VOLUME ONE

UNIT

Inside the Nightmare

unit INtRODUCTION
Unit ACTIVITY

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Small-Group learning
SHORT STORY

LAUNCH TEXT:
EXPLANATORY MODEL

Where Is Here?
Joyce Carol Oates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

My Introduction to Gothic Literature . . . . 6

MEDIA: PHOTO GALLERY

whole-class learning

from The Dream Collector

Arthur Tress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Why Do Some Brains

Enjoy Fear?
Allegra Ringo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

ANCHOR TEXT: SHORT STORY

POETRY

House Taken Over

Julio Cortzar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

beware: do not read

this poem
Ishmael Reed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Windigo
Louise Erdrich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

ANCHOR TEXT: SHORT STORY

Anchor text: INFORMATIONAL GRAPHIC

from How to Tell Youre Reading

a Gothic NovelIn Pictures

Adam Frost and Zhenia Vasiliev . . . . . . . . . 50

Performance Task
WRITING FOCUS

Write an Explanatory Text. . . . . . . . . . . 58

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INTERVIEW

Performance Task
SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS

Present an Explanatory Text . . . . . . . . 114

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ESSENTIAL QUESTION : What is the allure of fear?

Independent Learning
CRITICISM

How Maurice Sendaks Wild Things

Moved Childrens Books Toward Realism
Gloria Goodale
EXPOSITORY NONFICTION

Sleep Paralysis: A Waking

Nightmare
Lexi Tucker

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Explanatory Text:
Essay and Informal Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Unit Reflection
Reflect on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

SHORT STORY

The Feather Pillow

Horacio Quiroga
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

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Stone Age Mans Terrors Still

Stalk Modern Nightmares
Robin McKie
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VOLUME ONE

UNIT

Outsiders and Outcasts

unit INtRODUCTION
UNIT ACTIVITY

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Launch Text: Argument Model

Isnt Everyone a
Little Bit Weird? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

whole-class learning
ANCHOR TEXT: SHORT STORY

The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
MEDIA: VIDEO

Franz Kafka and Metamorphosis

BBC Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Small-Group learning
SHORT STORY

The Dolls House

Katherine Mansfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
POETRY

Sonnet, with Bird

Sherman Alexie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Elliptical
Harryette Mullen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Fences
Pat Mora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
ARGUMENT

Revenge of the Geeks

Alexandra Robbins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Encountering the Other:
The Challenge for the 21st Century
Ryszard Kapuscinski. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Performance Task
Writing Focus

Write an Argument. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

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Performance Task
Speaking and Listening Focus

Present an Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

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ESSENTIAL QUESTION : Do people need to belong?

Independent Learning
MYTH

The Orphan Boy and the Elk Dog

Blackfoot
MEMOIR

from By Any Other Name

Santha Rama Rau

performance-based
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Argument:
Essayand Oral Presentation. . . . . . . . . . 254

Unit Reflection
Reflect on the Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

Outsiders Art is Saluted at

Columbia, Then Lost Anew
Vivian Yee
MEDIA: RADIO BROADCAST

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Fleeing to Dismal Swamp, Slaves

and Outcasts Found Freedom
Sandy Hausman

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VOLUME ONE

UNIT

Extending Freedoms Reach

unit INtRODUCTION
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

LAUNCH TEXT: INFORMATIVE

ESSAY MODEL

Born Free: Children and the

Struggle for Human Rights. . . . . . . . . . . 262

whole-class learning

SPEECH
Compare

Unit ACTIVITY. .

Small-Group learning
Speech at the United Nations
Malala Yousafzai. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
MEDIA: INTERVIEW

Diane Sawyer Interviews

Malala Yousafzai
ABC News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

The Four Freedoms Speech

Franklin D. Roosevelt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
ANCHOR TEXT: SPEECH

Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

MEDIA: VIDEO

Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Caged Bird
Maya Angelou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Some Advice to Those Who
Will Serve Time in Prison
Nazim Hikmet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
SHORT STORY

The Censors
Luisa Valenzuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
MEDIA: NEWS ARTICLE

from Freedom of the Press Report 2015

Freedom House . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Performance Task
WRITING FOCUS

Write an Informative Essay . . . . . . . . . 298

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POETRY
ANCHOR TEXT: SPEECH

Performance Task
SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS

Deliver a Multimedia Presentation . . . 350

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ESSENTIAL QUESTION : What is the relationship between power and freedom?

Independent Learning
MEDIA: INFORMATIONAL TEXT

Law and the Rule of Law:

The Role of Federal Courts
Judicial Learning Center
ESSAY

Misrule of Law
Aung San Suu Kyi

performance-based
assessment
Informative Essay:
Text and Multimedia Presentation. . . . . 358

Unit Reflection
Reflect on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361

SHORT STORY

Harrison Bergeron
Kurt Vonnegut
PERSONAL ESSAY

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Credo: What I Believe

Neil Gaiman

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VOLUME two

All That Glitters

unit INtRODUCTION
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

LAUNCH TEXT: INFORMATIONAL MODEL

I Came, I Saw, I Shopped . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

whole-class learning
ANCHOR TEXT: SHORT STORY

The Necklace
Guy de Maupassant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
ANCHOR TEXT: SHORT STORY

Civil Peace
Chinua Achebe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
MEDIA: PHOTO ESSAY

Material World
Peter Menzel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

NEWS ARTICLE

In La Rinconada, Peru,
Searching for Beauty in Ugliness
Marie Arana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
POETRY

Avarice
Yusef Komunyakaa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
The Good Life
Tracy K. Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
Money
Reginald Gibbons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
SHORT STORY
Compare

Unit ACTIVITY. .

Small-Group learning

The Golden Touch

Nathaniel Hawthorne . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442
POETRY

from King Midas

Howard Moss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460

MAGAZINE ARTICLE

The Thrill of the Chase

Margie Goldsmith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 470

Performance Task
WRITING FOCUS

Write an Informative Text . . . . . . . . . . 408

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Performance Task
SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS

Present an Informative Text. . . . . . . . . 480

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ESSENTIAL QUESTION : What do our possessions reveal about us?

Independent Learning
INFORMATIONAL GRAPHIC

The Gold Series: A History

of Gold
Visual Capitalist
NEWS ARTICLE

Ads May Spur Unhappy Kids

to Embrace Materialism
Amy Norton

performance-based
assessment
Informative Text:
Essay and Oral Presentation . . . . . . . . . 488

Unit Reflection
Reflect on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491

SHORT STORY

A Dose of What the Doctor

Never Orders
Ihara Saikaku
Translated by G.W. Sargent

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MAGAZINE ARTICLE

My Possessions, Myself
Russell W. Belk
NEWS ARTICLE

Heirlooms Value Shifts

from Sentiment to Cash
Rosa Salter Rodriguez

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VOLUME two

Virtue and Vengeance

unit INtRODUCTION
Unit ACTIVITY. .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

LAUNCH TEXT: ARGUMENT MODEL

Neither Justice Nor Forgetting:

Defining Forgiveness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

whole-class learning

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ANCHOR TEXT: DRAMA

Literature and Culture. . . . . . . . . . . . 502

The Tempest
William Shakespeare
Act I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
Act II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
Act III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554
Act IV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572
Act V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586
M EDIA CONNECTION:

Small-Group learning
POETRY

They are hostile nations

Margaret Atwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626
Under a Certain Little Star
Wisawa Syzmborska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628
SPEECH

Let South Africa Show the

World How to Forgive
Desmond Tutu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634

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Dressing The

Tempest
ANCHOR TEXT: POETRY

En El Jardn de los Espejos

Quebrados, Caliban Catches
a Glimpse of His Reflection
Virgil Surez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606
Caliban
J. P. Dancing Bear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608
Performance Task
WRITING FOCUS

Write an Argument. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614

Performance Task
SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS

Present an Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644

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ESSENTIAL QUESTION : What motivates us to forgive?

Independent Learning
REFLECTIVE ESSAY

The Sun Parlor

Dorothy West
MEDIA: WEB ARTICLE

The Forgiveness Project: Eric Lomax

The Forgiveness Project

performance-based
assessment
Argument:
Essay and Speech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652

Unit Reflection
Reflect on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

BOOK REVIEW

A Dish Best Served Cold

Aminatta Forna
CRITICISM

from Shakespeare and

the French Poet
Yves Bonnefoy

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FOLKTALE

What We Plant, We Will Eat

retold by S. E. Schlosser
INFORMATIONAL TEXT

Understanding Forgiveness
PBS

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VOLUME two

Blindness and Sight

unit INtRODUCTION
Unit ACTIVITY. .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656

LAUNCH TEXT: NONFICTION NARRATIVE

A Solution to the Problem of Light

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660

whole-class learning
ANCHOR TEXT: DRAMA

Literature and Culture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

Oedipus the King
Sophocles
Oedipus the King, Part I. . . . . . . . . . . . . 672
Oedipus the King, Part II. . . . . . . . . . . . 702
M EDIA CONNECTION:

Oedipus the King

Small-Group learning
LETTER

View From the Empire State Building

Helen Keller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738
POETRY

Blind
Fatima Naoot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748
The Blind Seer of Ambon
W.S. Merwin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750
On His Blindness
Jose Luis Borges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752
SHORT STORY

The Country of the Blind

H.G. Wells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758
MEMOIR

The Neglected Senses

from For the Benefit of Those Who See
Rosemary Mahoney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786

Performance Task
WRITING FOCUS

Write a Nonfiction Narrative. . . . . . . . 728

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Performance Task
SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS

Present an Oral Retelling . . . . . . . . . . . 00

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ESSENTIAL QUESTION : What does it mean to see?

Independent Learning
NOVEL EXCERPT

from Blindness
Jos Saramago
MEDIA: NEWSCAST

Dr. Geoffrey Tabin Helps

Blind Ethiopians Gain Sight
ABC News

performance-based
assessment
Nonfiction Narrative:
Narrative and Storytelling Session . . . . 810

Unit Reflection
Reflect on the Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 813

MEDIA: INFORMATIONAL GRAPHIC

How Your Eyes Trick Your Mind

Melissa Hogenboom
SCIENCE ARTICLE

Blind, Yet Seeing: The Brains

Subconscious Visual Sense
Benedict Carey
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ORAL HISTORY

Experience: I First Saw

My Wife 10 Years After
We Married
Shander Herian
SCIENCE ARTICLE

Visual Neuroscience:
Look and Learn
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