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| Unit 1 : Can all conflicts be resolved? |
| An Hour With Abuelo |
| Raymond’s Run |
| The Tell-Tale Heart |
| Flowers for Algernon |
| The Story-Teller |
| The Finish of Patsy Barnes, The Drummer Boy of Shiloh |
| Writing Process: Narrative Text |
| Who Can Replace a Man? |
| John Henry |
| Julie and the Turing Test, “The Good News, Dave,…” |
| Robots Get a Feel for the World at USC Viterbi |
| from The Measure of a Man |
| Writing: Argument |
| Unit 2 : How much information is enough? |
| Making Tracks on Mars |
| from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad |
| from Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin |
| The Trouble With Television |
| Science and the Sense of Wonder |
| Forest Fire, The Season’s Curmudgeon Sees the Light, Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall |
| Writing Process: Informative Text |
| from Travels with Charley |
| Gentlemen of Rio en Medio |
| Choice: A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Tears of Autumn |
| from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| Study Finds Americans Increasingly Rooted |
| Relationships to Place |
| Writing: Informative |
| Unit 3 : What is the secret to reaching someone with words? |
| Describe Somebody, Almost Summer Sky |
| Silver, Ring Out, Wild Bells, Cat!, Thumbprint |
| The Sky Is Low, the Clouds Are Mean, Concrete Mixers, Harlem Night Song, The City Is So Big |
| The New Colossus, Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind, Paul Revere’s Ride |
| Grandma Ling, your little voice Over the wires came leaping, New World, January |
| The Road Not Taken, O Captain! My Captain! |
| Writing Process: Argument |
| Old Man, For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties |
| The Medicine Bag |
| Cub Pilot on the Mississippi |
| Thank You, M’am |
| Tutoring Benefits Seniors’ Health, Students’ Skills |
| The Return of the Multi-Generational Family Household |
| Writing: Explanatory |
| Unit 4 : Is it our differences or our similarities that matter most? |
| The Miracle Worker |
| The Diary of Anne Frank: Act I |
| The Diary of Anne Frank: Act II |
| The Governess |
| The Ninny |
| Writing Process: Explanatory Text |
| from Kindertransport |
| from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, from Anne Frank Remembered |
| from Night |
| from Remarks on a Visit to Buchenwald |
| Local Holocaust Survivors and Liberators Attend Opening Event for Exhibition |
| Writing: Compare and Contrast |
| Unit 5 : Are yesterday’s heroes important today? |
| Water Names |
| Coyote Steals the Sun and Moon |
| Chicoria, from The People, Yes |
| from Out of the Dust |
| An Episode of War |
| Davy Crockett’s Dream, Paul Bunyan of the North Woods, Invocation from John Brown’s Body |
| Writing Process: Problem-and-Solution Essay |
| from The American Dream |
| Runagate Runagate |
| Emancipation |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Brown vs. Board of Education |
| On Woman’s Right to Suffrage |
| from Address to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco |
| Nonviolence Tree |
| Writing: Argument |