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Grades 9–10 Text ExemplarsStories:

Homer. The Odyssey

Ovid. Metamorphoses

Gogol, Nikolai. “The Nose.”

De Voltaire, F. A. M. Candide,

Or The OptimistTurgenev,

Ivan. Fathers and Sons

Henry, O. “The Gift of the Magi.

”Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451

Olsen, Tillie. “I Stand Here Ironing.”

Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart

Lee, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird

Shaara, Michael. The Killer Angels

Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club

Álvarez, Julia. In the Time of the Butterflies

Zusak, Marcus. The Book ThiefDrama.

Sophocles. Oedipus Rex.

Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Macbeth.

Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll’s House

Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie

Ionesco, Eugene. RhinocerosFugard, Athol. “Master Harold”…and the boys.

Poetry:

Shakespeare, William. “Sonnet 73.”Donne, John. “Song.”Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Ozymandias.”Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Raven.”Dickinson, Emily. “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark.”Houseman, A. E. “Loveliest of Trees.”Johnson, James Weldon. “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”Cullen, Countee. “Yet Do I Marvel.”Auden, Wystan Hugh. ”Musée des Beaux Arts.”Walker, Alice. “Women.”Baca, Jimmy Santiago. “I Am Offering This Poem to You.”.

Informational Texts:

English Language ArtsHenry, Patrick. “Speech to the Second Virginia Convention.”Washington, George. “Farewell Address.”Lincoln, Abraham. “Gettysburg Address.” Lincoln, Abraham. “Second Inaugural Address.” Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. “State of the Union Address.”Hand, Learned. “I Am an American Day Address.” Smith, Margaret Chase. “Remarks to the Senate in Supportof a Declaration of Conscience.” King, Jr., Martin Luther. “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”King, Jr., Martin Luther. “I Have a Dream: Address Delivered at the March on Washington, D.C., for Civil Rights on August 28, 1963.”Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsWiesel, Elie. “Hope, Despair and Memory.”Reagan, Ronald. “Address to Students at Moscow State University.”Quindlen, Anna. “A Quilt of a Country.”

Informational Texts:

History/Social StudiesBrown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee:An Indian History of the American WestConnell, Evan S. Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little BighornGombrich, E. H. The Story of Art, 16th EditionKurlansky, Mark. Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the WorldHaskins, Jim. Black, Blue and Gray: African Americans in the Civil WarDash, Joan. The Longitude PrizeThompson, Wendy. The Illustrated Book of Great ComposersMann, Charles C. Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491

Informational Texts:

Science, Mathematics, and Technical SubjectsEuclid. ElementsCannon, Annie J. “Classifying the Stars.”Walker, Jearl. “Amusement Park Physics.”.Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True StoryDevlin, Keith. Life by the NumbersHoose, Phillip. The Race to Save Lord God BirdHakim, Joy. The Story of Science: Newton at the CenterNicastro, Nicholas. Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the GlobeU.S. Environmental Protection Agency/U.S. Department of Energy. Recommended Levels of Insulation

Grades 11–CCR Text Exemplars/

Stories:

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales

de Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice

Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Cask of Amontillado.

”Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and PunishmentJewett,

Sarah Orne. “A White Heron.

”Melville, Herman. Billy Budd,Sailor

Chekhov, Anton. “Home.”

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby

Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms

Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God

Borges, Jorge Luis. “The Garden of Forking Paths.

”Bellow, Saul. The Adventures of Augie March

Morrison,Toni. The Bluest Eye

Garcia, Cristina. Dreaming in Cuban

Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake

Drama:

Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Hamlet

Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. Tartuffe

Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest

Wilder, Thornton. Our Town: A Play in Three Acts

Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman

Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun

Soyinka, Wole. Death and the King’s Horseman: A Play

Poetry:

Li Po. “A Poem of Changgan.”Donne, John. “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning.”Wheatley, Phyllis. “On Being Brought From Africa to America.”Keats, John. “Ode on a Grecian Urn.”Whitman, Walt. “Song of Myself.”Dickinson, Emily. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.”Tagore, Rabindranath. “Song VII.”Eliot, T. S. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”Pound, Ezra. “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter.”Frost, Robert. “Mending Wall.”Neruda, Pablo. “Ode to My Suit.”Bishop, Elizabeth. “Sestina.”Ortiz Cofer, Judith. “The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica.”Dove, Rita. “Demeter’s Prayer to Hades.”Collins, Billy. “Man Listening to Disc.”

Informational Texts:

English Language ArtsPaine, Thomas. Common SenseJefferson, Thomas. The Declaration of IndependenceUnited States. The Bill of Rights (Amendments One through Tenof the United States Constitution)Thoreau, Henry David. WaldenEmerson, Ralph Waldo. “Society and Solitude.”Porter, Horace. “Lee Surrenders to Grant, April 9th, 1865.”Chesterton, G. K. “The Fallacy of Success.”Mencken, H. L. The American Language, 4th EditionWright, Richard. Black BoyOrwell, George. “Politics and the English Language.”Hofstadter, Richard. “Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth.”Tan, Amy. “Mother Tongue.”Anaya, Rudolfo. “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry.” Informational Texts: History/Social StudiesTocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in AmericaDeclaration of Sentiments by the Seneca Falls ConferenceDouglass, Frederick. “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?: An Address Delivered in Rochester, New York, on 5 July 1852.”An American Primer. Edited by Daniel J. BoorstinLagemann, Ellen Condliffe. “Education.”McPherson, James M. What They Fought For 1861–1865The American Reader: Words that Moved a Nation, 2nd EditionAmar, Akhil Reed. America’s Constitution: A BiographyMcCullough, David. 1776Bell, Julian. Mirror of the World: A New History of ArtFedViews by the Federal Reserve Bank of San FranciscoInformational Texts: Science, Mathematics, and Technical SubjectsPaulos, John Allen. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its ConsequencesGladwell, Malcolm. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big DifferenceTyson, Neil deGrasse. “Gravity in Reverse: The Tale of Albert Einstein’s ‘Greatest Blunder.’”Calishain, Tara, and Rael Dornfest. Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Smarter Searching, 2nd EditionKane, Gordon. “The Mysteries of Mass.”Fischetti, Mark. “Working Knowledge: Electronic Stability Control.”U.S. General Services Administration. Executive Order 13423: Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation ManagementKurzweil, Ray. “The Coming Merger of Mind and Machine.”Gibbs, W. Wayt. “Untangling the Roots of Cancer.”Gawande, Atul. “The Cost Conundrum: Health Care Costs in McAllen, Texas.”