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English Language Arts & Literacy Curriculum 6–8

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Each Module Includes

One to Three Units of Instruction Complete Lessons including guiding questions for close reading

Module and Unit Overviews Student materials (BLM)

MODULE OVERVIEWS

GRADE 6

Module 1 Myths: Not Just Long Ago Item 6.1 $74.75

Unit 1: Building Background Knowledge: Percy Jackson and the Hero’s Journey (221 pages)

Unit 2: Elements and Theme of Mythology in The Lightning Thief (338 pages)

Unit 3: Culminating Project: My Hero’s Journey Narrative (127 pages)

Module 2a Working with Evidence: Rules to Live By Item 6.2a $74.75

Unit 1: Analyzing Figurative Language, Word Choice, Structure and Meaning: Bud, Not Buddy and Steve Jobs’ Commencement Address (185 pages)

Unit 2: Analyzing Structure and Communicating Theme in Literature: “If” by Rudyard Kipling and Bud, Not Buddy (309 pages)

Unit 3: Writing to Inform: “My Rule to Live By” (138 pages)

Module 2b Voices of Adversity Item 6.2b $86.25

Unit 1: Reading Closely and Writing to Learn: Adversities in Medieval Times (231 pages)

Unit 2: Monologues, Language, and Literary Argument: Voices of a Medieval Village. (307 pages)

Unit 3: Analyzing, Comparing, Sharing: Modern Voices of Adversity (208 pages)

Module 3a Reading Closely and Writing to Learn: Point of View and Perspective Item 6.3a $74.75

Unit 1: Narrator’s Point of View and Evidence of Author’s Perspective in Dragonwings (197 pages)

Unit 2: Comparing Varying Points of View of the Same Topic or Event (254 pages)

Unit 3: Writing a Newspaper Article about the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fires (196 pages)

Module 3b Reading Closely and Writing to Learn: Point of View and Perspective Item 6.3b $74.75

Unit 1: Author’s Point of View and Idea Development in World without Fish (218 pages)

Unit 2: Narrator’s Point of View and Evidence of Author’s Perspective in Flush (222 pages)

Unit 3: Researching and Interpreting Information: What You Need to Know When Buying Fish (195 pages)

Module 4 Reading for Research and Writing an Argument: Insecticides: Costs vs. Benefits Item 6.4 $80.50

Unit 1: Learning From Frightful’s Perspective (260 pages)

Unit 2: Research: Do the benefits of DDT outweigh its harmful consequences? (283 pages)

Unit 3: Writing: Position Paper about the Use of DDT (162 pages)

GRADE 7

Module 1 Reading Closely and Writing to Learn: Journeys and Survival Item 7.1 $80.50

Unit 1: Perspectives in Southern Sudan (248 pages)

Unit 2: Surviving in Sudan (347 pages) Unit 3: Two-Voice Poem: Two Voices from Southern Sudan (120 pages)

Module 2a Working with Evidence: Working Conditions Then and Now Item 7.2a $97.75

Unit 1: Lyddie: Working Conditions in Industrializing America (466 pages)

Unit 2: How Working Conditions Change: Chávez and the UFW (158 pages)

Unit 3: Researching Working Conditions in the Modern-Day Garment Industry (213 pages)

Module 2b Working with Evidence: Identity and Transformation: Then and Now Item 7.2b $97.75

Unit 1: Reading Closely and Citing Evidence: Stories of Personal Identity Formation (236 pages)

Unit 2: Reading Drama and Writing to Learn: Identity Transformation (383 pages)

Unit 3: Analyzing Gender Roles in Advertising (225 pages)

Module 3a Understanding Perspectives: Slavery—The People Could Fly Item 7.3a $109.25

Unit 1: Building Background Knowledge—Powerful Stories and Slavery in America (433 pages)

Unit 2: Case Study: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (454 pages)

Unit 3: Performance Task: Crafting Powerful Stories (211 pages)

Module 4a Reading and Research: Screen Time and the Developing Brain Item 7.4a $103.50

Unit 1: Building Background Knowledge: Development of the Adolescent Brain (290 pages)

Unit 2: Research Study: The Effects of Screen Time on the Developing Brain (442 pages)

Unit 3: Performance Task: Recommended Screen Time Position Paper and Visual (212 pages)

Module 4b Reading and Research: Water Is Life Item 7.4b $86.25

Unit 1: Building Background Knowledge: Management and Sustainability of Water (243 pages)

Unit 2: Research Study: Industrial and Agricultural Water Management (315 pages)

Unit 3: Performance Task: Water Management Position Paper (148 pages)

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English Language Arts & Literacy Curriculum 6–8

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GRADE 8

Module 1 Finding Home: Refugees Item 8.1 $69.00

Unit 1: War Coming Close to Home (244 pages)

Unit 2: Why do people flee home? (395 pages) Unit 3: Free Verse Inside Out and Back Again poems (116 pages)

Module 2a Working With Evidence: Taking a Stand Item 8.2a $97.75

Unit 1: Building Background Knowledge: Taking a Stand (432 pages)

Unit 2: Case Study: Atticus (326 pages) Unit 3: Readers Theater: Taking a Stand in Maycomb (84 pages)

Module 2b A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Comedy of Control Item 8.2b $97.75

Unit 1: Building Background Knowledge: Understanding Shakespeare (411 pages)

Unit 2: Working with Evidence: “What Fools These Mortals Be” (323 pages)

Unit 3: Performance Task: Character Confessional Narrative (80 pages)

Module 3a Japanese-American Relations during World War II Item 8.3a $103.50

Unit 1: Building Background Knowledge: Varying Perspectives on World War II (340 pages)

Unit 2: Made Invisible: The Imprisoned and Interned (426 pages)

Unit 3: Becoming Visible Again: Finding Freedom and Recovering Life (179 pages)

Module 4 Sustainability of the US Food Supply Chain Item 8.4 $74.75

Unit 1: Analyzing Author’s Purpose and Evaluating Claims in The Omnivore’s Dilemma (286 pages)

Unit 2: Researching Consequences and Stakeholders of Michael Pollan’s Four Food Chains (280 pages)

Unit 3: Writing a Position Paper: Which of Michael Pollan’s Food Chains Would You Choose to Feed the US? (83 pages)

English Language Arts & Literacy Curriculum 9–12

Each Module Includes

One to Three Units of Instruction Complete Lessons including guiding questions for close reading

Module and Unit Overviews Student materials (BLM)

MODULE OVERVIEWS

GRADE 9

Module 1 Reading Closely and Writing to Analyze Item 9.1 $86.25

Unit 1: St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Russell (278 pages)

Unit 2: Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke; Black Swan Green, Mitchell (131 pages)

Unit 3: Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare (281 pages)

Module 2 Working with Evidence and Making Claims: How Do Authors Structure Texts and Develop Ideas? Item 9.2 $80.50

Unit 1: The Tell-Tale Heart, Poe; I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, Dickinson (186 pages)

Unit 2: Oedipus the King, Sophocles (256 pages) Unit 3: True Crime: The roots of an American obsession, Mosley; How Bernard Madoff Did It, Ahamed; The Wizard of Lies Epilogue excerpt, Henriques; text-based video $50bn Ponzi Scheme – How Madoff Did It. (146 pages)

Module 3 Building and Communicating Knowledge through Research: The Inquiry and Writing Processes Item 9.3 $57.50

Unit 1: Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior, Grandin and Johnson (152 pages)

Unit 2: Engaging in an Inquiry-Based, Iterative Research Process. (174 pages)

Unit 3: Synthesizing Research through the Writing Process. Student texts (research sources) will vary. (125 pages)

Module 4 Understanding and Evaluating Argument: Analyzing Text to Write Arguments Item 9.4 $51.75

Unit 1: Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom and Science, Aronson and Budhos (370 pages)

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English Language Arts & Literacy Curriculum 9–12

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GRADE 10

Module 1 Reading Closely and Writing to Analyze: How Do Authors Develop Complex Characters and Ideas? Item 10.1 $63.25

Unit 1: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Marlowe; The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd, Raleigh; Raleigh Was Right, Williams (118 pages)

Unit 2: The Palace Thief, Canin (156 pages) Unit 3: Two Kinds and Rules of the Game from The Joy Luck Club, Tan; Dreaming of Heroes from Friday Night Lights, Bissinger (189 pages)

Module 2 How Do Authors Use Rhetoric and Word Choice to Develop Ideas And Claims? Item 10.2 $74.75

Unit 1: Letter From Birmingham Jail, King, Jr.; In This Blind Alley, Shamlu; Freedom, Tagore; Women, Walker (335 pages)

Unit 2: A Genetics of Justice, Alvarez; Remembering To Never Forget: Dominican Republic’s ‘Parsley Massacre,’ Memmott (129 pages)

Unit 3: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights; On the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Roosevelt; Address to the United Nations Youth Assembly, Yousafzai (158 pages)

Module 3 Researching Multiple Perspectives to Develop a Position Item 10.3 $74.75

Unit 1: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Skloot (pages 221)

Unit 2: Student research sources vary. (201 pages) Unit 3: Student research sources vary. (170 pages)

Module 4 How Do Authors Use Craft and Structure to Develop Characters and Ideas? Item 10.4 $86.25

Unit 1: Death of a Pig, White (121 pages) Unit 2: Macbeth, Shakespeare (514 pages) Unit 3: The Prince, Machiavelli (95 pages)

GRADE 11

Module 1 How Do Authors Develop and Relate Elements of a Text? Item 11.1 $74.75

Unit 1: My Last Duchess, Browning (103 pages) Unit 2: Hamlet, Shakespeare (414 pages) Unit 3: A Room of One's Own excerpt, Woolf (105 pages)

Module 2 How Do Authors Use Figurative Language or Rhetoric to Advance Their Point of View or Purpose? Item 11.2 $80.50

Unit 1: Of Our Spiritual Strivings from The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois; Atlanta Compromise Speech, Washington (424 pages)

Unit 2: An Address by Elizabeth Stanton; From the House of Yemanjá, Lorde; How to Write the Great American Indian Novel, Alexie (230 pages)

Module 3 Researching Multiple Perspectives to Develop a Position Item 11.3 $80.50

Unit 1: Hope, Despair and Memory, Wiesel (228 pages)

Unit 2: Student research sources will vary. (230 pages)

Unit 3: Student research sources will vary. (225 pages)

Module 4 How Do Authors Use Narrative Techniques to Craft Fiction Writing? Item 11.4 $69.00

Unit 1: On the Rainy River, O’Brien; The Red Convertible, Erdrich (206 pages)

Unit 2: The Awakening, Chopin; On the Rainy River, O’Brien; The Red Convertible, Erdrich (299 pages)

GRADE 12

Module 1 Reading and Writing Personal Narratives Item 12.1 $80.50

Unit 1: The Autobiography of Malcolm X (440 pages)

Unit 2: Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit, Silko (105 pages)

Unit 3: Writing unit (105 pages)