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| Unit 1: The Power of Communication |
| The Refusal |
| Paired Texts: I am Offering This Poem and She Unnames Them |
| Paired Texts: The Story of a Vision, Heart of Darkness, Things Fall Apart |
| Independent Read: My Grandmother Washes her Feet in the Bathroom at Sears and In Between Cultures: A Granddaughter’s Advantage |
| Letter from Birmingham Jail |
| Paired Texts: A Voice and Speech to the Second Virginia Convention |
| Unit 2: Moving Forward |
| The Power of the Hero’s Journey |
| Paired Texts: The Gathering Place and Ramayana |
| Republic |
| Paired Texts: Valedictorian Address at Anacostia High School and Methods of Motivation |
| Paired Texts: Remarks at the UN General Assembly, A Plea for Global Education, and The Perils of Indifference |
| Independent Read: Excerpt from Night and Civil Peace |
| Unit 3: The Persistence of Memories |
| Paired Texts: By Any Other Name and Rituals of Memory |
| Seeing at the Speed of Sound |
| Paired Texts: From Behind a Covered Wall and Love is Not All |
| Facial Expressions – Including Fear – May Not Be as Universal as We Thought |
| Independent Read: Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners and The Secret Life of Salvador Dali |
| Paired Texts: Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer: A Story of Survival; The God of Small Things; and Persepolis |
| Independent Read: Excerpt from The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks |
| Unit 4: The Ties That Bind |
| Paired Texts: As You Like It (Act II, Scene vii) and Macbeth (Act I, Scene iii) |
| Excerpt from Antigone |
| Claudette Colvin Explains Her Role in the Civil Rights Movement |
| Hotel Rwanda |
| Paired Texts: Cherokee Family Reunion and Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America |
| Independent Read: On the Painting of the Sistine Chapel |
| Paired Texts: People Should Not Die in June in South Texas, Sabado Gigante, and La Juanita |
| Independent Read: Kindness |
| Unit 5: Chopped, Stirred, and Blended |
| Paired Texts: Melons and Parsley |
| The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica |
| Paired Texts: Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors, Chinese Cooking, The New Food Fights: U.S. Public Divides Over Food Science |
| Paired Texts: Lines Written in Early Spring and B. Wordsworth |
| Independent Read: Florida’s Edible Wild Plants: A Guide to Collecting and Cooking |
| Maple Sugaring (in Aunt Alberta’s Backyard) |
| Independent Read: Ethiopia |
| Unit 6: Origin Stories |
| Paired Texts: The City that Never Stops Giving, Past and Future, The Joy Luck Club |
| The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir |
| Paired Texts: Worship the Spirit of Criticism: Address at the Pasteur Institute and A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings |
| Independent Read: The Nose |
| A Quilt of a Country |
| Independent Read: Creation Myths from Around the World |
| Paired Texts: Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an American-Arab Family and Coming-of-Age Traditions from Around the World |