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| Unit 1 : Finding Ourselves: Fiction Connections |
| The Treasure of Lemon Brown |
| A Mother in Mannville |
| The Drummer Boy of Shiloh, from Echoes of Shiloh |
| Last Night |
| Responding to a Short Story |
| Unit 2 : Differing Perspectives: Fiction Connections |
| The Tell-Tale Heart |
| Born Worker |
| Sweet Potato Pie |
| The Ransom of Red Chief |
| Men on the Moon, Working on the Moon |
| Moon, The Story of Iqbal Masih |
| Writing a Short Story |
| Unit 3 : Looking Back: Nonfiction Connections |
| Ishi in Two Worlds, Yana People to Receive Ishi’s Brain |
| Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time, I Was Born at the Wrong Time |
| Epiphany: The Third Gift |
| The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl |
| Proclamation of the Indians of Alcatraz |
| from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, from Our Struggle Is Against All Forms of Racism |
| Cause-and-Effect Essay |
| Unit 4 : Expanding Horizons: Nonfiction Connections |
| A Tale of Two Rocks |
| Scale of Geologic Time, On the Relativity of Time |
| Indian Cattle, Counting Coup on a Wounded Buffalo |
| Murder and More Mushroom Mayhem, Too Soon a Woman |
| How to Use a Compass, Orienteering: The Thinking Sport |
| Obi-Wan Kenobi: Jedi Knight, Industrial Light & Magic, Part 1: History |
| Descriptive Essay |
| Unit 5 : Living With Words: Poetry Connections |
| Night Clouds, Dreams, A Dream Deferred |
| The Naming of Cats |
| Pretty Words |
| The New Colossus, from Immigrant Kids |
| Legacies, I Ask My Mother to Sing |
| Compare-and-Contrast Essay |
| Unit 6 : Reaching Out: Poetry Connections |
| Southbound on the Freeway |
| Southern Mansion |
| Bats, The Bat |
| Ode to My Socks |
| Paul Revere’s Ride, from Paul Revere and the World He Lived In |
| Personal Narrative |
| Unit 7 : Meeting Dangers: Drama Connections |
| The Dying Detective |
| The Diary of Anne Frank, Act 1, from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl |
| The Diary of Anne Frank, Act 2, from All But My Life |
| Argumentative Essay |
| Unit 8 : Recalling Heroes: Folk Literature Connections |
| Legend of the Feathered Serpent, Pecos Bill |
| Where the Girl Rescued Her Brother |
| Blackbeard’s Last Fight |
| Paul Bunyan of the North Woods, The Ole Feller Recollects How Joe Fournier Became Paul Bunyan |
| Research Report |