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Unit 1: Breaking Away |
The Story of an Hour |
Paired Texts: On Being Brought From Africa to America and An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley |
Life After High School |
Paired Texts: Constitution of the Iroquois Nation and Declaration of Independence |
Independent Read: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African and Verses upon the Burning of Our House |
Paired Texts: The Scarlet Letter (Chapter 2), Indian Boarding School: The Runaways, and Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street |
Independent Read: Excerpt from The Namesake |
Unit 2: The Highway |
Paired Texts: I Never Heard the Word “Escape” and Excerpt from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
The Negro Motorist Green Book |
Paired Texts: Excerpt from Walden, Mississippi Solo, and Remarks at the Signing of the Highway Beautification Act |
Driving My Own Destiny |
Independent Read: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration |
Paired Texts: Because I could not stop for Death and A Good Man is Hard to Find |
Independent Read: Little Miss Sunshine |
Unit 3: No Strangers Here |
My True South: Why I Decided to Return Home |
Paired Texts: What to the Slave is The Fourth of July and Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” |
Independent Read: Excerpt from As I Lay Dying, Flowering Judas, and Excerpt From Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Paired Texts: South, ‘N’em, and Given to Rust |
One Today |
Independent Read: We Contain Multitudes |
Paired Texts: Bartram’s Travel and The Midnight Zone |
Unit 4: Living the Dream |
Paired Texts: The Negro Speaks of Rivers and How It Feels To Be Colored Me |
Excerpt From Fences |
Paired Texts: The Old Cabin and Excerpt from A Raisin in the Sun |
Letter from Chief John Ross |
Independent Read: Dream House |
Paired Texts: The Fall of the House of Usher, In Our Neighborhood, and The Yellow Wallpaper |
Independent Read: Eat, Memory: Orange Crush |
Boyhood |
Unit 5: The Wars We Wage |
Paired Texts: “These Wild Young People” by One of Them, A Rose for Emily, and Excerpt from The Great Gatsby |
Independent Read: Excerpt from Death of a Salesman |
The Marshall Plan Speech |
Independent Read: 40-0 |
Paired Texts: The Moor’s Account and Othello |
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body |
Paired Texts: A Plea for the Oppressed and Brown v. Board of Education |
Independent Read: The Immortal Horizon and You Gotta Beat the Best to Be the Best |
Unit 6: With Malice Toward None |
Paired Texts: Excerpt from Invisible Man and American Horse |
Independent Read: On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance |
Paired Texts: Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Second Inaugural Address |
I’ve Been to the Mountaintop |
The Night Before Christmas |
Independent Reading: The Last Ride of Cowboy Rob |
Paired Texts: The Four Foods, Gaman, and Demeter’s Prayer to Hades |
Independent Read: The Color of an Awkward Conversation |