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UNIT 1

UNIT INTRODUCTION

UNIT ACTIVITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02

LAUNCH TEXT:

NONFICTION NARRATIVE MODEL

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

WHOLE-CLASS LEARNING

ANCHOR TEXT: ESSAY

A Quilt of a Country

Anna Quindlen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

ANCHOR TEXT: ESSAY

The Immigrant ContributionfromA Nation of Immigrants

John F. Kennedy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

SHORT STORY

American History

Judith Ortiz Cofer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

SMALL-GROUP LEARNING

NOVEL EXCERPT

Rules of the Game

fromThe Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

MEDIA: BLOG POST

The Writing on the Wall

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

MEMOIR

With a Little Help from My Friends

fromFunny in FarsiFiroozeh Dumas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88

POETRY

Morning Talk

Roberta Hill Whiteman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Immigrant Picnic

Gregory Djanikian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

PERFORMANCE TASK

WRITING FOCUS

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

PERFORMANCE TASK

SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS

Present a Nonfiction Narrative . . . . . . 110

American Voices

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INDEPENDENT LEARNING

MEMOIR

fromWhen I Was Puerto Rican

Esmeralda Santiago

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY

Finding a Voice: A Taiwanese FamilyAdapts to America

Diane Tsai

POETRY

The New Colossus

Emma Lazarus

POETRY

Legal Alien

Pat Mora

MEDIA: VIDEO

Grace Abbott and the Fight forImmigrant Rights in America

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PERFORMANCE-BASEDASSESSMENT

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

UNIT REFLECTION

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

PERFORMANCE-BASED

ASSESSMENT PREP

Review Evidence for

a Nonfiction Narrative. . . . . . . . . . . . .117

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What does it mean to be American?

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UNIT INTRODUCTION

UNIT ACTIVITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

LAUNCH TEXT: ARGUMENT MODEL

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


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 andNeighbors

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


NARRATIVE NONFICTION

The Voyage of the James CairdfromThe Endurance

Caroline Alexander. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

MEDIA: PHOTO GALLERY

The Enduranceand the James Cairdin Images

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

NOVEL EXCERPT

fromLife of PiYann 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 JukeboxNaomi Shihab Nye. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

PERFORMANCE TASK

WRITING FOCUS

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

PERFORMANCE TASK


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

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SHORT STORY

To Build a Fire

Jack London

SHORT STORY

The Most Dangerous Game

Richard Connell


fromUnbroken

Laura Hillenbrand

EXPOSITORY NONFICTION

Seven Steps to Surviving a Disaster

Jim Y. Kim

MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Titanicvs. Lusitania: How PeopleBehave in a Disaster

Jeffrey Kluger

PUBLIC LETTER

Survival Is Your Own Responsibility

Daryl R. Miller




Argument:Essay and Oral Presentation. . . . . . . . .246

UNIT REFLECTION


PERFORMANCE-BASED

ASSESSMENT PREP

Review Evidence for an Argument . . .245

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What does it take to survive?

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UNIT The Literature of Civil Rights3

UNIT INTRODUCTION

UNIT ACTIVITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

LAUNCH TEXT: EXPLANATORY MODEL

1963: The Year That Changed

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


ANCHOR TEXT: SPEECH

I Have A Dream

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. . . . . . . . . . 260

MEDIA CONNECTION:I Have A Dream

ANCHOR TEXT: ESSAY

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. . . . . . . . . . 270

MEDIA: VIDEO

Remarks on the Assassinationof Martin Luther King, Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .294


MEDIA: NEWSCAST

Remembering Civil Rights History,When Words Meant Everything

PBS NewsHour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308

POETRY

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

PERFORMANCE TASK

WRITING FOCUS

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

PERFORMANCE TASK


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

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Frank McCain DiesHelped Start Sit-InMovement at Greensboro Lunch Counter

Jeff Tiberi

NEWS ARTICLE

How the Children of BirminghamChanged the Civil-Rights Movement

Lottie L. Joiner


Sheyann Webb fromSelma,Lord, Selma

Frank Sikora

SHORT STORY

One Friday Morning

Langston Hughes

MEDIA: VIDEO

Fannie Lou Hamer

BBC




Informative Essay: Text andMultimedia Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . .352

UNIT REFLECTION


PERFORMANCE-BASED

ASSESSMENT PREP

Review Evidence for anInformative Essay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .351

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How can words inspire change?

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UNIT

UNIT INTRODUCTION

UNIT ACTIVITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

LAUNCH TEXT: ARGUMENT MODEL

Romeo and Juliet:A Tragedy?

Or Just a Tragic

Misunderstanding?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .360


ANCHOR TEXT: DRAMA

Literature and Culture . . . . . . . . . . .366

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

ACT I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .374

ACT II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .400

ACT III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .424

ACT IV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450

ACT V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466

MEDIA CONNECTION:The Tragedy ofRomeo and Juliet


Pyramus and Thisbe

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


LITERARY CRITICISM

Romeo and JulietIs a Terrible Play

Alyssa Rosenberg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

In Defense of Romeo and Juliet:

Its Not Childish,

Its *About* Childishness

Noah Berlatsky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508

JOURNALISM

Twenty Years On:

The Unfinished Lives ofSarajevos Romeo and Juliet

Gordana Sandi-Hadihasanovi. . . . . 516

MEDIA: NEWSCAST

Tragic Romeo and Juliet OffersBosnia Hope

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

PERFORMANCE TASK

WRITING FOCUS

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

PERFORMANCE TASK


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

Star-Crossed Romances4

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MYTH

Popocatepetl and Ixtlaccihuatl

Juliet Piggot Wood

POETRY

Annabel Lee

Edgar Allan Poe

NONFICTION

Whats the Rush?: Young Brains CauseDoomed Love

Lexi Tucker

MEDIA: GRAPHIC NOVEL

Romeo and Juliet

Eli Neugeboren

NEWS ARTICLE

If Romeo and Juliet Had Cellphones

Misty Harris




Argument:

Essay and Multimedia Presentation . . .538

UNIT REFLECTION


PERFORMANCE-BASED

ASSESSMENT PREP

Review Evidence for an Argument . . .537

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Do we determine our own destinies?

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UNIT

UNIT INTRODUCTION

UNIT ACTIVITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542

LAUNCH TEXT: EXPLANATORY MODEL

Gone and Back Again:

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


ANCHOR TEXT: EPIC POEM

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

from theOdyssey, Part 1

Homer translated by

Robert Fitzgerald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .560

from theOdyssey, Part 2

Homer translated by

Robert Fitzgerald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .594

MEDIA: GRAPHIC NOVEL

fromThe Odyssey

Gareth Hinds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .624

FUNCTIONAL WORKPLACE DOCUMENT

Application for a Mariners License

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


SHORT STORY

The Return

Ngg wa Thiongo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .650

INTERVIEW

fromThe Heros Adventure

fromThe Power of Myth

Joseph Campell and Bill Moyers. . . . . . .660

POETRY

Courage

Anne Sexton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .670Ithaka

C. P. Cavafy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .672

fromThe Narrow Road of the Interior

Matsuo Bash translated byHelen Craig McCullough . . . . . . . . . . . . .674

PERFORMANCE TASK

WRITING FOCUS

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

PERFORMANCE TASK


Deliver a Multimedia Presentation . . .682

5 Journeys of Transformation

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POETRY

The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost

Your World

Georgia Douglas Johnson

SHORT STORY

The Ugly Duckling

Hans Christian Andersen

MEDIA: PHOTO GALLERY

Thirteen Epic Animal MigrationsThat Prove Just How CoolMother Nature Is

Brianna Elliott

MEMOIR

fromWild

Cheryl Strayed




Explanatory Text:

Explanatory Text and Podcast. . . . . . . . 690

UNIT REFLECTION

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

PERFORMANCE-BASED

ASSESSMENT PREP

Review Evidence for an ExplanatoryEssay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .689

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What can we learn from a journey?

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UNIT INTRODUCTION

UNIT ACTIVITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694

LAUNCH TEXT: NARRATIVE MODEL

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



By the Waters of Babylon

Stephen Vincent Bent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704


There Will Come Soft Rains

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


MAGAZINE ARTICLE

The Nuclear Tourist

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

POETRY

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

fromRadiolab: War of the Worlds

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

MEDIA: VIDEO

fromWar of the Worlds

from PBS American Experience. . . . . . 774

MAGAZINE ARTICLE

The Myth of theWar of the Worlds Panic

Jefferson Pooley andMichael Socolow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778

PERFORMANCE TASK

WRITING FOCUS

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

PERFORMANCE TASK


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

6 Worlds End

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GOVERNMENT WEB SITE ARTICLE

Preparedness 101:

Zombie Apocalypse

Ali S. Khan

NEWS ARTICLE

The Secret Bunker CongressNever UsedNPR

MEDIA: IMAGE GALLERY

The End of the World May LookJust Like This

Megan Gambino

POETRY

Fire and Ice

Robert Frost

Perhaps the World Ends Here

Joy Harjo

MEDIA: NEWSCAST

A Visit to the Doomsday Vault

60 Minutes




Narrative:

Short Story and Dramatic Reading . . . .794

UNIT REFLECTION


PERFORMANCE-BASED

ASSESSMENT PREP

Review Notes for a Narrative . . . . . . .793

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Why do we try to imagine the future?

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