Intended AudienceElementary/High School
Table Of Content1 STARTING THE CONVERSATION Building a Classroom Community Thinking about Voice Active Listening Public Speaking Culminating Activity 2 WRITING The Power of the Pen Voice and Tone Precise Word Choice Strong Sentences Clear Punctuation Well-Built Paragraphs Culminating Activity 3 READING Defining Texts Active Reading Reading for Understanding Reading for Interpretation Reading for Style Reading Visual Texts Culminating Activity 4 USING SOURCES Sources as Conversation Types of Sources Finding Sources Evaluating Sources Keeping Track of Sources Using Sources in Your Own Writing Culminating Actity 5 FICTION Workshop 1: ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF FICTION (Section 1) Ray Bradbury, The Veldt Sherman Alexie, from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian Lena Coakley, Mirror Image (Section 2) Etgar Keret, What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish? Edgar Allen Poe, The Cask of Amontillado Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game Angela Flournoy, Lelah CENTRAL TEXT Amy Tan, Two Kinds CONVERSATION - Are We Pushing Kids too Hard to Succeed? Malcolm Gladwell, from Outliers Amy Chua, from The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Adam Grant, How to Raise a Creative Child Daniel Pink, from Drive Andre Agassi, from Open (Section 3) Nadine Gordimer, Once Upon a Time Kirstin Valdez Quade, Nemecia Kate Chopin, Story of an Hour Luke Jones & Anna Mill, Square Eyes (graphic novel) WORKSHOP 2: WRITING FICTION WORKSHOP 3: ANALYZING FICTION 6 ARGUMENT ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF ARGUMENT (Section 1) Lisa L. Lewis, Why School Should Start Later in the Day NY Times Editorial Board, End the Gun Epidemic in America Thomas Sowell, History Shows the Folly of Disarming Lawful People Marc Bekoff, Why Was Harambe the Gorilla in a Zoo in the First Place? (Section 2) Steve Almond, Is It Immoral to Watch the Super Bowl? Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Paranoid Style of American Policing Tina Rosenberg, Labeling the Danger in Soda Leonard Pitts, September 13, 2001: Hatred is Unworthy of Us Barack Obama, Hiroshima Speech CENTRAL TEXT Peggy Orenstein, What''s Wrong with Cinderella? CONVERSATION - How Does the Media Shape Our Ideas about Gender? Madeline Messer, Im a 12-year-old girl. Why dont the characters in my apps look like me? Terryn Hall, When I Saw Prince, I Saw a Vital New Black Masculinity Vanessa Friedman, Don''t Ban Ads of Skinny Models Geena Davis Institute, Gender Bias Without Borders Kali Holloway, Toxic Masculinity Is Killing Men: The Roots of Male Trauma Jack O''Keefe, How ''Master of None'' Subverts Stereotypical Masculinity by Totally Ignoring It (Section 3) Daniel Engber, Kill All the Mosquitoes Sarah Kessler, Why Online Harassment Is Still Ruining Lives--and How We Can Stop It Mark Twain, Advice to Youth Cesar Chavez, Letter from Delano WORKSHOP 1: WRITING ARGUMENT WORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING ARGUMENT 7 POETRY ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF POETRY (Section 1) Jose Olivarez, Home Court Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Suheir Hammad, What I Will Rachel Richardson, Transmission Dana Gioa, Money Billy Collins, Flames Jenni Baker, You American Boy AND Find Your Way (Section 2) Nate Marshall, Harold''s Chicken Shack #86 Naomi Shihab Nye, Kindness Michael Ondaatje, Sweet Like A Crow William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18: "Shall I Compare Thee..." Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool David Tomas Martinez, In Chicano Park Emily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop For Death Amit Majmudar, T. S. A. Ha Jin, Ways of Talking CENTRAL TEXT Langston Hughes, Let America Be