Common Core Illustrative Texts found in Holt McDougal Literature ©2012
(Please note several of the selections below are excerpts.)
GRADE 6
ELEVEN, SANDRA CISNEROS
(CCSS – Grades 6‐8 Text Exemplars, Stories)
GRADE 7 THE PEOPLE COULD FLY, VIRGINIA HAMILTON
(CCSS – Grades 6‐8 Text Exemplars, Stories)
JABBERWOCKY, LEWIS CARROLL
(CCSS – Grades 6‐8 Text Exemplars, Poetry)
GRADE 8 PAUL REVERE’S RIDE, HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
(CCSS – Grades 6‐8 Text Exemplars, Poetry)
FROM HARRIET TUBMAN: CONDUCTOR ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, ANN PETRY
(CCSS – Grades 6‐8 Text Exemplars, Informational Texts: ELA)
FROM ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY, MILDRED D. TAYLOR
(CCSS – Grades 6‐8 Text Exemplars, Stories)
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, FRANCES GOODRICH AND ALBERT HACKETT
(CCSS – Grades 6‐8 Text Exemplars, Drama)
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!, WALT WHITMAN
(CCSS – Grades 6‐8 Text Exemplars, Poetry)
WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY?, FREDERICK DOUGLASS
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Informational Texts: History/Social Studies)
GRADE 9 THE GIFT OF THE MAGI, O. HENRY
(CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Stories)
FROM BLACK BOY, RICHARD WRIGHT
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Informational Texts: ELA)
THE RAVEN, EDGAR ALLAN POE
(CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Poetry)
FROM I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, MAYA ANGELOU
(CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Informational Texts: ELA)
THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO, EDGAR ALLAN POE
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Stories)
I HAVE A DREAM, DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Informational Texts: ELA)
I AM OFFERING THIS POEM, JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA
(CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Poetry)
THE ROAD NOT TAKEN, ROBERT FROST
(CCSS – Grades 6‐8 Text Exemplars, Poetry)
FROM THE METAMORPHOSES (PYRAMUS AND THISBE), OVID
(CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Stories)
GRADE 9 CONT.
THE ODYSSEY, HOMER
(CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Stories)
“GETTYSBURG ADDRESS,” ABRAHAM LINCOLN
(CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Informational Texts: ELA)
“LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL,” MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
(CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Informational Texts: ELA)
GRADE 10 THE DOLL’S HOUSE, KATHERINE MANSFIELD
(CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Drama)
MENDING WALL, ROBERT FROST
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Poetry)
FROM DON QUIXOTE, MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Stories)
“SPEECH TO THE SECOND VIRGINIA CONVENTION,” PATRICK HENRY
(CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Informational Texts: ELA)
“FAREWELL ADDRESS,” GEORGE WASHINGTON
(CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Informational Texts: ELA)
“I AM AN AMERICAN DAY ADDRESS,” LEARNED HAND
(CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Informational Texts: ELA)
GRADE 11 UNITED STATES BILL OF RIGHTS AMENDMENT VI
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Informational Texts: ELA)
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, THOMAS JEFFERSON
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Informational Texts: ELA)
FROM WALDEN, HENRY DAVID THOREAU
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Informational Texts: ELA)
THE SCARLET LETTER, NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Stories)
FROM SONG OF MYSELF, WALT WHITMAN
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Poetry)
BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH, EMILY DICKINSON
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Poetry)
FROM NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, FREDERICK DOUGLASS
(CCSS – Grades 6‐8 Text Exemplars, Informational Texts: ELA)
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS, ABRAHAM LINCOLN
(CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Informational Texts: ELA)
CHICAGO, CARL SANDBURG
(CCSS – Grades 6‐8 Text Exemplars, Poetry)
GRADE 11 CONT.
THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK, T. S. ELIOT
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Poetry)
THE GREAT GATSBY, F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Stories)
THE GRAPES OF WRATH, JOHN STEINBECK
(CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Stories)
FROM OUR TOWN, THORNTON WILDER
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Drama)
FROM THE GLASS MENAGERIE, TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
(CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Drama)
FROM DEATH OF A SALESMAN, ARTHUR MILLER
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Drama)
FROM A RAISIN IN THE SUN, LORRAINE HANSBERRY
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Drama)
FROM LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Informational Texts: ELA)
MOTHER TONGUE, AMY TAN
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Informational Texts: ELA)
GRADE 12 FROM THE CANTERBURY TALES, GEOFFREY CHAUCER
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Stories)
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Drama)
A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING, JOHN DONNE
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Poetry)
FROM CANDIDE, VOLTAIRE
(CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Stories)
OZYMANDIAS, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
(CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Poetry)
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN, JOHN KEATS
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Poetry)
FROM JANE EYRE, CHARLOTTE BRONTË
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Stories)
FROM THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, OSCAR WILDE
(CCSS – Grades 11‐CCR Text Exemplars, Drama)
MUSÉE DES BEAUX ARTS, W. H. AUDEN
(CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Poetry)
FROM THINGS FALL APART, CHINUA ACHEBE
(CCSS – Grades 9‐10 Text Exemplars, Stories)