GRADE 9
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Perspectives
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
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American Voices
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NONFICTION NARRATIVE MODEL
We All Came Here From Somewhere
Aretta Okafor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
whole-class learning
ANCHOR TEXT: ESSAY
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A Quilt of a Country
Anna Quindlen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
ANCHOR TEXT: ESSAY
The Immigrant Contribution from
A Nation of Immigrants
John F. Kennedy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
SHORT STORY
Rules of the Game
Amy Tan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
BLOG POST
The Writing on the Wall
Camille Dungy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEMOIR
With a Little Help From My Friends
from Funny in Farsi
Firoozeh Dumas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
POETRY
Morning Talk
Roberta Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Immigrant Picnic
Gregory Djanikian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEDIA: TIMELINE
NYT Interactive Immigration Map. . . . . . 00
SHORT STORY
American History
Judith Ortiz Cofer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Performance Task
WRITING FOCUS
Write a Nonfiction Narrative. . . . . . . . . 00
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Performance Task
SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS
Present a Nonfiction Narrative . . . . . . . 00
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UNIT
essential question : What makes people feel “American”?
Independent Learning
performance-based
assessment
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MEMOIR
from When I Was Puerto Rican
Esmeralda Santiago. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Nonfiction Narrative:
Reflective Essay and Informal Speech. . . 00
Unit Reflection
ESSAY
from What is an American?
J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur. . . . . . . . 00
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AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
Reflect on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Finding a Voice: A Taiwanese Family
Adapts to America
Diane Tsai. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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POETRY
The New Colossus
Emma Lazarus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Legal Alien
Pat Mora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEDIA: VIDEO
What Does Citizenship Mean to You?
Damola Akinola and Maria Cornejo . . . . . . 00
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a Nonfiction Narrative. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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Survival
unit INtRODUCTION
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The Cost of Survival
Theo Tucker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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whole-class learning
Anchor TExt: Short Story
The Seventh Man
Haruki Murakami . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anchor TExt: Opinion Piece
The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt
Nancy Sherman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
MEDIA: PoDCAST
The Key to Disaster Survival? Friends and
Neighbors
Shankar Vedantam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Performance Task
Writing Focus
Write an Argument. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
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NARRATIVE NONFICTION
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UNIT ACTIVITY. .
Small-Group learning
The Voyage of the James Caird
from The Endurance
Caroline Alexander. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
MEDIA: PHOTO GALLERY
The Endurance and the James Caird
in Images
Frank Hurley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
nOVEL EXCERPT
from Life of Pi
Yann Martel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
ARGUMENT
The Value of a Sherpa Life
Grayson Schaffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Poetry
I Am Offering This Poem
Jimmy Santiago Baca. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
The Writer
Richard Wilbur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Hugging the Jukebox
Naomi Shihab Nye. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Performance Task
Speaking and Listening Focus
Present an Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
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UNIT
essential question : What does it take to survive?
performance-based
assessment
Independent Learning
To Build a Fire
Jack London. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Short Story
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The Most Dangerous Game
Richard Connell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
BIOGRAPHY
Argument:
Essay and Oral Presentation . . . . . . . . . 126
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Short story
Unit Reflection
Reflect on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
from Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Expository nonfiction
Seven Steps to Surviving a Disaster
Jim Y. Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
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Magazine article
Titanic vs. Lusitania: How People
Behave in a Disaster
Jeffrey Kluger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
memoir
from Wave
Sonali Deraniyagala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
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UNIT
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The Literature of Civil Rights
unit INtRODUCTION
Unit ACTIVITY.
Small-Group learning
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Launch Text: EXPLANATORY MODEL
1963: The Year That Changed Everything
Sara Taylor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEDIA: NEWSCAST
Remembering Civil Rights History,
When “Words Meant Everything”
PBS Newshour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
POETRY
ANCHOR TEXT: SPEECH
Compare
“I Have A Dream . . .”
Martin Luther King, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEDIA: VIDEO
“I Have A Dream . . .”
Martin Luther King, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
ANCHOR TEXT: ARGUMENT
Letter from a Birmingham City Jail
Martin Luther King, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
For My People
Margaret Walker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Incident
Natasha Trethewey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
SPEECH
Lessons of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cesar Chavez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEMOIR
Traveling
Grace Paley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEDIA: VIDEO
Remarks on the Assassination
of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Performance Task
WRITING FOCUS
Write a Research Outline . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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Performance Task
SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS
Present Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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whole-class learning
essential question : How can words inspire change?
performance-based
assessment
Independent Learning
Just Walk on By: Black Men
and Public Spaces
Brent Staples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
How the Children of Birmingham
Changed the Civil-Rights Movement
Lottie L. Joiner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Explanatory Text:
Research-Based Essay and Multimedia
Presentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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Unit Reflection
Reflect on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
from Black Boy
Richard Wright. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
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The Many Lives of Hazel Bryan
David Margolick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
SHORT STORY
Liars Don’t Qualify
Junius Edwards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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MEDIA: RADIO BROADCAST
Sam Cooke’s Swan Song of Protest
All Things Considered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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Star-Crossed Romances
unit INtRODUCTION
Unit ACTIVITY.
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Launch Text: ARGUMENT MODEL
Romeo and Juliet: A Tragedy? Or Just a
Tragic Misunderstanding?
Olivia Dasha. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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whole-class learning
ANCHOR TEXT: DRAMA
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEDIA: AUDIO PERFORMANCE
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
Los Angeles Theatre Works . . . . . . . . . 00
Small-Group learning
LITERARY CRITICISM
Romeo and Juliet Is a Terrible Play
Alyssa Rosenberg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
In Defense of Romeo and Juliet: It’s Not
Childish, It’s *About* Childishness
Noah Berlatsky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
JOURNALISM
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UNIT
Twenty Years On: The Unfinished Lives
of Sarajevo’s Romeo and Juliet
Gordana Sandic-Hadzihasanovic. . . . . . 00
mEDIA: NEWSCAST
Tragic Romeo and Juliet Offers
Bosnia Hope
Nic Robertson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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SHORT STORY
Pyramus and Thisbe
Ovid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Performance Task
WRITING FOCUS
Write a Critical Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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Performance Task
SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS
Present a Claim and Summary . . . . . . . 00
essential question : Do we determine our own destinies?
performance-based
assessment
Independent Learning
Popocatepetl and Ixtlaccihuatl
Juliet Piggot Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
POEM
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Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
NONFICTION
Argument:
Critical Review and Oral Presentation. . . 00
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MYTH
Unit Reflection
Reflect on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
What’s the Rush?: Young Brains Cause
Doomed Love
TK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Romeo and Juliet
Eli Neugeboren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
If Romeo and Juliet Had Cell Phones
Misty Harris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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UNIT
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Journeys of Transformation
unit INtRODUCTION
Unit ACTIVITY.
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Launch Text: INFORMATIVE MODEL
Gone and Back Again: A Traveler’s Advice
Luis Rivera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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whole-class learning
ANCHOR TEXT: EPIC POEM
from the Odyssey
Homer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
GRAPHIC NOVEL
The Odyssey
Gareth Hinds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Small-Group learning
SHORT STORY
Half a Day
Naguib Mahfouz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
INTERVIEW
Bill Moyers Interview with Joseph
Campbell
Moyers/Campbell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
POETRY
Courage
Anne Sexton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Ithaka
C. P. Cavafy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
from Narrow Road to a Far Province
Matsuo Bashō . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
WORKPLACE/FUNCTIONAL DOCUMENT
Performance Task
WRITING FOCUS
Write an Informative Article . . . . . . . . . 00
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Application for a Mariner’s License
United States Coast Guard. . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Performance Task
SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS
Deliver an Informative Talk . . . . . . . . . . 00
essential question : Which matters more, the journey or the destination?
performance-based
assessment
Independent Learning
Polynesians Set Sail on Three Year,
Historic Journey
Amy Lieu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
POETRY
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The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Your World
Georgia Douglas Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
SHORT STORY
Informative Text:
Informative Essay and Formal Speech . . 00
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Unit Reflection
Reflect on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
The Return
Ngugi wa Thiong’o. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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MEDIA: PHOTO GALLERY
13 Epic Animal Migrations That Prove
Just How Cool Mother Nature Is
Brianna Elliott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEMOIR
from Wild
Cheryl Strayed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Traveling Teaches Students in a Way
Schools Can’t
Amanda Machado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Performance-based
assessment prep
Review Evidence for an Informative
Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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World’s End
unit INtRODUCTION
Unit ACTIVITY.
Small-Group learning
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Launch Text: FICTIONAL NARRATIVE
Story Outline: Dream’s Winter
Maya Allison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
whole-class learning
ANCHOR TEXT: SHORT STORY
By the Waters of Babylon
Stephen Vincent Benet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
The Nuclear Tourist
George Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
POETRY
The beginning of the end of the world
Lucille Clifton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
The Powwow at the End of the World
Sherman Alexie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
A Song on the End of the World
Czeslaw Milosz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEDIA: RADIO BROADCAST
ANCHOR TEXT: SHORT STORY
from War of the Worlds
Radiolab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Ray Bradbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEDIA: DOCUMENTARY
from War of the Worlds
PBS American Experience. . . . . . . . . . . 00
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
The Myth of the
War of the Worlds Panic
Jefferson Pooley and
Michael Socolow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Performance Task
WRITING FOCUS
Write a Short Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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Performance Task
SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS
Present a Work of Flash Fiction. . . . . . . 00
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UNIT
essential question : What does doomsday literature say about us?
performance-based
assessment
Independent Learning
Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse
Ali S. Khan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
WEBSITE ARTICLE
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The Secret Bunker Congress Never
Used
NPR Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
SHORT STORY
Narrative:
Short Story and Recitation. . . . . . . . . . . . 00
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GOVERNMENT BLOG POST
Unit Reflection
Reflect on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Patient Zero
Tananarive Due. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
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The End of the World May Look
Just Like This
Megan Gambino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
POETRY
Fire and Ice
Robert Frost. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Perhaps the World Ends Here
Joy Harjo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00
MEDIA: NEWSCAST
A Visit to the Doomsday Vault
60 Minutes with Scott Pelley. . . . . . . . . . . . 00
Performance-based
assessment prep
Review Details for a Short Story . . . . . . 00
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