English / Language Arts Literature Selections
English Textual Power - Level 5 (Grade 10)
Poetry
Non-Fiction
Poetry
Expository Text
Poetry
Song Lyrics
Monologues
Poetry
Poetry
Film
Song Lyrics
Sample Artwork:
Unit 1: Voices of Modern Culture
“My Mother Pieced Quilts,” by Teresa Palomo Acosta
“Leffingwell Elementary School,” from Funny in Farsi by Farooz Dumas
"Theme for English B,” by Langston Hughes
Voice and Writing
“Legal Alien,” by Pat Mora
“Imagine,” by John Lennon
“Brace Yourself,” “The Crush,” “The Job Interview,” ”The Date,” “Off the
Court,” “Dinner Guest,” by Debbie Lamedman
“Sure You Can Ask Me A Personal Question,” by Diane Burns
“ I am From…,” by George Ella Lyons
Ancillary Materials
Grease by Randal Keisler, 1978 *New Ancillary Material
“Imagine,” by John Lennon
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Photography: Gordon Parks
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Painting: Norman Rockwell
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Print Art: Chris Van Allsburg
Unit 2: Cultural Conversations
Central Text for this Unit: Bend It Like Beckham (2003) by Gurinder Chadha
Essay
Essay
Memoir
Essay
Essay
Short Story
Poetry
Essay
Article
Essay
“Us and Them,” by David Sedaris
“Where Worlds Collide,” by Pico Iyer
from Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
“An Indian Father’s Plea,” by Robert Lake
“Going to Japan” from Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
“Everyday Use,“ by Alice Walker
“Father and Son,” by Tomasz Jastrun
“Thanksgiving: A Personal History,” by Jennifer New
“Matrimony with a Proper Stranger,” by Miguel Helft
from Dave Barry Does Japan by Dave Barry
Art
Art
Film
Film
Ancillary Materials
“The Builders, The Family” (1974) by Jacob Lawrence
“This is a Family Living in Harlem,” (1943) by Jacob Lawrence
Bend It Like Beckham by Gurinder Chadha, 2003
Life is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni, 1997 or Chocolat by Lasse Hallstrom,
2001
English / Language Arts Literature Selections
English Textual Power - Level 5 (Grade 10)
Unit 1: Unit
Voices
of Modern Culture
3: Community
Central Novel for this Unit: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Interview
Poetry
Poetry
from An African Voice by Katie Bacon (Atlantic Unbound)
“Prayer to the Masks,” Leopold Sedar Senghor
“The Second Coming,” William Butler Yeats
Novel
Teacher Selected:
Ancillary Materials
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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Picture Books of Folktales
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World Maps
Unit 4: Justice
Central Text for this Unit: Antigone by Sophocles
Editorial
Speech
Essay
Editorial
Article
Article
Article
Testimony
Speech
Letter
Article
Article
Excerpt
Drama
Drama
Essay
Proclamation
Speech
Drama
"Time to Assert American Values"
President Mandela’s Statement on International Children’s Day
"School’s Out for Summer," by Anna Quindlen
"Comment," Pat Lancaster
"An Immodest Idea," Anna Mulrine
"Germany Divided Over Hijab," Andreas Tzortzis
"An Unfair Dress Code?" (news article)
"Religious Expression," Nashala Hearn
excerpt from “On Civil Disobedience,” Mohandas K. Gandhi
excerpt from “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Nona Gaye Gathers Artists for anti-AIDS Tribute,” by B.E. Gilbert, USA
Today Health (optional)
"Guernica Returned to Spain" (The History Channel )
from "Making Comics," Scott McCloud (expository comic)
excerpt from Romeo and Juliet Act III, scene 1, William Shakespeare
excerpt from Act III, Scene 2, Julius Caesar William Shakespeare
“Kohlberg’s Six Stages of Moral Reasoning”
United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child
excerpt from “One Word of Truth,” Solzhenitsyn
Antigone by Sophocles
English / Language Arts Literature Selections
English Textual Power - Level 5 (Grade 10)
Art
Song
Song
Photo Essay
Film
UnitUnit
1: Voices
of Modern
Culture
4: Justice
- Continued
Ancillary Materials
"Guernica," Pablo Picasso
“What’s Going On?” Marvin Gaye *New Ancillary Material
“What’s Going On?” Artists Against AIDS Worldwide *New Ancillary
Material
“Children Behind Bars,” by Steve Liss (or other photo essay) *New Ancillary
Material
Mighty Aphrodite directed by Woody Allen, 1996 *New Ancillary Material
Unit 5: Building Cultural Bridges
Central Text for this Unit: An Inconvenient Truth (2006) by Davis Guggenheim
Essay
Essay
Essay
Excerpt
Magazine Article
Website Article
Video
Video
Film
Online Video
Documentary Film
Documentary Film
“Science a la Joe Camel,” (2006) by Laurie David
“There Is No ‘Consensus’ on Global Warming,” (2006) by Richard S. Lindzen
“The Moral Flaws of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, ” (2006) by Glenn
Easterbrook
United Nations Millennium Declaration (2000)
“A Roaring Battle over Sea Lions,” (2008) by Bill Hewitt
“A Stay of Execution for Sea Lions at Bonneville Dam,” (2008) by the
Humane Society of the United States
Ancillary Materials
An Inconvenient Truth by Davis Guggenheim, 2006 *New Ancillary Material
I Need to Wake Up (2006) by Melissa Etheridge *Included on An
Inconvenient Truth
The Day After Tomorrow by Roland Emmerich, 2004 *New Ancillary
Material
Global Warming 101 (2006) by NationalGeographic
Life in the Freezer: The Big Freeze by Alastair Fothergill, 1993 *New
Ancillary Material
March of the Penguins by Luc Jacquet, 2005 *New Ancillary Material