VOLUME ONE

UNIT

American Voices

unit INtRODUCTION
Unit ACTIVITY. .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02

Launch Text:
NONFICTIONNARRATIVEMODEL

Music for My Mother. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 06

Small-Group learning
NOVEL EXCERPT

Rules of the Game

from The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
MEDIA: BLOG POST

The Writing on the Wall

Camille Dungy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

ANCHOR TEXT: ESSAY

MEMOIR

A Quilt of a Country
Anna Quindlen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

With a Little Help from My Friends

fromFunny in Farsi
Firoozeh Dumas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

ANCHOR TEXT: ESSAY

The Immigrant Contribution

fromANation of Immigrants
John F. Kennedy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

SHORT STORY

American History
Judith Ortiz Cofer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Performance Task
WRITING FOCUS

Write a Nonfiction Narrative. . . . . . . . . 52

POETRY

Morning Talk
Roberta Hill Whiteman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Immigrant Picnic
Gregory Djanikian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

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Performance Task
SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS

Present a Nonfiction Narrative . . . . . . 110

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essential question : What does it mean to be American?

Independent Learning
MEMOIR

from When I Was Puerto Rican

Esmeralda Santiago

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Nonfiction Narrative:
Text and Interpretive Reading. . . . . . . . 118

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY

Unit Reflection

Finding a Voice: A Taiwanese Family

Adapts to America
Diane Tsai

Reflect on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

POETRY

The New Colossus

Emma Lazarus
POETRY

Legal Alien
Pat Mora

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MEDIA: VIDEO

Grace Abbott and the Fight for

ImmigrantRights in America
BBC

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VOLUME ONE

Survival

unit INtRODUCTION
UNIT ACTIVITY. .

Small-Group learning

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

NARRATIVE NONFICTION

The Cost of Survival. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

whole-class learning
Anchor TExt: Short Story

The Seventh Man

Haruki Murakami . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Anchor TExt: EDITORIAL

The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt

Nancy Sherman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
MEDIA: RADIO BROADCAST

The Key to Disaster Survival? Friends and

Neighbors
Shankar Vedantam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Performance Task
Writing Focus

Write an Argument. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

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Launch Text: Argument Model

The Voyage of the James Caird

fromThe Endurance
Caroline Alexander. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
MEDIA: PHOTO GALLERY

The Endurance and the James Caird

inImages
Frank Hurley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

nOVEL EXCERPT

from Life of Pi
Yann Martel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
ARGUMENT

The Value of a Sherpa Life

Grayson Schaffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Poetry

I Am Offering This Poem

Jimmy Santiago Baca. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
The Writer
Richard Wilbur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Hugging the Jukebox
Naomi Shihab Nye. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

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UNIT

Performance Task
Speaking and Listening Focus

Present an Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

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essential question : What does it take to survive?

Independent Learning
Short story

To Build a Fire
Jack London

performance-based
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Argument:
EssayandOral Presentation . . . . . . . . . 246

Short Story

Unit Reflection

The Most Dangerous Game

Richard Connell

Reflect on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

NARRATIVE NONFICTION

from Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand
Expository nonfiction

Seven Steps to Surviving a Disaster

Jim Y. Kim

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Magazine article

Titanic vs. Lusitania: How People

Behave in a Disaster
Jeffrey Kluger
PUBLIC LETTER

Survival Is Your Own Responsibility

Daryl R. Miller

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VOLUME ONE

UNIT

The Literature of Civil Rights

unit INtRODUCTION
Unit ACTIVITY.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Launch Text: EXPLANATORY MODEL

1963: The Year That Changed

Everything. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Small-Group learning
MEDIA: NEWSCAST

Remembering Civil Rights History,

WhenWords Meant Everything
PBS NewsHour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
POETRY

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ANCHOR TEXT: SPEECH

I Have A Dream
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. . . . . . . . . . 260
M EDIA CONNECTION:

I Have A Dream

ANCHOR TEXT: ESSAY

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. . . . . . . . . . 270
MEDIA: VIDEO

For My People
Margaret Walker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Incident
Natasha Trethewey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
SPEECH

Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Cesar Chavez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
MEMOIR

Traveling
Grace Paley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Remarks on the Assassination

ofMartinLuther King, Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Performance Task
WRITING FOCUS

Write an Informative Essay . . . . . . . . . 298

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Performance Task
SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS

Multimedia Presentation. . . . . . . . . . . 344

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essential question : How can words inspire change?

Independent Learning
MEDIA: NEWSCAST

Frank McCain DiesHelped Start Sit-In

Movement at Greensboro LunchCounter
Jeff Tiberi
NEWS ARTICLE

How the Children of Birmingham

Changedthe Civil-Rights Movement
Lottie L. Joiner

performance-based
assessment
Informative Essay: Text and
MultimediaPresentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

Unit Reflection
Reflect on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

NARRATIVE NONFICTION

Sheyann Webb from Selma,

Lord, Selma
Frank Sikora
SHORT STORY

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One Friday Morning

Langston Hughes
MEDIA: VIDEO

Fannie Lou Hamer

BBC

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VOLUME TWO

Star-Crossed Romances

unit INtRODUCTION
Unit ACTIVITY.

Small-Group learning

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

Launch Text: ARGUMENT MODEL

Romeo and Juliet: A Tragedy?

Or Just a Tragic
Misunderstanding? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

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LITERARY CRITICISM

Romeo and Juliet Is a Terrible Play

Alyssa Rosenberg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
In Defense of Romeo and Juliet:
Its Not Childish,
Its *About* Childishness
Noah Berlatsky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
JOURNALISM

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Literature and Culture . . . . . . . . . . .

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
ACT I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ACT II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ACT III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ACT IV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ACT V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
M EDIA CONNECTION:

366

374
400
424
450

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ANCHOR TEXT: DRAMA

Twenty Years On:

The Unfinished Lives of
Sarajevos Romeo and Juliet
Gordana Sandi-Hadihasanovi. . . . . 516
mEDIA: NEWSCAST

Tragic Romeo and Juliet Offers

BosniaHope
Nic Robertson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

466

The Tragedy of

Romeo and Juliet

ANCHOR TEXT: SHORT STORY

Pyramus and Thisbe

Ovid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Performance Task
WRITING FOCUS

Write an Argument. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

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Performance Task
SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS

Present an Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530

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essential question : Do we determine our own destinies?

Independent Learning
MYTH

Popocatepetl and Ixtlaccihuatl

Juliet Piggot Wood
POETRY

Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe

performance-based
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Argument:
Essay and Multimedia Presentation . . . 538

Unit Reflection
Reflect on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541

NONFICTION

Whats the Rush?: Young Brains Cause

Doomed Love
Lexi Tucker
Media: GRAPHIC NOVEL

Romeo and Juliet

Eli Neugeboren

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NEWS ARTICLE

If Romeo and Juliet Had Cellphones

Misty Harris

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VOLUME TWO

Journeys of Transformation

unit INtRODUCTION
Unit ACTIVITY.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542

Launch Text: EXPLANATORY MODEL

Gone and Back Again:

A Travelers Advice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546

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ANCHOR TEXT: EPIC POEM

Literature and Culture . . . . . . . . . . . 552

from the Odyssey, Part 1
Homer translated by
Robert Fitzgerald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560
from the Odyssey, Part 2
Homer translated by
Robert Fitzgerald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594

Small-Group learning
SHORT STORY

The Return
Ngg wa Thiongo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650
INTERVIEW

from The Heros Adventure

from The Power of Myth
Joseph Campell and Bill Moyers . . . . . . . 660
POETRY

Courage
Anne Sexton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670
Ithaka
C. P. Cavafy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672
from The Narrow Road of the Interior
Matsuo Bash translated by
Helen CraigMcCullough . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674
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UNIT

MEDIA: GRAPHIC NOVEL

from The Odyssey

Gareth Hinds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624
FUNCTIONAL WORKPLACE DOCUMENT

Application for a Mariners License

United States Government. . . . . . . . . . . . 634

Performance Task
WRITING FOCUS

Write an Explanatory Text. . . . . . . . . . 640

Performance Task
SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS

Deliver a Multimedia Presentation . . . 682

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essential question : What can we learn from a journey?

Independent Learning
POETRY

The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost
Your World
Georgia Douglas Johnson
SHORT STORY

performance-based
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Explanatory Text:
Explanatory Text and Podcast. . . . . . . . 690

Unit Reflection
Reflect on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693

The Ugly Duckling

Hans Christian Andersen
MEDIA: PHOTO GALLERY

Thirteen Epic Animal Migrations

ThatProve JustHow Cool
Mother Nature Is
Brianna Elliott

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MEMOIR

from Wild
Cheryl Strayed
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VOLUME TWO

UNIT

Worlds End

unit INtRODUCTION
Unit ACTIVITY.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694

LAUNCH TEXT: NARRATIVE MODEL

Dreams Winter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698

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MAGAZINE ARTICLE

The Nuclear Tourist

George Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746
POETRY

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ANCHOR TEXT: SHORT STORY

By the Waters of Babylon

Stephen Vincent Bent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704
ANCHOR TEXT: SHORT STORY

There Will Come Soft Rains

Ray Bradbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722

The beginning of the end

of the world
Lucille Clifton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760
The Powwow at the End
of the World
Sherman Alexie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762
A Song on the End of the World
Czeslaw Milosz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764
MEDIA: RADIO BROADCAST

MEDIA: VIDEO

from War of the Worlds

from PBS American Experience. . . . . . 774
MAGAZINE ARTICLE

The Myth of the

WaroftheWorldsPanic
Jefferson Pooley and
Michael Socolow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778

Performance Task
WRITING FOCUS

Write a Narrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736

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from Radiolab: War of the Worlds

NPR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770

Performance Task
SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS

Create a Podcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786

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essential question : Why do we try to imagine the future?

Independent Learning
GOVERNMENT WEB SITE ARTICLE

Preparedness 101:
Zombie Apocalypse
Ali S. Khan
NEWS ARTICLE

The Secret Bunker Congress

Never Used
NPR

performance-based
assessment
Narrative:
Short Story and Dramatic Reading . . . . 794

Unit Reflection
Reflect on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797

MEDIA: IMAGE GALLERY

The End of the World May Look

JustLikeThis
Megan Gambino
POETRY

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Fire and Ice

Robert Frost
Perhaps the World Ends Here
Joy Harjo

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