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Ideal for the Pre-Ap course, Foundations of Language and Literature prepares ninth graders for future AP courses by teaching them to think like a writer as they build the foundational skills required to excel.
1 STARTING THE CONVERSATIONBuilding a Classroom CommunityThinking about Voice Active ListeningPublic Speaking Culminating Activity
2 WRITING The Power of the PenVoice and TonePrecise Word ChoiceStrong SentencesClear PunctuationWell-Built Paragraphs Culminating Activity 3 READINGDefining TextsActive ReadingReading for UnderstandingReading for InterpretationReading for StyleReading Visual Texts Culminating Activity 4 USING SOURCES Sources as ConversationTypes of SourcesFinding SourcesEvaluating SourcesKeeping Track of SourcesUsing Sources in Your Own Writing Culminating Activity
5 FICTIONESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF FICTION (Section 1) Ray Bradbury, The Veldt Sherman Alexie, from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian Lena Coakley, Mirror Image (Section 2) Etgar Keret, What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish? Edgar Allen Poe, The Cask of Amontillado Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game Angela Flournoy, LelahCENTRAL TEXT Amy Tan, Two Kinds CONVERSATION – Motivation: The Key to Success? Malcolm Gladwell, from Outliers Amy Chua, from The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Adam Grant, How to Raise a Creative Child Daniel Pink, from Drive Andre Agassi, from Open (Section 3) Nadine Gordimer, Once Upon a Time Kirstin Valdez Quade, Nemecia Kate Chopin, Story of an Hour Luke Jones & Anna Mill, Square Eyes (graphic novel) WORKSHOP 1: WRITING FICTIONWORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING FICTION
6 ARGUMENT ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF ARGUMENT (Section 1) Lisa L. Lewis, Why School Should Start Later in the Day NY Times Editorial Board, End the Gun Epidemic in America Thomas Sowell, History Shows the Folly of Disarming Lawful People Marc Bekoff, Why Was Harambe the Gorilla in a Zoo in the First Place?(Section 2) Steve Almond, Is It Immoral to Watch the Super Bowl? Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Paranoid Style of American Policing Tina Rosenberg, Labeling the Danger in Soda Leonard Pitts, September 13, 2001: Hatred is Unworthy of Us Barack Obama, Hiroshima SpeechCENTRAL TEXT Peggy Orenstein, What’s Wrong with Cinderella? CONVERSATION – How Does the Media Shape Our Ideas about Gender? Madeline Messer, I'm a 12-year-old girl. Why dont the characters in my apps look like me? Terryn Hall, When I Saw Prince, I Saw a Vital New Black Masculinity Vanessa Friedman, Don’t Ban Ads of Skinny Models Geena Davis Institute, Gender Bias Without Borders Kali Holloway, Toxic Masculinity Is Killing Men: The Roots of Male Trauma Jack O’Keefe, How ‘Master of None’ Subverts Stereotypical Masculinity by Totally Ignoring It (Section 3) Daniel Engber, Kill All the Mosquitoes Sarah Kessler, Why Online Harassment Is Still Ruining Lives—and How We Can Stop It Mark Twain, Advice to Youth Cesar Chavez, Letter from Delano WORKSHOP 1: WRITING ARGUMENTWORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING ARGUMENT
7 POETRYESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF POETRY(Section 1) Jose Olivarez, Home Court Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Suheir Hammad, What I Will Rachel Richardson, Transmission Dana Gioa, Money Billy Collins, Flames Jenni Baker, You American Boy AND Find Your Way (Section 2) Nate Marshall, Harold’s Chicken Shack #86 Naomi Shihab Nye, Kindness Michael Ondaatje, Sweet Like A Crow William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18: “Shall I Compare Thee…” Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool David Tomas Martinez, In Chicano Park Emily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop For Death Amit Majmudar, T. S. A. Ha Jin, Ways of Talking CENTRAL TEXT Langston Hughes, Let America Be America Again CONVERSATION – What Does the Statue of Liberty Mean to Us Now? Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus Concord Oral History Program, Remembrances for the 100th Anniversary of the Statue of Liberty Tato Laviera, lady liberty Suji Kwock Kim, Slant jessica Care moore, Black Statue of Liberty Michael Daly, The Statue of Liberty was Muslim (Section 3) Nikki Giovanni, Ego-Tripping Anna Akhmatova, Somwhere there is a simple life Reed Bobroff, Four Elements of Ghostdance Adrienne Su, Things Chinese Kevin Young, Eddie Priest's Barbershop & Notary John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn Walt Whitman, from Song of MyselfWORKSHOP 1: WRITING POETRYWORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING POETRY 8 EXPOSITIONESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF EXPOSITION(Text Set 1) Stephen King, Stephen King's Guide to Movie Snacks Derf Backderf, from Trashed (graphic essay) Lisa Damour, Why Teenage Girls Roll their Eyes Raph Koster, from A Theory of Fun for Game Design (Section 2) Alan Weisman, Earth Without People Karl Greenfeld, My Daughter's Homework is Killing Me Susan Cain, from Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking Martin Luther King Jr., Blueprint for LifeCENTRAL TEXT Troy Patterson, The Politics of the Hoodie CONVERSATION – How Does Clothing Define Who We Are? Kehinde Wiley, Willem van Heythuysen AND Ice-T (paintings) Nora Caplan-Bricker, Women Who Wear Pants: Somehow Still Controversial Michelle Parrinello-Cason, Labels, Clothing, and Identity: Are You What You Wear? Hugh Hart, From Converse to Kanye: The Rise of Sneaker Culture Jenni Avins, In Fashion, Cultural Appropriation Is Either Very Wrong or Very Right Peggy Orenstein, The Battle Over Dress Codes(Section 3) Jon Ronson, How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life Rebecca Solnit, from Men Explain Things to Me Helen Rosner, On Chicken Tenders Edwidge Danticat, Black Bodies in Motion and Pain Samuel Johnson, On the Decay of Friendship WORKSHOP 1: WRITING AN EXPOSITIONWORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING EXPOSITION 9 DRAMAESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF DRAMA(Section 1) Sylvia Gonzales S., from Boxcar(Section 2) CENTRAL TEXT WillIiam Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet CONVERSATION – Does Tribalism Bring Us Together, or Pull Us Apart? Adam Piore, Why We're Patriotic David Brooks, People Like Us Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Diane Farr, Bringing Home the Wrong Race David Ropiek, Sports, Politics, Tribe, Violence, and the Social Human Animal's Drive to Survive(Section 3) B. T. Ryback, A Roz by Any Other Name WORKSHOP 1: WRITING DRAMAWORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING DRAMA 10 NARRATIVEESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF NARRATION (Section 1) Santha Rama Rau, By Any Other Name Mindy Kaling, from Why Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? Marcus Samuelsson, Yes, Chef(Section 2) Carrie Brownstein, from Hunger Makes me a Modern Girl Monique Truong, My Father's Previous Life Steven Hall, You, Me, and the Sea Sarah Vowell, Music LessonsCENTRAL TEXT Julia Alvarez, La Gringuita CONVERSATION – What Is the Relationship Between Language and Power? Jimmy Santiago Baca, from Coming into Language Richard Wright, from Black Boy Joshua Adams, Confessions of a Code Switcher Douglas Quenqua, They're, Like, Way Ahead of the Linguistic Currrrve Jessica Wolf, The Seven Words I Cannot Say (Around My Children) (Section 3) Amanda Palmer, from The Art of Asking Thi Bui, from The Best We Could Do (graphic memoir) Haruki Murakami, Even if I Had a Long Pony Tail Back Then WORKSHOP 1: WRITING NARRATIVEWORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING NARRATIVE 11 MYTHOLOGYESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF MYTHOLOGY(Section 1) Neil Gaiman, How the Gods Got Their Treasures (Section 2) CENTRAL TEXT Homer, from The Odyssey CONVERSATION – What Is a Hero? Linton Weeks, Heroic Acts to Protect the Word "Hero" Katy Waldman, Is Anybody Watching My Do-Gooding? William Rhoden, Seeing Through the Illusion of the Sports Hero Stephen Kinzer, Joining the Military Doesn't Make You a Hero Kyle Anderson, Why Captain America Is America’s Hero(Section 3) Yusef Komunyaka, from Gilgamesh: A Verse Play WORKSHOP 1: WRITING MYTHOLOGYWORKSHOP 2: ANALYZING MYTHOLOGY Grammar WorkshopsMLA Guidelines for Works CitedGlossary/Glossario of Academic and Literary TermsIndex (key terms + author/title)
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