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Unit 1: Conflicts and Clashes |
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi |
The Big Idea: When do differences become conflicts? |
The Wise Old Woman |
Woodsong |
Nimona |
Paired Readings: Stargirl, Seventh Grade |
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street |
The Skin I’m In |
Paired Readings: Mad, In the Year 1974, Thank You, M’am |
Unit 2: Highs and Lows |
Big Idea: What do we learn from love and loss? |
Annabel Lee |
Paired Readings: My Mother Pieced Quilts, Museum Indians |
The Walking Dance |
Second Estrangement |
No Dream Too High: Simone Biles |
The Highway Man |
Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy |
Paired Readings: A Christmas Carol, Tangerine, My Mother Really Knew |
Unit 3: Chasing the Impossible |
Big Idea: What makes a dream worth pursuing? |
We Beat the Street |
The First Americans |
Paired Readings: Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, The People Could Fly |
All Together Now |
Paired Readings: Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers’ Rights, Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward, Letter to President Theodore Roosevelt, July 17, 1903 |
Before We Were Free |
Machines, not people, should be exploring the stars for now |
Responses to “Machines, not people, should be exploring the stars for now” |
Unit 4: Moment of Truth |
Big Idea: How can one event change everything? |
Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 |
Hitting big league fastball ‘clearly impossible’ |
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope |
Paired Readings: An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, Fever 1793 |
Harrison Bergeron |
The Last Human Light (from “What If?”) |
Paired Readings: The Power of Student Peer Leaders, The Three Questions, The Tequila Worm |
Barrio Boy |
Unit 5: Test of Time |
Big Idea: Why do we still read myths and folktales? |
Aesop’s Fables |
Paired Readings: Hunger Games, The Classical Roots of the “The Hunger Games”, The Cruel Tribute (from “Old Greek Stories”), The Invisible One (Algonquin Cinderella) |
The Other Side of the Sky |
Paired Readings: The Story of Anniko, Icarus and Daedalus |
The New Colossus |
The Third Elevator |
Perseus |
Unit 6: The Power of One |
Big Idea: How do we stand out from a crowd? |
Paired Readings: The Giver, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, A Thousand Cranes |
Remarks at the UNESCO Education for All Week Luncheon |
Hidden Figures |
Miami Dancer Follows Dreams while Planning for the Future |
Reality TV and Society |
The Matsuyama Mirror |
Paired Readings: New Directions, Choices |
Cuentos de Josefina (Josephine’s Tales) |