Unit 1 - The Short Story Genre Focus: Short Story Literary Analysis Model: The Old Man at the Bridge Ernest Hemingway Short Story Encountering the Unexpected Literary Focus: Plot and Setting The Open Window Saki Short Story The Californian s Tale Mark Twain Short Story Literary Perspective: Storytelling Is As Old As Mankind Joyce Carol Oates Essay Vocabulary Workshop: Denotation and Connotation: Using a Semantic Chart Contents of a Dead Man s Pockets Jack Finney Short Story Vocabulary Workshop: Academic Vocabulary An Astrologer s Day R. K. Narayan Short Story Grammar Workshop: Mechanics: Using Possessive Apostrophes Civil Peace Chinua Achebe Short Story Vocabulary Workshop: Using a Dictionary The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe Short Story Making Choices Literary Focus: Theme and Character Two Kinds Amy Tan Short Story The Car We Had to Push James Thurber Short Story Tuesday Siesta Gabriel García Márquez Short Story Vocabulary Workshop: Multiple-Meaning Words: Distinguishing Definitions When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine Jhumpa Lahiri Short Story Grammar Workshop: Combining Sentences To Da-duh, in Memoriam Paule Marshall Short Story The Book of the Dead Edwidge Danticat Short Story The Censors Luisa Valenzuela Short Story TIME: Cry of the Ancient Mariner Carl Safina Magazine Article Part 3 Life Transitions Literary Focus: Narrator and Voice Everyday Use Alice Walker Short Story Theme Across Genres Through the Tunnel Doris Lessing Short Story The Vision Quest Lame Deer Short Story Dear Pie, from Rules to Live By F. Scott Fitzgerald Letter Catch the Moon Judith Ortiz Cofer Short Story Grammar Workshop: Sentence Structure: Avoiding Sentence Fragments And of Clay Are We Created Isabel Allende Short Story Lullaby Leslie Marmon Silko Short Story Writing Workshop: Literary Criticism: Taking a Biographical or Historical Approach Professional Model: Real-Life Story Behind To Da-Duh, In Memoriam Paule Marshal Essay Speaking, Listening, and Viewing Workshop: Presenting Literary Criticism from When the Buffalo Climbed a Tree Mark Twain Short Story The Unicorn in the Garden James Thurber Short Story
Unit 2 - Nonfiction Writers on Reading Genre Focus: Nonfiction Literary Analysis Model: from Zora Neale Hurston Robert E. Hemenway Biography The Power of Memory Literary Focus: Narrative Nonfiction: Autobiography and Biography from Farewell to Manzanar Houston Memoir Grammar Workshop: Language Usage: Making Subjects and Verbs Agree from Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane Memoir Living Well. Living Good. Maya Angelou Autobiography First Impressions, from DeKooning, An American Master Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan Biography Vocabulary Workshop: Technical Words: Understanding Jargon Typhoid Fever, from Angela s Ashes Frank McCourt Memoir Literary Perspective: Looking Forward to the Past Frank McCourt with Carolyn Hughes Profile Terwilliger Bunts One, from An American Childhood Annie Dillard Memoir Quests and Encounters Literary Focus: Expository and Personal Essays The Swimming Lesson Jewel L. Gomez Essay The Tucson Zoo Lewis Thomas Essay Straw into Gold, The Metamorphosis of the Everyday Sandra Cisneros Essay Part 3 Keeping Freedom Alive Literary Focus: Argument and Persuasion On Women s Right to Vote Susan B. Anthony Speech I ve Been to the Mountaintop Martin Luther King Jr. Speech Viewpoints Not Just Comic Books Chester Brown Graphic Novel Hamlet Too Hard? Try a comic book. Teresa Méndez Newspaper Article The Graphic Novel Andrew Arnold Web site Address on the Anniversary of Lincoln s Birth Carl Sandburg Speech TIME: What I See in Lincoln s Eyes Barack Obama Essay Cinderella s Stepsisters Toni Morrison Speech Writing Workshop: Biographical Narrative: Writing a Biographical Sketch Professional Model: from Eudora Welty: 1909-2001 Biography Alice Jackson Baughn Biography Speaking, Listening, and Viewing Workshop: Presenting a Photoessay from Wouldn t Take Nothing for My Journey Now Maya Angelou Essay
Unit 3 - Poetry Genre Focus: Poetry Literary Analysis Model: O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman The Energy of the Everyday Literary Focus: Form and Structure Those Winter Sundays Robert Hayden Vocabulary Workshop: Context Clues: Recognizing Homonyms and Homophones Creatures Billy Collins Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer s Day William Shakespeare Sonnet Reapers Jean Toomer Ode to My Socks Pablo Neruda Ode A Storm in the Mountains Alexandr Solzhenitsyn Grammar Workshop Language Usage: Avoiding Incorrect Pronoun Shifts The Print of the Paw M. Scott Momaday To An Aged Bear Three Haiku Matsuo Basho Haiku Two Tanka Lady Ise Tanka Woman with Kite Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Loves and Losses Literary Focus: Language After great pain, a formal feeling comes Emily Dickinson Heart! We will forget him! The Meadow Mouse <new in 2010; p/u from Course 4 Lit, 2002> Theodore Roethke Down by the Salley Gardens W. B. Yeats He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven I Am Offering This Jimmy Santiago Baca since feeling is first E.E. Cummings Horses Graze Gwendolyn Brooks Parlor Rita Dove Secondhand Grief Sherman Alexie Ballad of Birmingham Dudley Randall Ballad Media Workshop: Comparing Media Genres Historical Perspective: 4 Little Girls Roger Ebert Film Review Part 3 Issues of Identity Literary Focus: Sound Devices miss rosie Lucille Clifton After Apple Picking Robert Frost Fire and Ice Arabic Coffee Naomi Shihab Nye TIME: We Are Family Chang-Rae Lee Essay Dream Boogie Langston Hughes Motto Langston Hughes from Giants of Jazz Studs Terkel Biography Playing Jazz Wynton Marsalis Letter Writing Workshop: Reflective Essay: Reflecting on an Observation Professional Model: Suspended Joy Harjo Essay Speaking, Listening, and Viewing Workshop: Presenting a Reflection Daybread in Alabama Langston Hughes from Red Velvet Dress Naomi Shihab Nye Short Story
Unit 4 - Drama Literary Analysis Model: The Janitor August Wilson Drama Wrap-up Loyalty and Betrayal Literary Focus: Tragedy Literary History: Classic Greek Drama Antigone Sophocles Tragedy TIME: Ever Alluring Maryann Bird Arts Feature Vocabulary Workshop: Denotation and Connotation: Using Loaded Words Literary History: Shakespearian Drama The Tragedy of Julius Caesar William Shakespeare Tragedy Act I Act II Act III Act VI Portraits of Real Life Literary Focus: Comedy and Modern Drama A Marriage Proposal p g j Anton Chekhov Comedy and Parenthetical Expressions That s Your Trouble Harold Pinter Drama Literary Perspective: Writing for the Theatre Harold Pinter Speech The Ring of General Macías Josephina Niggli Drama Marked Carmen Tafolla The Ring Isak Dinesen Short Story Writing Workshop: Persuasive Speech: Presenting a Viewpoint Professional Model: Why Marigolds Should Be the National Flower Everett Dirksen Speech Speaking, Listening, and Viewing Workshop: Delivering a Persuasive Speech from Oedipus the King Sophocles Tragedy
Unit 5 - Legends and Myths Genre Focus: Legend and Myth Literary Analysis Model: The Journey of Gilgamesh Joan C. Verniero and Robin Fitzsimmons Epic Acts of Courage Literary Focus: The Legend and Its Hero Grammar Workshop: Sentence Structure: Using Main and Subordinate Clauses from Le Morte d Arthur Sir Thomas Malory Legend from Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes, translated by J. M. Cohen Novel TIME: What Makes a Hero Amanda Ripley Magazine Article Sundiata D. T. Niane Epic Visual Perspective: The Lion of Mali from Sundiata, A Legend of Africa Will Eisner Graphic Novel Rescuing and Conquering Literary Focus: Myth and the Oral Tradition The Stealing of Thor s Hammer Brian Branston Myth Vocabulary Workshop: Word Origins: Examining Words from Norse Myth Theseus Edith Hamilton Myth Vocabulary Workshop: Word Origins: Examining Words from Greek and Roman Myth Where the Girl Rescued Her Brother Joseph Bruchac and Gayle Ross Legend John Henry Zora Neale Hurston Tall Tale A Song of Greatness Anonymous Song Writing p Workshop: g gresearch Paper: g Writing pa Research g Report Presentation Media Workshop: Multimedia Presentation from King Arthur Donna Rosenberg Legend
Unit 6 - Mystery, Modern fable, and Science Fiction Genre Focus: Mystery, Modern Fable, and Science Fiction Literary Analysis Model: The Happy Man s Shirt Italo Calvino Fable Wrap-up The Extraordinary and Fantastic Literary Focus: Description A Sound of Thunder Ray Bradbury Science Fiction By the Waters of Babylon Stephen Vincent Benét Science Fiction Grammar Workshop: Sentence Structure: Avoiding Misplaced Modifiers Theme Across Genres What I Have Been Doing Lately Jamaica Kincaid Short Story People at Night Denise Levertov The Dream Anna Akhmatova, translated by Judith Hemschemeyer Scientific Perspective: One Legend Found, Many Still to Go William J. Broad Article Robot Dreams Isaac Asimov Science Fiction Vocabulary Workshop: Language Resources: Using a Thesaurus Bread Margaret Atwood Fantasy TIME: The Machine Nurturer Adam Cohen Profile The Witness for the Prosecution Agatha Christie Mystery Grammar Workshop: Mechanics: Using Semicolons Writing Workshop: Short Story: Exploring Science Fiction Professional Model: Frustration Isaac Asimov Short Story Speaking, Listening, and Viewing Workshop: Oral Interpretation of a Short Story from The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka, translated by David Wyllie Short Story