Good Citizenship
Nancy Loewen Literary Read aloud
16 If Everybody Did Jo Ann Stover Literary Student copy 16 Being a Leader (First Step Nonfiction) Robin Nelson Informational Student copy 16 Celebrating Presidentrsquos Day What Is a Kimberly Jordano and Trisha Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
President Callella-Jones 16 So You Want to be President Excerpt Judith St George Informational Read aloud
16 Why Are Elections Important (Know Your Government)
Jacqueline Laks Gorman Informational Groups
16 D is for Democracy Excerpt Elissa Grodin Informational Read aloud
16 We the Kids The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States
David Catrow Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SECOND GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
21 The Best Place Susan Meddaugh
Literary Student copy
21 My House is Singing ldquoOne Giant Hugrdquo and ldquoMy House is Singingrdquo
Betsy Rosenthal Literary (Poem) Student copy
21 ldquoYour Worldrdquo Georgia Douglas Johnson Literary (Poem) Read aloud
21 Fly Away Home Eve Bunting Literary Student copy 21 My House Has Stars Megan McDonald Literary Groups
21 Children From Australia to Zimbabwe A Photographic Journey around the World
ldquoVietnamrdquo and ldquoYemenrdquo ldquoBrazilrdquo ldquoJapanrdquo ldquoPhilippinesrdquo and ldquoUnited Statesrdquo
Maya Ajmera and Anna Rhesa Versola Informational Groups
21 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
ldquoThe Cyclonerdquo ldquoThe Council with the MunchkinsrdquoldquoHow the Balloon Was Launchedrdquo ldquoGlinda the Good Witch Grantrsquos Dorothyrsquos Wishrdquo (from the beginning until ldquoget back to Kansasrdquo in paragraph 8 and then paragraph 22 until the end) and ldquoHome Againrdquo
L Frank Baum Literary Read aloud
21 The Treasure Uri Shulevitz Literary Assessment 21 If You Lived Here Houses of the World Giles Laroche Informational Groups
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
22 Cinderella or online version Pages 10-22 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Marcia Brown or free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoThe Girl with the Red Slippersrdquo (Egyptian) Pages 23-36 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoBilly Begrdquo (Ireland) Pages 37-49 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 The Way Meat Loves Salt (Israel) Nina Jaffe Literary Groups 22 Domitila (Mexico) Jewell Reinhart Cobum Literary Groups 22 Yeh-Shen (China) Ai-Ling Louie Literary Groups 22 The Turkey Girl (American Indian) Penny Pollock Literary Groups 22 Mufarorsquos Beautiful Daughters (Africa) John Steptoe Literary Groups 22 Cendrillon (Caribbean) Robert San Souci Literary Groups
23 ldquoThirsty Planetrdquo October 2010 Pages 18-23 of the Projectable Edition
Beth Geiger (National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition)
Informational Read aloud
23 One Well The Story of Water on Earth Rochelle Strauss and Rosemary Woods Informational Read aloud
23 The Raft Jim LaMarche Literary Student copy
23 Down Comes the Rain Franklyn Branley and James Graham Hale Informational Student copy
23 A Drop of Water A Book of Science and Wonder Walter Wick Informational Read aloud
23 River Song with the Banana Slug String Band Steve Van Zandt and Katherine Zecca Literary Read aloud
23 A Drop Around the World Barbara Shaw McKinney Literary Read aloud
23 ldquoWilly the Water Droprdquo Pages 97-107 of the Read-
Free through Domain 11 of Core Knowledge Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
AloudAnthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
23 ldquoThe Water Cyclerdquo Pages 111-122 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
24 The Ox-Cart Man Donald Hall and Barbara Cooney
Literary Student copy
24 Charlottersquos Web Excerpt EB White Literary Read aloud
24 County Fair (My First Little House) Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jody Wheeler Literary Student copy
24 My Rows and Piles of Coins Tololwa Mollel Literary Read aloud Basal 24 The Paper Crane Molly Bang Literary Student copy 24 The Kamishibai Man Allan Say Literary Read aloud 24 The Stranger Chris Van Allsburg Literary Read aloud 24 The Little House Virginia Lee Burton Literary Student copy
24 Whorsquos Buying Whorsquos Selling Understanding Consumers and Producers Jennifer S Larson Informational Student copy
24 Horse-Drawn Days A Century of Farming with Horses Excerpt Jerry Apps Informational Read Aloud
24 Window Jeannine Baker Nonprint (wordless picture book) Student copy
24 ldquoFrom Farm to Marketrdquo Pages 92-101 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 5 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Student copy
25 Lives Poems About Famous Americans Lee Bennett Hopkins
Literary (Poems) Read aloud
25 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet Dennis Denenberg Informational Read aloud 25 Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary Read aloud 25 Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Literary Student copy 25 When Marian Sang Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Informational Read aloud
25 rdquoSusan B Anthony An Advocate for Womenrsquos Rightsrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Strand
25 ldquoEleanor Roosevelt A Voice for Human Rightsrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMary McLeod Bethune A Dedicated Teacherrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoJackie Robinson Champion of Equalityrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoRosa Parks The Mother of the Civil Rights Movementrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMartin Luther King Jr Defender of the Dreamrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 George Washington Carver Teacher Scientist and Inventor Lori Mortensen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture Book of Davy Crockett David Adler Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture of Book of Thomas Alva Edison David Adler Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
25 Pocahontas Shannon Zemlicka Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Teammates Peter Golenbock Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Martin Luther King Jr and the March on Washington Frances Ruffin Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Whatrsquos the Big Idea Ben Franklin Jean Fritz Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Helen Keller Courageous Advocate Scott Welvaert Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Vision of Beauty The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker Kathryn Lasky Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
THIRD GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
31 The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
Literary Student copy
31 The Bee Tree Patricia Polacco Literary Read aloud
31 ldquoA Page is a Doorrdquo Remy Charlip Informational Read aloud
31 My Librarian is a Camel How Books are Brought to Children Around the World Margriet Ruurs Informational Groups
31 The Red Book Barbara Lehman Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Literary Student copy
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
31 More Stories Julian Tells
ldquoI Learn Firefightingrdquo (ldquoI Wish for Smokey the Bearrdquo ldquoSuperboy and Merdquo and ldquoHuey Makes the Leaprdquo)
Ann Cameron Literary Assessment
32 A Logrsquos Life Wendy Pfeffer
Informational Student copy
32 Tell Me Tree All about Trees for Kids Gail Gibbons Informational Student copy
32 ldquoPrayer of the Woodsrdquo Unknown Literary (Poem) Student copy
32 ldquoWindy Treerdquo Aileen Fisher Literary Student copy
32 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein Literary Read aloud 32 The Lorax Dr Seuss Literary Student copy 32 A Tree is Growing Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud Basal 32 One Small Place in a Tree Barbara Brenner Literary Assessment Basal
33 Lapin Plays Possum Trickster Tales From the Louisiana Bayou Sharon Arms Doucet
Literary Read Aloud
33 Why Lapinrsquos Ears are Long And Other Tales Sharon Arms Doucet Literary Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
from the Louisiana Bayou
33 ldquoMrsquosu Carencro and Mangeur de Pouletrdquo JJ Reneaux Literary Groups
33 Dear Peter Rabbit Alma Flor Ada Literary Read Aloud
33 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Literary Student copy
33 Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens Literary Student copy 33 ldquoThe Giant of La Costa Villagerdquo S Noel Rideau Literary Assessment
33 Scott Foresman Social Studies Louisiana (Third Grade Textbook) Chapters 2 and 4 Scott Foresman Informational Read Aloud
Social Studies
Textbook
33 Writerrsquos Toolbox Learn How to Write Letters Fairy Tales Scary Stories Journals Poems and Reports
Nancy Loewen Informational Read Aloud
33 The Cajun Experience Historycom Nonnprint (Video) Read Aloud
33 The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Introduction ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit Brer Bear and the Peanut Patchrdquo ldquoThe Great Racerdquo ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit and the Tar Babyrdquo
Don Daily and Joel Chandler Harris Literary Student copy
34 Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson
Literary Student copy
34 The Ballad of the Pirate Queens Jane Yolen Literary Read Aloud 34 Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard Informational Groups
34 ldquoGeocaching Fact Sheetrdquo Geocachingcom Informational Read Aloud
34 Do California ldquoThe Gold Rushrdquo Splashpublicationscom Informational Read Aloud
34 ldquoThe Curse of King Tutrdquo Spencer Kayden Literary (Play) Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
34 ldquoThe Curse of the Hope Diamondrdquo The Lazy Editor Scholastic SCOPE Magazine Informational Groups
34 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Pirates Chapter 6 Pirate Treasure
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
34 The Mona Lisa Caper Rick Jacobson Literary Groups 34 The Stolen Smile J Patrick Lewis Groups
34 ldquoMissing Monardquo Scholastic Student copy
34 ldquoThe Legend of the Pharaohrsquos Curserdquo ReadWorksorg Informational Assessment
34 Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Travel Channel Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
35 The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal (What Would You Do) Elaine Landau Informational Student copy
35 The Louisiana Purchase From Independence to Lewis and Clark Michael Burgan Informational Student copy
35 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud
35 How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis and Clark Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
35 Lewis and Clark and Me A Dogrsquos Tale
Chapter 6 ldquoBuffalordquo and Chapter 7 ldquoKidnappedrdquo
Laurie Myers Literary Student copy
35 ldquoFreeman and Curtis Red River Expeditionrdquo wwwencyclopediaofarkansasnet Informational Student copy
35 ldquoGo West Across America With Lewis and Clarkrdquo National Geographic Kids Nonprint (website) Student copy
35 Mike Fink Steven Kellogg Literary Groups 35 Thunder Rose Jerdine Nolen Literary Groups 35 Swamp Angel Anne Isaacs Literary Groups
35 ldquoHome on the Rangerdquo Dr Brewster M Higley Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoThe Happy Wandererrdquo Florenz Friedrich Sigismund Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoVikings amp European Explorers Ferdinand Magellanrdquo ReadWorks Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
36 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog amp The Piglet And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Jennifer S Holland Informational Student copy
36 Amos amp Boris William Steig Literary Student copy
36 The Cricket in Time Square Pages 11-15 from Chapter 2 George Selden Literary Read aloud
36 Rosie A Visiting Dogrsquos Story Stephanie Calmenson Informational Student copy
36 ldquoLong-Leg Lou and Short Leg Suerdquo Shel Silverstein Literary Student copy
36 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Chapter 1 Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Creature Features Clown Anemonefish National Geographic Kids Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
36 My Life and Times Autobiography of a Stray Cat
Louisiana EAGLE Literary Assessment
36 Wild Wings Gill Lewis Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Paint the Wind Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Charlottersquos Web EB White Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 A Dogrsquos Way Home Bobbie Pyron Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 How to Steal a Dog Barbara OrsquoConnor Literary Groups (choice for independent
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FOURTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
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2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
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61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
12 Texts from A Boy A Dog and A Frog (series) (eg One Frog Too Many Frog Goes to Dinner or Frog on His Own)
Mercer Mayer (Video available at DiscoveryEducationcom)
Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Read aloud
13 Rumpelstiltskin Pages 25-39 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 A Handful of Beans Six Fairy Tales Retold by Jeanne Steig Literary Read aloud 13 Seven Blind Mice Ed Young Literary Student copy
13 Sleeping Beauty Pages 11-24 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 The Frog-Prince Pages 54-79 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Rapunzel Pages 40-53 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Hansel and Gretel Pages 87-111 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 Jack and the Beanstalk Pages 112-134 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 9 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
13 The Emperorrsquos New Clothes Hans Christian Andersen Literary Read aloud
14 Spiders Gail Gibbons Informational Read aloud
14 How Spider Tricked Snake Mirna Benitez Literary Groups 14 One-Hundred-and-One African-American Read- ldquoAnansi Saves Susan Kantor Literary Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Aloud Stories Anteloperdquo 14 Be Nice to Spiders Margaret Bloy Graham Literary Read aloud 14 Spiders Illa Podendorf Informational Read aloud 14 Mighty Spiders Fay Robinson Informational Read aloud 14 Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock Eric A Kimmel Literary Read aloud 14 The Very Busy Spider Eric Carle Literary Student copy 14 Diary of a Spider Doreen Cronin Literary Groups 14 Spiders Are Not Insects Allan Fowler Informational Groups
14 All Stories are Anansirsquos Pages 105-115 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 1 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
15 Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish
Literary Read aloud
15 Thank You Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Literary Groups 15 Teach Us Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Literary text Groups 15 Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day Robin Pulver Literary Read aloud 15 Punctuation Takes a Vacation Robin Pulver Literary Read aloud 15 In English Of Course Josephine Nobisso Literary Read aloud 15 A Day With a Carpenter Joanne Winne Informational Groups 15 A Day With a Doctor Jan Kottke Informational Groups 15 Hairy Scary Ordinary What is an Adjective Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud 15 A Mink a Fink a Skating Rink What is a Noun Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud 15 To Root to Toot Parachute What is a Verb Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud
16 Duck for President Doreen Cronin Literary Read aloud
16 If I Ran for President Catherine Stier Literary Read aloud 16 If I Were President Catherine Stier Literary Groups 16 Today on Election Day Catherine Stier Literary Read aloud 16 My Teacher for President Kay Winters Literary Groups
16 We Live Here Too Kids Talk About Good Citizenship
Nancy Loewen Literary Read aloud
16 If Everybody Did Jo Ann Stover Literary Student copy 16 Being a Leader (First Step Nonfiction) Robin Nelson Informational Student copy 16 Celebrating Presidentrsquos Day What Is a Kimberly Jordano and Trisha Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
President Callella-Jones 16 So You Want to be President Excerpt Judith St George Informational Read aloud
16 Why Are Elections Important (Know Your Government)
Jacqueline Laks Gorman Informational Groups
16 D is for Democracy Excerpt Elissa Grodin Informational Read aloud
16 We the Kids The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States
David Catrow Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SECOND GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
21 The Best Place Susan Meddaugh
Literary Student copy
21 My House is Singing ldquoOne Giant Hugrdquo and ldquoMy House is Singingrdquo
Betsy Rosenthal Literary (Poem) Student copy
21 ldquoYour Worldrdquo Georgia Douglas Johnson Literary (Poem) Read aloud
21 Fly Away Home Eve Bunting Literary Student copy 21 My House Has Stars Megan McDonald Literary Groups
21 Children From Australia to Zimbabwe A Photographic Journey around the World
ldquoVietnamrdquo and ldquoYemenrdquo ldquoBrazilrdquo ldquoJapanrdquo ldquoPhilippinesrdquo and ldquoUnited Statesrdquo
Maya Ajmera and Anna Rhesa Versola Informational Groups
21 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
ldquoThe Cyclonerdquo ldquoThe Council with the MunchkinsrdquoldquoHow the Balloon Was Launchedrdquo ldquoGlinda the Good Witch Grantrsquos Dorothyrsquos Wishrdquo (from the beginning until ldquoget back to Kansasrdquo in paragraph 8 and then paragraph 22 until the end) and ldquoHome Againrdquo
L Frank Baum Literary Read aloud
21 The Treasure Uri Shulevitz Literary Assessment 21 If You Lived Here Houses of the World Giles Laroche Informational Groups
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
22 Cinderella or online version Pages 10-22 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Marcia Brown or free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoThe Girl with the Red Slippersrdquo (Egyptian) Pages 23-36 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoBilly Begrdquo (Ireland) Pages 37-49 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 The Way Meat Loves Salt (Israel) Nina Jaffe Literary Groups 22 Domitila (Mexico) Jewell Reinhart Cobum Literary Groups 22 Yeh-Shen (China) Ai-Ling Louie Literary Groups 22 The Turkey Girl (American Indian) Penny Pollock Literary Groups 22 Mufarorsquos Beautiful Daughters (Africa) John Steptoe Literary Groups 22 Cendrillon (Caribbean) Robert San Souci Literary Groups
23 ldquoThirsty Planetrdquo October 2010 Pages 18-23 of the Projectable Edition
Beth Geiger (National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition)
Informational Read aloud
23 One Well The Story of Water on Earth Rochelle Strauss and Rosemary Woods Informational Read aloud
23 The Raft Jim LaMarche Literary Student copy
23 Down Comes the Rain Franklyn Branley and James Graham Hale Informational Student copy
23 A Drop of Water A Book of Science and Wonder Walter Wick Informational Read aloud
23 River Song with the Banana Slug String Band Steve Van Zandt and Katherine Zecca Literary Read aloud
23 A Drop Around the World Barbara Shaw McKinney Literary Read aloud
23 ldquoWilly the Water Droprdquo Pages 97-107 of the Read-
Free through Domain 11 of Core Knowledge Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
AloudAnthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
23 ldquoThe Water Cyclerdquo Pages 111-122 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
24 The Ox-Cart Man Donald Hall and Barbara Cooney
Literary Student copy
24 Charlottersquos Web Excerpt EB White Literary Read aloud
24 County Fair (My First Little House) Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jody Wheeler Literary Student copy
24 My Rows and Piles of Coins Tololwa Mollel Literary Read aloud Basal 24 The Paper Crane Molly Bang Literary Student copy 24 The Kamishibai Man Allan Say Literary Read aloud 24 The Stranger Chris Van Allsburg Literary Read aloud 24 The Little House Virginia Lee Burton Literary Student copy
24 Whorsquos Buying Whorsquos Selling Understanding Consumers and Producers Jennifer S Larson Informational Student copy
24 Horse-Drawn Days A Century of Farming with Horses Excerpt Jerry Apps Informational Read Aloud
24 Window Jeannine Baker Nonprint (wordless picture book) Student copy
24 ldquoFrom Farm to Marketrdquo Pages 92-101 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 5 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Student copy
25 Lives Poems About Famous Americans Lee Bennett Hopkins
Literary (Poems) Read aloud
25 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet Dennis Denenberg Informational Read aloud 25 Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary Read aloud 25 Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Literary Student copy 25 When Marian Sang Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Informational Read aloud
25 rdquoSusan B Anthony An Advocate for Womenrsquos Rightsrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Strand
25 ldquoEleanor Roosevelt A Voice for Human Rightsrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMary McLeod Bethune A Dedicated Teacherrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoJackie Robinson Champion of Equalityrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoRosa Parks The Mother of the Civil Rights Movementrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMartin Luther King Jr Defender of the Dreamrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 George Washington Carver Teacher Scientist and Inventor Lori Mortensen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture Book of Davy Crockett David Adler Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture of Book of Thomas Alva Edison David Adler Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
25 Pocahontas Shannon Zemlicka Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Teammates Peter Golenbock Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Martin Luther King Jr and the March on Washington Frances Ruffin Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Whatrsquos the Big Idea Ben Franklin Jean Fritz Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Helen Keller Courageous Advocate Scott Welvaert Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Vision of Beauty The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker Kathryn Lasky Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
THIRD GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
31 The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
Literary Student copy
31 The Bee Tree Patricia Polacco Literary Read aloud
31 ldquoA Page is a Doorrdquo Remy Charlip Informational Read aloud
31 My Librarian is a Camel How Books are Brought to Children Around the World Margriet Ruurs Informational Groups
31 The Red Book Barbara Lehman Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Literary Student copy
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
31 More Stories Julian Tells
ldquoI Learn Firefightingrdquo (ldquoI Wish for Smokey the Bearrdquo ldquoSuperboy and Merdquo and ldquoHuey Makes the Leaprdquo)
Ann Cameron Literary Assessment
32 A Logrsquos Life Wendy Pfeffer
Informational Student copy
32 Tell Me Tree All about Trees for Kids Gail Gibbons Informational Student copy
32 ldquoPrayer of the Woodsrdquo Unknown Literary (Poem) Student copy
32 ldquoWindy Treerdquo Aileen Fisher Literary Student copy
32 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein Literary Read aloud 32 The Lorax Dr Seuss Literary Student copy 32 A Tree is Growing Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud Basal 32 One Small Place in a Tree Barbara Brenner Literary Assessment Basal
33 Lapin Plays Possum Trickster Tales From the Louisiana Bayou Sharon Arms Doucet
Literary Read Aloud
33 Why Lapinrsquos Ears are Long And Other Tales Sharon Arms Doucet Literary Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
from the Louisiana Bayou
33 ldquoMrsquosu Carencro and Mangeur de Pouletrdquo JJ Reneaux Literary Groups
33 Dear Peter Rabbit Alma Flor Ada Literary Read Aloud
33 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Literary Student copy
33 Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens Literary Student copy 33 ldquoThe Giant of La Costa Villagerdquo S Noel Rideau Literary Assessment
33 Scott Foresman Social Studies Louisiana (Third Grade Textbook) Chapters 2 and 4 Scott Foresman Informational Read Aloud
Social Studies
Textbook
33 Writerrsquos Toolbox Learn How to Write Letters Fairy Tales Scary Stories Journals Poems and Reports
Nancy Loewen Informational Read Aloud
33 The Cajun Experience Historycom Nonnprint (Video) Read Aloud
33 The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Introduction ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit Brer Bear and the Peanut Patchrdquo ldquoThe Great Racerdquo ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit and the Tar Babyrdquo
Don Daily and Joel Chandler Harris Literary Student copy
34 Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson
Literary Student copy
34 The Ballad of the Pirate Queens Jane Yolen Literary Read Aloud 34 Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard Informational Groups
34 ldquoGeocaching Fact Sheetrdquo Geocachingcom Informational Read Aloud
34 Do California ldquoThe Gold Rushrdquo Splashpublicationscom Informational Read Aloud
34 ldquoThe Curse of King Tutrdquo Spencer Kayden Literary (Play) Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
34 ldquoThe Curse of the Hope Diamondrdquo The Lazy Editor Scholastic SCOPE Magazine Informational Groups
34 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Pirates Chapter 6 Pirate Treasure
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
34 The Mona Lisa Caper Rick Jacobson Literary Groups 34 The Stolen Smile J Patrick Lewis Groups
34 ldquoMissing Monardquo Scholastic Student copy
34 ldquoThe Legend of the Pharaohrsquos Curserdquo ReadWorksorg Informational Assessment
34 Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Travel Channel Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
35 The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal (What Would You Do) Elaine Landau Informational Student copy
35 The Louisiana Purchase From Independence to Lewis and Clark Michael Burgan Informational Student copy
35 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud
35 How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis and Clark Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
35 Lewis and Clark and Me A Dogrsquos Tale
Chapter 6 ldquoBuffalordquo and Chapter 7 ldquoKidnappedrdquo
Laurie Myers Literary Student copy
35 ldquoFreeman and Curtis Red River Expeditionrdquo wwwencyclopediaofarkansasnet Informational Student copy
35 ldquoGo West Across America With Lewis and Clarkrdquo National Geographic Kids Nonprint (website) Student copy
35 Mike Fink Steven Kellogg Literary Groups 35 Thunder Rose Jerdine Nolen Literary Groups 35 Swamp Angel Anne Isaacs Literary Groups
35 ldquoHome on the Rangerdquo Dr Brewster M Higley Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoThe Happy Wandererrdquo Florenz Friedrich Sigismund Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoVikings amp European Explorers Ferdinand Magellanrdquo ReadWorks Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
36 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog amp The Piglet And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Jennifer S Holland Informational Student copy
36 Amos amp Boris William Steig Literary Student copy
36 The Cricket in Time Square Pages 11-15 from Chapter 2 George Selden Literary Read aloud
36 Rosie A Visiting Dogrsquos Story Stephanie Calmenson Informational Student copy
36 ldquoLong-Leg Lou and Short Leg Suerdquo Shel Silverstein Literary Student copy
36 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Chapter 1 Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Creature Features Clown Anemonefish National Geographic Kids Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
36 My Life and Times Autobiography of a Stray Cat
Louisiana EAGLE Literary Assessment
36 Wild Wings Gill Lewis Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Paint the Wind Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Charlottersquos Web EB White Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 A Dogrsquos Way Home Bobbie Pyron Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 How to Steal a Dog Barbara OrsquoConnor Literary Groups (choice for independent
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FOURTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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2014-2015
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61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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2014-2015
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Aloud Stories Anteloperdquo 14 Be Nice to Spiders Margaret Bloy Graham Literary Read aloud 14 Spiders Illa Podendorf Informational Read aloud 14 Mighty Spiders Fay Robinson Informational Read aloud 14 Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock Eric A Kimmel Literary Read aloud 14 The Very Busy Spider Eric Carle Literary Student copy 14 Diary of a Spider Doreen Cronin Literary Groups 14 Spiders Are Not Insects Allan Fowler Informational Groups
14 All Stories are Anansirsquos Pages 105-115 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 1 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Read aloud
15 Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish
Literary Read aloud
15 Thank You Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Literary Groups 15 Teach Us Amelia Bedelia Peggy Parish Literary text Groups 15 Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day Robin Pulver Literary Read aloud 15 Punctuation Takes a Vacation Robin Pulver Literary Read aloud 15 In English Of Course Josephine Nobisso Literary Read aloud 15 A Day With a Carpenter Joanne Winne Informational Groups 15 A Day With a Doctor Jan Kottke Informational Groups 15 Hairy Scary Ordinary What is an Adjective Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud 15 A Mink a Fink a Skating Rink What is a Noun Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud 15 To Root to Toot Parachute What is a Verb Brian Cleary Informational Read aloud
16 Duck for President Doreen Cronin Literary Read aloud
16 If I Ran for President Catherine Stier Literary Read aloud 16 If I Were President Catherine Stier Literary Groups 16 Today on Election Day Catherine Stier Literary Read aloud 16 My Teacher for President Kay Winters Literary Groups
16 We Live Here Too Kids Talk About Good Citizenship
Nancy Loewen Literary Read aloud
16 If Everybody Did Jo Ann Stover Literary Student copy 16 Being a Leader (First Step Nonfiction) Robin Nelson Informational Student copy 16 Celebrating Presidentrsquos Day What Is a Kimberly Jordano and Trisha Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
President Callella-Jones 16 So You Want to be President Excerpt Judith St George Informational Read aloud
16 Why Are Elections Important (Know Your Government)
Jacqueline Laks Gorman Informational Groups
16 D is for Democracy Excerpt Elissa Grodin Informational Read aloud
16 We the Kids The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States
David Catrow Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SECOND GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
21 The Best Place Susan Meddaugh
Literary Student copy
21 My House is Singing ldquoOne Giant Hugrdquo and ldquoMy House is Singingrdquo
Betsy Rosenthal Literary (Poem) Student copy
21 ldquoYour Worldrdquo Georgia Douglas Johnson Literary (Poem) Read aloud
21 Fly Away Home Eve Bunting Literary Student copy 21 My House Has Stars Megan McDonald Literary Groups
21 Children From Australia to Zimbabwe A Photographic Journey around the World
ldquoVietnamrdquo and ldquoYemenrdquo ldquoBrazilrdquo ldquoJapanrdquo ldquoPhilippinesrdquo and ldquoUnited Statesrdquo
Maya Ajmera and Anna Rhesa Versola Informational Groups
21 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
ldquoThe Cyclonerdquo ldquoThe Council with the MunchkinsrdquoldquoHow the Balloon Was Launchedrdquo ldquoGlinda the Good Witch Grantrsquos Dorothyrsquos Wishrdquo (from the beginning until ldquoget back to Kansasrdquo in paragraph 8 and then paragraph 22 until the end) and ldquoHome Againrdquo
L Frank Baum Literary Read aloud
21 The Treasure Uri Shulevitz Literary Assessment 21 If You Lived Here Houses of the World Giles Laroche Informational Groups
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
22 Cinderella or online version Pages 10-22 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Marcia Brown or free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoThe Girl with the Red Slippersrdquo (Egyptian) Pages 23-36 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoBilly Begrdquo (Ireland) Pages 37-49 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 The Way Meat Loves Salt (Israel) Nina Jaffe Literary Groups 22 Domitila (Mexico) Jewell Reinhart Cobum Literary Groups 22 Yeh-Shen (China) Ai-Ling Louie Literary Groups 22 The Turkey Girl (American Indian) Penny Pollock Literary Groups 22 Mufarorsquos Beautiful Daughters (Africa) John Steptoe Literary Groups 22 Cendrillon (Caribbean) Robert San Souci Literary Groups
23 ldquoThirsty Planetrdquo October 2010 Pages 18-23 of the Projectable Edition
Beth Geiger (National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition)
Informational Read aloud
23 One Well The Story of Water on Earth Rochelle Strauss and Rosemary Woods Informational Read aloud
23 The Raft Jim LaMarche Literary Student copy
23 Down Comes the Rain Franklyn Branley and James Graham Hale Informational Student copy
23 A Drop of Water A Book of Science and Wonder Walter Wick Informational Read aloud
23 River Song with the Banana Slug String Band Steve Van Zandt and Katherine Zecca Literary Read aloud
23 A Drop Around the World Barbara Shaw McKinney Literary Read aloud
23 ldquoWilly the Water Droprdquo Pages 97-107 of the Read-
Free through Domain 11 of Core Knowledge Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
AloudAnthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
23 ldquoThe Water Cyclerdquo Pages 111-122 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
24 The Ox-Cart Man Donald Hall and Barbara Cooney
Literary Student copy
24 Charlottersquos Web Excerpt EB White Literary Read aloud
24 County Fair (My First Little House) Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jody Wheeler Literary Student copy
24 My Rows and Piles of Coins Tololwa Mollel Literary Read aloud Basal 24 The Paper Crane Molly Bang Literary Student copy 24 The Kamishibai Man Allan Say Literary Read aloud 24 The Stranger Chris Van Allsburg Literary Read aloud 24 The Little House Virginia Lee Burton Literary Student copy
24 Whorsquos Buying Whorsquos Selling Understanding Consumers and Producers Jennifer S Larson Informational Student copy
24 Horse-Drawn Days A Century of Farming with Horses Excerpt Jerry Apps Informational Read Aloud
24 Window Jeannine Baker Nonprint (wordless picture book) Student copy
24 ldquoFrom Farm to Marketrdquo Pages 92-101 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 5 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Student copy
25 Lives Poems About Famous Americans Lee Bennett Hopkins
Literary (Poems) Read aloud
25 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet Dennis Denenberg Informational Read aloud 25 Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary Read aloud 25 Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Literary Student copy 25 When Marian Sang Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Informational Read aloud
25 rdquoSusan B Anthony An Advocate for Womenrsquos Rightsrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Strand
25 ldquoEleanor Roosevelt A Voice for Human Rightsrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMary McLeod Bethune A Dedicated Teacherrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoJackie Robinson Champion of Equalityrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoRosa Parks The Mother of the Civil Rights Movementrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMartin Luther King Jr Defender of the Dreamrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 George Washington Carver Teacher Scientist and Inventor Lori Mortensen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture Book of Davy Crockett David Adler Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture of Book of Thomas Alva Edison David Adler Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
25 Pocahontas Shannon Zemlicka Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Teammates Peter Golenbock Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Martin Luther King Jr and the March on Washington Frances Ruffin Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Whatrsquos the Big Idea Ben Franklin Jean Fritz Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Helen Keller Courageous Advocate Scott Welvaert Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Vision of Beauty The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker Kathryn Lasky Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
THIRD GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
31 The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
Literary Student copy
31 The Bee Tree Patricia Polacco Literary Read aloud
31 ldquoA Page is a Doorrdquo Remy Charlip Informational Read aloud
31 My Librarian is a Camel How Books are Brought to Children Around the World Margriet Ruurs Informational Groups
31 The Red Book Barbara Lehman Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Literary Student copy
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
31 More Stories Julian Tells
ldquoI Learn Firefightingrdquo (ldquoI Wish for Smokey the Bearrdquo ldquoSuperboy and Merdquo and ldquoHuey Makes the Leaprdquo)
Ann Cameron Literary Assessment
32 A Logrsquos Life Wendy Pfeffer
Informational Student copy
32 Tell Me Tree All about Trees for Kids Gail Gibbons Informational Student copy
32 ldquoPrayer of the Woodsrdquo Unknown Literary (Poem) Student copy
32 ldquoWindy Treerdquo Aileen Fisher Literary Student copy
32 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein Literary Read aloud 32 The Lorax Dr Seuss Literary Student copy 32 A Tree is Growing Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud Basal 32 One Small Place in a Tree Barbara Brenner Literary Assessment Basal
33 Lapin Plays Possum Trickster Tales From the Louisiana Bayou Sharon Arms Doucet
Literary Read Aloud
33 Why Lapinrsquos Ears are Long And Other Tales Sharon Arms Doucet Literary Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
from the Louisiana Bayou
33 ldquoMrsquosu Carencro and Mangeur de Pouletrdquo JJ Reneaux Literary Groups
33 Dear Peter Rabbit Alma Flor Ada Literary Read Aloud
33 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Literary Student copy
33 Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens Literary Student copy 33 ldquoThe Giant of La Costa Villagerdquo S Noel Rideau Literary Assessment
33 Scott Foresman Social Studies Louisiana (Third Grade Textbook) Chapters 2 and 4 Scott Foresman Informational Read Aloud
Social Studies
Textbook
33 Writerrsquos Toolbox Learn How to Write Letters Fairy Tales Scary Stories Journals Poems and Reports
Nancy Loewen Informational Read Aloud
33 The Cajun Experience Historycom Nonnprint (Video) Read Aloud
33 The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Introduction ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit Brer Bear and the Peanut Patchrdquo ldquoThe Great Racerdquo ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit and the Tar Babyrdquo
Don Daily and Joel Chandler Harris Literary Student copy
34 Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson
Literary Student copy
34 The Ballad of the Pirate Queens Jane Yolen Literary Read Aloud 34 Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard Informational Groups
34 ldquoGeocaching Fact Sheetrdquo Geocachingcom Informational Read Aloud
34 Do California ldquoThe Gold Rushrdquo Splashpublicationscom Informational Read Aloud
34 ldquoThe Curse of King Tutrdquo Spencer Kayden Literary (Play) Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
34 ldquoThe Curse of the Hope Diamondrdquo The Lazy Editor Scholastic SCOPE Magazine Informational Groups
34 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Pirates Chapter 6 Pirate Treasure
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
34 The Mona Lisa Caper Rick Jacobson Literary Groups 34 The Stolen Smile J Patrick Lewis Groups
34 ldquoMissing Monardquo Scholastic Student copy
34 ldquoThe Legend of the Pharaohrsquos Curserdquo ReadWorksorg Informational Assessment
34 Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Travel Channel Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
35 The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal (What Would You Do) Elaine Landau Informational Student copy
35 The Louisiana Purchase From Independence to Lewis and Clark Michael Burgan Informational Student copy
35 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud
35 How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis and Clark Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
35 Lewis and Clark and Me A Dogrsquos Tale
Chapter 6 ldquoBuffalordquo and Chapter 7 ldquoKidnappedrdquo
Laurie Myers Literary Student copy
35 ldquoFreeman and Curtis Red River Expeditionrdquo wwwencyclopediaofarkansasnet Informational Student copy
35 ldquoGo West Across America With Lewis and Clarkrdquo National Geographic Kids Nonprint (website) Student copy
35 Mike Fink Steven Kellogg Literary Groups 35 Thunder Rose Jerdine Nolen Literary Groups 35 Swamp Angel Anne Isaacs Literary Groups
35 ldquoHome on the Rangerdquo Dr Brewster M Higley Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoThe Happy Wandererrdquo Florenz Friedrich Sigismund Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoVikings amp European Explorers Ferdinand Magellanrdquo ReadWorks Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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36 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog amp The Piglet And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Jennifer S Holland Informational Student copy
36 Amos amp Boris William Steig Literary Student copy
36 The Cricket in Time Square Pages 11-15 from Chapter 2 George Selden Literary Read aloud
36 Rosie A Visiting Dogrsquos Story Stephanie Calmenson Informational Student copy
36 ldquoLong-Leg Lou and Short Leg Suerdquo Shel Silverstein Literary Student copy
36 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Chapter 1 Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Creature Features Clown Anemonefish National Geographic Kids Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
36 My Life and Times Autobiography of a Stray Cat
Louisiana EAGLE Literary Assessment
36 Wild Wings Gill Lewis Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Paint the Wind Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Charlottersquos Web EB White Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 A Dogrsquos Way Home Bobbie Pyron Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 How to Steal a Dog Barbara OrsquoConnor Literary Groups (choice for independent
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FOURTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
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44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
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2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
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53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 1
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
President Callella-Jones 16 So You Want to be President Excerpt Judith St George Informational Read aloud
16 Why Are Elections Important (Know Your Government)
Jacqueline Laks Gorman Informational Groups
16 D is for Democracy Excerpt Elissa Grodin Informational Read aloud
16 We the Kids The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States
David Catrow Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SECOND GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
21 The Best Place Susan Meddaugh
Literary Student copy
21 My House is Singing ldquoOne Giant Hugrdquo and ldquoMy House is Singingrdquo
Betsy Rosenthal Literary (Poem) Student copy
21 ldquoYour Worldrdquo Georgia Douglas Johnson Literary (Poem) Read aloud
21 Fly Away Home Eve Bunting Literary Student copy 21 My House Has Stars Megan McDonald Literary Groups
21 Children From Australia to Zimbabwe A Photographic Journey around the World
ldquoVietnamrdquo and ldquoYemenrdquo ldquoBrazilrdquo ldquoJapanrdquo ldquoPhilippinesrdquo and ldquoUnited Statesrdquo
Maya Ajmera and Anna Rhesa Versola Informational Groups
21 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
ldquoThe Cyclonerdquo ldquoThe Council with the MunchkinsrdquoldquoHow the Balloon Was Launchedrdquo ldquoGlinda the Good Witch Grantrsquos Dorothyrsquos Wishrdquo (from the beginning until ldquoget back to Kansasrdquo in paragraph 8 and then paragraph 22 until the end) and ldquoHome Againrdquo
L Frank Baum Literary Read aloud
21 The Treasure Uri Shulevitz Literary Assessment 21 If You Lived Here Houses of the World Giles Laroche Informational Groups
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
22 Cinderella or online version Pages 10-22 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Marcia Brown or free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoThe Girl with the Red Slippersrdquo (Egyptian) Pages 23-36 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoBilly Begrdquo (Ireland) Pages 37-49 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 The Way Meat Loves Salt (Israel) Nina Jaffe Literary Groups 22 Domitila (Mexico) Jewell Reinhart Cobum Literary Groups 22 Yeh-Shen (China) Ai-Ling Louie Literary Groups 22 The Turkey Girl (American Indian) Penny Pollock Literary Groups 22 Mufarorsquos Beautiful Daughters (Africa) John Steptoe Literary Groups 22 Cendrillon (Caribbean) Robert San Souci Literary Groups
23 ldquoThirsty Planetrdquo October 2010 Pages 18-23 of the Projectable Edition
Beth Geiger (National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition)
Informational Read aloud
23 One Well The Story of Water on Earth Rochelle Strauss and Rosemary Woods Informational Read aloud
23 The Raft Jim LaMarche Literary Student copy
23 Down Comes the Rain Franklyn Branley and James Graham Hale Informational Student copy
23 A Drop of Water A Book of Science and Wonder Walter Wick Informational Read aloud
23 River Song with the Banana Slug String Band Steve Van Zandt and Katherine Zecca Literary Read aloud
23 A Drop Around the World Barbara Shaw McKinney Literary Read aloud
23 ldquoWilly the Water Droprdquo Pages 97-107 of the Read-
Free through Domain 11 of Core Knowledge Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
AloudAnthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
23 ldquoThe Water Cyclerdquo Pages 111-122 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
24 The Ox-Cart Man Donald Hall and Barbara Cooney
Literary Student copy
24 Charlottersquos Web Excerpt EB White Literary Read aloud
24 County Fair (My First Little House) Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jody Wheeler Literary Student copy
24 My Rows and Piles of Coins Tololwa Mollel Literary Read aloud Basal 24 The Paper Crane Molly Bang Literary Student copy 24 The Kamishibai Man Allan Say Literary Read aloud 24 The Stranger Chris Van Allsburg Literary Read aloud 24 The Little House Virginia Lee Burton Literary Student copy
24 Whorsquos Buying Whorsquos Selling Understanding Consumers and Producers Jennifer S Larson Informational Student copy
24 Horse-Drawn Days A Century of Farming with Horses Excerpt Jerry Apps Informational Read Aloud
24 Window Jeannine Baker Nonprint (wordless picture book) Student copy
24 ldquoFrom Farm to Marketrdquo Pages 92-101 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 5 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Student copy
25 Lives Poems About Famous Americans Lee Bennett Hopkins
Literary (Poems) Read aloud
25 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet Dennis Denenberg Informational Read aloud 25 Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary Read aloud 25 Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Literary Student copy 25 When Marian Sang Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Informational Read aloud
25 rdquoSusan B Anthony An Advocate for Womenrsquos Rightsrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Strand
25 ldquoEleanor Roosevelt A Voice for Human Rightsrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMary McLeod Bethune A Dedicated Teacherrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoJackie Robinson Champion of Equalityrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoRosa Parks The Mother of the Civil Rights Movementrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMartin Luther King Jr Defender of the Dreamrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 George Washington Carver Teacher Scientist and Inventor Lori Mortensen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture Book of Davy Crockett David Adler Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture of Book of Thomas Alva Edison David Adler Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
25 Pocahontas Shannon Zemlicka Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Teammates Peter Golenbock Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Martin Luther King Jr and the March on Washington Frances Ruffin Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Whatrsquos the Big Idea Ben Franklin Jean Fritz Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Helen Keller Courageous Advocate Scott Welvaert Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Vision of Beauty The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker Kathryn Lasky Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
THIRD GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
31 The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
Literary Student copy
31 The Bee Tree Patricia Polacco Literary Read aloud
31 ldquoA Page is a Doorrdquo Remy Charlip Informational Read aloud
31 My Librarian is a Camel How Books are Brought to Children Around the World Margriet Ruurs Informational Groups
31 The Red Book Barbara Lehman Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Literary Student copy
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
31 More Stories Julian Tells
ldquoI Learn Firefightingrdquo (ldquoI Wish for Smokey the Bearrdquo ldquoSuperboy and Merdquo and ldquoHuey Makes the Leaprdquo)
Ann Cameron Literary Assessment
32 A Logrsquos Life Wendy Pfeffer
Informational Student copy
32 Tell Me Tree All about Trees for Kids Gail Gibbons Informational Student copy
32 ldquoPrayer of the Woodsrdquo Unknown Literary (Poem) Student copy
32 ldquoWindy Treerdquo Aileen Fisher Literary Student copy
32 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein Literary Read aloud 32 The Lorax Dr Seuss Literary Student copy 32 A Tree is Growing Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud Basal 32 One Small Place in a Tree Barbara Brenner Literary Assessment Basal
33 Lapin Plays Possum Trickster Tales From the Louisiana Bayou Sharon Arms Doucet
Literary Read Aloud
33 Why Lapinrsquos Ears are Long And Other Tales Sharon Arms Doucet Literary Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
from the Louisiana Bayou
33 ldquoMrsquosu Carencro and Mangeur de Pouletrdquo JJ Reneaux Literary Groups
33 Dear Peter Rabbit Alma Flor Ada Literary Read Aloud
33 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Literary Student copy
33 Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens Literary Student copy 33 ldquoThe Giant of La Costa Villagerdquo S Noel Rideau Literary Assessment
33 Scott Foresman Social Studies Louisiana (Third Grade Textbook) Chapters 2 and 4 Scott Foresman Informational Read Aloud
Social Studies
Textbook
33 Writerrsquos Toolbox Learn How to Write Letters Fairy Tales Scary Stories Journals Poems and Reports
Nancy Loewen Informational Read Aloud
33 The Cajun Experience Historycom Nonnprint (Video) Read Aloud
33 The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Introduction ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit Brer Bear and the Peanut Patchrdquo ldquoThe Great Racerdquo ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit and the Tar Babyrdquo
Don Daily and Joel Chandler Harris Literary Student copy
34 Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson
Literary Student copy
34 The Ballad of the Pirate Queens Jane Yolen Literary Read Aloud 34 Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard Informational Groups
34 ldquoGeocaching Fact Sheetrdquo Geocachingcom Informational Read Aloud
34 Do California ldquoThe Gold Rushrdquo Splashpublicationscom Informational Read Aloud
34 ldquoThe Curse of King Tutrdquo Spencer Kayden Literary (Play) Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
34 ldquoThe Curse of the Hope Diamondrdquo The Lazy Editor Scholastic SCOPE Magazine Informational Groups
34 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Pirates Chapter 6 Pirate Treasure
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
34 The Mona Lisa Caper Rick Jacobson Literary Groups 34 The Stolen Smile J Patrick Lewis Groups
34 ldquoMissing Monardquo Scholastic Student copy
34 ldquoThe Legend of the Pharaohrsquos Curserdquo ReadWorksorg Informational Assessment
34 Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Travel Channel Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
35 The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal (What Would You Do) Elaine Landau Informational Student copy
35 The Louisiana Purchase From Independence to Lewis and Clark Michael Burgan Informational Student copy
35 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud
35 How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis and Clark Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
35 Lewis and Clark and Me A Dogrsquos Tale
Chapter 6 ldquoBuffalordquo and Chapter 7 ldquoKidnappedrdquo
Laurie Myers Literary Student copy
35 ldquoFreeman and Curtis Red River Expeditionrdquo wwwencyclopediaofarkansasnet Informational Student copy
35 ldquoGo West Across America With Lewis and Clarkrdquo National Geographic Kids Nonprint (website) Student copy
35 Mike Fink Steven Kellogg Literary Groups 35 Thunder Rose Jerdine Nolen Literary Groups 35 Swamp Angel Anne Isaacs Literary Groups
35 ldquoHome on the Rangerdquo Dr Brewster M Higley Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoThe Happy Wandererrdquo Florenz Friedrich Sigismund Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoVikings amp European Explorers Ferdinand Magellanrdquo ReadWorks Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
36 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog amp The Piglet And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Jennifer S Holland Informational Student copy
36 Amos amp Boris William Steig Literary Student copy
36 The Cricket in Time Square Pages 11-15 from Chapter 2 George Selden Literary Read aloud
36 Rosie A Visiting Dogrsquos Story Stephanie Calmenson Informational Student copy
36 ldquoLong-Leg Lou and Short Leg Suerdquo Shel Silverstein Literary Student copy
36 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Chapter 1 Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Creature Features Clown Anemonefish National Geographic Kids Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
36 My Life and Times Autobiography of a Stray Cat
Louisiana EAGLE Literary Assessment
36 Wild Wings Gill Lewis Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Paint the Wind Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Charlottersquos Web EB White Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 A Dogrsquos Way Home Bobbie Pyron Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 How to Steal a Dog Barbara OrsquoConnor Literary Groups (choice for independent
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FOURTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
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93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SECOND GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
21 The Best Place Susan Meddaugh
Literary Student copy
21 My House is Singing ldquoOne Giant Hugrdquo and ldquoMy House is Singingrdquo
Betsy Rosenthal Literary (Poem) Student copy
21 ldquoYour Worldrdquo Georgia Douglas Johnson Literary (Poem) Read aloud
21 Fly Away Home Eve Bunting Literary Student copy 21 My House Has Stars Megan McDonald Literary Groups
21 Children From Australia to Zimbabwe A Photographic Journey around the World
ldquoVietnamrdquo and ldquoYemenrdquo ldquoBrazilrdquo ldquoJapanrdquo ldquoPhilippinesrdquo and ldquoUnited Statesrdquo
Maya Ajmera and Anna Rhesa Versola Informational Groups
21 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
ldquoThe Cyclonerdquo ldquoThe Council with the MunchkinsrdquoldquoHow the Balloon Was Launchedrdquo ldquoGlinda the Good Witch Grantrsquos Dorothyrsquos Wishrdquo (from the beginning until ldquoget back to Kansasrdquo in paragraph 8 and then paragraph 22 until the end) and ldquoHome Againrdquo
L Frank Baum Literary Read aloud
21 The Treasure Uri Shulevitz Literary Assessment 21 If You Lived Here Houses of the World Giles Laroche Informational Groups
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
22 Cinderella or online version Pages 10-22 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Marcia Brown or free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoThe Girl with the Red Slippersrdquo (Egyptian) Pages 23-36 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoBilly Begrdquo (Ireland) Pages 37-49 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 The Way Meat Loves Salt (Israel) Nina Jaffe Literary Groups 22 Domitila (Mexico) Jewell Reinhart Cobum Literary Groups 22 Yeh-Shen (China) Ai-Ling Louie Literary Groups 22 The Turkey Girl (American Indian) Penny Pollock Literary Groups 22 Mufarorsquos Beautiful Daughters (Africa) John Steptoe Literary Groups 22 Cendrillon (Caribbean) Robert San Souci Literary Groups
23 ldquoThirsty Planetrdquo October 2010 Pages 18-23 of the Projectable Edition
Beth Geiger (National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition)
Informational Read aloud
23 One Well The Story of Water on Earth Rochelle Strauss and Rosemary Woods Informational Read aloud
23 The Raft Jim LaMarche Literary Student copy
23 Down Comes the Rain Franklyn Branley and James Graham Hale Informational Student copy
23 A Drop of Water A Book of Science and Wonder Walter Wick Informational Read aloud
23 River Song with the Banana Slug String Band Steve Van Zandt and Katherine Zecca Literary Read aloud
23 A Drop Around the World Barbara Shaw McKinney Literary Read aloud
23 ldquoWilly the Water Droprdquo Pages 97-107 of the Read-
Free through Domain 11 of Core Knowledge Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
AloudAnthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
23 ldquoThe Water Cyclerdquo Pages 111-122 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
24 The Ox-Cart Man Donald Hall and Barbara Cooney
Literary Student copy
24 Charlottersquos Web Excerpt EB White Literary Read aloud
24 County Fair (My First Little House) Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jody Wheeler Literary Student copy
24 My Rows and Piles of Coins Tololwa Mollel Literary Read aloud Basal 24 The Paper Crane Molly Bang Literary Student copy 24 The Kamishibai Man Allan Say Literary Read aloud 24 The Stranger Chris Van Allsburg Literary Read aloud 24 The Little House Virginia Lee Burton Literary Student copy
24 Whorsquos Buying Whorsquos Selling Understanding Consumers and Producers Jennifer S Larson Informational Student copy
24 Horse-Drawn Days A Century of Farming with Horses Excerpt Jerry Apps Informational Read Aloud
24 Window Jeannine Baker Nonprint (wordless picture book) Student copy
24 ldquoFrom Farm to Marketrdquo Pages 92-101 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 5 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Student copy
25 Lives Poems About Famous Americans Lee Bennett Hopkins
Literary (Poems) Read aloud
25 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet Dennis Denenberg Informational Read aloud 25 Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary Read aloud 25 Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Literary Student copy 25 When Marian Sang Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Informational Read aloud
25 rdquoSusan B Anthony An Advocate for Womenrsquos Rightsrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
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Strand
25 ldquoEleanor Roosevelt A Voice for Human Rightsrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMary McLeod Bethune A Dedicated Teacherrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoJackie Robinson Champion of Equalityrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoRosa Parks The Mother of the Civil Rights Movementrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMartin Luther King Jr Defender of the Dreamrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 George Washington Carver Teacher Scientist and Inventor Lori Mortensen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture Book of Davy Crockett David Adler Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture of Book of Thomas Alva Edison David Adler Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
25 Pocahontas Shannon Zemlicka Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Teammates Peter Golenbock Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Martin Luther King Jr and the March on Washington Frances Ruffin Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Whatrsquos the Big Idea Ben Franklin Jean Fritz Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Helen Keller Courageous Advocate Scott Welvaert Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Vision of Beauty The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker Kathryn Lasky Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
THIRD GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
31 The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
Literary Student copy
31 The Bee Tree Patricia Polacco Literary Read aloud
31 ldquoA Page is a Doorrdquo Remy Charlip Informational Read aloud
31 My Librarian is a Camel How Books are Brought to Children Around the World Margriet Ruurs Informational Groups
31 The Red Book Barbara Lehman Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Literary Student copy
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
31 More Stories Julian Tells
ldquoI Learn Firefightingrdquo (ldquoI Wish for Smokey the Bearrdquo ldquoSuperboy and Merdquo and ldquoHuey Makes the Leaprdquo)
Ann Cameron Literary Assessment
32 A Logrsquos Life Wendy Pfeffer
Informational Student copy
32 Tell Me Tree All about Trees for Kids Gail Gibbons Informational Student copy
32 ldquoPrayer of the Woodsrdquo Unknown Literary (Poem) Student copy
32 ldquoWindy Treerdquo Aileen Fisher Literary Student copy
32 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein Literary Read aloud 32 The Lorax Dr Seuss Literary Student copy 32 A Tree is Growing Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud Basal 32 One Small Place in a Tree Barbara Brenner Literary Assessment Basal
33 Lapin Plays Possum Trickster Tales From the Louisiana Bayou Sharon Arms Doucet
Literary Read Aloud
33 Why Lapinrsquos Ears are Long And Other Tales Sharon Arms Doucet Literary Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
from the Louisiana Bayou
33 ldquoMrsquosu Carencro and Mangeur de Pouletrdquo JJ Reneaux Literary Groups
33 Dear Peter Rabbit Alma Flor Ada Literary Read Aloud
33 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Literary Student copy
33 Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens Literary Student copy 33 ldquoThe Giant of La Costa Villagerdquo S Noel Rideau Literary Assessment
33 Scott Foresman Social Studies Louisiana (Third Grade Textbook) Chapters 2 and 4 Scott Foresman Informational Read Aloud
Social Studies
Textbook
33 Writerrsquos Toolbox Learn How to Write Letters Fairy Tales Scary Stories Journals Poems and Reports
Nancy Loewen Informational Read Aloud
33 The Cajun Experience Historycom Nonnprint (Video) Read Aloud
33 The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Introduction ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit Brer Bear and the Peanut Patchrdquo ldquoThe Great Racerdquo ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit and the Tar Babyrdquo
Don Daily and Joel Chandler Harris Literary Student copy
34 Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson
Literary Student copy
34 The Ballad of the Pirate Queens Jane Yolen Literary Read Aloud 34 Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard Informational Groups
34 ldquoGeocaching Fact Sheetrdquo Geocachingcom Informational Read Aloud
34 Do California ldquoThe Gold Rushrdquo Splashpublicationscom Informational Read Aloud
34 ldquoThe Curse of King Tutrdquo Spencer Kayden Literary (Play) Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
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2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
34 ldquoThe Curse of the Hope Diamondrdquo The Lazy Editor Scholastic SCOPE Magazine Informational Groups
34 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Pirates Chapter 6 Pirate Treasure
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
34 The Mona Lisa Caper Rick Jacobson Literary Groups 34 The Stolen Smile J Patrick Lewis Groups
34 ldquoMissing Monardquo Scholastic Student copy
34 ldquoThe Legend of the Pharaohrsquos Curserdquo ReadWorksorg Informational Assessment
34 Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Travel Channel Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
35 The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal (What Would You Do) Elaine Landau Informational Student copy
35 The Louisiana Purchase From Independence to Lewis and Clark Michael Burgan Informational Student copy
35 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud
35 How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis and Clark Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
35 Lewis and Clark and Me A Dogrsquos Tale
Chapter 6 ldquoBuffalordquo and Chapter 7 ldquoKidnappedrdquo
Laurie Myers Literary Student copy
35 ldquoFreeman and Curtis Red River Expeditionrdquo wwwencyclopediaofarkansasnet Informational Student copy
35 ldquoGo West Across America With Lewis and Clarkrdquo National Geographic Kids Nonprint (website) Student copy
35 Mike Fink Steven Kellogg Literary Groups 35 Thunder Rose Jerdine Nolen Literary Groups 35 Swamp Angel Anne Isaacs Literary Groups
35 ldquoHome on the Rangerdquo Dr Brewster M Higley Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoThe Happy Wandererrdquo Florenz Friedrich Sigismund Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoVikings amp European Explorers Ferdinand Magellanrdquo ReadWorks Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
36 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog amp The Piglet And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Jennifer S Holland Informational Student copy
36 Amos amp Boris William Steig Literary Student copy
36 The Cricket in Time Square Pages 11-15 from Chapter 2 George Selden Literary Read aloud
36 Rosie A Visiting Dogrsquos Story Stephanie Calmenson Informational Student copy
36 ldquoLong-Leg Lou and Short Leg Suerdquo Shel Silverstein Literary Student copy
36 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Chapter 1 Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Creature Features Clown Anemonefish National Geographic Kids Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
36 My Life and Times Autobiography of a Stray Cat
Louisiana EAGLE Literary Assessment
36 Wild Wings Gill Lewis Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Paint the Wind Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Charlottersquos Web EB White Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 A Dogrsquos Way Home Bobbie Pyron Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 How to Steal a Dog Barbara OrsquoConnor Literary Groups (choice for independent
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FOURTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
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44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
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2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
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2014-2015
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53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
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73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
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75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
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2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
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82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
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84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
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2014-2015
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85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
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112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
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115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
22 Cinderella or online version Pages 10-22 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Marcia Brown or free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoThe Girl with the Red Slippersrdquo (Egyptian) Pages 23-36 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 ldquoBilly Begrdquo (Ireland) Pages 37-49 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 3 of Core Knowledge Grade 1 Listening and Learning Strand
Literary Student copy
22 The Way Meat Loves Salt (Israel) Nina Jaffe Literary Groups 22 Domitila (Mexico) Jewell Reinhart Cobum Literary Groups 22 Yeh-Shen (China) Ai-Ling Louie Literary Groups 22 The Turkey Girl (American Indian) Penny Pollock Literary Groups 22 Mufarorsquos Beautiful Daughters (Africa) John Steptoe Literary Groups 22 Cendrillon (Caribbean) Robert San Souci Literary Groups
23 ldquoThirsty Planetrdquo October 2010 Pages 18-23 of the Projectable Edition
Beth Geiger (National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition)
Informational Read aloud
23 One Well The Story of Water on Earth Rochelle Strauss and Rosemary Woods Informational Read aloud
23 The Raft Jim LaMarche Literary Student copy
23 Down Comes the Rain Franklyn Branley and James Graham Hale Informational Student copy
23 A Drop of Water A Book of Science and Wonder Walter Wick Informational Read aloud
23 River Song with the Banana Slug String Band Steve Van Zandt and Katherine Zecca Literary Read aloud
23 A Drop Around the World Barbara Shaw McKinney Literary Read aloud
23 ldquoWilly the Water Droprdquo Pages 97-107 of the Read-
Free through Domain 11 of Core Knowledge Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
AloudAnthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
23 ldquoThe Water Cyclerdquo Pages 111-122 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
24 The Ox-Cart Man Donald Hall and Barbara Cooney
Literary Student copy
24 Charlottersquos Web Excerpt EB White Literary Read aloud
24 County Fair (My First Little House) Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jody Wheeler Literary Student copy
24 My Rows and Piles of Coins Tololwa Mollel Literary Read aloud Basal 24 The Paper Crane Molly Bang Literary Student copy 24 The Kamishibai Man Allan Say Literary Read aloud 24 The Stranger Chris Van Allsburg Literary Read aloud 24 The Little House Virginia Lee Burton Literary Student copy
24 Whorsquos Buying Whorsquos Selling Understanding Consumers and Producers Jennifer S Larson Informational Student copy
24 Horse-Drawn Days A Century of Farming with Horses Excerpt Jerry Apps Informational Read Aloud
24 Window Jeannine Baker Nonprint (wordless picture book) Student copy
24 ldquoFrom Farm to Marketrdquo Pages 92-101 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 5 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Student copy
25 Lives Poems About Famous Americans Lee Bennett Hopkins
Literary (Poems) Read aloud
25 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet Dennis Denenberg Informational Read aloud 25 Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary Read aloud 25 Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Literary Student copy 25 When Marian Sang Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Informational Read aloud
25 rdquoSusan B Anthony An Advocate for Womenrsquos Rightsrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Strand
25 ldquoEleanor Roosevelt A Voice for Human Rightsrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMary McLeod Bethune A Dedicated Teacherrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoJackie Robinson Champion of Equalityrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoRosa Parks The Mother of the Civil Rights Movementrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMartin Luther King Jr Defender of the Dreamrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 George Washington Carver Teacher Scientist and Inventor Lori Mortensen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture Book of Davy Crockett David Adler Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture of Book of Thomas Alva Edison David Adler Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
25 Pocahontas Shannon Zemlicka Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Teammates Peter Golenbock Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Martin Luther King Jr and the March on Washington Frances Ruffin Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Whatrsquos the Big Idea Ben Franklin Jean Fritz Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Helen Keller Courageous Advocate Scott Welvaert Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Vision of Beauty The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker Kathryn Lasky Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
THIRD GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
31 The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
Literary Student copy
31 The Bee Tree Patricia Polacco Literary Read aloud
31 ldquoA Page is a Doorrdquo Remy Charlip Informational Read aloud
31 My Librarian is a Camel How Books are Brought to Children Around the World Margriet Ruurs Informational Groups
31 The Red Book Barbara Lehman Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Literary Student copy
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
31 More Stories Julian Tells
ldquoI Learn Firefightingrdquo (ldquoI Wish for Smokey the Bearrdquo ldquoSuperboy and Merdquo and ldquoHuey Makes the Leaprdquo)
Ann Cameron Literary Assessment
32 A Logrsquos Life Wendy Pfeffer
Informational Student copy
32 Tell Me Tree All about Trees for Kids Gail Gibbons Informational Student copy
32 ldquoPrayer of the Woodsrdquo Unknown Literary (Poem) Student copy
32 ldquoWindy Treerdquo Aileen Fisher Literary Student copy
32 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein Literary Read aloud 32 The Lorax Dr Seuss Literary Student copy 32 A Tree is Growing Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud Basal 32 One Small Place in a Tree Barbara Brenner Literary Assessment Basal
33 Lapin Plays Possum Trickster Tales From the Louisiana Bayou Sharon Arms Doucet
Literary Read Aloud
33 Why Lapinrsquos Ears are Long And Other Tales Sharon Arms Doucet Literary Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
from the Louisiana Bayou
33 ldquoMrsquosu Carencro and Mangeur de Pouletrdquo JJ Reneaux Literary Groups
33 Dear Peter Rabbit Alma Flor Ada Literary Read Aloud
33 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Literary Student copy
33 Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens Literary Student copy 33 ldquoThe Giant of La Costa Villagerdquo S Noel Rideau Literary Assessment
33 Scott Foresman Social Studies Louisiana (Third Grade Textbook) Chapters 2 and 4 Scott Foresman Informational Read Aloud
Social Studies
Textbook
33 Writerrsquos Toolbox Learn How to Write Letters Fairy Tales Scary Stories Journals Poems and Reports
Nancy Loewen Informational Read Aloud
33 The Cajun Experience Historycom Nonnprint (Video) Read Aloud
33 The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Introduction ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit Brer Bear and the Peanut Patchrdquo ldquoThe Great Racerdquo ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit and the Tar Babyrdquo
Don Daily and Joel Chandler Harris Literary Student copy
34 Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson
Literary Student copy
34 The Ballad of the Pirate Queens Jane Yolen Literary Read Aloud 34 Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard Informational Groups
34 ldquoGeocaching Fact Sheetrdquo Geocachingcom Informational Read Aloud
34 Do California ldquoThe Gold Rushrdquo Splashpublicationscom Informational Read Aloud
34 ldquoThe Curse of King Tutrdquo Spencer Kayden Literary (Play) Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
34 ldquoThe Curse of the Hope Diamondrdquo The Lazy Editor Scholastic SCOPE Magazine Informational Groups
34 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Pirates Chapter 6 Pirate Treasure
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
34 The Mona Lisa Caper Rick Jacobson Literary Groups 34 The Stolen Smile J Patrick Lewis Groups
34 ldquoMissing Monardquo Scholastic Student copy
34 ldquoThe Legend of the Pharaohrsquos Curserdquo ReadWorksorg Informational Assessment
34 Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Travel Channel Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
35 The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal (What Would You Do) Elaine Landau Informational Student copy
35 The Louisiana Purchase From Independence to Lewis and Clark Michael Burgan Informational Student copy
35 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud
35 How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis and Clark Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
35 Lewis and Clark and Me A Dogrsquos Tale
Chapter 6 ldquoBuffalordquo and Chapter 7 ldquoKidnappedrdquo
Laurie Myers Literary Student copy
35 ldquoFreeman and Curtis Red River Expeditionrdquo wwwencyclopediaofarkansasnet Informational Student copy
35 ldquoGo West Across America With Lewis and Clarkrdquo National Geographic Kids Nonprint (website) Student copy
35 Mike Fink Steven Kellogg Literary Groups 35 Thunder Rose Jerdine Nolen Literary Groups 35 Swamp Angel Anne Isaacs Literary Groups
35 ldquoHome on the Rangerdquo Dr Brewster M Higley Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoThe Happy Wandererrdquo Florenz Friedrich Sigismund Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoVikings amp European Explorers Ferdinand Magellanrdquo ReadWorks Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
36 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog amp The Piglet And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Jennifer S Holland Informational Student copy
36 Amos amp Boris William Steig Literary Student copy
36 The Cricket in Time Square Pages 11-15 from Chapter 2 George Selden Literary Read aloud
36 Rosie A Visiting Dogrsquos Story Stephanie Calmenson Informational Student copy
36 ldquoLong-Leg Lou and Short Leg Suerdquo Shel Silverstein Literary Student copy
36 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Chapter 1 Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Creature Features Clown Anemonefish National Geographic Kids Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
36 My Life and Times Autobiography of a Stray Cat
Louisiana EAGLE Literary Assessment
36 Wild Wings Gill Lewis Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Paint the Wind Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Charlottersquos Web EB White Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 A Dogrsquos Way Home Bobbie Pyron Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 How to Steal a Dog Barbara OrsquoConnor Literary Groups (choice for independent
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FOURTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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2014-2015
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
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93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
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102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
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103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
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English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
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112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
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115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
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126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
AloudAnthology Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
23 ldquoThe Water Cyclerdquo Pages 111-122 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 6 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
24 The Ox-Cart Man Donald Hall and Barbara Cooney
Literary Student copy
24 Charlottersquos Web Excerpt EB White Literary Read aloud
24 County Fair (My First Little House) Laura Ingalls Wilder and Jody Wheeler Literary Student copy
24 My Rows and Piles of Coins Tololwa Mollel Literary Read aloud Basal 24 The Paper Crane Molly Bang Literary Student copy 24 The Kamishibai Man Allan Say Literary Read aloud 24 The Stranger Chris Van Allsburg Literary Read aloud 24 The Little House Virginia Lee Burton Literary Student copy
24 Whorsquos Buying Whorsquos Selling Understanding Consumers and Producers Jennifer S Larson Informational Student copy
24 Horse-Drawn Days A Century of Farming with Horses Excerpt Jerry Apps Informational Read Aloud
24 Window Jeannine Baker Nonprint (wordless picture book) Student copy
24 ldquoFrom Farm to Marketrdquo Pages 92-101 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 5 of Core Knowledge Kindergarten Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Student copy
25 Lives Poems About Famous Americans Lee Bennett Hopkins
Literary (Poems) Read aloud
25 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet Dennis Denenberg Informational Read aloud 25 Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary Read aloud 25 Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Literary Student copy 25 When Marian Sang Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Informational Read aloud
25 rdquoSusan B Anthony An Advocate for Womenrsquos Rightsrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning
Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Strand
25 ldquoEleanor Roosevelt A Voice for Human Rightsrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMary McLeod Bethune A Dedicated Teacherrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoJackie Robinson Champion of Equalityrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoRosa Parks The Mother of the Civil Rights Movementrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMartin Luther King Jr Defender of the Dreamrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 George Washington Carver Teacher Scientist and Inventor Lori Mortensen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture Book of Davy Crockett David Adler Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture of Book of Thomas Alva Edison David Adler Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
25 Pocahontas Shannon Zemlicka Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Teammates Peter Golenbock Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Martin Luther King Jr and the March on Washington Frances Ruffin Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Whatrsquos the Big Idea Ben Franklin Jean Fritz Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Helen Keller Courageous Advocate Scott Welvaert Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Vision of Beauty The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker Kathryn Lasky Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
THIRD GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
31 The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
Literary Student copy
31 The Bee Tree Patricia Polacco Literary Read aloud
31 ldquoA Page is a Doorrdquo Remy Charlip Informational Read aloud
31 My Librarian is a Camel How Books are Brought to Children Around the World Margriet Ruurs Informational Groups
31 The Red Book Barbara Lehman Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Literary Student copy
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
31 More Stories Julian Tells
ldquoI Learn Firefightingrdquo (ldquoI Wish for Smokey the Bearrdquo ldquoSuperboy and Merdquo and ldquoHuey Makes the Leaprdquo)
Ann Cameron Literary Assessment
32 A Logrsquos Life Wendy Pfeffer
Informational Student copy
32 Tell Me Tree All about Trees for Kids Gail Gibbons Informational Student copy
32 ldquoPrayer of the Woodsrdquo Unknown Literary (Poem) Student copy
32 ldquoWindy Treerdquo Aileen Fisher Literary Student copy
32 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein Literary Read aloud 32 The Lorax Dr Seuss Literary Student copy 32 A Tree is Growing Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud Basal 32 One Small Place in a Tree Barbara Brenner Literary Assessment Basal
33 Lapin Plays Possum Trickster Tales From the Louisiana Bayou Sharon Arms Doucet
Literary Read Aloud
33 Why Lapinrsquos Ears are Long And Other Tales Sharon Arms Doucet Literary Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
from the Louisiana Bayou
33 ldquoMrsquosu Carencro and Mangeur de Pouletrdquo JJ Reneaux Literary Groups
33 Dear Peter Rabbit Alma Flor Ada Literary Read Aloud
33 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Literary Student copy
33 Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens Literary Student copy 33 ldquoThe Giant of La Costa Villagerdquo S Noel Rideau Literary Assessment
33 Scott Foresman Social Studies Louisiana (Third Grade Textbook) Chapters 2 and 4 Scott Foresman Informational Read Aloud
Social Studies
Textbook
33 Writerrsquos Toolbox Learn How to Write Letters Fairy Tales Scary Stories Journals Poems and Reports
Nancy Loewen Informational Read Aloud
33 The Cajun Experience Historycom Nonnprint (Video) Read Aloud
33 The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Introduction ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit Brer Bear and the Peanut Patchrdquo ldquoThe Great Racerdquo ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit and the Tar Babyrdquo
Don Daily and Joel Chandler Harris Literary Student copy
34 Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson
Literary Student copy
34 The Ballad of the Pirate Queens Jane Yolen Literary Read Aloud 34 Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard Informational Groups
34 ldquoGeocaching Fact Sheetrdquo Geocachingcom Informational Read Aloud
34 Do California ldquoThe Gold Rushrdquo Splashpublicationscom Informational Read Aloud
34 ldquoThe Curse of King Tutrdquo Spencer Kayden Literary (Play) Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
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2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
34 ldquoThe Curse of the Hope Diamondrdquo The Lazy Editor Scholastic SCOPE Magazine Informational Groups
34 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Pirates Chapter 6 Pirate Treasure
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
34 The Mona Lisa Caper Rick Jacobson Literary Groups 34 The Stolen Smile J Patrick Lewis Groups
34 ldquoMissing Monardquo Scholastic Student copy
34 ldquoThe Legend of the Pharaohrsquos Curserdquo ReadWorksorg Informational Assessment
34 Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Travel Channel Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
35 The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal (What Would You Do) Elaine Landau Informational Student copy
35 The Louisiana Purchase From Independence to Lewis and Clark Michael Burgan Informational Student copy
35 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud
35 How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis and Clark Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
35 Lewis and Clark and Me A Dogrsquos Tale
Chapter 6 ldquoBuffalordquo and Chapter 7 ldquoKidnappedrdquo
Laurie Myers Literary Student copy
35 ldquoFreeman and Curtis Red River Expeditionrdquo wwwencyclopediaofarkansasnet Informational Student copy
35 ldquoGo West Across America With Lewis and Clarkrdquo National Geographic Kids Nonprint (website) Student copy
35 Mike Fink Steven Kellogg Literary Groups 35 Thunder Rose Jerdine Nolen Literary Groups 35 Swamp Angel Anne Isaacs Literary Groups
35 ldquoHome on the Rangerdquo Dr Brewster M Higley Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoThe Happy Wandererrdquo Florenz Friedrich Sigismund Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoVikings amp European Explorers Ferdinand Magellanrdquo ReadWorks Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
36 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog amp The Piglet And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Jennifer S Holland Informational Student copy
36 Amos amp Boris William Steig Literary Student copy
36 The Cricket in Time Square Pages 11-15 from Chapter 2 George Selden Literary Read aloud
36 Rosie A Visiting Dogrsquos Story Stephanie Calmenson Informational Student copy
36 ldquoLong-Leg Lou and Short Leg Suerdquo Shel Silverstein Literary Student copy
36 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Chapter 1 Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Creature Features Clown Anemonefish National Geographic Kids Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
36 My Life and Times Autobiography of a Stray Cat
Louisiana EAGLE Literary Assessment
36 Wild Wings Gill Lewis Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Paint the Wind Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Charlottersquos Web EB White Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 A Dogrsquos Way Home Bobbie Pyron Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 How to Steal a Dog Barbara OrsquoConnor Literary Groups (choice for independent
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FOURTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
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2014-2015
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82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Strand
25 ldquoEleanor Roosevelt A Voice for Human Rightsrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMary McLeod Bethune A Dedicated Teacherrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoJackie Robinson Champion of Equalityrdquo Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoRosa Parks The Mother of the Civil Rights Movementrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 ldquoMartin Luther King Jr Defender of the Dreamrdquo
Pages 105-118 of the Read-Aloud Anthology
Free through Domain 12 of Core Knowledge Grade 2 Listening and Learning Strand
Informational Read aloud
25 George Washington Carver Teacher Scientist and Inventor Lori Mortensen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture Book of Davy Crockett David Adler Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 A Picture of Book of Thomas Alva Edison David Adler Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
25 Pocahontas Shannon Zemlicka Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Teammates Peter Golenbock Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Martin Luther King Jr and the March on Washington Frances Ruffin Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Whatrsquos the Big Idea Ben Franklin Jean Fritz Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Helen Keller Courageous Advocate Scott Welvaert Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Vision of Beauty The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker Kathryn Lasky Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
THIRD GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
31 The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
Literary Student copy
31 The Bee Tree Patricia Polacco Literary Read aloud
31 ldquoA Page is a Doorrdquo Remy Charlip Informational Read aloud
31 My Librarian is a Camel How Books are Brought to Children Around the World Margriet Ruurs Informational Groups
31 The Red Book Barbara Lehman Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Literary Student copy
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
31 More Stories Julian Tells
ldquoI Learn Firefightingrdquo (ldquoI Wish for Smokey the Bearrdquo ldquoSuperboy and Merdquo and ldquoHuey Makes the Leaprdquo)
Ann Cameron Literary Assessment
32 A Logrsquos Life Wendy Pfeffer
Informational Student copy
32 Tell Me Tree All about Trees for Kids Gail Gibbons Informational Student copy
32 ldquoPrayer of the Woodsrdquo Unknown Literary (Poem) Student copy
32 ldquoWindy Treerdquo Aileen Fisher Literary Student copy
32 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein Literary Read aloud 32 The Lorax Dr Seuss Literary Student copy 32 A Tree is Growing Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud Basal 32 One Small Place in a Tree Barbara Brenner Literary Assessment Basal
33 Lapin Plays Possum Trickster Tales From the Louisiana Bayou Sharon Arms Doucet
Literary Read Aloud
33 Why Lapinrsquos Ears are Long And Other Tales Sharon Arms Doucet Literary Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
from the Louisiana Bayou
33 ldquoMrsquosu Carencro and Mangeur de Pouletrdquo JJ Reneaux Literary Groups
33 Dear Peter Rabbit Alma Flor Ada Literary Read Aloud
33 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Literary Student copy
33 Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens Literary Student copy 33 ldquoThe Giant of La Costa Villagerdquo S Noel Rideau Literary Assessment
33 Scott Foresman Social Studies Louisiana (Third Grade Textbook) Chapters 2 and 4 Scott Foresman Informational Read Aloud
Social Studies
Textbook
33 Writerrsquos Toolbox Learn How to Write Letters Fairy Tales Scary Stories Journals Poems and Reports
Nancy Loewen Informational Read Aloud
33 The Cajun Experience Historycom Nonnprint (Video) Read Aloud
33 The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Introduction ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit Brer Bear and the Peanut Patchrdquo ldquoThe Great Racerdquo ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit and the Tar Babyrdquo
Don Daily and Joel Chandler Harris Literary Student copy
34 Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson
Literary Student copy
34 The Ballad of the Pirate Queens Jane Yolen Literary Read Aloud 34 Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard Informational Groups
34 ldquoGeocaching Fact Sheetrdquo Geocachingcom Informational Read Aloud
34 Do California ldquoThe Gold Rushrdquo Splashpublicationscom Informational Read Aloud
34 ldquoThe Curse of King Tutrdquo Spencer Kayden Literary (Play) Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
34 ldquoThe Curse of the Hope Diamondrdquo The Lazy Editor Scholastic SCOPE Magazine Informational Groups
34 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Pirates Chapter 6 Pirate Treasure
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
34 The Mona Lisa Caper Rick Jacobson Literary Groups 34 The Stolen Smile J Patrick Lewis Groups
34 ldquoMissing Monardquo Scholastic Student copy
34 ldquoThe Legend of the Pharaohrsquos Curserdquo ReadWorksorg Informational Assessment
34 Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Travel Channel Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
35 The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal (What Would You Do) Elaine Landau Informational Student copy
35 The Louisiana Purchase From Independence to Lewis and Clark Michael Burgan Informational Student copy
35 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud
35 How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis and Clark Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
35 Lewis and Clark and Me A Dogrsquos Tale
Chapter 6 ldquoBuffalordquo and Chapter 7 ldquoKidnappedrdquo
Laurie Myers Literary Student copy
35 ldquoFreeman and Curtis Red River Expeditionrdquo wwwencyclopediaofarkansasnet Informational Student copy
35 ldquoGo West Across America With Lewis and Clarkrdquo National Geographic Kids Nonprint (website) Student copy
35 Mike Fink Steven Kellogg Literary Groups 35 Thunder Rose Jerdine Nolen Literary Groups 35 Swamp Angel Anne Isaacs Literary Groups
35 ldquoHome on the Rangerdquo Dr Brewster M Higley Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoThe Happy Wandererrdquo Florenz Friedrich Sigismund Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoVikings amp European Explorers Ferdinand Magellanrdquo ReadWorks Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
36 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog amp The Piglet And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Jennifer S Holland Informational Student copy
36 Amos amp Boris William Steig Literary Student copy
36 The Cricket in Time Square Pages 11-15 from Chapter 2 George Selden Literary Read aloud
36 Rosie A Visiting Dogrsquos Story Stephanie Calmenson Informational Student copy
36 ldquoLong-Leg Lou and Short Leg Suerdquo Shel Silverstein Literary Student copy
36 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Chapter 1 Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Creature Features Clown Anemonefish National Geographic Kids Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
36 My Life and Times Autobiography of a Stray Cat
Louisiana EAGLE Literary Assessment
36 Wild Wings Gill Lewis Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Paint the Wind Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Charlottersquos Web EB White Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 A Dogrsquos Way Home Bobbie Pyron Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 How to Steal a Dog Barbara OrsquoConnor Literary Groups (choice for independent
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FOURTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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2014-2015
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61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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2014-2015
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73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
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103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
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Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
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Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
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111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
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112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
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115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
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121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
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122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
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124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
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126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 2
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
25 Pocahontas Shannon Zemlicka Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Teammates Peter Golenbock Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Martin Luther King Jr and the March on Washington Frances Ruffin Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
25 Whatrsquos the Big Idea Ben Franklin Jean Fritz Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Helen Keller Courageous Advocate Scott Welvaert Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
25 Vision of Beauty The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker Kathryn Lasky Informational
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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31 The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
Literary Student copy
31 The Bee Tree Patricia Polacco Literary Read aloud
31 ldquoA Page is a Doorrdquo Remy Charlip Informational Read aloud
31 My Librarian is a Camel How Books are Brought to Children Around the World Margriet Ruurs Informational Groups
31 The Red Book Barbara Lehman Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Literary Student copy
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
31 More Stories Julian Tells
ldquoI Learn Firefightingrdquo (ldquoI Wish for Smokey the Bearrdquo ldquoSuperboy and Merdquo and ldquoHuey Makes the Leaprdquo)
Ann Cameron Literary Assessment
32 A Logrsquos Life Wendy Pfeffer
Informational Student copy
32 Tell Me Tree All about Trees for Kids Gail Gibbons Informational Student copy
32 ldquoPrayer of the Woodsrdquo Unknown Literary (Poem) Student copy
32 ldquoWindy Treerdquo Aileen Fisher Literary Student copy
32 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein Literary Read aloud 32 The Lorax Dr Seuss Literary Student copy 32 A Tree is Growing Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud Basal 32 One Small Place in a Tree Barbara Brenner Literary Assessment Basal
33 Lapin Plays Possum Trickster Tales From the Louisiana Bayou Sharon Arms Doucet
Literary Read Aloud
33 Why Lapinrsquos Ears are Long And Other Tales Sharon Arms Doucet Literary Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
from the Louisiana Bayou
33 ldquoMrsquosu Carencro and Mangeur de Pouletrdquo JJ Reneaux Literary Groups
33 Dear Peter Rabbit Alma Flor Ada Literary Read Aloud
33 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Literary Student copy
33 Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens Literary Student copy 33 ldquoThe Giant of La Costa Villagerdquo S Noel Rideau Literary Assessment
33 Scott Foresman Social Studies Louisiana (Third Grade Textbook) Chapters 2 and 4 Scott Foresman Informational Read Aloud
Social Studies
Textbook
33 Writerrsquos Toolbox Learn How to Write Letters Fairy Tales Scary Stories Journals Poems and Reports
Nancy Loewen Informational Read Aloud
33 The Cajun Experience Historycom Nonnprint (Video) Read Aloud
33 The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Introduction ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit Brer Bear and the Peanut Patchrdquo ldquoThe Great Racerdquo ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit and the Tar Babyrdquo
Don Daily and Joel Chandler Harris Literary Student copy
34 Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson
Literary Student copy
34 The Ballad of the Pirate Queens Jane Yolen Literary Read Aloud 34 Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard Informational Groups
34 ldquoGeocaching Fact Sheetrdquo Geocachingcom Informational Read Aloud
34 Do California ldquoThe Gold Rushrdquo Splashpublicationscom Informational Read Aloud
34 ldquoThe Curse of King Tutrdquo Spencer Kayden Literary (Play) Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
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34 ldquoThe Curse of the Hope Diamondrdquo The Lazy Editor Scholastic SCOPE Magazine Informational Groups
34 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Pirates Chapter 6 Pirate Treasure
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
34 The Mona Lisa Caper Rick Jacobson Literary Groups 34 The Stolen Smile J Patrick Lewis Groups
34 ldquoMissing Monardquo Scholastic Student copy
34 ldquoThe Legend of the Pharaohrsquos Curserdquo ReadWorksorg Informational Assessment
34 Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Travel Channel Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
35 The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal (What Would You Do) Elaine Landau Informational Student copy
35 The Louisiana Purchase From Independence to Lewis and Clark Michael Burgan Informational Student copy
35 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud
35 How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis and Clark Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
35 Lewis and Clark and Me A Dogrsquos Tale
Chapter 6 ldquoBuffalordquo and Chapter 7 ldquoKidnappedrdquo
Laurie Myers Literary Student copy
35 ldquoFreeman and Curtis Red River Expeditionrdquo wwwencyclopediaofarkansasnet Informational Student copy
35 ldquoGo West Across America With Lewis and Clarkrdquo National Geographic Kids Nonprint (website) Student copy
35 Mike Fink Steven Kellogg Literary Groups 35 Thunder Rose Jerdine Nolen Literary Groups 35 Swamp Angel Anne Isaacs Literary Groups
35 ldquoHome on the Rangerdquo Dr Brewster M Higley Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoThe Happy Wandererrdquo Florenz Friedrich Sigismund Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoVikings amp European Explorers Ferdinand Magellanrdquo ReadWorks Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
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36 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog amp The Piglet And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Jennifer S Holland Informational Student copy
36 Amos amp Boris William Steig Literary Student copy
36 The Cricket in Time Square Pages 11-15 from Chapter 2 George Selden Literary Read aloud
36 Rosie A Visiting Dogrsquos Story Stephanie Calmenson Informational Student copy
36 ldquoLong-Leg Lou and Short Leg Suerdquo Shel Silverstein Literary Student copy
36 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Chapter 1 Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Creature Features Clown Anemonefish National Geographic Kids Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
36 My Life and Times Autobiography of a Stray Cat
Louisiana EAGLE Literary Assessment
36 Wild Wings Gill Lewis Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Paint the Wind Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Charlottersquos Web EB White Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 A Dogrsquos Way Home Bobbie Pyron Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 How to Steal a Dog Barbara OrsquoConnor Literary Groups (choice for independent
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FOURTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
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91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
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English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
THIRD GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
31 The Stories Julian Tells Ann Cameron
Literary Student copy
31 The Bee Tree Patricia Polacco Literary Read aloud
31 ldquoA Page is a Doorrdquo Remy Charlip Informational Read aloud
31 My Librarian is a Camel How Books are Brought to Children Around the World Margriet Ruurs Informational Groups
31 The Red Book Barbara Lehman Nonprint (Wordless Picture Book) Groups
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Literary Student copy
31 The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore William Joyce Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
31 More Stories Julian Tells
ldquoI Learn Firefightingrdquo (ldquoI Wish for Smokey the Bearrdquo ldquoSuperboy and Merdquo and ldquoHuey Makes the Leaprdquo)
Ann Cameron Literary Assessment
32 A Logrsquos Life Wendy Pfeffer
Informational Student copy
32 Tell Me Tree All about Trees for Kids Gail Gibbons Informational Student copy
32 ldquoPrayer of the Woodsrdquo Unknown Literary (Poem) Student copy
32 ldquoWindy Treerdquo Aileen Fisher Literary Student copy
32 The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein Literary Read aloud 32 The Lorax Dr Seuss Literary Student copy 32 A Tree is Growing Arthur Dorros Informational Read aloud Basal 32 One Small Place in a Tree Barbara Brenner Literary Assessment Basal
33 Lapin Plays Possum Trickster Tales From the Louisiana Bayou Sharon Arms Doucet
Literary Read Aloud
33 Why Lapinrsquos Ears are Long And Other Tales Sharon Arms Doucet Literary Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
from the Louisiana Bayou
33 ldquoMrsquosu Carencro and Mangeur de Pouletrdquo JJ Reneaux Literary Groups
33 Dear Peter Rabbit Alma Flor Ada Literary Read Aloud
33 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Literary Student copy
33 Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens Literary Student copy 33 ldquoThe Giant of La Costa Villagerdquo S Noel Rideau Literary Assessment
33 Scott Foresman Social Studies Louisiana (Third Grade Textbook) Chapters 2 and 4 Scott Foresman Informational Read Aloud
Social Studies
Textbook
33 Writerrsquos Toolbox Learn How to Write Letters Fairy Tales Scary Stories Journals Poems and Reports
Nancy Loewen Informational Read Aloud
33 The Cajun Experience Historycom Nonnprint (Video) Read Aloud
33 The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Introduction ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit Brer Bear and the Peanut Patchrdquo ldquoThe Great Racerdquo ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit and the Tar Babyrdquo
Don Daily and Joel Chandler Harris Literary Student copy
34 Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson
Literary Student copy
34 The Ballad of the Pirate Queens Jane Yolen Literary Read Aloud 34 Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard Informational Groups
34 ldquoGeocaching Fact Sheetrdquo Geocachingcom Informational Read Aloud
34 Do California ldquoThe Gold Rushrdquo Splashpublicationscom Informational Read Aloud
34 ldquoThe Curse of King Tutrdquo Spencer Kayden Literary (Play) Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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34 ldquoThe Curse of the Hope Diamondrdquo The Lazy Editor Scholastic SCOPE Magazine Informational Groups
34 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Pirates Chapter 6 Pirate Treasure
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
34 The Mona Lisa Caper Rick Jacobson Literary Groups 34 The Stolen Smile J Patrick Lewis Groups
34 ldquoMissing Monardquo Scholastic Student copy
34 ldquoThe Legend of the Pharaohrsquos Curserdquo ReadWorksorg Informational Assessment
34 Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Travel Channel Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
35 The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal (What Would You Do) Elaine Landau Informational Student copy
35 The Louisiana Purchase From Independence to Lewis and Clark Michael Burgan Informational Student copy
35 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud
35 How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis and Clark Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
35 Lewis and Clark and Me A Dogrsquos Tale
Chapter 6 ldquoBuffalordquo and Chapter 7 ldquoKidnappedrdquo
Laurie Myers Literary Student copy
35 ldquoFreeman and Curtis Red River Expeditionrdquo wwwencyclopediaofarkansasnet Informational Student copy
35 ldquoGo West Across America With Lewis and Clarkrdquo National Geographic Kids Nonprint (website) Student copy
35 Mike Fink Steven Kellogg Literary Groups 35 Thunder Rose Jerdine Nolen Literary Groups 35 Swamp Angel Anne Isaacs Literary Groups
35 ldquoHome on the Rangerdquo Dr Brewster M Higley Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoThe Happy Wandererrdquo Florenz Friedrich Sigismund Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoVikings amp European Explorers Ferdinand Magellanrdquo ReadWorks Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
36 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog amp The Piglet And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Jennifer S Holland Informational Student copy
36 Amos amp Boris William Steig Literary Student copy
36 The Cricket in Time Square Pages 11-15 from Chapter 2 George Selden Literary Read aloud
36 Rosie A Visiting Dogrsquos Story Stephanie Calmenson Informational Student copy
36 ldquoLong-Leg Lou and Short Leg Suerdquo Shel Silverstein Literary Student copy
36 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Chapter 1 Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Creature Features Clown Anemonefish National Geographic Kids Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
36 My Life and Times Autobiography of a Stray Cat
Louisiana EAGLE Literary Assessment
36 Wild Wings Gill Lewis Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Paint the Wind Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Charlottersquos Web EB White Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 A Dogrsquos Way Home Bobbie Pyron Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 How to Steal a Dog Barbara OrsquoConnor Literary Groups (choice for independent
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FOURTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
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2014-2015
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53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
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122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
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124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
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126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
from the Louisiana Bayou
33 ldquoMrsquosu Carencro and Mangeur de Pouletrdquo JJ Reneaux Literary Groups
33 Dear Peter Rabbit Alma Flor Ada Literary Read Aloud
33 The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter Literary Student copy
33 Tops and Bottoms Janet Stevens Literary Student copy 33 ldquoThe Giant of La Costa Villagerdquo S Noel Rideau Literary Assessment
33 Scott Foresman Social Studies Louisiana (Third Grade Textbook) Chapters 2 and 4 Scott Foresman Informational Read Aloud
Social Studies
Textbook
33 Writerrsquos Toolbox Learn How to Write Letters Fairy Tales Scary Stories Journals Poems and Reports
Nancy Loewen Informational Read Aloud
33 The Cajun Experience Historycom Nonnprint (Video) Read Aloud
33 The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
Introduction ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit Brer Bear and the Peanut Patchrdquo ldquoThe Great Racerdquo ldquoBrer Fox Brer Rabbit and the Tar Babyrdquo
Don Daily and Joel Chandler Harris Literary Student copy
34 Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics) Robert Louis Stevenson
Literary Student copy
34 The Ballad of the Pirate Queens Jane Yolen Literary Read Aloud 34 Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard Informational Groups
34 ldquoGeocaching Fact Sheetrdquo Geocachingcom Informational Read Aloud
34 Do California ldquoThe Gold Rushrdquo Splashpublicationscom Informational Read Aloud
34 ldquoThe Curse of King Tutrdquo Spencer Kayden Literary (Play) Read Aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
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34 ldquoThe Curse of the Hope Diamondrdquo The Lazy Editor Scholastic SCOPE Magazine Informational Groups
34 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Pirates Chapter 6 Pirate Treasure
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
34 The Mona Lisa Caper Rick Jacobson Literary Groups 34 The Stolen Smile J Patrick Lewis Groups
34 ldquoMissing Monardquo Scholastic Student copy
34 ldquoThe Legend of the Pharaohrsquos Curserdquo ReadWorksorg Informational Assessment
34 Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Travel Channel Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
35 The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal (What Would You Do) Elaine Landau Informational Student copy
35 The Louisiana Purchase From Independence to Lewis and Clark Michael Burgan Informational Student copy
35 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud
35 How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis and Clark Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
35 Lewis and Clark and Me A Dogrsquos Tale
Chapter 6 ldquoBuffalordquo and Chapter 7 ldquoKidnappedrdquo
Laurie Myers Literary Student copy
35 ldquoFreeman and Curtis Red River Expeditionrdquo wwwencyclopediaofarkansasnet Informational Student copy
35 ldquoGo West Across America With Lewis and Clarkrdquo National Geographic Kids Nonprint (website) Student copy
35 Mike Fink Steven Kellogg Literary Groups 35 Thunder Rose Jerdine Nolen Literary Groups 35 Swamp Angel Anne Isaacs Literary Groups
35 ldquoHome on the Rangerdquo Dr Brewster M Higley Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoThe Happy Wandererrdquo Florenz Friedrich Sigismund Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoVikings amp European Explorers Ferdinand Magellanrdquo ReadWorks Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
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36 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog amp The Piglet And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Jennifer S Holland Informational Student copy
36 Amos amp Boris William Steig Literary Student copy
36 The Cricket in Time Square Pages 11-15 from Chapter 2 George Selden Literary Read aloud
36 Rosie A Visiting Dogrsquos Story Stephanie Calmenson Informational Student copy
36 ldquoLong-Leg Lou and Short Leg Suerdquo Shel Silverstein Literary Student copy
36 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Chapter 1 Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Creature Features Clown Anemonefish National Geographic Kids Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
36 My Life and Times Autobiography of a Stray Cat
Louisiana EAGLE Literary Assessment
36 Wild Wings Gill Lewis Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Paint the Wind Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Charlottersquos Web EB White Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 A Dogrsquos Way Home Bobbie Pyron Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 How to Steal a Dog Barbara OrsquoConnor Literary Groups (choice for independent
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
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41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
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44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
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45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
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FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
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52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
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53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
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2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
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112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
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115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
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122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
34 ldquoThe Curse of the Hope Diamondrdquo The Lazy Editor Scholastic SCOPE Magazine Informational Groups
34 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Pirates Chapter 6 Pirate Treasure
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
34 The Mona Lisa Caper Rick Jacobson Literary Groups 34 The Stolen Smile J Patrick Lewis Groups
34 ldquoMissing Monardquo Scholastic Student copy
34 ldquoThe Legend of the Pharaohrsquos Curserdquo ReadWorksorg Informational Assessment
34 Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Travel Channel Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
35 The Louisiana Purchase Would You Close the Deal (What Would You Do) Elaine Landau Informational Student copy
35 The Louisiana Purchase From Independence to Lewis and Clark Michael Burgan Informational Student copy
35 America the Beautiful Katharine Lee Bates Literary (Song Lyrics) Read aloud
35 How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis and Clark Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
35 Lewis and Clark and Me A Dogrsquos Tale
Chapter 6 ldquoBuffalordquo and Chapter 7 ldquoKidnappedrdquo
Laurie Myers Literary Student copy
35 ldquoFreeman and Curtis Red River Expeditionrdquo wwwencyclopediaofarkansasnet Informational Student copy
35 ldquoGo West Across America With Lewis and Clarkrdquo National Geographic Kids Nonprint (website) Student copy
35 Mike Fink Steven Kellogg Literary Groups 35 Thunder Rose Jerdine Nolen Literary Groups 35 Swamp Angel Anne Isaacs Literary Groups
35 ldquoHome on the Rangerdquo Dr Brewster M Higley Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoThe Happy Wandererrdquo Florenz Friedrich Sigismund Nonprint (song) Student copy
35 ldquoVikings amp European Explorers Ferdinand Magellanrdquo ReadWorks Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
36 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog amp The Piglet And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Jennifer S Holland Informational Student copy
36 Amos amp Boris William Steig Literary Student copy
36 The Cricket in Time Square Pages 11-15 from Chapter 2 George Selden Literary Read aloud
36 Rosie A Visiting Dogrsquos Story Stephanie Calmenson Informational Student copy
36 ldquoLong-Leg Lou and Short Leg Suerdquo Shel Silverstein Literary Student copy
36 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Chapter 1 Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Creature Features Clown Anemonefish National Geographic Kids Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
36 My Life and Times Autobiography of a Stray Cat
Louisiana EAGLE Literary Assessment
36 Wild Wings Gill Lewis Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Paint the Wind Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Charlottersquos Web EB White Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 A Dogrsquos Way Home Bobbie Pyron Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 How to Steal a Dog Barbara OrsquoConnor Literary Groups (choice for independent
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FOURTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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2014-2015
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64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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2014-2015
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73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
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2014-2015
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82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
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103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
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Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
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Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
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111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
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112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
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115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
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124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
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126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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36 Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Unlikely Friendships for Kids The Dog amp The Piglet And Four Other Stories of Animal Friendships
Jennifer S Holland Informational Student copy
36 Amos amp Boris William Steig Literary Student copy
36 The Cricket in Time Square Pages 11-15 from Chapter 2 George Selden Literary Read aloud
36 Rosie A Visiting Dogrsquos Story Stephanie Calmenson Informational Student copy
36 ldquoLong-Leg Lou and Short Leg Suerdquo Shel Silverstein Literary Student copy
36 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Chapter 1 Kate DiCamillo Literary Student copy
36 Creature Features Clown Anemonefish National Geographic Kids Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
36 My Life and Times Autobiography of a Stray Cat
Louisiana EAGLE Literary Assessment
36 Wild Wings Gill Lewis Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Paint the Wind Pam Muntildeoz Ryan Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Charlottersquos Web EB White Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 A Dogrsquos Way Home Bobbie Pyron Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 How to Steal a Dog Barbara OrsquoConnor Literary Groups (choice for independent
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
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2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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2014-2015
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61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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2014-2015
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
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ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
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102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
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103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
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Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
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111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
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112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
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115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 3
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
36 The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
36 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
36 The Leaninrsquo Dog KA Nuzum Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FOURTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
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53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
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55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
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61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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2014-2015
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reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
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English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
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2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FOURTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
41 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
Literary Student copy
41 Favorite Greek Myths ldquoThe Face in the Poolrdquo and ldquoThe Weaving Contestrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Groups
41 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Chapters 3 4 5 6 8 10 and 11 Grace Lin Literary Student copy
41 Legends Heroes and Villains
ldquoThe Mares of Diomedesrdquo and ldquoProcrustes and His Magic Bedrdquo
Anthony Horowitz Literary Student copy Assessment
41 Clip from Percy Jackson amp The Olympians The Lightning Thief
Minotaur chase scene that corresponds with Chapter 4
Chris Columbus Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 Clips from Hercules Ron Clements and John Musker Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
41 DrsquoAulairesrsquo Book of Greek Myths ldquoHeraclesrdquo and ldquoThe Wild and Vulgar Centaursrdquo
Ingri and Edgar Parin DrsquoAulaire Literary Read aloud
42 If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Kay Moore
Informational Student copy
42 Katiersquos Trunk Ann Turner Literary Groups 42 Liberty How the Revolutionary War Began Lucille Recht Penner Informational Student copy 42 Those Rebels John and Tom Barabara Kerley Informational Student copy
42 George vs George The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides Rosalyn Schanzer Informational Read aloud
42 My Brother Sam is Dead Chapter One James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Literary Read aloud
42 ldquoThe Midnight Ride of Paul Revererdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Literary (Poem) Student copy
42 And Then What Happened Paul Revere Jean Fritz Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
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52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
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53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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2014-2015
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independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
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93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
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103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
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Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
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112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
42 ldquoMilitary Perspectivesrdquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
43 Pushing Up the Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Joseph Bruchac
Literary (Drama) Student copy
43 ldquoWhat is Storytellingrdquo Excerpt National Storytelling Network Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoVanishing Culturesrdquo (May 2011) Pages 10-17 of the Projectable Edition
National Geographic Explorer Pathfinder Edition Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoStorytelling Provides a Means of Transmitting Culture Historyrdquo The Daily Tar Heel Diana Cunningham Informational Student copy
43 ldquoUsing Oral Traditions to Improve Verbal and Listening Skills Part Irdquo Joanne Pompano (Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute) Informational Read aloud
43 ldquoAn Introduction to the Role of Storytelling in Native American Tribesrdquo Mary Rajotte Informational Read aloud
43 Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories ldquoZlateh the Goatrdquo Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Student copy
43 Just So Stories
ldquoThe Elephantrsquos Childrdquo and ldquoHow the Camel Got His Humprdquo
Rudyard Kipling Literary Student copy
43 American Tall Tales
ldquoDavy Crockettrdquo and ldquoSally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwindrdquo
Mary Pope Osborne Literary Student copy
43 The People Could Fly American Black Folktales1
Wolf and Birds and the Fish-Horse
Virginia Hamilton Literary Read aloud
43 Merlin and the Dragons Jane Yolen Literary Student copy
43 ldquoThe Fisherman and His Wiferdquo Translated by Lucy Crane Literary Student copy
43 ldquoOoka and the Case of the Stolen Smellrdquo IG Edmonds Literary Student copy
1 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
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52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
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53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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2014-2015
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independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
44 The Whipping Boy Sid Fleishman
Literary Student copy
44 Good Masters Sweet Ladies Voices From a Medieval Village Laura Amy Schlitz Literary Read aloud
44 The Horrible Miserable Middle Ages Kathy Allen Informational Groups 44 A Medieval Feast Aliki Literary Groups 44 If You Lived in the Days of the Knights Ann McGovern Informational Read aloud 44 The Usborne Internet-Linked Medieval World Jane Bingham Informational Read aloud
44 Usbourne Quicklinks for Medieval World Usbourne Publishing Nonprint (Website) Student copy
44 The Bayeux Tapestry
wwwbayeuxtapestryorguk Informational Read aloud
44 ldquoBBC Hands on History The Normansrdquo bbccouk Informational Groups
44 ldquoFeudalism and the Manor Systemrdquo Informational Groups
44 Elementary Video Adventures Medieval Times
Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
44 Magic Tree House Fact Tracker Knights and Castles
Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne Informational Groups
45 Hurricanes Earthrsquos Mightiest Storms2 Patricia Lauber
Informational Student copy
45 My Louisiana Sky Chapters 1-2 and 18-20 Kimberly Willis Holt Literary Groups
45 ldquoHurricane Myths Fact or Fictionrdquo Fox News Insider Informational Student copy
45 I Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005 Lauren Tarshis Literary Student copy
45 ldquoProvidencerdquo Natasha Trethewey Literary (Poem) Student copy
45 ldquoWeather-ology The Hurricanersquos Hundred Horrible Handsrdquo Jamie McLeod Informational Student copy
45 Letters from Katrina Stories of Hope and Inspiration3 Mark Hogg and Kim Lemaire Informational Groups
2 This text may have limited availability Another option is Hurricanes by Seymour Simon Several basals or science textbooks also contain texts about hurricanes 3 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
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ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
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102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
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103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
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Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
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112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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2014-2015
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121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 4
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
45 Surviving Hurricanes (Childrenrsquos True Stories) Elizabeth Raum Informational Student copy
45 Oral Histories from Louisiana Hurricanes Katrina 3 Katrina and Rita Various Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
FIFTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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2014-2015
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61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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2014-2015
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independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
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103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
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Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
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Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
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111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
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112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
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115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
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121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
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122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
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124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
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126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
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51 The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Literary Student copy
51 ldquoColumbus Controversyrdquo Historycom Informational Read aloud
51 ldquoImages of Christopher Columbus and His Voyagesrdquo
The Library of Congress Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Real Story of Columbusrdquo Historycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
51 ldquoThe Columbian Exchangerdquo Belmont High Library Nonprint (Graphic) Student copy
51 Pedrorsquos Journal Pam Conrad LIterary Assessment
51 The First Americans Prehistory-1600 (A History of US Book 1)
Chapters 9 and 15-16 Joy Hakim Informational Student copy
51 ldquoColumbusrdquo Joaquin Miller Literary (Poem) Student copy
51 Before Columbus The Americas of 1491
ldquoWho Were the First Americansrdquo (pages 53-54) ldquoControlled Burningrdquo (pages 91-92) ldquoA Changing Landscape (page 97) ldquoA Garden Without Gardenersldquo (pages 104-108) ldquoHigh Riskrdquo (pages 70-71) and ldquoHow Many Diedrdquo (page 76)
Charles C Mann Informational Read aloud
51 Clips from Ice Age Michael J Wilson Nonprint (Film)
51 Excerpt from ldquoA Letter to the Treasurer of Spainrdquo
Christopher Columbus Informational Read aloud
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52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
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53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
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Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
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111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
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112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
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115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
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121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
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122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
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124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
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126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
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52 Wonderstruck Brian Selzinck Literary Student copy
52 Excerpts from the Collection of Essays Illuminating the World of Wonderstruck
The History of Deaf Culture and Sign Language
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries Informational Student copy
52 The Story of My Life Excerpts Helen Keller Informational Groups
52 The Handmade Alphabet Laura Rankin Nonprint (Wordless picture book) Read aloud
52 The Phantom Tollbooth Excerpts Norton Juster Literary Groups 52 Maniac Magee Excerpts Jerry Spinelli Literary Groups 52 Frindle Excerpts Andrew Clements Literary Groups
53 Shutting Out the Sky Deborah Hopkinson
Informational Student copy
53 Coming to America The Story of Immigration Betsy Maestro Informational Read aloud
53 The Arrival Shaun Tan Literary (Graphic novel) Groups
53 ldquoThe New Colossusrdquo Emma Lazarus Literary (Poem) Student copy
53 Excerpts from Coming to America A New Life in a New Land
ldquoExcerpts from Of Thee We Sing Immigrants and American Historyrdquo Dale Steiner ldquoThe Statue of Libertyrdquo and ldquoI Thought I Heard My Motherrdquo Rose Romano
Edited by Katharine Emdsen Student copy
53 The View from Saturday EL Konigsburg Literary Student copy 53 Seedfolks4 Excerpts Paul Fleischman Literary Read aloud
4 Chapter 11 contains sensitive material and is not used in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
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53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
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55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
53 ldquoBoth Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolksrdquo
All Things Considered NPR Nonprint (Radio broadcast)
54 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe CS Lewis
Literary Student copy
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo NOVA Online (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
54 ldquoA Brief History of Special Effectsrdquo TIME Nonprint (Photo essay) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe History of Special Effectsrdquo Adam Fanton Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
54 ldquoThe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Visual Effectsrdquo
YouTube Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
54 ldquoAlice in Wonderland ndash Visual Effects Highlightsrdquo
YouTube Non-print (Video) Read aloud
54 Mrs Piggle-Wigglersquos Farm Chapter One ldquoThe Not Truthful Curerdquo
Betty MacDonald Literary Student copy
54 ldquoAdventures of Isabelrdquo Odgen Nash Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoBilborsquos Adventure Songrdquo JRR Tolkien Literary (Poem) Student copy
54 ldquoHow Special Effects Artists Workrdquo Dave Roos Informational Read aloud
54 The Secret Garden ldquoThe Robin Who Showed the Wayrdquo Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
54 Alicersquos Adventures in Wonderland
ldquoChapter I Down the Rabbit-Holerdquo and ldquoChapter XII Alicersquos Evidencerdquo
Frances Hodgson Burnett Literary Student copy
55 ldquoThe Making of a Scientistrdquo Richard Feynman
Informational Student copy
55 Pioneer Astronomers5 ldquoGalileordquo Navin Sullivan Informational Student copy Basal (Open Court)
5 This text has limited availability Another option is ldquoGalileo Galilei Biography Inventions amp Other Factsrdquo by Nola Taylor Redd (SPACEcom)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 5
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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55 When Is A Planet Not a Planet The Story of Pluto
Elaine Scott Informational Groups Basal
55 Giants of Science Isaac Newton Kathleen Krull Informational Student copy
55 ldquoWhat Are The Differences Between Hypothesis Theories and Lawsrdquo
Fayetteville-Manlius High School Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoModern Science Whatrsquos changingrdquo Understanding Science How
Science Really Works (Berkeley)
Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoDiscovered Stonehenge Villagerdquo National Geographic Kids Informational Groups
55 People and Places New Views on Stonehenge Burials
National Geographic Informational Read aloud
55 ldquoQuarter of Americans Convinced Sun Revolves Around Earth Survey Findsrdquo
Liz Fields (ABC News) Informational Student copy
55 ldquoExplore a Model of Earthrsquos Yearly Revolution Around the Sunrdquo
Classzone Informational Student copy
55 ldquoGalileorsquos Telescope How He Changed The Worldrdquo
Minutes 2223 ndash 2901
Discovery Channel Science Documentary Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 ldquoGalileo Sun-Centered Systemrdquo PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
55 The Templeton Twins Have An Idea Book 1 Ellis Weiner Literary Student copy
55 ldquoNew Theory Galileo discovered Neptunerdquo Robert Roy Britt (SPACEcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
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2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
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103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
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ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
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112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SIXTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Literary (Novel in verse) Student copy
61 The Grapes of Wrath Paragraphs 10-36 of ldquoChapter 17rdquo John Steinbeck Literary Student copy
61 ldquoLeaving the Dust Bowlrdquo Bob Bradshaw Literary (Poem) Assessment
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDroughtrdquo Farming in the 1930s Informational Student copy
61 ldquoDust Bowl Migrantsrdquo We Are California Informational Student copy
61
Information on wheat growing from WWI through the Great Depression (ldquoWheat Pricesrdquo U-SHistorycom WWI US Food Administration Propaganda Stamina Save the Wheat Will You Give Them Wheat and Little Americans)
Various Informational Groups
61 No Title6 Page 1 Woody Guthrie (The Library of Congress) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoDorothea Langersquos lsquoMigrant Motherrsquo Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection An Overviewrdquo
The Library of Congress Informational Student copy
61 ldquoThe Assignment Irsquoll Never Forgetrdquo Dorothea Lange Informational Student copy
61 Surviving the Dust Bowl American Experience (PBSorg) Informational Read aloud
61 ldquoLetters from the Dust Bowlrdquo ldquoMarch 8 1936rdquo Caroline Henderson (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
61 ldquoLegacyrdquo The Dust Bowl (PBSorg) Informational Assessment
6 Only an excerpt of this text is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full text includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
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112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
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115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
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122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
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124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
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126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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61 ldquoOn Drought Conditionsrdquo and audio recording Paragraphs 1-13 Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
61 ldquo10 Things You May Not Know About the Dust Bowlrdquo Christopher Klein Informational Student copy
62 If Stones Could Speak Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge Marc Aronson
Informational Student copy
62 Intrigue of the Past Part 1 Fundamental Concepts Introduction
ldquoArchaeology Then and Nowrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Student copy
62 ldquoArchaeology 101rdquo Education Department of the Archaeological Institute of America
Informational Student copy
62 Archaeologyrsquos Interactive Dig In Vesuviusrsquo Shadow (July 2001-August 2003)
ldquoField Notesrdquo and ldquoStudent Journalsrdquo
ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine Nonprint (Website) Groups
62 ldquoEpisode 1 My First Adventurerdquo First 42 minutes The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
62 The Secrets of Vesuvius7 Sara Bisel Informational Read aloud
62 Motel of Mysteries8 Pages 22-47 and 52-85 David Macaulay Literary Read aloud
62 The Exhibition Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology
ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist What is decodingrdquo ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist Placing objects in their proper contextrdquo and ldquoMichael Fortin archaeologist About
National Geographic Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
7 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit 8 This text has limited availability It is recommended but not required for the unit
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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interpretationrdquo
62 Intrigue of the Past ldquoProfiles of Archaeologistsrdquo
Research Laboratories of Archaeology Informational Assessment
63 Hatchet Gary Paulsen
Literary Student copy
63 ldquoYour Story Are You a Survivorrdquo National Geographic Informational Student copy
63 Excerpt9 from Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Literary Assessment
63 Excerpts from My Side of the Mountain
ldquoIn Which the Autumn Provides Food and Lonelinessrdquo and ldquoIn Which We All Learn About Halloweenrdquo
Jean Craighead George Literary Student copy Some grade
5 basal readers
63 The River Chapters 1-2 4 and 8-9 Gary Paulsen Literary Student copy
63 ldquoThe Practice of Slowing Downrdquo from This I Believe Phil Powers (This I Believe) Informational Student copy
63 Snow Fall The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek John Branch (The New York Times) Nonprint (Website) Read aloud
63 ldquoWhat Would Peter Dordquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoHelp Me Make It Through the NightmdashSurviving a Wilderness Emergencyrdquo Kelly Stang (New York State
Conservationist) Informational Student copy
63 A Cry in the Wild (1990) Mark Griffins Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
63 ldquoSurvival by the Numbersrdquo Peter Kummerfeldt (OutdoorSafe Inc) Informational Student copy
63 ldquoThe 25 Most Incredible Survival Stories of All Timerdquo Tim MacWelch
(Outdoorlifecom) Informational Read aloud
9 Excerpt is pending permission httpwwwparcconlineorgsamplesenglish-language-artsliteracygrade-6-elaliteracy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
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103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
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Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
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Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
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111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
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112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
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115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
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122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
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124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
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126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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64 Stanford Commencement Address (2005) Steve Jobs
Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Story of David and Goliathrdquo 1 Samuel 17 Bible Literary Student copy
64 ldquoOvercoming Obstacles How Your Biggest Failure Can Lead to Your Successrdquo Jody Michael (Chicago
Tribune) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMother to Sonrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoTo Failurerdquo Philip Larkin Literary (Poem) Student copy
64 ldquoCasey at the Batrdquo Ernest Lawrence Thayer Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
64 ldquoWhat it Takes to Be Greatrdquo Geoffrey Colvin (FORTUNE Magazine) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoMindset for Achievementrdquo Carol Dweck (Mindset (wwwmindsetonlinecom)) Informational Student copy
64 ldquoThe Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imaginationrdquo Paragraphs 18-22 JK Rowling (Harvard
Magazine) Informational Assessment
65 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Literary Student copy
65 ldquoChoicesrdquo Nikki Giovanni Literary (Poem) Student copy
65 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
65 ldquoIdentityrdquo Julio Noboa Polanco Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
65 ldquoPuritansrdquo Michael Kaufman (The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Online)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoPuritan Laws and Characterrdquo Henry William Elson (History of the United States of America)
Informational Student copy
65 ldquoA Duty to Family Heritage and Countryrdquo Ying Ying Yu (This I Believe NPR) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 6
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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65 Strange Phenomena of New England in the 17th Century including the Salem Witchcraft 1692
The title and last page of ldquoConfession of Salem Jurorsrdquo
Cotton Mather (The Library of Congress) Informational Student copy
65 Just the Facts The Colonization of North America The English Settlements Part 02
ldquoPuritan Intolerancerdquo Discovery Education Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
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Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
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111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
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115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
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2014-2015
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126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
SEVENTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
71 The Giver10 Lois Lowry
Literary Student copy
71 ldquoPreamblerdquo Constitution of the United States Informational Student copy
71 ldquoNewbery Acceptance Speech June 1994rdquo Lois Lowry Informational Assessment
71 The Hunger Games ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Suzanne Collins Literary
Student copy (excerpt) Groups (full novel)
71 ldquoThe Human Abstractrdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
71 ldquoHarrison Bergeronrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Jr Literary Student copy Grade 10
Anthology
71 ldquoThe Road Not Takenrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
71 The Hunger Games Clip of ldquoThe Reapingrdquo Gary Ross Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 ldquoImaginerdquo John Lennon Nonprint (Song and video) Read aloud
71 The Truman Show Peter Weir Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
71 Maze Runner James Dashner Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Unwind Neal Shusterman Literary Groups (choice for independent
10 This novel contains a sensitive scene in Chapter 19 Suggestions for how to handle it are included in the unit plan
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
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independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
reading)
71 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Divergent Veronica Roth Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Uglies Scott Westerfeld Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 Feed MT Anderson Literary
Groups (choice for independent reading)
71 1984 George Orwell Literary
Groups (choice for advanced independent reading)
72 Written in Bone Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Sally M Walker
Informational Student copy
72 ldquoOde to the Virginian Voyagerdquo Michael Drayton Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 Blood on the River James Town 1607
Chapters 9-13 18 20 first section of 21 23 to 27 and Afterword
Elisa Carbone Literary Student copy
72 ldquoPocahontasrdquo William Makepeace Thackeray Literary (Poem) Student copy
72 ldquoIndianrdquo Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
72
ldquoJamestown 1607 The First Months Observations Gathered Out of a Discourse on the Plantation of the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English 1606 Gentlemanrdquo
June-July 1607 and August to September 1607
Master George Percy (National Humanities Center) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoThe Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623rdquo Richard Frethorne (History
Matters) Informational Student copy
72 ldquoForensic Anthropologyrdquo Department of Anthropology The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Informational Assessment
72 ldquoFinding Remainsrdquo Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
72 ldquo30000 Skeletonsrdquo Smithsonian Education Nonprint (Video) Assessment
73 A Christmas Carol or here (non-leveled or adapted version) Charles Dickens
Literary Student copy
73 Readerrsquos Theater Play of A Christmas Carol SCOPE Magazine Scholastic Literary Student copy
73 Live drama or filmed version of A Christmas Carol (example) Nonprint (Film or
play) Read aloud
73 Audio of A Christmas Carol Lit2Go Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
73 Original manuscript of A Christmas Carol with Dickensrsquos revisions The New York Times Nonprint (Website)
Student copy and read aloud
73 ldquoThe Gift of the Magirdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoThe Treasure of Lemon Brownrdquo Walter Dean Myers Literary Student copy Anthology
73 ldquoCharles Dickens Six Things He Gave the Modern Worldrdquo Alex Hudson (BBC News) Informational Student copy
73 ldquoHistory of Christmasrdquo BBC Informational Student copy
73 ldquoStudy Experiences Make Us Happier Than Possessionsrdquo Elizabeth Landau
(CNNHealthcom) Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
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English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
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Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
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112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
73 ldquoDo Experiences or Material Goods Make Us Happierrdquo ScienceDaily Informational Student copy
73 Tuesdays with Morrie ldquoThe Eighth Tuesday We Talk About Moneyrdquo
Mitch Albom Informational Assessment
74 ldquoHow to Write a Memoirrdquo William Zinsser (The American Scholar)
Informational Student copy
74 ldquoElevenrdquo Sandra Cisneros Literary Student copy Anthology
74 ldquoOrangesrdquo Gary Soto Literary (Poem) Student copy
74 ldquoThank You Mrsquoamrdquo Langston Hughes Literary Student copy Grade 9
Anthology
74 Peter Pan Chapter 17 ldquoWhen Wendy Grew Uprdquo
JM Barrie Literary Student copy
74 The Elements of Style (Illustrated) ldquoChapter V An Approach to Stylerdquo
William Strunk Jr and EB White Informational Student copy
74 ldquoShort Memoirs Six Little Words Can be Revealingrdquo Doug Mason Informational Student copy
74 ldquoAdvice from Stephen Kingrdquo Stephen King Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
74 ldquoAdvice for Writersrdquo Rick Riordan (RickRiordancom) Nonprint (Website) Student copy
74 ldquoSeventh Graderdquo Gary Soto Literary Assessment
74 A Summer Life Gary Soto Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 At the End of Words A Daughterrsquos Memoir Miriam Stone Informational Groups (choice for
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
independent reading)
74 Bad Boy A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 The Circuit Francisco Jimenez Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Guts Gary Paulsen Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Growing Up Russell Baker Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Stitches David Small Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
74 Zlatarsquos Diary Zlata Filipovic Informational
Groups (choice for independent reading)
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
75 Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House11
Preface Chapters Three-Four excerpts from Chapters Five-Seven Chapters Eight-Twelve and excerpts from Chapter Fifteen and the Appendix
Elizabeth Keckley
Informational Student copy
75 ldquoThe People Could Flyrdquo Virginia Hamilton Literary Student copy Anthology
75 Harriet Tubman Conductor on the Underground Railroad Excerpt Ann Petry Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoO Captain My Captainrdquo Walt Whitman Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
75 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave
Excerpt from Chapter 11 Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
75 Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ldquoLetter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman 1868rdquo
Sarah Hopkins Bradford Informational Assessment Anthology
75 ldquoThe Great Escape from Slavery of Ellen and William Craftrdquo Marian Smith Holmes
(SmithsonianMagcom) Informational Student copy
75 Chasing Lincolnrsquos Killer Introductory front matter Prologue and Chapters I-II
James L Swanson Informational Groups
75 ldquoNotable Visitors Frederick Douglassrdquo Mr Lincolnrsquos White House Informational Student copy
75 ldquoA Fitting Friendship Between Dressmaker and Jeanne Kolker Informational Student copy
11 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 7
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Mary Todd Lincolnrdquo
75 ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Mini Biographyrdquo ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash The White Houserdquo and ldquoMary Todd Lincoln ndash Influence Peddlerrdquo
Biographycom Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
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102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
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103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
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English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
EIGHTH GRADE Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
81 The Call of the Wild Jack London
Literary Student copy
81 The Heart of the Ancient Wood Chapter One Charles G D Roberts Literary Student copy
81 ldquoTo Build a Firerdquo Jack London Literary Student copy Anthology
81 Brianrsquos Winter Excerpt Gary Paulsen Literary Assessment
81 ldquoThe Other Animalsrdquo Jack London Student copy
81 Travels with Charley (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Pages 117-120 John Steinbeck Groups
81 ldquoDo Animals Think and Reflectrdquo from The Ways of Nature
Pages 152-158 162 and 169-170 of
John Burroughs (October 1905) Student copy
81 ldquoMinds of Their Own Animals are Smarter Than You Thinkrdquo Virginia Morell (National
Geographic March 2008) Informational Student copy
81 How Smart Are Animals PBS Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
82 Sugar Changed the World A Story of Magic Spice Slavery Freedom and Science Marc Aronson and Marina
Budhos Informational Student copy
82 ldquoState of Sugarrdquo This Week in Louisiana Agriculture Informational Assessment
82 ldquo200 Years of Progress in the Louisiana Sugar Industry A Brief Historyrdquo Dr Charley Richard of the
American Sugar Cane League Informational Assessment
82 I is a Long-Memoried Woman ldquoSugar Canerdquo Grace Nichols Literary (Poem) Student copy
82 Philippine Folk Tales (Tinguian) ldquoThe Story of Gaygayoma Who Lives Up Aboverdquo
Compiled and annotated by Mabel Cook Cole Literary Student copy
82 ldquoHow Sugar Changed the Worldrdquo Heather Whipps (LiveScience) Informational Student copy
82 ldquoSugar Canerdquo Alfred Corn Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
82 ldquoSugarrdquo Anup Shah Informational Student copy
82 ldquoLouisiana Sugarcane Farmerrdquo Americarsquos Heartland Read aloud
82 Cane Cutting Scene
Louisiana State Museum and KnowLA Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Nonprint (Art) Groups
83 ldquoFlowers for Algernonrdquo (short story)12 Daniel Keyes
Literary Student copy Anthology
83 Old Greek Stories The Story of Prometheus
Section I ldquoHow Fire Was Given to Menrdquo and Section II ldquoHow Diseases and Cares Came Among Menrdquo
James Baldwin Literary Student copy
83 ldquoNeuroethicsrdquo Neuroscience for Kids Informational Student copy
83 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus ldquoChapter 4rdquo ldquoChapter 13rdquo and ldquoChapter 17rdquo
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Literary Student copy
83 ldquoDemeterrsquos Prayer to Hadesrdquo Rita Dove Literary (Poem) Student copy
83 ldquoWhatrsquos in an Inkblot Some Say Not Muchrdquo Erica Goode Informational Student copy
83 ldquoDoes IQ Test Really Measure Intelligencerdquo Denise Mann Informational Assessment
83 ldquoThe Scarlet Ibisrdquo James Hurst Literary Student copy Grade 9 Anthology
83 ldquoIQ Tests are lsquoMeaningless and Too Simplisticrsquo Claim Researchersrdquo Nicholas McDermott Informational Assessment
83 Charly Ralph Nelson Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
12 This unit links to and recommends use of the short story which does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel not recommended in this unit includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoThe Tell-Tale Heartrdquo Edgar Allan Poe
Literary Student copy Anthology
84 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Student copy Anthology
84 The Republic ldquoThe Allegory of the Caverdquo from Book VII
Plato Informational Student copy
84 Nothing But the Truth Avi Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 Monster13 Walter Dean Myers Literary
Student copy (choice for independent reading)
84 ldquoThe Secret Life of Walter Mittyrdquo James Thurber Literary Student copy
84 The Book Thief14 Excerpt Markus Zusak Literary Student copy
84 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman15 ldquoIntroductionrdquo Ernest Gaines Literary Student copy
84 Anne Frank A Diary of a Young Girl
Saturday 20 June 1942 (First entry) and Sunday morning July 5 1942 through Monday September 28 1942
Anne Frank Informational Student copy Anthology
13 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read 14 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 15 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
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91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
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103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
84 ldquoBy the Waters of Babylonrdquo Last 4 paragraphs Stephen Vincent Beneacutet Literary Groups
84 The Things They Carried16 ldquoGood Formrdquo Tim OrsquoBrien Literary Groups
84 ldquoA Million Little Pieces Revisited Can the Truth Ever Set James Frey Freerdquo Daniel Honan (Big Think) Nonprint (Video and
transcript) Groups
84 ldquoZoordquo Edward Hoch Literary Assessment
84 ldquoThe Blind Men and the Elephantrdquo John Godfrey Saxe Literary (Poem) Assessment
84 Narrative Voice and Point of View17 Informational Student copy
84 ldquoNarrative Point of View Some Considerationsrdquo
Paragraphs 1-3 Sections III IV V
John Lye (Brock University Department of English Language amp Literature)
Informational Student copy
84 ldquoBest-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutinyrdquo Edward Wyatt (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
84 The Treachery of Images (This is not a pipe) Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
84 Ceci nrsquoest pas une pomme Rene Magritte Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
85 ldquoConservation as a National Dutyrdquo Theodore Roosevelt (InformationalSpeech)
Informational Student copy
85 ldquoAutumntimerdquo A Lentini Literary Student copy
85 ldquoRequiem for a Nestrdquo Wanda Coleman Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoBirdfootrsquos Grampardquo Joseph Bruchac Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo Greg Pape Literary (Poem) Student copy
85 ldquoAudubon A Visionrdquo Robert Penn Warren Excerpt Literary (Poem) Student copy
16 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 17 Other text options for reviewing point of view httpswwwcarrollwooddayschoolorguploadeddocumentsElementsofFiction6-4-10pdf httpwwwohioedupeoplehartleygreffictionpovhtml or httpwwwhuffingtonpostcom20130220point-of-view-enhancing-y_n_2720529html
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
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91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
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92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
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93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
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103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
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2014-2015
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Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
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112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
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115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List Grade 8
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
85 The Mountain Trail and Its Message ldquoA Parable of Saunteringrdquo Albert W Palmer Informational Student copy
85 ldquoTheodore Roosevelt and the National Park Systemrdquo Park Net National Park
Service Informational Student copy
85 ldquoBookstand Audubonrsquos Birds and Wordsrdquo Thomas Uskali (Louisiana Cultural Vistas) Informational Student copy
85 The Life of John James Audubon The Naturalist Pages 439-441 Edited by Lucy Bakewell Audubon Informational Student copy
85 ldquoThe Calypso Borealisrdquo John Muir Informational Student copy
85 ldquoJohn James Audubon and the Natural Worldrdquo Louisiana Cultural Vistas Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Informational Assessment
85 Roosevelt Friend of the Birds ldquoPart 1rdquo and ldquoPart 2rdquo
Roosevelt Memorial Association Library Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
85 ldquoAmerican Flamingordquo John James Audubon Nonprint (Art) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
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91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
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English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
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112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
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English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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2014-2015
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121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH I Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
91 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
Literary Student copy
91 ldquoBarterrdquo Sara Teasdale Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoBurning a Bookrdquo William Stafford Literary (Poem) Student copy
91 ldquoLearning to Read and Writerdquo Frederick Douglass Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Joy of Reading and Writing Superman and Merdquo Sherman Alexie Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Great Imagination Heistrdquo Reynolds Price Informational Student copy
91 ldquoYou Have Insulted Me A Letterrdquo Kurt Vonnegut Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Country That Stopped Readingrdquo from The New York Times David Toscana Informational Student copy
91 Original Cover Art from Fahrenheit 451 Joseph Mugnaini Nonprint (Art) Groups
91 ldquoReading Books is Fundamentalrdquo Charles M Blow (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
91 ldquoThe Science of Storytelling Why Telling Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brainsrdquo
Leo Widrich Informational Student copy
91 ldquoVideo Games and the Future of Storytellingrdquo Salman Rushdie (Big Think) Informational (Video and Transcript) Groups
92 The Odyssey Homer (Robert Faglesrsquo translation) Literary Student copy
Anthology
92 ldquoSiren Songrdquo Margaret Atwood Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoAn Ancient Gesturerdquo Edna St Vincent Millay Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoA Worn Pathrdquo Eudora Welty Literary Student copy
92 ldquoUlyssesrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
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111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
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112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
92 ldquoIthakardquo Constantine Cavafy Literary (Poem) Student copy
92 ldquoHalf a Dayrdquo Naguib Mahfouz Literary Student copy
92 No-Manrsquos Lands One Manrsquos Odyssey Through The Odyssey Excerpt Scott Huler Informational Student copy
92 ldquoThe Truth About Being a Herordquo Karl Marlantes (The Wall Street Journal) Informational Student copy
92 ldquoBack from War but Not Really Homerdquo Caroline Alexander (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
92 The Iliad Excerpt Homer Literary Assessment Anthology
93 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
93 ldquoA Poison Treerdquo William Blake Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 ldquoThe Ravenrdquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary (Poem) Student copy
93 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Pyramus and Thisberdquo
Ovid Literary Assessment
93 ldquoTeenage Brains are Malleable and Vulnerable Researchers Sayrdquo Jon Hamilton (NPR) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoTeenage Brainsrdquo David Dobbs (National Geographic) Informational Student copy
93 ldquoThe Teen Brain Still Under Constructionrdquo National Institute of Mental Health Informational Student copy
93 ldquoUnderstanding the Mysterious Teenage Brainrdquo Talk of the Nation (NPR) Nonprint (Text and
audio) Student copy
93 ldquoOn Revengerdquo Sir Francis Bacon Informational Student copy
93 Clips (including Act III Scene iii) from Romeo + Juliet and Romeo and Juliet Baz Luhrmann and Frank
Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
93 Wheres Romeo (c 1912) (Act III Scene iii) William Hatherell Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
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122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
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2014-2015
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123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
93 The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet 1853-55
Frederic Lord Leighton Nonprint (Art) Groups
94 ldquoHope Despair and Memoryrdquo Elie Wiesel
Informational Student copy
94 ldquoThe Lotteryrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Student copy Anthology
94 Antigone Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoGettysburg Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoThe Gettysburg Address ndash lsquoThe Hay Draftrsquordquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
94 ldquoChapter 5 Loving Your Enemiesrdquo from Strength to Love Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy
94 Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
94 ldquoI Have a Dreamrdquo (Text and audiovideo) Martin Luther King Jr Informational Student copy Anthology
94 ldquoIn Warsawrdquo Czeslaw Milosz Literary (Poem) Student copy
94 ldquoAntigone Todayrdquo Richard Jackson Literary (Poem) Assessment
94 ldquoInternmentrdquo Juliet S Kono Literary (Poem) Assessment
95 ldquoHow Laughter Worksrdquo by Marshall Brain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Countyrdquo Mark Twain Literary Student copy
Anthology
95 ldquoThe Waltzrdquo Dorothy Parker Literary Student copy
95 A Midsummer Nights Dream Act III Scene 1 William Shakespeare Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
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English Language Arts List of Text Sets
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Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List English I
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
95 ldquoCharlesrdquo Shirley Jackson Literary Assessment
95 ldquoAn Uncomfortable Bedrdquo Guy de Maupassant Literary Student copy
95 ldquoThe Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumorrdquo Sherman Alexie Literary Student copy
95 Funny in Farsi ldquoLeffingwell Elementary Schoolrdquo
Firoozeh Dumas Informational Student copy
95 Roughing It Prefatory and Chapter 42 Mark Twain Informational Student copy
95 ldquoHow to Build a Jokerdquo Demetri Martin Informational Student copy
95 ldquoWhat Makes us Laugh and Whyrdquo by Vicki Haddock Informational Student copy
95 ldquoOn Creativity Serious vs Solemnrdquo John Cleese Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoWhos on Firstrdquo Abbott and Costello Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
95 ldquoThe Ransom of Red Chiefrdquo O Henry Literary Assessment Anthology
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH II Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
101 ldquoWhat is Rhetoricrdquo
Gideon O Burton Brigham Young University (Silva Rhetoricae (rhetoricbyuedu))
Informational Student copy
101 Common Sense Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Student copy Anthology
101 ldquoSpeech to the Second Virginia Conventionrdquo Patrick Henry Informational Student copy
101 ldquoPearl Harbor Address to the Nationrdquo Franklin D Roosevelt Informational Student copy
101 WWII Propaganda Posters WWII Museum Nonprint (Art) Groups
101 ldquoAddress to Congress on Womenrsquos Suffragerdquo Carrie Chapman Catt Informational Student copy
101 ldquoThe Steam Rollerrdquo Nonprint (Political Cartoon) Student copy
101 Fast Food Nation ldquoThe Most Dangerous Jobrdquo Eric Schlosser Informational Student copy
101 The Jungle ldquoChapter 14rdquo Upton Sinclair Literary Student copy
101 Silent Spring ldquoA Fable for Tomorrowrdquo Rachel Carson Informational Student copy
101 Rachel Carsonrsquos Silent Spring Excerpt American Experience (PBS Learning Media) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
101 ldquoDoes Great Literature Make Us Betterrdquo Gregory Currie (The New York Times) Informational Student copy
101 ldquoEmpathy and Fictionrdquo and ldquoNarrative Empathyrdquo Keith Oatley (Psychology
Today) Informational Student copy
101 Outliers ldquoThe Matthew Effectrdquo Malcolm Gladwell Informational Assessment
101 ldquoItrsquos Not Just Talent Itrsquos Workrdquo Annie Dillard Informational Assessment
102 The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
102 ldquoA Very Old Man with Enormous Wingsrdquo Gabriel Garcia Marquez Literary Student copy
102 ldquoThe Noserdquo Nikolai Gogol Literary Student copy
102 Metamorphoses
ldquoThe Transformation of Arachne into a Spiderrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
102 ldquoSestinardquo Elizabeth Bishop Literary Student copy
102 ldquoNothing but Deathrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Student copy
102 ldquoOde to Sadnessrdquo Pablo Neruda Literary Assessment
102 ldquoLecture on the Metamorphosisrdquo Introduction Vladimir Nabakov Informational Assessment
102 ldquoMagical Realism is Still Realismrdquo Salmon Rushdie Informational and Nonprint (Video) Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism Not Fantasy Sorryrdquo John Evans Informational Student copy
102 ldquoMagical Realism in the Works of Nikolai Gogolrdquo Part I John D Hardy and Nicholas
Stanton Informational Student copy
102 ldquoA Necessary Confusion Magical Realismrdquo Pages 6-8 Bainard Cowan Informational Student copy
102 Roots Frida Kahlo Nonprint (Art) Groups
103 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Literary Student copy
103 ldquoThe Tower of Babelrdquo Genesis 11 the Bible Literary Student copy
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101
The introduction questions 1-7 and Achebersquos responses (Pages 1-4)
Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
103 ldquoMother Tonguerdquo Amy Tan Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAn African Voicerdquo from The Atlantic Online August 2 2000 101 Pages 1-4 Katie Bacon Informational Student copy
103 ldquoThe White Manrsquos Burdenrdquo Rudyard Kipling Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoLanguagesrdquo Carl Sandburg Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoThe Second Comingrdquo William Butler Yeats Literary (Poem) Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Questions 1 (page 2) 11 (page 7) 13-14 (page 8) and 22-26 (pages 10-11) and Achebersquos responses
Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoChinua Achebe The Art of Fiction No 139rdquo from The Paris Review Issue 133 Winter 1994
Excerpts Jerome Brooks Informational Student copy
103 ldquoAriardquo Richard Rodriguez Informational Student copy
103 Pre-Colonial Africa 17th and 18th Centuries and The Colonization of Africa 1870-1910 from The Cambridge Modern History Atlas
Ward Prothero and Leathes Nonprint (Graphic) Groups
103 ldquoAfro-American Fragmentrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment Anthology
103 ldquoA Celebration of Grandfathersrdquo Rudolfo Anaya Informational Assessment Anthology
104 ldquoHenriettarsquos Dancerdquo Rebecca Skloot (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoEveryday Userdquo Alice Walker Literary Student copy Anthology
104 ldquoWomenrdquo Alice Walker Literary (Poem) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Anthology
104 ldquoTo Be of Userdquo Marge Piercy Literary (Poem) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Moral Issuesrdquo Ruth R Faden (The Baltimore Sun) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoHenrietta Everlasting 1950s Cells Still Alive Helping Sciencerdquo Erin Biba Nonprint (Graphic
timeline) Student copy
104 ldquoImmortal Cells Enduring Issuesrdquo Dale Keiger (Johns Hopkins Magazine) Informational Student copy
104 ldquoPaying Patients for their Tissue The Legacy of Henrietta Lacksrdquo
Robert D Truog Aaron S Kesselheim Steven Joffe (SCIENCE)
Informational Student copy
104 The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles Faith Ringgold Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
104 ldquoThe Nuremburg Coderdquo US Dept of Health amp Human Services (HHSgov) Informational Student copy
104 The Bill of Rights Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution United States Informational Student copy
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth William Shakespeare Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 Oedipus Rex Sophocles Literary (Drama) Student copy
105 ldquoOzymandiasrdquo Percy Bysshe Shelley Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 ldquoMusee des Beaux Artsrdquo WH Auden Literary (Poem) Student copy
105 Metamorphoses ldquoThe Story of Daedalus and Icarusrdquo
Ovid Literary Student copy
105 Poetics Section 2 Part XIII Aristotle Informational Student copy
105 The Folger Shakespeare Library edition of Macbeth
ldquoReading Shakespearersquos Languagerdquo
Edited by Barbara A Mowat and Paul Werstine Informational Groups
105 ldquoMurderer King and Scot All Rolled Into One Madman Alan Cumming in lsquoMacbethrsquo at Charles Isherwood Informational Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List English II
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
Lincoln Center Festivalrdquo
105 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Pieter Bruegel Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Angels and Demons M C Escher Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 TEDTalk Are We Really in Control of Our Own Decisions Dan Ariely Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 Lady Macbeth with Daggers Jonathan Fuseli Nonprint (Art) Groups
105 Macbeth Act I Scene vii Act II Scene i and Act III Scene iv
Charles Isherwood Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
105 The Tragedy of Macbeth18 Excerpts Rupert Goold Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
18 Only clips of this film are included in the unit plan These clips do NOT contain sensitive material The full film includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH III Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 Undaunted Courage Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West
Chapter 4 ldquoThomas Jeffersonrsquos America 1801rdquo Chapter 6 ldquoThe Origins of the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 7 ldquoPreparing for the Expeditionrdquo Chapter 8 ldquoWashington to Pittsburghrdquo Chapters 13-25 (Excerpted for research) Chapter 31 or 33 ldquoReporting to the Presidentrdquo
Stephen Ambrose
Informational Student copy
111 ldquoChief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perceacute Chiefrdquo Archives of the West Informational
111 Lewis and Clark The Native Americans PBS Nonprint (Website)
111 O Pioneers ldquoPart I The Wild Land Chapter IIrdquo Willa Cather Literary
111 Excerpt from A Century of Dishonor Pages 337-342 Helen Hunt Jackson Informational
111 ldquoThe Luck of Roaring Camprdquo Bret Harte Literary
111 ldquoThe Gift Outrightrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem)
111 ldquoProloguerdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 ldquoOn Manifest Destiny 1839rdquo John L OrsquoSullivan Informational
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
111 ldquoOn Indian Removalrdquo (1830) Andrew Jackson Informational
111 ldquoIntroductionrdquo from The Way to Rainy Mountain N Scott Momaday Informational
111 American Progress and an explanation John Gast Nonprint (Art) Read aloud
111 ldquoThere Is No True History of the Westward Expansionrdquo Robert Morgan
112 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Devil and Tom Walkerrdquo Washington Irving Literary Student copy
112 ldquoThe Ministerrsquos Black Veilrdquo Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Student copy
112 ldquoSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godrdquo Excerpt Jonathan Edwards Informational Student copy
112 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter V How Religion in the United States Avails Itself of Democratic Tendenciesrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
112 ldquoSecond Inaugural Addressrdquo Abraham Lincoln Informational Student copy
112 ldquoJohn Brownrsquos Speech to the Court at his Trialrdquo John Brown Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Hollow Menrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
112 Declaration of Independence First two paragraphs Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Wisconsin v Yoder (No 70-110) Excerpt Supreme Court of the United States Informational Student copy
112 ldquoThe Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedomrdquo Thomas Jefferson Informational Student copy
112 Poll results on Religion Gallup Nonprint (Graphics) Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
112 ldquoModel of Christian Charityrdquo Last two paragraphs John Winthrop Informational Assessment
112 The Crisis No 1 Excerpt Thomas Paine Informational Assessment
113 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurrsquos Court Mark Twain Literary Student copy
113 ldquoA Good Man is Hard to Findrdquo (Audio) Flannery OrsquoConnor Literary Student copy
113 ldquoIs He Serious And Other Ironiesrdquo from How to Read Literature Like a Professor Chapter 26 Thomas C Foster Informational Student copy
113 Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (Audio) William Faulkner Informational Assessment
113 Radio broadcast of ldquoEvery Man a Kingrdquo speech Huey P Long Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
113 ldquoThe Pedestrianrdquo Ray Bradbury Literary Student copy
113 Ford Ideals ldquoThe Fear of Changerdquo (Pages 99-105)
Henry Ford Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe Wastelandrdquo TS Eliot Literary Student copy
113 ldquoThe Gospel of Wealthrdquo Andrew Carnegie Informational Student copy
113 ldquoThe End of Somethingrdquo Ernest Hemingway Literary Assessment
113 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Student copy
114 Our Town Thorton Wilder
Literary (Drama) Student copy
114 ldquoMending Wallrdquo Robert Frost Literary (Poem) Student copy
114 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn19 Chapters 1-4 amp 31 Mark Twain Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSelf-Reliancerdquo Ralph Waldo Emerson Informational Student copy
19 This novel contains sensitive content and should be reviewed for appropriateness with students prior to assigning it to students to read
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
114 Excerpts from Bowling Alone Chapter 1 amp selected graphics Robert Putnam Informational Groups
114 ldquoThe Story of an Hourrdquo Kate Chopin Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Bathrdquo Raymond Carver Literary Student copy
114 ldquoSong of Myselfrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
114 ldquoThe Essentiality of Individualism in Modern Americardquo Caleb Jacobo Informational Assessment
114 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter VIII How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understoodrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
114 ldquoThe Interlopersrdquo Saki Literary Student copy
115 The American Dream A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation Jim Cullen Informational Groups
115 The Great Gatsby or eBook F Scott Fitzgerald Literary Student copy
115 ldquoA Quilt of A Countryrdquo Anna Quindlen Informational Student copy
115 ldquoContents of the Dead Manrsquos Pocketrdquo Jack Finney Literary Student copy
115 ldquoThe Eggrdquo Sherwood Anderson Literary Student copy
115 ldquoEx-Basketball Playerrdquo John Updike Literary (Poem) Student copy
115 The Death of a Salesman Excerpts Arthur Miller Literary (Drama) Student copy
115 ldquoThe Fallacy of Successrdquo G K Chesterton Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List English III
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
115 Democracy in America
ldquoVolume II Chapter XIII Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperityrdquo
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Student copy
115 ldquoGrad Who Beat the Odds Asks Why Not the Othersrdquo Claudio Sanchez Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoHollywood Dreams of Wealth Youth and Beautyrdquo Bob Mondello Nonprint (Audio) Student copy
115 ldquoI Hear America Singingrdquo Walt Whitman Literary Student copy
115 ldquoLet America Be American Againrdquo Langston Hughes Literary (Poem) Assessment
115 ldquoAmerican Dream Faces Harsh New Realityrdquo Ari Shapiro Nonprint (Audio) Assessment
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
ENGLISH IV Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
121 The Canterbury Tales
ldquoProloguerdquo (Middle English) ldquoWife of Bathrsquos Talerdquo and ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Prologue and Talerdquo
Geoffrey Chaucer
Literary Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Literary (Ballad) Student copy
121 ldquoThe Clothierrsquos Delightrdquo Anonymous Nonprint (Audio) Read aloud
121 The Life Death and Afterlife of Geoffrey Chaucer
ldquoThe Pardonerrsquos Tale and the Canterbury Tales as a Death Warrantrdquo
Robin Wharton Informational Student copy
121 ldquoThe Canterbury Tales Chaucerrsquos Respectful Critique of Church Officials and Their Abuse of Powerrdquo
Lauren Day Informational Student copy
121 Guilds in the Middle Ages Georges Renard Informational Student copy
121 ldquoChaucerrdquo Lee Patterson Informational Student copy
121 Jane Eyre
Passage from Chapter 7 (Janersquos encounter with Mr Brocklehurst at Lowood School)
Charlotte Brontё Literary Assessment
122 The Hero with a Thousand Faces Excerpt and Part 1 ldquoThe Adventure of the Herordquo
Joseph Campbell
Informational Student copy
122 Beowulf Chapters 3-12 19-25 and 29-41 Literary Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
122 Grendel Chapter 1220 John Gardner Literary Read aloud
122 Le Morte drsquoArthur
Book I Chapters I-VII Book III Chapter I Book XI Chapters I-II and Book XVIII Chapters I-II
Sir Thomas Mallory Literary Student copy
122 The Once and Future King Chapters 5 8 13 and 18 TH White Literary Student copy
122 The Perfect Storm21 ldquoInto the Abyssrdquo Sebastian Junger Informational Read aloud 122 Into Thin Air22 Chapters 1 and 15 John Krakauer Informational Read aloud
122 ldquoBeowulf The Monsters and the Criticsrdquo JRR Tolkien Informational Assessment
123 Hamlet William Shakespeare
Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoNew Words in Hamletrdquo Karen Kay Informational Student copy
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Excerpts from Act I and II Tom Stoppard Literary (Drama) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrockrdquo TS Eliot Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
123 ldquoThe Lady of Shalottrdquo Alfred Lord Tennyson Literary (Poem) Student copy
123 ldquoThe Real or Assumed Madness of Hamletrdquo Simon Blackmore Informational Student copy
123 The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Excerpt Arthur Schopenhauer Informational Student copy
123 ldquoHamlet and His Problemsrdquo TS Eliot Informational Student copy
123 Ophelia John Everett Millais Nonprint (Art) Groups
20 This chapter contains a curse word The use for this text is Read Aloud so the teacher can omit the word 21 Only an excerpt of this novel is included in the unit plan This excerpt does NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material 22 Only excerpts of this novel are included in the unit plan These excerpts do NOT contain sensitive material The full novel includes sensitive material
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
123 Ophelia Henrietta Rae Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 The Lady of Shalott John William Waterhouse Nonprint (Art) Groups
123 Hamlet (2000) Selected scenes Michael Almereyda Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1996) Selected scenes Kenneth Branagh Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 123 Hamlet (1990) Selected scenes Franco Zefirelli Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 ldquoTeaching and Acting Hamletldquo Selected scenes Folger Library Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
123 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Selected scenes (here) (here) and (here)
Film Read aloud
123 ldquoThe Cask of Amontilladordquo Edgar Allan Poe Literary Assessment
124 The Turn of the Screw Henry James
Literary Student copy
124 Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus Excerpts Mary Shelley Literary Student copy
124 ldquoParadise Lostrdquo Book IX John Milton Literary (Poem) Student copy Anthology
124 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 10 Robert Louis Stevenson Literary Student copy
124 ldquoThe Yellow Wallpaperrdquo Charlotte Perkins Gilman Literary Student copy
124 ldquoWilliam Wilsonrdquo Edgar Allen Poe Literary Student copy
124
Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Doppelganger tales undermine the modern idea of the self as invulnerable and in control of its passions
Allison Milbank (The Guardian) Informational Student copy
124 Our Monsters Ourselves Timothy Beal Informational Student copy
124 Monsters amp the Tyranny of Normality How do Biologists Interpret Anomalous Forms
Douglass Allchin Informational Student copy
124 LrsquoAnge du Foyer Max Ernest Nonprint (Art) Groups
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
124 ldquoThe Dead Man Walkingrdquo Thomas Hardy Literary (Poem) Assessment
124 ldquoA Rose for Emilyrdquo William Faulkner Literary Assessment
125 ldquoPolitics and the English Languagerdquo from All Art is Propaganda George Orwell Informational Student copy
125 The American Language Chapter One HL Mencken Informational Student copy
125 Democracy in America
Volume II Chapter XVI How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language
Alexis de Tocqueville Informational Assessment
125 ldquoBabel or Babblerdquo The Economist Informational Student copy
125 ldquoWords That Shouldnrsquot Be Sez Whordquo PBSorg Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoAspects of Englishrdquo ldquoCockneyrdquo Oxford English Dictionary Online Nonprint (Website) Student copy
125 ldquoSociolinguistics Basicsrdquo from Do You Speak American Connie Eble Informational Student copy
125 The Professor and the Madman Chapter 4 Simon Winchester Informational Groups
125 Pygmalion Preface and Act I George Bernard Shaw Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 The Importance of Being Earnest or here Act I Oscar Wilde Literary (Drama) Student copy
125 My Fair Lady Selected scenese George Cukor Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels or here Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 ldquoA Modest Proposalrdquo Jonathan Swift Literary Student copy
126 Animal Farm Chapter Two George Orwell Literary Student copy
126 ldquoModern Satire Loses Its Biterdquo Nicholas Swisher Informational Student copy
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-
English Language Arts Text List English IV
English Language Arts List of Text Sets
2014-2015
Gr Set Text Title ExcerptSection AuthorSource Anchor Type Use in Set Access
126 ldquoWhy I Blogrdquo Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoThe Devilrsquos Dictionaryrdquo Ambrose Bierce Informational Student copy
126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (1996) Charles Sturridge Nonprint (Film) Read aloud 126 Gulliverrsquos Travels (2010) Rob Letterman Nonprint (Film) Read aloud
126 ldquoA Gut Visible All the Way From the 18th Centuryrdquo A O Scott (The New York
Times) Informational Student copy
126 ldquoShould Animals Be Doing More for the Animal Rights Movementrdquo The Onion (online) Nonprint (Video) Read aloud
- Behind the Scenes Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
- ldquoA Poison Treerdquo
-