Sample taken from 10th Grade ELA

Each unit has a Focus Question that asks students to think deeply about literature and the world around them.

Each Focus Question is connected to a Common Core State Standards. The Standards identify the skills that students should master at each grade level.

These Standards may also be taught during the unit. They provide support for the Focus Standards listed above.

Animal Farm is the target text.

Elie Wiesel’s Night is YA, or companion, text.

LIST OF ADOPTED MIDDLE SCHOOL TEXTS

6th Grade Curriculum Texts Texts are listed alphabetically.

6th Grade CRS Texts 6th Grade On-level Texts 6th Grade Honors Texts

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine “All Summer in a Day,” Ray A Tale Dark & Grimm, Adam ​ ​ L’Engle (L 740) Bradbury (L 950) Gidwitz (L 690)

Earth’s Water Cycle, Diane A Long Walk to Water, Linda Brown Girl Dreaming, ​ ​ ​ Dakers (L 980) Sue Park (L 720) Jaqueline Woodson (L 990)

“Harlem,” Langston Hughes “El Dorado,” Edgar Allan Poe Fever 1793, Laurie Halse (poem) Anderson (L 580) Kids Discover Ancient Greece “Eleven,” Sandra Cisneros (L Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir ​ 1090) Conan Doyle (L 1010) Kids Discover Mummies Freak the Mighty, Rodman Island of the Blue Dolphins, ​ ​ Kids Discover Rocks Philbrick (L 930) Scott O’Dell (L 1000)

Life As We Knew It, Susan Flush, Carl Hiaasen (L 860) Julius Caesar, William ​ ​ ​ Beth Pfeffer (L 770) Shakespeare “Ghost of the Lagoon,” Mesopotamia, Sunita Apte (L Armstrong Sperry (L 770) Monster, Walter Dean Myers ​ ​ 890) (L 670) “Harlem,” Langston Hughes “Mother to Son,” Langston (poetry) Red Kayak, Priscilla ​ Hughes Cummings (L 830) Hatchet, Gary Paulsen (L ​ Pyramids and Mummies, 1020) Rules, Cynthia Lord (L 670) ​ Seymour Simon (L 890) Holes, Louis Sachar (L 660) Schooled, Gordon Korman (L ​ ​ “The April Rain Song,” 740) Langston Hughes “How to Eat a Poem,” E. Merriam (poetry) The Cay, Theodore Taylor (L ​ The Mighty Miss Malone, 860) ​ Christopher Paul Curtis (L “If,” Rudyard Kipling (poem) 750) The City of Ember, Jeanne ​ I Have Lived A Thousand DuPrau (L 680) “The Rusty Spigot,” Eve Years, Livia Bitton-Jackson (L ​ Merriam 720) The Dark is Rising, Susan ​ Cooper (L 920) “The Sky is Low,” Emily “Lawmakers Blast Trump Dickinson Budget Cut that would Blast The Egypt Game, Zilpha ​ Chesapeake Bay Cleanup,” Keatley Snyder (L 1010) The Story of My Life, Helen Briana Thomas, Cecil Whig ​ Keller (L 1150) Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, “Lob’s Girl,” Joan Aiken (L John Grisham (L 790) Tornadoes, Seymour Simon 960) ​ (L 1020) Woodsong, Gary Paulsen (L ​ Love That Dog, Sharon 1030) ​ Touching Spirit Bear, Ben Creech (L 1010) ​ Wonder, R.J. Palacio (L 790) Mikaelsen (L 670) ​

No Fear Julius Caesar, ​ ​ William Shakespeare

(SparkNotes)

Number the Stars, Lois Lowry ​ (L 670)

Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry, ​ Mildred D. Taylor (L 920)

Save the Bay, the ​ Chesapeake Bay Foundation (Video)

So Far From the Bamboo Grove, Yoko Kawashima ​ Watkins (L 730)

Teacher selected sonnets, William Shakespeare

“The Cremation of Sam McGee,” Robert W. Service (poem)

“The Eagle,” Lord Alfred Tennyson (poem)

“The Fish Story,” Mary Lou Brooks (L 910)

“The Jacket,” Gary Soto (L 1030)

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi (L 740) ​

“The War Over the Chesapeake Bay,” T.J. Kirkpatrick, Politico, May 25, 2016

The Wave,Todd Strasser (L ​ 790)

Two Old Women, Velma ​ Wallis (L 1030)

Witch of Blackbird Pond, ​ Elizabeth George Speare (L 850)

World Without Fish, Mark ​ Kurlansky and Frank Stockton (illustrator) (L 1180)

7th Grade Curriculum Texts Texts are listed alphabetically.

7th Grade On-level Texts 7th Grade Honors Texts

A Long Walk to Water, Linda Sue Park, (L Berlin Boxing Club, Robert Sharenow (L 880) ​ ​ 720) Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown (L ​ “Annabel Lee,” Edgar Allan Poe (poem) 1260)

“Avoiding Armageddon: Learn the Facts,” Boy on the Wooden Box, Leon Leyson (L ​ PBS,http://www.pbs.org/avoidingarmageddon 1000) /learnTheFacts/learn_00.html Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank (L 1020) ​ Blizzard of Glass, Sally M. Walker (L 1100) ​ Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan (L 750) ​ Boy, James Hanley, (L 1020) ​ Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse (L 1040) ​ “Charles,” Shirley Jackson (L 760) The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (L 730) ​ Dirk the Protector, Gary Paulsen (L 940) ​ The Contender, Robert Lipstye (L 690) ​ Drowned City, Don Brown (L 920) ​ The Giver, Lois Lowry (L 760) ​ Endangered, Eliot Schefer (L 900) ​ The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien (L 1000) ​ Flashfire, Richard Stark (L 820) ​ Time Machine, H.G. Wells (L 1010) ​ Flight 116 is Down, Caroline B. Cooney (L ​ 710) Uglies, Scott Westerfeld (L 770) ​

Growing Up Digital, Matt Richtel (L 1660) Unlikely Warrior, Georg Rauch (L 1040) ​ ​

Guest Opinion: Step Away from the Screen, Unwind, Neal Shusterman (L 740) ​ ​ Margaret Desler, M.D. (L 1310) Warrior’s Heart, Eric Greitens (L 910) ​ Hidden Figures: Young Readers’ Edition, Margot Lee Shetterly (L 1120)

Hoot, Carl Hiaasen (L 760) ​

I Am Malala, Christina Lamb, Malala ​ Yousafzai, and Patricia McCormick (L 1000)

Clips from La Perla (The Pearl), Emilio ​ ​ Fernández

“Let America Be American Again,” Langston Hughes (poem)

Matched, Allie Condie (L 680) ​

“Retrieved Reformation,” O. Henry (L 900)

“Riki-Tiki-Tavi,” Rudyard Kipling (L 970)

Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi, (L 690) ​

TedTalk: “My Daughter Malala”

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne ​ (L 1080)

Clips from The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, ​ ​ Mark Herman

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Bryan ​ Mealer and William Kamkwamba (L 850)

The Girl from Felony Bay,J.E. Thompson (L ​ 970)

“The Highwayman,” Alfred Noyes (poem)

“The Jabberwocky,” Lewis Carroll (poem)

The Killing Sea, Richard Lewis (L 760) ​

“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” Rod Serling (poem)

“The Names,” Billy Collins (poem)

The Pearl, John Steinbeck (L 1000) ​

“There Will Come Soft Rains,” Ray Bradbury (L 910)

“There will Come Soft Rains,” Sara Teasdale (poem)

The Role of Folktales Today, Dr. Hae-ri Kim ​

Video Games Benefits Children Study Finds, ​ Queensland University of Technology (L 1580)

Weedflower, Cynthia Kadohata (L 750) ​

When the Emperor was Divine, Julie Otsuka ​ (L 810)

Why Facebook Could Actually Be Good for Your Mental Health, Sy Mukherjee (L 1470) ​

Wonder, R.J. Palacio (L 790) ​

8th Grade Curriculum Texts Texts are listed alphabetically.

8th Grade On-level Texts 8th Grade Honors Texts

An American Plague, Jim Murphy (L 1130) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis ​ ​ Stevenson (L 970) "A Winning Mindset." Randy Borum, Black Belt Magazine. April 2008 (L 1000-1100) Harriet Tubman: Secret Agent, Thomas B. ​ Allen (L 1120) Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon, Steve “Hop-Frog,” Edgar Allan Poe (L 1180) ​ Sheinkin (L 920) In My Father’s House Call of the Wild, Jack London (L 1080) ​ Manhunt, James Swanson (L 720) ​ "Change Your Mind." Michelle Manafy, Econtent Magazine 16 Mar. 2007 Much Ado About Nothing, William ​ (L1100-1200) Shakespeare

Chasing Lincoln's Killer, James L. Swanson Nothing But the Truth, Avi ​ ​ (L 980) Phineas Gage, Steve Twomey (with Intro the ​ ​ “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” Fred Tasker (SIRS) Unknown Douglas Mawson) (L 1030) ​

Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card (L 780) Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane (L ​ ​ 550) “Fever Dream,” Ray Bradbury Sarny, Gary Paulsen (L 840) ​ Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes (L 910) ​ Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (L 690) ​ "How Positive Thinking Sets You Up To Fail." Heidi Grant Halvorson, Fast Company 25 Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson (L 690) ​ July 2011 (L 1400-1500) “The Black Cat,” Edgar Allan Poe (L 800) “I hear America singing,” Walt Whitman (poem) The Fault in Our Stars, John Green (L 850) ​

“I, too sing America,” Langston Hughes The Wave, Todd Strasser (L790) ​ (poem) Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George ​ Legend, Marie Lu (L 710) Speare (L 850) ​

“Mother to Son,” Langston Hughes (poem) Touching Spirit Bear, Ben MIkaelsen (730) ​

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, ​ Frederick Douglass (L 1080)

“Poison Tree,” William Blake (poem)

“Sad Brain, Happy Brain,” Michael Craig Miller, MD (SIRS)

“Speech to the Young & Speech to the Progress Toward,” Gwendolyn Brooks (poem)

“Study: Happy Friends Can Help Teenagers Beat Depression,” Meera Senthilingham (SIRS)

TED Talk: Happiness & Work, Shawn Achor

TED Talks: The Mysterious Workings of the Adolescent Brain, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

“The Cask of Amontillado,” Edgar Allan Poe (L 700)

The Diary of Anne Frank, Francis Goodrich ​ and Albert Hackett (drama)

The Hitchhiker, Lucille Fletcher (drama) ​

“The Lady or the Tiger?” Frank Stockton (L 1010)

“The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson (L 560)

The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton (L 750) ​

The Pact, Jason Starr (L 940) ​

"The Power of Positive Thinking." Jenna Welsh, Teen Scene. Gettysburg Times, 12 Jan. 2011. (1000-1100)

This I Believe, NPR (first edition) (L 1060) ​

“To Build a Fire,” Jack London (l 970)

"Training in Positive Thinking May Help Anxious Teens." Randy Dotinga, HealthDay News 14 July 2011: Web. (L1200-1300)

“What Makes People Happy - Psychologists Now Know,” Marilyn Elias (SIRS)

"Why You Must Have A Growth Mindset." Matt Anderson, The Referral Authority. 05 July 2011. (L 800-900)

LIST OF ADOPTED HIGH SCHOOL TEXTS

9th Grade Curriculum Texts Texts are listed alphabetically.

Target Texts Young Adult Texts and Other Supplements

Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, ​ Autism to Decode Animal Behavior, Temple John Green (L 600) ​ Grandin (L 1130) "Call Me but Love": Romeo & Juliet Speak,” A Separate Peace, John Knowles (L1110) Alan Lenhoff (SIRS) ​ ​ ​

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores Dracula, Bram Stoker (L 1070) ​ the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. ​ Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner “Grocers, Burger Makers Prod Food Industry to Kinder Animal Killings”By Elizabeth Weise, Go Ask Alice, Anonymous (L 1010) USA Today (SIRS) ​

Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck (L 630) Long Way Down, Jason Reynolds (L 720) ​ ​

Short Story Collection: Looking for Alaska, John Green (L 850) ​ “The Pedestrian,” Ray Bradbury (L 1100) “The Gift of the Magi,” O. Henry (L 950) “Make Arts Education Standard,” Boston ​ “Marigolds,” by Eugenia Collier (L 1140) Globe (SIRS) ​ Note: Additional stories from this collection may be used as alternative target texts in unit five. “'Mockingbird' Still Sings at 50,” Maria Avoid the works fo Poe that are used in 8th grade. Puente, USA Today (SIRS) ​ ​ ​

The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho (L 910) ​ “Preparing Young Americans for a Complex World,” David Bornstein, New York Times The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver (L 900) ​ ​ (SIRS)

The Hot Zone, Richard Preston (L 1030) Teacher selected film versions of Romeo and ​ ​ Juliet “The Odyssey,” Homer TedTalk: “Do Schools Kill Creativity?,” Ken The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest ​ Robinson Hemingway (L 940) TedTalk :“The Clues to a Great Story,” To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (L 870) Andrew Stanton ​

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare TedTalk: “The Power of the Introvert,” Susan ​ Cain

TedTalk: “The World Needs All Kinds of Minds,” Temple Grandin

Clips from the film Temple Grandin (2010) ​ ​

The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives, Daska Slater (L 920)

“The color of law: Can white jurors fairly decide fate of black defendants?” Star ​ Tribune (newsela) ​

The Girl who Fell from the Sky, Heidi W. ​ Durrow (L 1070)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen ​ Chbosky (L 720)

The Princess Bride, William Goldman (L 870) ​

Clips from To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) ​ ​

10th Grade Curriculum Texts Texts are listed alphabetically.

Target Texts Young Adult Texts and Other Supplements

Animal Farm, George Orwell (L 1170) 1984, George Orwell (L 1090) ​ ​

By the Waters of Babylon, Stephen Vincent “Black Men and Public Space,” Brent Staples ​ Benet (L 1060) “Caged Bird,” Maya Angelou Escape from Camp 14, Blaine Harden (L ​ 1130) “Crow Song,” Margaret Atwood

“Everyday Use,” Alice Walker “Explainer: What is a gene?,” The ​ Conversation, adapted by newsela ​ Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (L 890) ​ “Family Secrets,” Raymond A. Foss Hiroshima, John Hersey (L 1190) ​ “Finding a Voice: A Taiwanese Family Adats Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri (L to America,” Diane Tsai ​ 1050) - “A Real Durwan” “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” John Donne - Mrs. Sen’s” - “When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine” “Henrietta Lacks’ “immortal cells,” Smithsonian.com, adapted by newsela ​ Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane (L 1040) ​ I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced, Nujood ​ Letter from Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Ali ​ Luther King, Simon Starr (L 1250) Clips from the HBO film The Immortal Life of ​ Macbeth, William Shakespeare Henrietta Lacks ​

Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka (L 1340) “Lady Macbeth’s Confessions,” Neisha ​ Tweed Midsummer Night’s Dream, William ​ Shakespeare “Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers,” Henry Fuseli Monkey Wars, Kurti Richard (L 920) ​ Lord of the Flies, William Golding (L 770) ​ Nobel Acceptance speeches: Elie Wiesel and Malala Yousafzai Clips from Macbeth ​

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken “Macbeth and the Witches,” Clarkson ​ Kesey (L 1110) Frederick Stanfield

Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi “Mother to Son,” Langston Hughes ​

Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare “My American Assimilation Story,” Jennifer ​ Doverspike, The Federalist ​ The Chosen, Chaim Potok (L 970) ​ “My Turn: An Immigrant’s Silent Struggle,” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Newsweek ​ Rebecca Skloot (L 1140) Night, Elie Wiesel (L 570) ​ The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (L 930) ​ “Out, out -,” Robert Frost The Picture Bride, Yoshiko Uchida (L 970) ​ Review of 2015 Macbeth adaptation ​ ​ Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe (L 890) ​ Russian Revolution (Discovery Ed.) ​ Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare ​ Slave: My True Story, Mende Nazer ​

“Study for the Death of Lady Macbeth,” Dante Rossetti

TedTalk: “Immigration,” Tan Le

“The Envoy of Mr. Cogito,” Zbigniew Herberta

Clips from The Talented Mr. Ripley ​

The Tempest, William Shakespeare ​

“Those Winter Sundays,” Robert Hayden

“Why I Write,” George Orwell

11th Grade Curriculum Texts Texts are listed alphabetically.

Target Texts Young Adult Texts and Other Supplements

12 Angry Men, Reginald Rose “A Black Man Talks of Reaping,” Arna ​ Bontemps A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry “American Dream Collapsing for Young Cecil County Substance Abuse Risk Adults, Study Says,” Jim Tankersley (L ​ ​ Assessment 1400)(SIRS)

Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (L 1210) ​ ​ ​ A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines (L ​ ​ ​ Common Sense, Thomas Paine (L 1330) 750) ​

Declaration of Independence, Thomas “Growing Inequality Under Global ​ Jefferson (L 1290) Capitalism,” Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury (SIRS) (L 1320) ​ ​ Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Elizabeth Stanton (L 1430) How it feels to be Colored Me, Zora Neale ​ ​ ​ Hurston (L 920) Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton (L 1200) ​ ​ ​ ​ “I Hear America Singing,” Walt Whitman Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance ​ “I, too,” Langston Hughes “Hills Like White Elephants,” Ernest Hemingway “Life for My Child is Simple,” Gwendolyn ​ Brooks Hope in the Unseen, Ron Suskind (L 1080) ​ ​ ​ Teacher selected short stories by Zora Neale ​ ​ In Cold Blood, Truman Capote (L 1040) Hurston ​ ​

Iroquois Constitution “Teenage Wasteland,” Anne Tyler

“Masque of the Red Death,” Edgar Allan Poe The Business of Fancydancing, Sherman ​ ​ ​ (L 1180) Alexie

“My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew The Color Purple, Alice Walker (L 670) ​ ​ on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation,” James Baldwin (L 1040) The Help, Kathryn Stockett (L 730) ​ ​

Novel/collection of short stories by Mark “The Weary Blues,” Langston Hughes ​ Twain What is an American?, Michel-Guillaume ​ “Poetry,” Emily Dickinson Jean de Crevecoeur ​

“Self in 1958,” Anne Sexton “Young Goodman Brown,” Nathaniel ​ ​ Hawthorne (L 1130) Self Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson (L ​ 1140)

Speech in the Virginia Convention, Patrick ​ Henry (L 990)

The Awakening, Kate Chopin (L 960) ​

The Crucible, Arthur Miller ​

The Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller ​

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (L 1070)

The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri (L 1210) ​

“The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” Ambrose Bierce (L 1000)

The Other Wes Moore, Wes Moore (L 990) ​

The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne (L ​ ​ ​ 1340)

The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois (L ​ 1280)

“The Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin (L 970)

The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien (L ​ 880)

The Turn the Screw, Henry James (L 1410) ​ ​ ​ ​

“The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman (L 933)

Walden, Henry David Thoreau (L 1420) ​

12th Grade Curriculum Texts Texts are listed alphabetically.

Target Texts Young Adult Texts and Other Supplements

Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt (L 1110) “Adoptly, a New App Billed As 'Tinder for ​ ​ ​ ​ Adoption,' Is Actually Just a Hoax” By Joe Atonement, Ian McEwan Veix and Zach Schonfeld (SIRS) ​

“Beowulf,” (L 1180) A Long Way Gone - Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah (L 920) ​ Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (L 870) ​ Clips from American Masters: Maya Angelou: Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Saligner (L 790) Still I Rise (DVD) ​ ​

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (L 1170) Except from “America in the 20th C- the Civil ​ Rights Movement (Discovery Ed- 2:57 portion Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift (L 1300) on Malcolm X) ​

Excerpts from Hamlet, William Shakespeare “American newspapers greeted Hitler and ​ ​ Mussolini with praise, amusement,” The Excerpts: “On the Duty of Civil Conversation, Smithsonian.com (Newsela) ​ ​ Disobedience,” Henry David Thoreau (L ​ ​ 1340) “Authors: Maya Angelou,” By Biography.com ​ Editors and A+E Networks (Newsela) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya ​ Angelou (L 1070) “Boston Globe Satire of Trump: Effective?” ​ ​ Th(SIRS) By Eva Botkin-Kowacki

Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer (L 1270) “Cloning Embryos: Scientific Milestone or Moral ​ Offense?” By Eileen Arnold (SIRS) ​ ​ “Harrison Bergeron,” Kurt Vonnegut, Jr (L 840) “Dolly the Sheep's scientists paved the way for stem cell research today,” Scientific King Arthur: “Sir Gawain and the Green ​ American (newsela) Knight” (L 890) Excerpts from Gulliver’s Travels (movie, Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift (L 1520) ​ ​ ​ 1996)

Much Ado About Nothing, William ​ "I didn't come to stay." Poet and author Shakespeare Angelou dead at 86, By The Charlotte ​ Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (L 1210) Observer (Newsela) ​

Othello, William Shakespeare ​ “Leadership in Congress: It's a party matter”

USHistory.org (Newsela) “Paradise Lost,” John Milton (L 1460) ​

“Los Angeles school suspensions drop as “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Samuel Taylor students talk out their problems,” Associated Coleridge (L 1280) Press (Newsela)

Sing, Unburied Sing, Jesmyn Ward ​ Excerpt from “Men of Our Time: Gandhi”

(Discovery Ed) Speech at Madras, 12th August 1920,

Mohandas Gandhi “Mental stresses rise among students,

educators say,” By San Jose Mercury News The Ballot or the Bullet, Malcolm X, April 3, ​ (newsela) 1964 (L 1200)

Clips from film My Sister’s Keeper (2009, The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to ​ ​ PG-13) his White Mother, James McBride (L 1140) ​

“Mysteries of the Teen Brain: What's Normal The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Behavior and What's Mental Illness?” (SIRS) Night-time, Mark Haddon (L 1090) ​ By Tina Hesman and Matthew Franck

The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls (L 1010) ​ ​ ​ Clips from Never Let me Go 2010 film (rated ​ ​ R, screen for language/content) The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar ​ Wilde (L 1310) Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut (L 850) ​

Excerpts from “Quit India Speeches,” The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (L 840) Mohandas Gandhi ​

“The Life, Time, and Works of Thoreau: Utopia, Thomas More (L 1390) ​ Political Commentary” (Discovery Ed- audio clips of Civil Disobedience)

“The New Civics Course in US Schools: How to Spot Fake News” By Carolyn Thompson (SIRS)

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Book, Elizabeth Kolbert ​

“Question of Race,” Discovery Ed- Race is Poetry segment