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GRADE/UNIT/FEATURE
SELECTION TITLE
AUTHOR
GENRE
The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson
The Wounded Wolf
Stray
The Tail
Zlateh the Goat
The Circuit
Lob's Girl
Jeremiah's Song
Using a Dictionary and Thesaurus
Following Oral Directions
short story
Anchor: The King of Mazy May
To Klondike We’ve Paid Our Fare
Gold Rush: The Journey by Land
Leo Tolstoy
Jean C. George
Cynthia Rylant
Joyce Hansen
I.B. Singer
Francisco Jiménez
Joan Aiken
Walter Dean Myers
n/a
n/a
n/a
Jack London
H.J. Dunham
fiction
fiction
short story
short story
short story
short story
short story
short story
n/a
n/a
short story
fiction
A Woman's View of the Gold Rush
Chinese and African Americans in the Gold Rush
Birds struggle to recover from egg thefts of 1800s
Mary Ballou
Johns Hopkins University
Edie Lau
GRADE 6
Unit 1: Is Conflict Always Bad?
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop
Part 2 Genre Study: Short Story
Comparing Texts
Language Study
Speaking and Listening
Writing Process
Part 3 Text Set: The Gold Rush
GRADE 6
Unit 2: What is important to know?
from This Land Was Made for You and Me (exemplar)
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop
from Zlata’s Diary
The Drive-In Movies
Names/Nombres
Part 2 Genre Study: Essays and
Speeches
Langston Terrace
from The Pigman and Me
The Seven Wonders of the World
Comparing Texts
Art, Architecture, and Learning in Egypt
Word Origins
Language Study
Evaluating Media Messages and Advertisements
Speaking and Listening
Argumentative Essay
Writing Process
Anchor: Jackie Robinson, Justice at Last
Memories of an All-American Girl
Preserving a Great American Symbol
Part 3 Text Set: Baseball
The Southpaw
Fenway Park celebrates 100 years as America’s oldest
working Major League ballpark
Why We Love Baseball
TK: image
Elizabeth Partridge
Zlata Filipović
Gary Soto
Julia Alvarez
Eloise Greenfield
Paul Zindel
from Infoplease
PH Ancient Civilizations
n/a
n/a
n/a
Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
Carmen Pauls
Richard Durbin
n/f functiona
[annotated m
letter
article
newspaper a
nonfiction
/biography
nonfiction / jo
Autobiograph
essay [autob
narrative]
reflective ess
reflective ess
online alman
textbook artic
n/a
n/a
Argument
Judith Viorst
Molly Line
article
argument
/persuasive s
fiction
news report
Mark Newman
article
PEARSON CC LITERATURE
GRADES 6-10
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GRADE 6
Unit 3: Do we need words to communicate well?
Twelfth Song of Thunder
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop Oranges
Ode to Family Photographs
A Dream Within a Dream
Part 2 Genre Study: Poetry
Adventures of Isabel
Collection 1
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Abuelito Who
April Rain Song
Collection 2
The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be
Fame Is a Bee
Haiku
The Sidewalk Racer
Collection 3
Concrete Cat
Limerick (Spring and Fall)
Wind and water and stone
No Thank You
Collection 4
The Fairies’ Lullaby
Cynthia in the Snow
who knows if the moon’s
Comparing Texts
Dust of Snow
Words With Multiple Meanings
Language Study
Problem-Solution Proposal
Speaking and Listening
Comparison-and-Contrast Essay
Writing Process
Anchor: Simile: Willow and Ginkgo
Angela Duckworth and the Research on “Grit”
Race to the End of the Earth
Part 3 Text Set: Determination
The Sound of Summer Running
from Letter on Thomas Jefferson
Water
TK: image
Navajo
Gary Soto
Gary Soto
E. A. Poe
Ogden Nash
Maya Angelou
Lewis Carroll
Sandra Cisneros
Langston Hughes
Nikki Giovanni
Emily Dickinson
Matsuo Bashō
Lillian Morrison
Dorthi Charles
Anonymous
Octavio Paz
Shel Silverstein
William Shakespeare
Gwendolyn Brooks
e. e. cummings
Robert Frost
n/a
n/a
n/a
Eve Merriam
Emily Hanford
WM. G. Scheller
Ray Bradbury
John Adams
Helen Keller
PEARSON CC LITERATURE
GRADES 6-10
poetry
poetry
poetry
poetry
poetry
poetry
poetry
poetry
poetry
poetry
poetry
poetry
poetry
poetry
poetry
poetry
poetry
poetry
poetry
poetry
poetry
n/a
n/a
informative te
poem
expos. Article
compare-and
essay
short story
letter
autobiograph
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GRADE 6
Unit 4: How do we decide who we are?
From Brighton Beach Memoirs
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop
Gluskabe and Old Man Winter
The Phantom Tollbooth, Act I
Part 2 Genre Study: Drama
The Phantom Tollbooth, Act II
From You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Comparing Texts
Happiness is a Charming Charlie Brown at Orlando Rep
Connotation and Denotation
Language Study
Delivering a Persuasive Speech
Speaking and Listening
Problem-and-Solution Essay
Writing Process
Anchor: The Prince and the Pauper/ from The Prince and
the Pauper
Stage Fright
Part 3 Text Set: Mark Twain
My Papa, Mark Twain
Mark Twain’s First “Vacation" and steamboat diagram
According to Mark Twain (Twain quotes) (image)
An Encounter With An Interviewer
GRADE 6
Unit 5: How much do our communities shape us?
From Black Ships Before Troy
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop
Black Cowboy, Wild Horses
The Tiger Who Would Be King/ The Ant and the Dove
Arachne
Part 2 Genre Study: Folktales
The Stone
Why the Tortoise’s Shell Is Not Smooth
Mowgli’s Brothers
Comparing Texts
From James and the Giant Peach
Idioms
Language Study
Oral Response to Literature
Speaking and Listening
Cause-and-Effect Essay
Writing Process
Anchor: Prologue from The Whale Rider
The Case of the Monkeys That Fell from the Trees
Rescuers to Carry Oxygen Masks for Pets
Part 3 Text Set: People and
2012 Pet Ownership Statistics (image)
Animals
The Old Woman Who Lived With the Wolves
Satellites and Sea Lions
Turkeys
Neil Simon
Joseph Bruchac
Susan Nanus
Susan Nanus
Clark Gesner
Matthew MacDermid
n/a
n/a
n/a
Mark Twain
drama
drama
drama
drama
drama
review
n/a
n/a
argument
drama/ fictio
Mark Twain
Susy Clemens
New York World
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
personal ess
biography
interview
Rosemary Sutcliff
Julius Lester
James Thurber/ Leo Tolstoy
Olivia E. Coolidge
Lloyd Alexander
Chinua Achebe
Rudyard Kipling
Roald Dahl
n/a
n/a
n/a
Witi Ihimaera
Susan E. Quinlan
Assoc. Press
fiction /retelli
fiction /folk lit
fable/ Russia
myth
folk tale
folk tale
short story
fiction
n/a
n/a
expository te
myth
scientific arti
news article
Chief Luther Standing Bear
NASA
Bailey White
short story
expository te
narrative ess
PEARSON CC LITERATURE
GRADES 6-10
short story
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GRADE 7
Unit 1: Does every conflict have a winner?
The Dinner Party
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop
The Treasure of Lemon Brown
Rikki-tikki-tavi
Two Kinds from The Joy Luck Club
Part 2 Genre Study: Short Story
The Third Wish
Ribbons
The Night the Bed Fell
Comparing Texts
Stolen Day
Language Study
Using a Dictionary and Thesaurus
Speaking & Listening
Delivering an Oral Summary
Writing Process
Autobiographical Narrative
Anchor: Amigo Brothers
Get More From Competition (needs edit)
Forget Fun, Embrace Enjoyment
Part 3 Text Set: Competition
Video game competitiveness, not violence, spurs
aggression, study suggests
Win Some, Lose, Some
TK image
GRADE 7
Unit 2: What should we learn?
From Freedom Walkers (exemplar)
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop
From What Makes a Rembrandt a Rembrandt?
Life Without Gravity
Part 2 Genre Study: Types of
I Am a Native of North America
Nonfiction
All Together Now
Rattlesnake Hunt
Barrio Boy
Comparing Texts
A Day's Wait
Language Study
Word Origins
Speaking & Listening
Evaluating a Persuasive Presentation
Writing Process
Argumentative Essay
Anchor: No Gumption
Part 3 Text Set: Motivation
Mona Gardner
Walter Dean Myers
Rudyard Kipling
Amy Tan
Joan Aiken
Laurence Yep
James Thurber
Sherwood Anderson
n/a
n/a
n/a
Piri Thomas
Christopher Funk
Adam Naylor
Jenifer LaRue Huget
Charles Osgood
Russell Freedman
Richard Muhlberger
Robert Zimmerman
Chief Dan George
Barbara Jordan
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Ernesto Galarza
Ernest Hemingway
n/a
n/a
n/a
Russell Baker
Intrinsic Motivation Doesn't Exist, Researcher Says
Jeff Grabmeier
The Cremation of Sam McGee
A Special Gift--The Legacy of “Snowflake” Bentley
All Stories Are Anansi's
Robert Service
Barbara Eaglesham
Harold Courlander
image: Maslow’s Theory of Motivation and Human Needs Maslow
PEARSON CC LITERATURE
GRADES 6-10
short story
short story
short story
short story
short story
short story
humorous es
short story
n/a
n/a
Narration
short story
Web article
magazine ar
newspaper a
(Washington
magazine ar
historical acc
narrative ess
expository es
reflective ess
persuasive s
Narrative Es
reflective ess
short story
n/a
n/a
Argument
autobiograph
Web article (
Research Ne
poem
article
African folk t
chart
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GRADE 7
Unit 3: What is the best way to communicate?
The Railway Train (exemplar)
Emily Dickinson
Close Reading Workshop
Maestro/The Desert Is My Mother/Bailando
Pat Mora
The Rider [poem is 1 page, art makes it 2 = redesign]
Naomi Shihab Nye
Part 2 Genre Study: Poetry
Seal
William Jay Smith
Collection 1
Winter
Nikki Giovanni
Haiku
Matsuo Basho
Life [poem is 1 page, art makes it 2 = redesign]
Naomi Long Madgett
Collection 2: Figurative
The Courage That My Mother Had
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Language
Mother to Son
Langston Hughes
Fog
Carl Sandburg
Train Tune
Louise Bogan
Full Fathom Five
William Shakespeare
Collection 3: Sound Devices
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage
Shel Silverstein
Out
Onomatopoeia
Eve Merriam
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost
Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe
Collection 4: Rhythm & Rhyme
Father William
Lewis Carroll
Jim
Gwendolyn Brooks
Miracles
Walt Whitman
Comparing Texts
in Just-E. E. Cummings
Language Study
Words With Multiple Meanings
n/a
Speaking & Listening
Evaluating Media Messages and Advertisements
n/a
Writing Process
Comparison-and-Contrast Essay
n/a
Anchor: The Highwayman
Alfred Noyes
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
N/A
The Myth of the Outlaw
Ruth M. Hamel
Part 3 Text Set: Heroes and
The Real Story of a Cowboy’s Life
Geoffrey C. Ward
Outlaws
After Twenty Years
O. Henry
Harriet Tubman
image: Harriet Tubman Wanted Poster
GRADE 7
Unit 4: Do others see us more clearly than we see ourselves?
From Sorry Wrong Number (exemplar)
Lucille Fletcher
Close Reading Workshop
From Dragonwings (novel excerpt & dramatization excerpt)
Laurence Yep
(exemplar)
A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley Act I
[Note: Remember to edit selection pages to reflect change Israel Horovitz
to roman numerals in title]
A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley Act II
Part 2 Genre Study: Drama
[Note: Remember to edit selection pages to reflect change Israel Horovitz
to roman numerals in title]
n/a
n/a
Zoos: Joys or Jails?
Rachel F.
PEARSON CC LITERATURE
Comparing Texts
GRADES 6-10
poem
poem
lyric poem
concrete poe
lyric poem
haiku
poem
poem
poem
poem
poem
poem
poem
poem
poem
poem
poem
poem
poem (image
poem (image
n/a
n/a
Exposition
narrative poe
Web site
article (Cobb
expository es
short story
Web article (
drama
drama
drama
drama
editorial
Comparing Texts
Language Study
Speaking & Listening
Writing Process
Part 3 Text Set: Leaders and
Followers
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Why Do We Need Zoos?
Connotation and Denotation
Conducting an Interview
Review of a Short Story
Anchor: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
All Summer in a Day
San Diego Zoo Staff
n/a
n/a
n/a
Rod Serling
Ray Bradbury
Joseph R. McCarthy
N/A
The Salem Witch Trials of 1692
Herd Mentality? The Freakonomics of Boarding a Bus
Follow the Leader: Democracy in Herd Mentality
TK image
The Salem Witch Museum
Stephen J. Dubner
Michael Shirber
editorial
n/a
n/a
Argument
Teleplay
Short Story
Web article
(history.com)
Web article
blog post
Web article
Jerry Pinkney
fable
Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
folk literature
Anne Terry White
Juliet Piggott Wood
Alfonso Ortiz and Richard Erdoes
Greek myth
Mexican lege
Zuni folk tale
African Ame
Tale
Greek myth
blog
n/a
n/a
Exposition
Narrative Es
Narrative Po
autobiograph
Functional T
Dialogue
reflective ess
GRADE 7
Unit 5: Community or individual—which is more important?
The Travelers and The Bear from Aesop’s Fables
Close Reading Workshop
Grasshopper Logic The Other Frog Prince and Duckbilled
Platypus vs. BeefSnakStik
Demeter and Persephone
Popocatepetl and Ixtlaccihuatl
Part 2 Genre Study: Folktales
Sun and Moon in a Box
Comparing Texts
Language Study
Speaking & Listening
Writing Process
Part 3 Text Set: Becoming
American
The People Could Fly (exemplar)
Virginia Hamilton
The Voyage from Tales of the Odyssey
To the Top of Everest
Figurative Language
Research Presentation
Cause-and-Effect Essay
Anchor: My First Free Summer
How I Learned English
mk
Discovering a Paper Son
Grandpa and the Statue
Melting Pot
image: chart of census data on immigration
Mary Pope Osborne
Samantha Larson
n/a
n/a
n/a
Julia Alvarez
Gregory Djanikian
Jean Fritz
Byron Yee
Arthur Miller
Anna Quindlen
PEARSON CC LITERATURE
GRADES 6-10
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GRADE 8
Unit 1: Does every conflict have a winner?
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop
Part 2 Genre Study: Short Story
Comparing Texts
Part 3 Text Set: Human vs
Machine
from Peter and Rosa
An Hour With Abuelo
Raymond's Run
The Tell-Tale Heart
Flowers for Algernon
The Story-Teller
The Finish of Patsy Barnes; The Drummer Boy of Shiloh
Anchor: Who Can Replace a Man?
John Henry
Julie and the Turing Test
The good news, Dave, is that the computer s passed the
Turing test
"
Robots Get a Feel for the World at USC Viterbi
from Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Measure of a
Man " Act 5
Isak Dinesen
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Toni Cade Bambara
Edgar Allan Poe
Daniel Keyes
Saki
Paul Laurence Dunbar; Ray Bradbury
Brian Aldiss
Anonymous
Linda Formichelli
Chris Madden
University of Southern California
Viterbi
Melinda M. Snodgrass
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Ballad
Magazine Ar
Cartoon
Press Releas
TV Script
Linda R. Monk
Andrew Mishkin
Ann Petry
Brent Ashabranner
Robert MacNeil
Isaac Asimov
Anaïs Nin; Diane Ackerman; Mary C.
Curtis [Note that the "i" on "Anais"
John Steinbeck
Juan A. A. Sedillo
Alice Walker
Yoshiko Uchida
Maya Angelou
Cindy Weiss
Jennifer E. Cross
Nonfiction
Narrative No
Narrative Es
Biographical
Persuasive S
Critical Essa
Essay
Autobiograph
Short Story
Speech
Short Story
Autobiograph
Article
Chart
GRADE 8
Unit 2: How much information is enough?
We the People from Words We Live By
Making Tracks on Mars
from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground
Railroad
Part 2 Genre Study: Essays and from Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin
Speeches
The Trouble With Television
Science and the Sense of Wonder
Forest Fire; Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall; The
Comparing Texts
Season’s Curmudgeon Sees the Light
Anchor Text: from Travels with Charley
Part 3 Text Set: Belonging to a
Gentleman of Río en Medio
Place
Choice: A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tears of Autumn
from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Study Finds Americans Increasingly Rooted
Relationships to Place from What Is Sense of Place?
GRADE 8
Unit 3: What is the secret to reaching someone with words?
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop
Part 2 Genre Study: Poetry
Collection 1
Collection 2
Collection 3
A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long
Describe Somebody; Almost Summer Sky
Cat!
Ring Out, Wild Bells
Silver
Thumbprint
Concrete Mixers
Harlem Night Song
The City Is So Big
The Sky Is Low, the Clouds Are Mean
The New Colossus
Paul Revere’s Ride
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
PEARSON
Nikki Giovanni
Jacqueline Woodson
Eleanor Farjeon
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Walter de la Mare
Eve Merriam
Patricia Hubbell
Langston Hughes
Richard García
Emily Dickinson
Emma Lazarus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
William Shakespeare
LITERATURE
CC
GRADES 6-10
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Lyric Poem
Narrative Po
Lyric Poem
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Collection 4
Comparing Texts
Part 3 Text Set: Generations
January
New World
Grandma Ling
your little voice/Over the wires came leaping
The Road Not Taken; O Captain! My Captain!
Anchor Text: Old Man
Anchor Text: For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties
The Medicine Bag
Cub Pilot on the Mississippi
Thank You, M’am
Tutoring Benefits Seniors' Health, Students' Skills
The Return of the Multi-Generational Family Household
John Updike
N. Scott Momaday
Amy Ling
E.E. Cummings
Robert Frost; Walt Whitman
Ricardo Sánchez
Alice Walker
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
Mark Twain
Langston Hughes
David Crary
Pew Research Center
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Lyric Poem
Poem
Short Story
Autobiograph
Short Story
News Article
Research Ar
Lee Hall
William Gibson
Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
Neil Simon
Anton Chekhov
Diane Samuels
Anne Frank
Miep Gies (with Allison Leslie Gold)
Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Dramatic Ad
Short Story
Drama
Diary Entries
Memoir
Autobiograph
Speech
Expository T
GRADE 8
Unit 4: Is it our differences or our similarities that matter most?
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop
Part 2 Genre Study: Drama
Comparing Texts
Part 3 Text Set: The Holocaust
from Billy Elliot
from The Miracle Worker
The Diary of Anne Frank, Act I
The Diary of Anne Frank, Act II
The Governess
The Ninny; TBD
from Kindertransport
from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
from Anne Frank Remembered
from Night
from Remarks on a Visit to Buchenwald
Local Holocaust Survivors and Liberators Attend Opening
GRADE 8
Unit 5: Are yesterday’s heroes important today?
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop
Part 2 Genre Study: Folktales
Comparing Texts
Part 3 Text Set: Freedom
Fighters
from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Water Names
Coyote Steals the Sun and Moon
Chicoria; from The People, Yes
Mark Twain
Lan Samantha Chang
Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz
Rudolfo A. Anaya and José Griego y
Maestas; Carl Sandburg
from Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
An Episode of War
Stephen Crane
Davy Crockett’s Dream; Paul Bunyan of the North Woods; Davy Crockett; Carl Sandburg;
Invocation from John Brown’s Body
Stephen Vincent Benét
Anchor Text: from The American Dream
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Runagate Runagate
Robert Hayden
Emancipation from Lincoln: A Photobiography
Russell Freedman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Brown vs. Board of Education
Walter Dean Myers
On Woman’s Right to Suffrage
Susan B. Anthony
from Address to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco César Chávez
PEARSON CC LITERATURE
GRADES 6-10
Fiction
Fiction
Zuni Myth
Mexican Am
Cuento; Poe
Poems
Short Story
Tall Tales; P
Speech
Narrative Po
Historical Es
Lyric Poem
Historical Es
Persuasive S
Speech
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GRADE 9
Unit 1: Is conflict necessary?
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop
Part 2 Genre Study: Short Story
Comparing Texts
Writing Workshop
Vocabulary Workshop
Communications Workshop
Part 3 Text Set: Social
Conformity
Old Man at the Bridge
The Jade Peony
The Most Dangerous Game
The Gift of the Magi
Rules of the Game
The Cask of Amontillado
Checkouts
The Girl Who Can
Response to Literature
Using a Dictionary and Thesaurus
Evaluating a Speech
Anchor: The Scarlet Ibis
Much madness is divinest sense
My English
The Case for Fitting In (w/ table from Asch conformity
from The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth
from Born on a Blue Day
New Yorker cartoon
GRADE 9
Unit 2: Is knowledge the same as understanding?
I am an American Day Address
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop
Before Hip-Hop was Hip-Hop
On Summer
Part 2 Genre Study: Essays and The News
Speeches
Libraries Face Sad Chapter
I Have a Dream
from Silent Spring
Comparing Texts
If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth
Writing Workshop
Cause and Effect Essay
Vocabulary Workshop
Etymology: Words from Other Languages
Communications Workshop
Delivering a Persuasive Speech
Anchor: First Inaugural Address
from Nothing to Fear
Part 3 Text Set: The Great
Excerpt from The Great Depression and the New Deal
Depression
Women on the Breadlines
Breadline Photo
GRADE 9
Unit 3: How does communication change us?
Barter
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop Uncoiling
A Voice
Dream Deferred
Dreams
Part 2 Genre Study: Poetry
Sonnet on Love XII
Collection 1
PEARSON CC
Ernest Hemingway
Wayson Choy
Richard Connell
O. Henry
Amy Tan
Edgar Allan Poe
Cynthia Rylant
Ama Ata Aidoo
N/A
N/A
N/A
James Hurst
Emily Dickinson
Julia Alvarez
David Berreby
Alexandra Robbins
Daniel Tammet
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
N/A
N/A
N/A
Short Story
Poem
Personal Ess
Expository E
Expository E
Memoir
cartoon
Learned Hand
Rebecca Walker
Lorraine Hansberry
Neil Postman
Pete Hamill
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rachel Carson
Arthur C. Clarke
N/A
N/A
N/A
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Alan Axelrod
Eric Rauchway
Meridel Le Sueur
Dorothea Lange
Speech
Essay
Reflective Es
Expository E
Persuasive E
Speech
Argumentativ
Short Story
N/A
N/A
N/A
Speech
Expository E
History
Memoir
Photo
Sara Teasdale
Pat Mora
Pat Mora
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
Jean de Sponde
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
LITERATURE
GRADES 6-10
Collection 1
Collection 2
Collection 3
Collection 4
Comparing Texts
Writing Workshop
Vocabulary Workshop
Communications Workshop
Part 3 Text Set: The Kennedy
Assassination
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Meciendo/Rocking
Hope is the thing with feathers
The Bells
Analysis of Baseball
Slam, Dunk, & Hook
Jabberwocky
Fifteen
Casey at the Bat
Twister Hits Houston
The Raven
The Road Not Taken
Macavity: The Mystery Cat
The Seven Ages of Man
We never know how high we are
I Hear America Singing
Three Haiku
Women
Sonnet 30
Problem and Solution Essay
Words with Multiple Meanings
Oral Interpretation of Literature
Anchor: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Instead of an Elegy
from A White House Diary
American History
LBJ Addresses Congress following the Assassination
JFK Timeline
Gabriela Mistral
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allan Poe
May Swenson
Yusef Komunyakaa
Lewis Carroll
William Stafford
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Sandra Cisneros
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Frost
T.S. Eliot
Shakespeare
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Basho, Chiyojo
Alice Walker
Shakespeare
N/A
N/A
N/A
Gwendolyn Brooks
G. S. Fraser
Lady Bird Johnson
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Lyndon Johnson
TK
GRADE 9
Unit 4: Do our differences define us?
from The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop
The Inspector-General
Anton Chekov
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet,
Shakespeare
Act ITragedy of Romeo and Juliet,
The
Shakespeare
Act IITragedy of Romeo and Juliet,
The
Shakespeare
Part 2 Genre Study: Drama
Act III
The
Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet,
Shakespeare
Act IV
The
Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet,
Shakespeare
Act V
Pyramus and Thisbe
Ovid
Comparing Texts
from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare
Writing Workshop
Compare and Contrast Essay
N/A
Vocabulary Workshop
Connotation and Denotation
N/A
Communications Workshop
Multimedia Presentation of a Research Report
N/A
Anchor: from The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
The Necklace
Guy de Maupassant
New Directions
Maya Angelou
Part 3 Text Set: Aspiration
Fragile Self-Worth from The High Price of Materialism (w/
Tim Kasser
sample scale from Richins and Dawson)
My Possessions, Myself
Russell Belk
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TK
PEARSON CC LITERATURE
GRADES 6-10
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
N/A
N/A
N/A
Poem
Autobiograph
Short Story
Speech
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Short Story
Drama
N/A
N/A
N/A
Drama
Short Story
Narrative Es
Expository N
Magazine Ar
DRAFT TOC / CONFIDENTIAL
GRADE 9
Unit 5: Do heroes have responsibilities?
Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop
Pecos Bill
The Odyssey, Part 1:
Part 2 Genre Study: Epic
of Odysseus
The Adventures
Odyssey, Part
2:
The Return of Odysseus
from The Odyssey
An Ancient Gesture
Comparing Texts
Siren Song
Ithaca
Writing Workshop
Editorial
Vocabulary Workshop
Idioms, Jargon, and Technical Terms
Communications Workshop
Comparing Media Coverage
Anchor: from The Ramayana
Perseus
The Washwoman
Part 3 Text Set: What is a hero? The Hero’s Adventure
My Hero's Hero
Of Altruism, Heroism, and Nature s Gifts in the Face of
Terror
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Caron Lee Cohen
Harold Felton
Homer
Homer
Derek Walcott
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Margaret Atwood
Constantine Cavafy
N/A
N/A
N/A
R.K. Narayan
Edith Hamilton
I.B. Singer
Joseph Campbell/Bill Moyers
Elie Wiesel
Natalie Angier
TK
PEARSON CC LITERATURE
GRADES 6-10
Tall Tale
Tall Tale
Epic
Epic
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
N/A
N/A
N/A
Myth
Myth
Narrative Es
Interview
Argumentativ
Expository E
(science)
DRAFT TOC / CONFIDENTIAL
GRADE 10
Unit 1: Can Progress Be Made Without Conflict?
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop
Part 2 Genre Study: Short Story
Comparing Texts
Writing Workshop
Vocabulary Workshop
Communications Workshop
Part 3 Text Set: Perseverance
Early Autumn
The Leap
A Problem
The Street of the Cañon
Civil Peace
The Monkey's Paw
Like the Sun
Open Window
TK
TK
TK
Anchor: Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets
from Swimming to Antarctica
Occupation: Conductorette from I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings
The Upside of Quitting
The Winning Edge (from Psychology Today)
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Science Fiction and the Future
Langston Hughes
Louise Erdrich
Anton Chekhov
Josefina Niggli
Chinua Achebe
W.W. Jacobs
R.K. Narayan
Saki
N/A
N/A
N/A
Jack Finney
Lynne Cox
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
Short Story
N/A
N/A
N/A
Short Story
memoir
Maya Angelou
Autobiograph
Stephen Dubner/others
Peter Doskoch
Ursula K. Le Guin
Radio Transc
magazine ar
Image
Speech
Ronald Reagan
Erik Weihenmayer
Dava Sobel
Dorothy West
Elie Wiesel
Theodore H. White
Historical Ac
Narrative ess
Essay
Reflective es
Speech
Essay
Mark Twain
Humorous S
James Thurber
N/A
N/A
N/A
Umberto Eco
Susan Vreeland
Humorous E
N/A
N/A
N/A
Analytic Essa
Fiction
Expository N
(art history)
Expository N
(geography)
Expository N
(science)
Expository N
image
GRADE 10
Unit 2: What Kind of Knowledge Changes Our Lives?
Address to Students of Moscow State University
Everest from Touch the Top of the World
from Longitude
Part 2 Genre Study: Essays and The Sun Parlor
Speeches
Keep Memory Alive
The American Idea
A Toast to the Oldest Inhabitant: The Weather of New
Comparing Texts
England
The Dog that Bit People
Writing Workshop
TK
Vocabulary Workshop
TK
Communications Workshop
TK
Anchor: How to React to Familiar Faces
from Magdalena Looking
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop
Part 3 Text Set: Vision
The Statue that Didn't Look Right
Malcolm Gladwell
The Shape of the World
Keith Devlin
Seeing Things
TK
How to Look at Nothing
trompe l'oeil painting
TK
PEARSON CC LITERATURE
GRADES 6-10
DRAFT TOC / CONFIDENTIAL
GRADE 10
Unit 3: Does All Communication Serve a Positive Purpose?
I Am Offering This Poem
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop The Poetic Interpretation of the Twist
The Empty Dance Shoes
Part 2 Genre Study: Poetry
Collection 1
Collection 2
Collection 3
Collection 4
Comparing Texts
Writing Workshop
Vocabulary Workshop
Communications Workshop
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Cornelius Eady
Cornelius Eady
Poem
Poem
Poem
The Bridegroom
Making a Fist
The Fish
The Guitar
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Was it that I went to sleep
One cannot ask loneliness
My City
Sonnet 18
The Wind—tapped like a tired Man
Glory
Metaphor
Pride
Jazz Fantasia
Meeting at Night
Reapers
The Weary Blues
All
Also All
Hold Fast Your Dreams and Trust Your Mistakes
TK
TK
TK
Alexander Pushkin
Naomi Shihab Nye
Elizabeth Bishop
Federico Garcia Lorca
Dylan Thomas
Ono Komachi
Priest Jakuren
James Weldon Johnson
Shakespeare
Emily Dickinson
Yusef Komunyakaa
Eve Merriam
Dahlia Ravikovitch
Carl Sandburg
Robert Browning
Jean Toomer
Langston Hughes
Bei Dao
Shu Ting
Billy Joel
N/A
N/A
N/A
Poem [narra
Poem [lyric]
Poem
Poem [lyric]
Poem [villane
Poem [Tanka
Poem [Tanka
Poem [Sonn
Poem [Sonn
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Anchor: A Tree Telling of Orpheus
Denise Levertov
poem
Stephen Vincent Benet
Ray Bradbury
N. Scott Momaday
Rosella Lorenzi
Jared Diamond
short story
short story
Reflective Es
Journalism
History
Image
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
Drama
By the Waters of Babylon
Part 3 Text Set: Lost Civilizations
There Will Come Soft Rains
(The Uses of the Past)
from The Way to Rainy Mountain
Understanding Stonehenge
Collapse
IMAGE: TK
GRADE 10
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unit 4: To What Extent Does Experience Determine What We Perceive?
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop
Part 2 Genre Study: Drama
from A Doll House
from An Enemy of the People
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act I
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act II
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act III
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act IV
PEARSON CC LITERATURE
GRADES 6-10
DRAFT TOC / CONFIDENTIAL
Comparing Texts
Writing Workshop
Vocabulary Workshop
Communications Workshop
Part 3 Text Set: Conscientious
Objections
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act V
from A Raisin in the Sun
TK
TK
TK
Shakespeare
Lorraine Hansberry
N/A
N/A
N/A
Drama
Drama
N/A
N/A
N/A
Antigone
Sophocles
Greek Trage
Conscientious Objector
from Nobel Lecture
The Censors
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Luisa Valenzuela
Stephen Reicher; S. Alexander
Haslam
US Department of Defense
poem
Speech
short story
from Things Fall Apart
Games at Twilight
Prometheus and the First People
from Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
Chinua Achebe
Anita Desai
Olivia E. Coolidge
D. T. Niane
Damon and Pythias
William F. Russell
Miguel de Cervantes
Apuleius
Grimm
N/A
N/A
N/A
Fiction
Short Story
Myth
Epic
Legends and
Heroes
Parody
Myth
Fairy Tale
N/A
N/A
N/A
T. H. White
Legend
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Mark Twain
Barbara Tuchman
Winston Churchill
Poem
Parody
History
History
Caroline Alexander
Memoir/Mag
Culture of Shock
Conscientious Objector Policy
IMAGE: TK
Article
Government
Image
GRADE 10
Unit 5: Can Anyone Be a Hero?
Part 1 Close Reading Workshop
Part 2 Genre Study: Epic
from Don Quixote
Cupid and Psyche
Comparing Texts
Ashputtle
Writing Workshop
TK
Vocabulary Workshop
TK
Communications Workshop
Comparing Media Coverage
Anchor: Arthur Becomes King of Britain from The Once
and Future King
Morte d'Arthur
from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Part 3 Text Set: King Arthur and
from A Distant Mirror
Medieval Tradition
from The Birth of Britain
A Pilgrim's Search for Relics of the Once and Future King
IMAGE: TK
Image
PEARSON CC LITERATURE
GRADES 6-10