High School Program

Character Based Literacy

High School Reading List
2005-2009
Writing Handbook for All Students 2005-2009
Write Ahead by The Write Source
A Division of Houghton Mifflin Company ISBN 0669507865

High School Readings for 2005-2006

Quarter 1: Responsibility Requires Action
The Circuit by Francisco Jiminez
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press;(September, 1997) ISBN: 0826317979

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

• Publisher: Harvest Books (May, 2003) ISBN: 0156028352

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

• Publisher: Washington Square Press (January, 2004) ISBN: 0743482743

The Long Valley by John Steinbeck

• Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (August, 1995) ISBN: 0140187456

Quarter 2: Change Requires Effort

Way Past Cool by Jess Mowry
• Publisher: Windstorm Creative

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• Publisher: Warner Books; Reissue edition (October, 1988) ISBN: 0446310786

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

• Publisher: Perennial (December, 1998) ISBN: 0060931418

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

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• Publisher: Tor Books (August, 1998) ISBN: 0812580036

Quarter 3: Justice Requires Restraint

Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Publisher: Yearling; Reprint edition (September, 1997) ISBN: 0440414121
Hiroshima by John Hersey
• Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (March, 1989) ISBN: 0679721037
East Side Dreams by Art Rodriquez
• Publisher: Dream House, (1999) ISBN 0-96715555-0-9

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks; Reprint edition (May, 1989) ISBN: 0590409433

Quarter 4: Courage Requires Moderation

Parrot in the Oven by Victor Martinez
• Publisher: Rayo; Reprint edition (March, 1998) ISBN: 0064471861

Under the Blood Red Sun by Graham Salisbury

• Publisher: Yearling; Reprint edition (November, 1995) ISBN: 0440411394

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

• Publisher: Bantam; Reissue edition (August, 1986) ISBN: 0553273914

An Island Like You by Judith Ortiz Cofer

• Publisher: Puffin Books (December, 1996) ISBN: 014038068X

Quarter 5 : Integrity Requires Wholeness

Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
• Publisher: HarperTrophy; (April, 1977) ISBN: 0064400859

Animal Farm by George Orwell

• Publisher: Signet Book; (April, 1996) ISBN: 0451526341

Lisa, Bright and Dark by John Neufeld

• Publisher: Puffin Books (June, 1999) ISBN: 0141304340

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

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• Publisher: Harvest Books; Reissue edition (January, 1989) ISBN: 0156787334

High School Readings for 2006-2007

Quarter 1: Responsibility Requires Action
Buried Onions by Gary Soto
• Publisher: HarperTrophy; Reprint edition (April, 1999) ISBN: 0064407713

Kindred by Octavia Butler

• Publisher: Beacon Press; 25th Anniv. edition (February, 2004) ISBN: 0807083690

The Oresteia by Aeschylus

• Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (February, 1984) ISBN: 0140443339

The Pigman by Paul Zindel

• Publisher: Starfire; Reissue edition (March, 1983) ISBN: 0553263218

Quarter 2: Change Requires Effort

Pocho by Jose Antonio Villareal
• Publisher: Anchor; Rep edition (December, 1970) ISBN: 0385061188

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

• Publisher: Vintage (September, 1997) ISBN: 0375702709

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

• Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reissue edition (March,1987) ISBN: 0449213943

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

• Publisher: Bantam Books ISBN: 0553-21342-3

Quarter 3: Justice Requires Restraint

Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Books, New Ed edition (Jan,1987) ISBN: 0140322051

Tunes for Bears to Dance To by Robert Cormier

• Publisher: Laurel Leaf; Reissue edition (April,1994) ISBN: 0440219035
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I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
• Publisher: Laurel Leaf; Reissue edition (August, 1991) ISBN: 0440940605

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

• Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reissue edition (October, 1987) ISBN: 0345350685

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

• Publisher: Scribner (September, 2003) ISBN: 0743262174

Quarter 4: Courage Requires Moderation

Whirligig by Paul Fleischman
• Publisher: Laurel Leaf; Reprint edition (November, 1999) ISBN: 0440228352

Children of the River by Linda Crew

• Publisher: Laurel Leaf; Reissue edition (August, 1991) ISBN: 0440210224

MacBeth by William Shakespeare

• Publisher: Washington Square Press (July, 2003) ISBN: 0743477103

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya

• Publisher: Warner Books; Reprint edition (April, 1994) ISBN: 0446600253

Quarter 5: Integrity Requires Wholeness

I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
• Publisher: Laurel; Reissue edition (January, 1980) ISBN: 0440343690

Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers

• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks (October, 2003) ISBN: 0439523567

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

• Publisher: Washington Square Press (July, 2003) ISBN: 074347712X

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin ISBN: 0618526412
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High School Readings for 2007-2008

Quarter 1: Responsibility Requires Action
A Hero Ain’t Nothing But A Sandwich by Alice Childress
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group (February, 2000) ISBN: 0698118545

Sing Down the Moon by Scott O’Dell

• Publisher: Laurel Leaf; Reissue edition (March, 1997) ISBN: 0440979757

Antigone by Sophocles
• Publisher: Oxford ISBN: 0-19-506167-5
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• Publisher: Tor Books; Reissue edition (November, 1990) ISBN: 0812504798

Quarter 2: Change Requires Effort

Bud, not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Publisher: Yearling; Reprint edition (January, 2002) ISBN: 0440413281

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

• Publisher: Penguin Books; Reissue edition (September, 1993) ISBN: 0140177396

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

• Publisher: Washington Square Press (January, 2004) ISBN: 0743477111

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

• Publisher: Bantam Classics; Reissue edition (March, 1981) ISBN: 0553210165

Quarter 3: Justice Requires Restraint

A Child Called “It” by Dave Pelzer
• Publisher: HCI; Reissue edition (September, 1995) ISBN: 1558743669

145th Street by Walter Dean Myers

• Publisher: Dell ISBN: 0-440-22916-2

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

• Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 034541005X
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines

• Publisher: Bantam; Reissue edition (August, 1982) ISBN: 0553263579

Quarter 4: Courage Requires Moderation

Hatchet by Gary Paulson
• Publisher: Simmon & Schuster ISBN: 0689-82699-0

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

• Publisher: Plume Books; Reprint edition (June, 1992) ISBN: 0452268060

Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang

• Publisher: HarperTrophy (October, 1998) ISBN: 0064462080

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

• Publisher: Perennial; Reprint edition (October, 1998) ISBN: 0060929847

Quarter 5: Integrity Requires Wholeness

A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer
• Publisher: Plume (September, 2000) ISBN: 0452281903

Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks; Reprint edition (June, 2001) ISBN: 0439286069

The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria R. Naylor

• Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (June, 1983) ISBN: 014006690X

Ordinary People by Judith Guest

• Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (January 1993) ISBN: 0140065172
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High School Readings for 2008-2009

Quarter 1: Responsibility Requires Action
The Outside Shot by Walter Dean Myers
• Publisher: Laurel Leaf (December 1986) ISBN: 0440967848

Adventures of Ulysses by Bernard Evslin (preferred)

or The Odyssey by Robert Fagles
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks; Reissue edition (January, 1980) ISBN: 0590425994

The Odyssey by Robert Fagles

• Publisher: Penguin Books; New Ed edition (November, 1999) ISBN: 0140268863

The Journals of Lewis and Clark edited by Bernard DeVoto

• Publisher: Mariner Books; Revised edition (April, 1997) ISBN: 0395859964

Beloved by Toni Morrison

• Publisher: Vintage (June, 2004) ISBN: 1400033411

Quarter 2: Change Requires Effort

Holes by Louis Sachar
• Publisher: Yearling; Reprint edition (May, 2000) ISBN: 0440-22859-X

Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya

• Publisher: Signet Classics; Reissue edition (January, 2002) ISBN: 0451528239

Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

• Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 01-553-21244-3

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

• Publisher: Penguin ISBN 014-0186040-9

Quarter 3: Justice Requires Restraint

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
• Publisher: Laurel Leaf (March, 1983) ISBN: 0553272586

Night by Eli Wiesel

• Publisher: Bantam; Reissue edition (April, 1982) ISBN: 0553272535
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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

• Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (November, 1994) ISBN: 0679755330

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 0-553-24777-8

Quarter 4: Courage Requires Moderation

Othello by William Shakespeare
• Publisher: Washington Square Press (January, 2004) ISBN: 0743477553

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

• Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books (August, 1998) ISBN: 0590353403

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

• Publisher: Vintage; Reissue edition (April, 1991) ISBN: 0679734775

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

• Publisher: Ivy Books (April, 1990) ISBN: 0804106304

Quarter 5: Integrity Requires Wholeness

The Contender by Robert Lipsyte
• Publisher: Harper Trophy; Reissue edition (April, 1987) ISBN: 0064470393

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Publisher: Scribner (September, 2004) ISBN: 0743273567

Jazz by Toni Morrison

• Publisher: Randcm House ISBN: 1-400-07621-8

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green

• Publisher: Signet ISBN: 0-451-16031-2
Supplemental Short Stories

Poetry
Short Stories
Non-Fiction
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2005-2006 Prentice Hall Gold

Responsibility Requires Action

Adventures of Odysseus, The
An Ancient Gesture
Blackberry Eating
Dream Deferred
Dreams
Eagle, The
Eulogy for a Hermit Crab
Gift of the Magi, The
Hope is the thing with feathers
I Have a Dream
I Hear America Singing
Invalid's Story, The
Ithaca
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Lincoln Preface, A
Man to Send Rain Clouds, The
Meciendo
Memory
New Directions

Change Requires Effort

Bells, The
Beware: Do Not Read Beyond This Poem
Birds, The
Casey at the Bat
Caucasian Mummies Mystify Chinese
Earhart Redux
Echo
Fly Away
Glory and Hope
Go Deep to the Sewer
Harvest, The
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Justice Requires Restraint

Machine that Won the War, The
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Fire and Ice
Gifts

Courage Requires Moderation

Most Dangerous Game, The
Children in the Wood
Checkouts
Caged Bird
We Never Knew How High We Are
Rug Merchant, The
Women
Astonishment
If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth
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2006-2007 Prentice Hall Platinum

Responsibility Requires Action

Arthur Becomes King of Britain
Conscientious Objector
Dog that Bit People, The
Women's Work
Jazz Fantasia
Like the Sun
Rama's Initiation
Tell All the Truth but tell it slant-
Weary Blues, The
The Widow and the Parro
Bean Eaters, The
A Picture from the Past: Emily Dickinson
The Orphan Boy and the Elk Dog
A Storm in the Mountains
A Tree Telling of Orpheus
Luck
Censors,The
In Flanders Fields
Reapers
Prayer of First Dancers
Guitar, The
Jade Flower Palace
What Are Friends For

Change Requires Effort

Auto Wreck
Bridge, The
Garden of Stubborn Cats, The
I Am Not One of Those
Old Stoic, The
Speak, Memory
There Will Come Soft Rains
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Justice Requires Restraint

In Commemoration: One Million Volumes
Success
Columbus
A Visit to Grandmother
After Apple-Picking
At Harvest Time
Africa
By the Waters of Babylon

Courage Requires Moderation

Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket
Dream Comes True, The
Bridegroom, The
Fear
Spring and All
Marian Anderson: Famous Concert Singer

Integrity Requires Wholeness

Open Window, The
Mothers and Daughters
Work that Counts
A Pace Like This
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2007-2008 Prentice Hall Platinum

Responsibility Requires Action

Waking, The
Some Like Poetry
Moon at the Fortified Pass, The
Making a Fist
Civil Peace
How to React to the Familiar Faces
What Makes a Degas a Degas?
The Street of the Canon
In the Orchard
A Problem
Princess of All the Kingdom, The
Stolen Child, The
Kraken, The
Meeting at Night
Cabuliwallah, The
Desert Exile
Don Quixote
Hearts and Hands
Julius Caesar
Morte d' Arthur
Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
Through the Tunnel
You've Got to Read This

Change Requires Effort

Before the Law
Flood
Good Deed, The
Leiningen Versus the Ants
Pride
Speech During the Invasion of Constantinople
Thoughts of Hanoi
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Justice Requires Restraint

How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Uncoiling
My Left Foot
Mowing
Style
The Apple Tree
Old Song
La Belle Dame sans Merci
Danny Deever

Courage Requires Moderation

Final Assault, The
Masque of the Red Death, The
Street, The
A Child's Christmas in Wales
Star Wars

Integrity Requires Wholeness

Marginal World, The
Imitating Nature's Mineral Artistry
Wind-tapped like a tired Man, The
Metaphor
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2008-2009 Prentice Hall Gold

Responsibility Requires Action

Washwoman, The
Women's Work
Cask of Amontillado, The
There is a Longing
To be of use
Shoulders
Single Room
Single Room, Earth View
Siren Song
Slam, Dunk & Hook
Spearthrower, The
On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
Perseus
Prologue and Epilogue
Return of Odysseus, The
Road Not Taken, The
Odyssey, The
Old Man of the Temple
On Summer

Change Requires Effort

Understanding Comics
Talk
Scarlet Ibis, The
Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The
In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle
Jabberwocky
Listeners, The
Macavity: the Mystery Cat
Necklace, The
One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts
Problems with Hurricanes
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Justice Requires Restraint

To the Residents of A.D. 2029
Blues Ain't No Mockingbird
Uncle Marcos

Courage Requires Moderation

Rules of the Game, The
Fifteen
Sympathy
Interlopers, The
Combing
Maggie and Mily and Molly and May
Inspector General, The
Sonata for Harp and Bicycle
Dancers, The
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Responsibility Change Justice Courage Integrity
Requires Requires Requires Requires Requires
Action Effort Restraint Moderation Wholeness

1st Quarter 2nd Quarter 3rd Quarter 4th Quarter 5th Quarter
Fall Fall Spring Spring Summer
1-9 10-18 19-27 28-36 variable
August November January April June
September December February May July
October January March June August
Values
Value Responsibility Change Respect Courage Integrity
Self Direction Effort Justice Moderation Holism
Morality Active Engage Restraint Moderate Integrate
Thoughts
Reduce Mollification Cognitive Power Games Cutoff Discontinuity
Entitlement Indolence Sentimentality SuperOptimism
Teach Cause-effect, Efficacy Alternatives A-B-C Continuity
Perspective Efficiency Best Choices Function Listing
Realism Validity Rights Visualization Analysis
Skills
Teach Perception Problem Solve Coping Anger Control Imagination
Social Skills Planning Cooperation Coping Cooperation
English Language Arts Strands
All Units Language Arts Language Arts Language Arts Language Arts Language Arts
Narrative Narrative Narrative Narrative Narrative
Response Response Response Response Response
This Unit Exposition Exposition Persuasion Description Persuasion
Required Products
Writing Autobiography Research Persuasive Technical Persuasive
Expository Paper Essay Document Essay
Essay Story Oral History Biography Story
Visual-Oral Display Display Speech Portfolio Speech
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ELA 9-10 Reading Language Writing Listening Theme Units

Conventions Speaking
Language Arts Vocabulary Mechanics Revision Judgment All
1.1-1.3 1.1-1.3 1.9 1.1
Comprehension Form
2.3-2.6 1.4-1.5
Narrative Narrative Autobiography Narrative All
3.3, 3.4, 3.6 Biography 2.1
Short Story
2.1
Response Narrative Analysis Literature Response Oral Response All
3.5 3.7 3.8 3.9 2.2 1.11 2.4
Literary Criticism Genre Media
3.11 3.12 1.2
Theme Across Drama
3.2 1.14
Drama
3.1, 3.10
Exposition Expository Critique Analytic Essay Exposition Responsibility
2.7-2.8 Research Report 1.12 Change
Bibliography 2.3 2.2
2.2 Focus Organization
1.1 – 1.2 1.3-1.9
Research Interviewing
1.3-1.8 2.3
Persuasion Persuasive Essay Argumentation Justice
2.4 1.10 1.13 2.5 Integrity
Description Workplace Business Letter Description Courage
Document 2.5 2.6
2.1 Technical Document
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ELA 11-12 Reading Language Writing Listening Theme Units

Conventions Speaking
Language Arts Vocabulary Form Revision Reflection All
1.1-1.3 1.1 1.9 2.1
Comprehension Mechanics Reflection Recitation
2.2, 2.3 1.2, 1.3 2.3 2.5

Narrative Narrative Structure Autobiography All

3.1 Biography
Short Story
2.1
Response Narrative Analysis Literature Response Genre Media All
3.2-3.7 2.2 1.1-1.3
Literary Criticism Historical Historical
3.8-3.9 Investigation Investigation
2.4 2.2
Literature Response
2.3

Exposition Expository Critique Focus Multimedia Responsibility

2.6 1.1 – 1.3, 1.5 2.4 Change
Research
1.6-1.8
Multimedia
2.6
Persuasion Structure Persuasive Essay Argumentation Justice
2.1., 2.4, 2.5 1.4 1.4-1.10 Integrity
Analysis
1.11-1.14
Description Workplace Courage
Document
2.5
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NARRATIVE Q1-5
W2.1 Write biographical or autobiographical narratives or short stories:
1. Relate a sequence of events
2. Communicate the significance of the events to the audience
3. Locates scenes and incidents in specific places.
4. Describe with concrete sensory details the sights, sounds, and smells of a scene
5. Describe specific actions, movements, gestures
6. Describe feelings of characters
7. Use the interior monologue to depict the characters’ feelings

RESPONSE Q1-5
W2.2 Write responses to literature:
1. Demonstrate a comprehensive grasp of the work
2. Demonstrate a comprehensive grasp of the significant ideas of literary works
3. Support important ideas and viewpoints
4. Support through accurate and detailed reference to the text or other works
5. Demonstrate an awareness of the author’s use of stylistic devices
6. Demonstrate an appreciation of the effects created
7. Identify and assess the impact of perceived ambiguities, nuances, and
complexities within the text

EXPOSITORY Q1-2
W2.3 Write expository compositions, including analytical essays and research
reports:
1. Marshal evidence in support of a thesis and related claims
2. Including information on all relevant perspectives
3. Convey information and ideas from primary and secondary sources
4. Convey information and ideas accurately and coherently
5. Make distinctions between the relative value and
6. Make distinctions about the significance of specific data, facts and ideas
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PERSUASIVE Q3,5
W2.4 – Write persuasive compositions:
1. Structure ideas and arguments in a sustained and logical fashion
2. Use specific rhetorical devices to support assertions
3. Use appeal to logic through reasoning
4. Use appeal to emotion or ethical belief
5. Relate a personal anecdote, or case study, or analogy
6. Clarify and defend positions with precise and relevant evidence
7. Clarify and defend positions including facts, expert opinions
8. Clarify and defend positions including quotations
9. Clarify and defend positions using expressions of commonly accepted beliefs
10. Clarify and defend positions using and logical reasoning
11. Address readers’ concerns, counter-claims
12. Address readers’ biases, and expectations

DESCRIPTIVE Q4
2.5 – Write business letters:
1. Provide clear and purposeful information and
2. Address the intended audience appropriately
3. Use appropriate vocabulary, tone, and style
4. Take into account the nature of the relationship with recipients
5. Take into account the knowledge and interests of, the recipients
6. Highlight central ideas or images
7. Follow a conventional style
8. Follow page formats, fonts, and spacing
9. Contribute to the documents’ readability and impact

2.6 – Write technical documents (e.g., a manual on rules of behavior for conflict
resolution, procedures for conducting a meeting, minutes of a meeting):
1. Report information and
2. Convey ideas logically and correctly
3. Offer detailed and accurate specifications.
4. Include scenarios, definitions, and examples to aid comprehension
5. Include a troubleshooting guide
6. Anticipate readers’ problems, mistakes
7. Anticipate readers’ misunderstandings
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2005 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
August September September September September October October October October October
29 5 12 19 26 4 10 17 24 31
FALL Responsibility Requires Action
Quarter 1

Responsibility is the active side of morality: doing what I should do, doing what I say I will
Q1 do, doing what is best for everybody; especially doing the one thing I should be doing
right now.
HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM READING The Circuit by The Color Purple by Julius Caeser by The Long Valley by
students prepare, read, respond, Francisco Jiminez Alice Walker William Shakespeare John Steinbeck
explore and extend a designated
portion from this text each day
STANDARDS W2.1 1 sequence 2 significance 3 specific 4 sensory details 5 movements 6 feelings
students master these standards tasks 7 interior monologue
through focused teaching and W2.2 1 grasp 2 grasp significant ideas 3 ideas viewpoints
coordinated daily learning opportunities W2.3 1 support thesis 2 perspectives

MAJOR WRITTEN PRODUCTS autobiography autobiography expository essay visual display

students will complete this major writing
product during this novel/play
ONGOING PROCESSES timeline word wall map kwl chart open mind portraits storyboard
the class completes these activities
together each day during the novel as
indicated on the lesson plan
VISUAL ORAL PROCESSES analytic cubing bookmark character show character trait mobile film comparison
each lesson includes at least one of g6 structure of text idea ads magazine layout main idea analysis media variant
these activities for individual or small plot cartoon postcards prediction posters radio script readers theatre
group student work each day after retelling rap setting sketch story box story collage story layout
discussion using the nine question story prop story retelling story sequel
types

DAILY WRITING PRODUCTS cards comment and a question dialogue journal double entry journal letters poem postcards
every day students write from a quick write reading log simulated journal snapshot thought shot
prescribed writing prompt using one of
these specified writing products
DAILY LANGUAGE CONVENTION 83-106 98, 149-157 100, 107-116, 181-189, 332-335 167-172, 173-178,
Write AHEAD 361-368
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FALL Change Requires Effort
Quarter 2

Change is possible. Change requires three things; a vision, a plan, and effort. It requires
Q2 changing bad habits to good habits. It requires effort even when I don’t feel like working.
It requires taking one step at a time.
HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM READING Way Past Cool by Jess Mowry Their Eyes Were
Oliver To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
students prepare, read, respond, Watching God by
Twist by
explore and extend a designated Zora Neale Hurston
Charles
portion from this text each day Dickens
STANDARDS W2.1 1 sequence 2 significance 3 specific 4 sensory details 5 movements
students master these standards tasks W2.2 1 grasp 2 grasp significant ideas 4 detailed reference 5 stylistic devices
through focused teaching and W2.3 3 primary secondary sources 4 accurately coherently 6 significance facts
coordinated daily learning opportunities
MAJOR WRITTEN PRODUCTS story display display report
students will complete this major writing
product during this novel/play
ONGOING PROCESSES timeline word wall map kwl chart open mind portraits storyboard
the class completes these activities
together each day during the novel as
indicated on the lesson plan
VISUAL ORAL PROCESSES analytic cubing bookmark character show character trait mobile film comparison
each lesson includes at least one of g6 structure of text idea ads magazine layout main idea analysis media variant
these activities for individual or small plot cartoon postcards prediction posters radio script readers theatre
group student work each day after retelling rap setting sketch story box story collage story layout
discussion using the nine question story prop story retelling story sequel
types

DAILY WRITING PRODUCTS cards comment and a question dialogue journal double entry journal letters poem postcards
every day students write from a quick write reading log simulated journal snapshot thought shot
prescribed writing prompt using one of
these specified writing products
DAILY LANGUAGE CONVENTION 136-137, 139-143, 191-200 200-209 200-209 211-214, 215-218, 219-235
Write AHEAD
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WINTER
Justice Requires Restraint
Quarter 3

There are things I can not say or do to myself, any other person, or the planet
Q3 because justice demands it.
The actions I take and the decisions I make must respect the rights of all.
HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM READING East Side Dreams by Art Hiroshima by John Watsons Go to Birmingham, Fallen Angels by
students prepare, read, respond, Rodriguez Hersey 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis Walter Dean Meyers
explore and extend a designated
portion from this text each day
STANDARDS W2.1 1 sequence 2 significance 3 specific
students master these standards tasks W2.2 3 ideas viewpoints 4 detailed reference 7ambiguities, nuances
through focused teaching and W2.4 1 ideas and arguments 2 rhetorical devices 3 logic 5 anecdote 6 evidence
coordinated daily learning opportunities 11 readers’ concerns

MAJOR WRITTEN PRODUCTS persuasive essay persuasive essay oral history speech
students will complete this major writing
product during this novel/play
ONGOING PROCESSES timeline word wall map kwl chart open mind portraits storyboard
the class completes these activities
together each day during the novel as
indicated on the lesson plan
VISUAL ORAL PROCESSES analytic cubing bookmark character show character trait mobile film comparison
each lesson includes at least one of g6 structure of text idea ads magazine layout main idea analysis media variant
these activities for individual or small plot cartoon postcards prediction posters radio script readers theatre
group student work each day after retelling rap setting sketch story box story collage story layout
discussion using the nine question story prop story retelling story sequel
types

DAILY WRITING PRODUCTS cards comment and a question dialogue journal double entry journal letters poem postcards
every day students write from a quick write reading log simulated journal snapshot thought shot
prescribed writing prompt using one of
these specified writing products
DAILY LANGUAGE CONVENTION 101, 117-125 179-180, 284-286 159-166, 173-178 353-360
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SPRING
Courage Requires Moderation
Quarter 4

Courage is risk for a reason, not risk for a thrill; courage requires I moderate my impulses
Q4 and emotions. Courage leads me to consider the heroic journey in which people live for
purposes bigger than themselves and their wants and needs.

HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM READING Parrot in the Oven by Victor Under the Blood Red Sun by The House of the An Island Like You
students prepare, read, respond, Martinez Graham Salisbury Spirits by Isabel by Judith Ortiz Cofer
explore and extend a designated Allende
portion from this text each day
STANDARDS W2.1 1 sequence 2 significance 3 specific 6 feelings
students master these standards tasks W2.2 3 ideas viewpoints 4 detailed reference 5 stylistic devices 6 appreciation effects
through focused teaching and 7 ambiguities, nuances
coordinated daily learning opportunities W2.6 – 1 information 2 logically 7 misunderstandings

MAJOR WRITTEN PRODUCTS biography technical document portfolio portfolio

students will complete this major writing
product during this novel/play
ONGOING PROCESSES timeline word wall map kwl chart open mind portraits storyboard
the class completes these activities
together each day during the novel as
indicated on the lesson plan
VISUAL ORAL PROCESSES analytic cubing bookmark character show character trait mobile film comparison
each lesson includes at least one of g6 structure of text idea ads magazine layout main idea analysis media variant
these activities for individual or small plot cartoon postcards prediction posters radio script readers theatre
group student work each day after retelling rap setting sketch story box story collage story layout
discussion using the nine question story prop story retelling story sequel
types

DAILY WRITING PRODUCTS cards comment and a question dialogue journal double entry journal letters poem postcards
every day students write from a quick write reading log simulated journal snapshot thought shot
prescribed writing prompt using one of
these specified writing products
DAILY LANGUAGE CONVENTION 159-166 99, 237-244, 245-247, 248-251, 29-34, 145-148 29-34, 145-148
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Quarter 5 Integrity Requires Wholeness

Integrity requires that the way I live my life is whole, entire, undivided, sound, coherent
Q5 and principled. Integrity moves me to do difficult and new things not just easy and
accustomed things.
HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM READING The Contender The Great Gatsby Jazz by Toni Morrison
students prepare, read, respond, by Robert Lipsyte by F. Scott Fitzgerald
explore and extend a designated I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
portion from this text each day by Hannah Green
STANDARDS W2.1 1 sequence 2 significance
students master these standards tasks W2.3 1 ideas and arguments 2 rhetorical devices 3 logic 6 evidence 7 expert opinions
through focused teaching and 8 quotations 9 commonly accepted beliefs 10 logical reasoning 11 readers’ concerns
coordinated daily learning opportunities 12 readers’ biases

MAJOR WRITTEN PRODUCTS story persuasive essay persuasive essay speech

students will complete this major writing
product during this novel/play
ONGOING PROCESSES timeline word wall map kwl chart open mind portraits storyboard
the class completes these activities
together each day during the novel as
indicated on the lesson plan
VISUAL ORAL PROCESSES analytic cubing bookmark character show character trait mobile film comparison
each lesson includes at least one of g6 structure of text idea ads magazine layout main idea analysis media variant
these activities for individual or small plot cartoon postcards prediction posters radio script readers theatre
group student work each day after retelling rap setting sketch story box story collage story layout
discussion using the nine question story prop story retelling story sequel
types

DAILY WRITING PRODUCTS cards comment and a question dialogue journal double entry journal letters poem postcards
every day students write from a quick write reading log simulated journal snapshot thought shot
prescribed writing prompt using one of
these specified writing products
DAILY LANGUAGE CONVENTION 1-18 19-36 133-158 195-204
Woe Is I
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Quarter 5 Integrity Requires Wholeness

Integrity requires that the way I live my life is whole, entire, undivided, sound, coherent
Q5 and principled. Integrity moves me to do difficult and new things not just easy and
accustomed things.
HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM READING Dragonwings by Laurence Yep Animal Farm by Lisa, Bright and Dark A Room of One’s
students prepare, read, respond, George Orwell by John Neufeld Own by Virginia
explore and extend a designated Woolf
portion from this text each day
STANDARDS W2.1 1 sequence 2 significance
students master these standards tasks W2.3 1 ideas and arguments 2 rhetorical devices 3 logic 6 evidence 7 expert opinions
through focused teaching and 8 quotations 9 commonly accepted beliefs 10 logical reasoning 11 readers’ concerns
coordinated daily learning opportunities 12 readers’ biases

MAJOR WRITTEN PRODUCTS story persuasive essay persuasive essay speech

students will complete this major writing
product during this novel/play
ONGOING PROCESSES timeline word wall map kwl chart open mind portraits storyboard
the class completes these activities
together each day during the novel as
indicated on the lesson plan
VISUAL ORAL PROCESSES analytic cubing bookmark character show character trait mobile film comparison
each lesson includes at least one of g6 structure of text idea ads magazine layout main idea analysis media variant
these activities for individual or small plot cartoon postcards prediction posters radio script readers theatre
group student work each day after retelling rap setting sketch story box story collage story layout
discussion using the nine question story prop story retelling story sequel
types

DAILY WRITING PRODUCTS cards comment and a question dialogue journal double entry journal letters poem postcards
every day students write from a quick write reading log simulated journal snapshot thought shot
prescribed writing prompt using one of
these specified writing products
DAILY LANGUAGE CONVENTION 159-166, 173-178 101, 117-125 179-180, 284-286 353-360
Write AHEAD
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