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| Unit 1: Divided We Fall |
| Marigolds |
| The Necklace |
| Paired Texts: Metamorphoses, Braving the Wilderness, and St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves |
| Paired Texts: Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question and Excerpt from Angela’s Ashes |
| Independent Read: Why I Lied to Everyone in High School about Knowing Karate |
| Paired Texts: Welcome to America and I Have a Dream |
| Independent Read: The Future in My Arms |
| Unit 2: The Call to Adventure |
| Paired Texts: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, 12, and The Journey |
| Leon Bridges on Overcoming Isolation and Finding his Voice |
| Paired Texts: Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters, Bessie Coleman: Women who ‘Dared to Dream’ Made Aviation History, and Volar |
| Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail |
| Paired Texts: Restless Genes and The Art of Choosing |
| Independent Read: Apollo 13: Mission Highlights |
| Unit 3: Declaring Your Genius |
| Paired Texts: Senora X No More, from The Lost Letters of Frederick Douglass, and An Indian Father’s Plea |
| Georgia O’Keeffe |
| Independent Read: The Singularity is Near |
| The Most Dangerous Game |
| Paired Texts: Outliers: Excerpt from The Story of Success and The Origin of Intelligence |
| Independent Read: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids |
| Paired Texts: The Odyssey Graphic Novel and Excerpt from The Odyssey (Book XII) |
| Independent Read: Convocation Remarks at Harvard University |
| Unit 4: The Art of Disguise |
| Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking |
| Remarks to the Senate in Support of a Declaration of Conscience |
| Paired Texts: Excerpt from Romiette and Julio and Excerpt from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet |
| Independent Read: We Wear the Mask |
| Paired Texts: The Pose and Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird |
| Paired Texts: A Doll’s House, A Story of Vengeance, The Cask of Amontillado |
| Independent Read: Eulogy for Mahatma Gandhi |
| Unit 5: The Dance of Romance |
| Paired Texts: The Gift of the Magi and Catch the Moon |
| Love in a Headscarf |
| Independent Read: Sonnet 116 |
| Paired Texts: Masters of Love and Redbird Love |
| Dusting |
| Paired Texts: “The Raven,” “A Song of Changgan,” “How do I Love Thee?” |
| Independent Read: The Loneliness of Lost Love in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” |
| Unit 6: Human Potential |
| Paired Texts: Letters to My Younger Self and Letters to a Young Poet |
| Maus |
| The Scarlet Ibis |
| Paired Texts: Excerpt from To Kill a Mockingbird, The Girl Who Can, and an excerpt from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| Paired Texts: Advice to Little Girls and Lumberjanes |
| Independent Read: Pride and Perseverance and Ode to the Selfie |
| Lift Every Voice and Sing |