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THEMATIC UNITS

GRADE 9

AUTHOR

UNIT 1 | Divided We Fall: Why do we feel the need to belong? Writing Focus: Narrative

Marigolds (SyncStart) The Necklace Friday Night Lights Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone Why I Lied to Everyone in High School About Knowing Karate St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question Angela's Ashes: A Memoir Welcome to America I Have a Dream The Future in My Arms

Eugenia Collier Guy de Maupassant H.G. Bissinger

Brene Brown Jabeen Akhtar Karen Russell Diane Burns Frank McCourt Sara Abou Rashed Martin Luther King, Jr. Edwidge Danticat

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Fiction Fiction Informational Text

Informational Text Informational Text Fiction Poetry Informational Text Poetry Argumentative Text Informational Text

UNIT 2 | The Call to Adventure: What will you learn on your journey? Writing Focus: Informational

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Robert Frost

12 (from `Gitanjali')

Rabindranath Tagore

The Journey

Mary Oliver

Leon Bridges On Overcoming Childhood Isolation and Finding His Voice: `You Can't Teach Soul'

Jeff Weiss

Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters

Chesley Sullenberger

Bessie Coleman: Woman Who `dared to dream' Made Aviation History U.S. Airforce

Volar

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed

The Art of Choosing

Sheena Iyengar

Restless Genes

David Dobbs

Apollo 13: Mission Highlights

NASA Kennedy Space Center

Poetry Poetry Poetry

Informational Text Informational Text Informational Text Fiction Informational Text Informational Text Informational Text Informational Text

UNIT 3 | Declaring Your Genius: How do you define intelligence? Writing Focus: Correspondence

from "The Lost Letters of Frederick Douglass" Se?ora X No More An Indian Father's Plea Georgia O'Keeffe The Singularity Is Near The Most Dangerous Game Outliers: The Story of Success The Origin of Intelligence The Secret to Raising Smart Kids The Odyssey (A Graphic Novel)a

Evie Shockley Pat Mora Robert Lake-Thorn Joan Didion Ray Kurzweil Richard Connell Malcolm Gladwell Point/Counterpoint Carol S. Dweck Gareth Hinds

Poetry Poetry Argumentative Text Informational Text Argumentative Text Fiction Argumentative Text Argumentative Text Argumentative Text Fiction

Odyssey (Book XII - Butler translation) Convocation Remarks at Harvard University

Homer (translated by Samuel Butler) Fiction

Michael Johnston

Argumentative Text

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AUTHOR

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UNIT 4 | The Art of Disguise: How do we perform for different audiences? Writing Focus: Research

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Remarks to the Senate in Support of a Declaration of Conscience Romiette and Julio The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (Act II, Scene II) We Wear the Mask The Pose

Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird Teen Mogul A Doll's House A Story of Vengeance The Cask of Amontillado Eulogy for Mahatma Gandhi

Susan Cain Margaret Chase Smith Sharon M. Draper William Shakespeare Paul Laurence Dunbar Anwar Kahn (translated by Muhammad Umar Memon) Toni Cade Bambara Lucy Wang Henrick Ibsen Alice Dunbar-Nelson Edgar Allan Poe Jawaharlal Nehru

Argumentative Text Argumentative Text Fiction Drama Poetry

Fiction Fiction Drama Drama Fiction Fiction Informational Text

UNIT 5 | The Dance of Romance: When is love worth the fall? Writing Focus: Literary Analysis

The Gift of the Magi Catch the Moon Dusting Sonnet 116 Love in a Headscarf Masters of Love Redbird Love A Song of Changgan How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) The Raven The Loneliness of Lost Love in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" Love and Death on the Third Floor

O. Henry Judith Ortiz Cofer Rita Dove Shakespeare Shelina Zahra Janmohamed Emily Esfahani Smith Joy Harjo Li Po Elizabeth Barrett Browning Edgar Allan Poe Ursula Villareal-Moura Skip Hollandsworth

Fiction Fiction Poetry Poetry Informational Text Argumentative Text Poetry Poetry Poetry Poetry Argumentative Text Informational Text

UNIT 6 | Human Potential: How can you help others achieve their goals? Writing Focus: Extended Oral Project

Letter to My Younger Self Letters to a Young Poet Maus The Scarlet Ibis To Kill a Mockingbird (from Chapters 3, 15) The Girl Who Can I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Advice to Little Girls Lumberjanes Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy

Pride and Perseverance Ode to the Selfie Lift Every Voice and Sing

David Robinson

Informational Text

Rainer Maria Rilke

Argumentative Text

Art Spiegelman

Informational Text

James Hurst

Fiction

Harper Lee

Fiction

Ama Ata Aidoo

Fiction

Maya Angelou

Informational Text X

Mark Twain

Argumentative Text

Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Watters, & Grace Ellis (illustrated by Brooke A. Allen) Fiction

Mekeisha Madden Toby

Informational Text

Megan Falley and Olivia Gatwood Poetry

James Weldon Johnson

Poetry

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THEMATIC UNITS

GRADE 10

AUTHOR

UNIT 1 | The Power of Communication: Why do words matter? Writing Focus: Literary Analysis

The Refusal (SyncStart) I Am Offering This Poem She Unnames Them Letter from Birmingham Jail Heart of Darkness Things Fall Apart My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears In Between Cultures: A Granddaughter's Advantage A Voice The Story of a Vision Speech to the Second Virginia Convention

Franz Kafka Jimmy Santiago Baca Ursula LeGuin Martin Luther King Jr. Joseph Conrad Chinua Achebe

Mohja Kahf Hayan Charara Pat Mora Francis La Flesche Patrick Henry

UNIT 2 | Moving Forward: How does culture influence your goals? Writing Focus: Narrative

The Power of The Hero's Journey The Gathering Place R?m?yana Republic Valedictorian Address at Anacostia High School Point/Counterpoint: Methods of Motivation Remarks at the UN General Assembly A Plea for Global Education The Perils of Indifference Night Civil Peace

Louise Munson Amanda Gorman Valmiki Plato Rashema Melson StudySync Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Rigoberta Mench? Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel Chinua Achebe

UNIT 3 | Declaring Your Genius: How do you define intelligence? Writing Focus: Correspondence

By Any Other Name

Santha Rama Rau

Rituals of Memory

Kimberly Blaeser

Seeing at the Speed of Sound

Rachel Kolb

From Behind a Covered Window

Ngo Tu Lap

Love Is Not All

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Facial expressions--including fear--may not be as universal as we thought Michael Price

Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

Sigmund Freud

The Secret Life of Salvador Dal?

Salvador Dali

Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer: A Story of Survival

Allison Hedge Coke

The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

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Fiction Poetry Fiction Argumentative Text Fiction Fiction

Poetry Argumentative Text poetry Fiction Argumentative Text

Informational Text Poetry Poetry Argumentative Text Argumentative Text Argumentative Text Argumentative Text Argumentative Text Argumentative Text Fiction Fiction

Informational Text Informational Text Informational Text Poetry Poetry Informational Text Informational Text Informational Text Informational Text Fiction Fiction Informational Text

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UNIT 4 | The Ties That Bind: What brings us back to one another? Writing Focus: Correspondence

Macbeth (Act I, Scene iii) Antigone The Opera of Emeline Claudette Colvin Explains Her Role in the Civil Rights Movement Hotel Rwanda Cherokee Family Reunion Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America On the Painting of the Sistine Chapel S?bado Gigante La Juanita People Should Not Die in June in South Texas Kindness

William Shakespeare Sophocles Michael Hall Roni Jacobson Keir Pearson and Terry George Larissa Fasthorse Firoozeh Dumas Michelangelo Daniel Chac?n Alice Dunbar-Nelson Gloria Anzald?a Naomi Shihab Nye

Drama Drama Informational Text Informational Text Drama Drama Informational Text Poetry Fiction Fiction Fiction Poetry

UNIT 5 | Chopped, Stirred, and Blended: What are the ingredients of culture? Writing Focus: Extended Oral Project

Melons Parsley The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors The New Food Fights: U.S. Public Divides Over Food Science Chinese Cooking "Drop Scones" Letter to President Eisenhower Lines Written in Early Spring B. Wordsworth Snow's Queen Maple Sugaring (In Aunt Alberta's Backyard) Ethiopia

Matsuo Basho Rita Dove Judith Ortiz Cofer Lizzie Collingham Cary Funk and Brian Kennedy Chen Jitong Queen Elizabeth II William Wordsworth V. S. Naipaul Daniel Vaughn Diane Burns Audre Lorde

UNIT 6 | Origin Stories: How does who we were guide who we will become? Writing Focus: Research

Dallas-area teen interviews veterans for YouTube channel

Brendan Mayer

Past and Future

Sarojini Naidu

The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

Thi Bui

Worship the Spirit of Criticism: Address at the Pasteur Institute

Louis Pasteur

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez

The Nose

Nikolai Gorgol

A Quilt of a Country

Anna Quindlen

Creation Myths from Around the World

Angie Schumov

Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an American-Arab Family Najla Said

Coming-of-Age Traditions from Around the World

Ursula Villarreal-Moura

Poetry Poetry Poetry Informational Text Informational Text Argumentative Text Informational Text Poetry Fiction Informational Text Poetry Poetry

Informational Text Poetry Fiction Fiction Informational Text Fiction Fiction Argumentative Text Informational Text Informational Text Informational Text

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