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| Unit 1: Everyone Loves a Mystery |
| The Tell-Tale Heart |
| Monster |
| Let ‘Em Play God |
| Paired Texts: Sympathy and Ten Days in a Mad-House |
| The Lottery |
| Paired Texts: The Graveyard Book, The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem, and The Monkey’s Paw |
| Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science |
| Unit 2: Past and Present |
| I’m Nobody! Who are you? |
| Commencement Address to the Santa Fe Indian School |
| Paired Texts: Curtain Call and So where are you from? |
| The Outsiders |
| Slam, Dunk, & Hook |
| Abuela Invents the Zero |
| Paired Texts: Inside Out and Back Again, Theories of Time and Space, and The Road Not Taken |
| The House on Mango Street |
| Unit 3: No Risk, No Reward |
| The Vanishing Island |
| Paired Texts: A Night to Remember and Address to the Nation on the Explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger |
| A Kenyan Teen’s Discovery: Let There Be Light to Save Lions |
| Paired Texts: Mother to Son, Learning to Read, and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Chapter VII) |
| The Day I Saved a Life |
| The Call of the Wild |
| Cocoon |
| Unit 4: Hear Me Out |
| /HUG |
| Gaming Communities |
| Paired Texts: Denee Benton: Broadway Princess and Cover Letter to LucasArts |
| Speech to the Ohio’s Women Conference: Ain’t I a Woman? |
| Across Five Aprils |
| Paired Texts: To America, Letter of a Civil War Nurse, and The Gettysburg Address |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Chapter 2) |
| Blind |
| Unit 5: Trying Times |
| Teen Mogul |
| Paired Texts: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play |
| Parallel Journeys |
| Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat |
| Farewell to Manzanar |
| Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech |
| Refugee |
| Paired Texts: America, Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World, and Long Walk to Freedom |
| Unit 6: Beyond Reality |
| Manuel and the Magic Fox |
| Paired Texts: The Dark is Rising, There Will Come Soft Rains (poem), and There Will Come Soft Rains (short story) |
| The War of the Worlds |
| Everybody Out (from “What If?”) |
| Spaceships |
| Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| Paired Texts: How Hare Drank Boiling Water and Married the Beautiful Princess and Children of Blood and Bone |