Unit 1: Fiction and Nonfiction Elizabeth McCracken From the Author’s Desk from The Giant’s House Desiderata Isaac Bashevis Singer The Washwoman 9 Maya Angelou New Directions Amy Tan Rules of the Game Reading Informational Instructions: Recipe for Meat Pies Toni Cade Bambara Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird Materials Mark Twain The Invalid’s Story Joan Aiken Sonata for Harp and Bicycle Reading Informational Brochures: North Carolina Museum Edgar Allan Poe The Cask of Amontillado Materials of Transportation Cynthia Rylant Checkouts Billy Collins Candle Hat Ama Ata Aidoo The Girl Who Can James Hurst The Scarlet Ibis Lady Bird Johnson from A White House Diary Ray Bradbury The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind Julia Alvarez My English Unit 3: Essays, Articles, and Speeches James Thurber The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Rebecca Walker From the Author’s Desk Isabel Allende Uncle Marcos Before Hip-Hop Was Hip-Hop Reading Informational Dictionary Entry: Cassell’s Spanish Materials English Dictionary Rudolfo Anaya A Celebration of Grandfathers Scott McCloud Understanding Comics Lorraine Hansberry On Summer Arthur C. Clarke “If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth…” Neil Postman The News Rachel Carson from Silent Spring Sally Ride Single Room, Earth View Reading Informational Technical Document: Unit 2: Short Stories Materials Space Shuttle Basics Wayson Choy From the Author’s Desk Carl Sandburg from A Lincoln Preface The Jade Peony John McPhee Arthur Ashe Remembered Judith Ortiz Cofer American History Lian Dolan Carry Your Own Skis Richard Connell The Most Dangerous Game Pete Hamill Libraries Face Sad Chapter Reading Informational Signs: Beach and Ocean Safety Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have a Dream” Materials Franklin D. Roosevelt First Inaugural Address O. Henry The Gift of the Magi Reading Informational Historical Research Study: Saki The Interlopers Materials from Nothing to Fear: Lessons in Leadership from FDR Leslie Marmon Silko The Man to Send Rain Clouds Amy Ash Nixon Cheerful Gift Becomes a Tradition R.K. Narayan Old Man of the Temple Gary Soto The Talk Guy de Maupassant The Necklace Bill Cosby Go Deep to the Sewer

7 Unit 4: Poetry Unit 5: Drama Pat Mora From the Author’s Desk Gary Blackwood From the Author’s Desk Uncoiling from The Shakespeare Stealer A Voice William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Langston Hughes Dream Deferred from A Midsummer Night’s Dream Dreams Reading Informational Atlas: Map of Italy Materials William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Ovid (retold by Edith Pyramus and Thisbe Gabriela Mistral Meciendo/Rocking Hamilton) Jean de Sponde, Sonnet on Love XIII Anton Chekhov The Inspector General Translated by David Slavitt Reading Informational Book Review: Chekhov in America Richard Brautigan All Watched Over by Machines of Materials Loving Grace Victor Hernández Cruz Problems with Hurricanes Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with feathers— Oscar Wilde from The Importance of Being Earnest Much Madness is divinest Sense— Henry Alford from Big Kiss: One Actor’s Desparate Stanley Kunitz The War Against the Trees Attempt to Claw His Way to Walter Dean Myers Summer the Middle Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Eagle Unit 6: Themes in Literature: Heroism May Swenson Analysis of Baseball Dean Smith From the Author’s Desk Edgar Allan Poe The Bells from The Carolina Way Yusef Komunyakaa Slam, Dunk, & Hook Homer from The Odyssey Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky Reading Informational Application for an Archaeological Dig Reading Informational Case Study: Careers in Robotics Materials Materials Edna St. Vincent Millay An Ancient Gesture Galway Kinnell Blackberry Eating Margaret Atwood Siren Song Naomi Shihab Nye Daily Constantine Cavafy Ithaca Mary Tall Mountain There Is No Word for Goodbye George Toudouze Three Skeleton Key Robert Frost The Road Not Taken Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Red-headed League Emily Dickinson We never know how high we are Chief Dan George There Is a Longing T.S. Eliot Macavity: The Mystery Cat Nelson Mandela Glory and Hope Robert Frost Fire and Ice Reading Informational Encyclopedia Entry: Detective Story E.E. Cummings maggie and milly and molly and may Materials William Shakespeare The Seven Ages of Man Martín Espada Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100 Reading Informational Web Site: Tornadoes Harold W. Felton Pecos Bill: The Cyclone Materials Edith Hamilton Perseus Judith Ortiz Cofer The Serenade in Nine Innings Alice Walker Women Basho and Chiyojo Three Haiku Walt Whitman I Hear America Singing William Shakespeare Sonnet 30

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