OVERVIEW OF THE YEAR

Course Description:

This course is designed to introduce students to a variety of classic and contemporary literature appropriate for adolescents.  With literature as the driving force, the course will include grammar, spelling, vocabulary, and writing, instructed in an inter-disciplinary manner.  Listening skills, reading skills and strategies, as well as public speaking skills will also be integrated into the curriculum.

Objectives:

A.  The students will learn English language skills so that they may use language to learn.

B.  The students will use language to communicate effectively in various domains.

C.  The students will use appropriate conventions and forms of language.

D.  The students will increase their appreciation of language and literature.

E.  The students will expand their abilities to write effectively.

TEXTBOOK:  Language of Literature, McDougal Littell, PRICE $57.18, books are signed out to students and must be returned in equal condition.  Book Card # , signed by student, must match Book # when returned.

SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR CLASS AND IN CLASS DAILY:

• 2 pencils

• 2 pens (no RED!)
• Highlighters
• Loose leaf paper (no torn paper from spiral notebooks accepted
• Sturdy two pocket folder
• One file folder for student portfolio
  

RULES:  RIGHTS, RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY

Be here on time, prepared, ready to participate in your learning process.

Be alert, attentive, and active in your learning process.

Be respectful, responsible, and recognize your rights and the rights of others.

Unit One INSIGHTS

Part One: RELATIONSHIPS

Genre focus: FICTION

Selections:

• Checkouts, by Cynthia Rylant, Short Story, p.22
  
• Raymond's Run, Toni Cade Bambera, Short Story, p. 32
  
• Stop the Sun, Gary Paulsen, Short Story, p. 48
  
• from Dear America, Collected by George Robinson, letters, p. 55
  
• A Mother in Mannville, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Short Story, p. 59
  
• The Ransom of Read Chief (performance video)
• Born Worker, by Gary Soto, Short Story, p. 84
  

• The Great Rat Hunt, by Laurence Yap, Memoir, p. 106
  
• Flying, by Reeve Lindbergh, Memoir, p. 118
  
• Diary Entry, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Memoir, p. 126
  
• High Tide in Tucson, by Barbara Kingsolver, Essay, p. 134
  
• The King of Mazy May (performance video)
• The Story of an Eyewitness, by Jack London, Informative Nonfiction, p. 159
  

• Mother to Son, Langston Hughes, Poetry, p. 192
  
• Speech to the Young,by Gwendolyn Brooks,  Poetry, p. 192
  
• The Charge of the Light Brigade, Poetry,by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, p. 197
  
• What is Success? Poetry, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, p. 207
  
• Simile:  Willow and Ginkgo, Poetry, by Eve Merriam, p. 215
  
• A Loaf of Poetry, Poetry, by Naoshi Koriyama, p. 215
  
• the lesson of the moth, by Don Marquis, p, 250
  

• The Million Pound Bank Note, by Mark Twain, Radio Play, p. 263
  
• We Alone, POetry, by Alice Walker, p. 279
  
• The Bet, Short Story, by Anton Chekhov, p. 285
  
• I Stepped from Plank to Plank, Poetry, by Emily Dickinson, p. 296
  
• from Something to Declare, by Julia Alvarez, Memoir, p. 302
  

• The Treasure of Lemon Brown, by Walter Dean Meyers, Short Story,  p. 334
  
• Rules of the Game, by Amy Tan, Short Story, p. 348
  
• Fear, by Gabriela Mistral, Poetry, p. 367
  
• Identity, by Julio Noboa, Poetry, p. 367
  
• Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening, Poetry, Robert Frost, p. 390
  
• The Moustache, by Robert Cormier, Short Story, p. 395
  
• Old Age Sticks, by e e cummings, Poetry, p. 403
  
• Legacies, by Nikki Giovanni, Poetry, p. 417
  
• The Drum, by Nikki Giovanni, Poetry, p. 417
  
• Choices, by Nikkii Giovanni, Poetry, p. 417
  
• A Journey, by Nikki Giovanni, Poetry, p. 422
  
• Knoxville, Tennessee, by Nikki Giovanni, Poetry, p. 422
  

• Rain, Rain, Go Away, by Isaac Asimov. Short Story, p. 554
  
• The Dinner Party, by Mona Gardner, p. 565
  
• A Running Brook of Horror, by Daniel Mannix, Nonfiction, p. 574
  
• Southbound on the Freeway, by May Swenson, Poetry, p. 587
  
• who knows if the moon's, by e e cummings, Poetry, p. 587
  
• The Lady or the Tiger, Frank R. Stockton, Short Story, p. 592
  
• The Choice, by Dorothy Parker, Poetry, p. 600
  
• Future Tense, by Robert Lipsyte, Short Story, p. 605
  

• The Tell Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe, short story, p. 624
  
• The Ballad of the Harp Weaver, By Edna St, Vincent Millay, Poetry, p. 647
  
• The Hitchhiker, by Lucille Fletcher, Radio Play, p. 654
  
• The Third Wish, by Joan Aiken, Short Story, p. 672
  
• The Monkey's Paw, by W.W. Jacobs, Short Story, p. 680
  

• Paul Revere's Ride, by Henry Worsworth Longfellow, Narrative Poetry, p. 716
  
• The Flower Fed Buffalo, by Vachel Lindsay, Poetry, p. 729
  
• The Other Pioneers, by Roberto Felix Salazar, Poetry, p. 751
  
• Harriet Tubman:  Conductor on the Underground Railroad,  by Anne Petry, Biography, p. 769
  
• Lincoln:  A Photobiography, by Russell Freedman, Biography, p. 769
  
• O Captain! My Captain!, by Walt Whitman, Poetry, p. 779
  
• Civil War Journal, by Louisa May Alcott, Journal Entries, p. 784
  
• The Diary of Anne Frank (play), by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, Drama, p. 447
  

• Block Party, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Memoir, p. 830
  
• Who's on First? Unknown, Humor, p. 870
  
• I Was Dreaming of Coming to America, Ellis Island Oral History Project, Memoir, p. 885
  

• Strawberries, retold by Gayle Ross, Cherokee myth, p. 908
  
• Aunty Misery, retold by Judith Ortiz Cofer, Puerto Rican Folktale, p. 912
  
• Paul Bunyan, retold by Adrien Stoutenberf, United States Folktale, p. 934
  
• The Souls in Purgatory, retold by Guadalupe Baca-Vaughn, Mexican Folktale, p. 938
  
• The Woman in the Snow, retold by Patricia McKissack, Urban Legend, p. 944
  
• The Girl in the Lavender Dress, told by Maureen Scott, Urban Legend, p. 951
  
• John Henry, Traditional, United States Folk Ballad, p. 956
  
• Pecos Bill, retold by Mary Pope Osborne, Southwestern Tall Tale, p. 959

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