NYS Grades 9-12 Text Selections

These modules include authentic reading materials. Authentic reading materials include published works that are typically encountered by students in daily life, such as in magazines, books or newspapers. The use of authentic reading material may mean that some material is emotionally charged or may use language outside of a student's particular cultural experience. As always, curriculum decisions are made at the local level.

The following is an update to the NYS Grades 9-12 document that hyperlinks the Text Selections from multiple sources online. In general, the selections not linked represent books currently in print. Highlighted selections are ones that also appear in Appendix B: Text Exemplars from the Common Core State Standards. If there are any questions about the links, broken links, additional resources, or better resources than what is included here, please email me at mikefisher821@gmail.com and I will make the necessary updates/changes. Note that this was done of my own volition and does not represent the NY State Ed Department or Odell Education and their intentions for accessing these texts.
Some notes on the hyperlinks: Please preview the links before giving them to students. Some of the sites have advertising and while I didnt notice anythin g inappropriate, the ads could be a distraction or a diversion. In all instances, I looked for the most credible websites for resources, including schools, universities, and user-supported sites. If you find a better resource or question my inclusion, please email me. The Gutenberg archive is heavily used here as the resources there are included in multiple e-formats, including Dropbox and Google Drive support. Some of the stories/poems are embedded within anthologies. Also, Gutenberg has recently added additional elements to their texts related to donations and indemnification for usage, though donations are not required to access the texts. In some cases, texts are just text with little or no formatting. This could easily be changed in Word. Some large files (in PDF format) may take a while to load, depending on your network/device speed. In some cases, there were multiple texts available and I compared them and made a decision. Again, questions about this or a better resource can be emailed to me. Many of the following resources are also available to students in some form via Shmoop.com, SparkNotes, Cliff Notes, etc. We havent seen the modules yet though I will personally be looking for what is Google -proofed, that which students cant just look up on the Internet for easy answers. I hope youll do the same.

Mike Fisher www.digigogy.com

mikefisher821@gmail.com

NYS Grades 9-12 Text Selections

These modules include authentic reading materials. Authentic reading materials include published works that are typically encountered by students in daily life, such as in magazines, books or newspapers. The use of authentic reading material may mean that some material is emotionally charged or may use language outside of a student's particular cultural experience. As always, curriculum decisions are made at the local level.

Grade 9
Module 1
Mitchell, Black Swan Green Russell, St. Lucys Home for Girls Raised by Wolves McCarthy, Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, Letters 1, 4, 7-8 Li Po, A Poem of Changgan Pound, The River-Merchants Wife: A Letter Alexie, Every Little Hurricane McCollough, Mornings on Horseback Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Module 2
Poe, Tell-Tale Heart Hammett, The Maltese Falcon Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia King, The Beekeepers Apprentice Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Levitt, What Do Sumo Wrestlers and Schoolteachers Have In Common? Harr, The Lost Painting Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts" Bishop, "One Art," " In the Waiting Room
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Module 3
Matthews, A Poetry Reading At West Point Wayman, Did I Miss Anything Chopin, The Awakening Camus, The Stranger Isben, A Dolls House Lessing, To Room 19 Cullen, The Depressive and the Psychopath
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Module 4
Sophocles, Oedipus the King Plutarch, Consolation to his Wife Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold Kafka, Metamorphosis Hemingway, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber 1 Samuel 17 Emerson, Self Reliance Great Conversation Documents: FDR
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Kincaid, Girl Grandin, Animals in Translation White, Death of a Pig Lawrence, Snake Bishop, The Fish OrwelI, 1984 Frost, "The Wood Pile"

First Inaugural First Fireside Chat Day of Infamy Speech

Neruda, Youre the Result of Yourself Johnson, Lift Every Voice and Sing Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Hurston. Their Eyes Were Watching God

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From his book Freakonomics http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/assessment/2004/04/the_depressive_and_the_psychopath.html 3 Including FDRs First Inaugural, first fireside chat, and his Day of Infamy speech

NYS Grades 9-12 Text Selections

These modules include authentic reading materials. Authentic reading materials include published works that are typically encountered by students in daily life, such as in magazines, books or newspapers. The use of authentic reading material may mean that some material is emotionally charged or may use language outside of a student's particular cultural experience. As always, curriculum decisions are made at the local level.

Grade 10
Module 1
Canin, The Palace Thief Tan, The Joy Luck Club Malamud, The Natural Bissinger, Friday Night Lights Colton, Counting Coup Twain, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County McPhee, The Search for Marvin Gardens Du Bois, The Talented Tenth Watson, The Double Helix Card, Enders Game Genesis 37-45 Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love Raleigh, The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd Bronte, Jane Eyre

Module 2
Kipling, White Mans Burden King, Letter from Birmingham Jail Great Conversation Documents: 19 Century Womens Rights
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Module 3
Zusak, The Book Thief Roach, Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers Greene, The Destructors Golding, Lord of the Flies Spiegelman, Maus Silko, Ceremony Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death Browning, Porphyrias Lover Frost, Home Burial Woolf, The Death of the Moth Stanford Prison Experiment Shakespeare, Macbeth Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment Bradstreet, "The Author to her Book" Eliot, "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock"
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Module 4
Zogby, What Arabs Think Wilson, Fences Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory Orwell, Animal Farm Marx, The Communist Manifesto Menken, On Being an American OConnor, Good Country People Lewis, Screwtape Letters, Letter #1 Updike, A & P Mansfield, The Garden Party Leopold, Thinking Like a Mountain Beavan, No Impact Man cummings, I sing of Olaf glad and big Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

Seneca Falls Declaration Aint I A Woman, Truth

Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me Morrison, Song of Solomon Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Soyinka, Telephone Conversation Fugard, Master Harold and the Boys Roy, The God of Small Things Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars Friedan, The Problem that Has No Name
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Includes here the Seneca Falls Declaration and Truths Aint I a Woman Chapter 1 of The Feminine Mystique 6 http://www.prisonexp.org/

NYS Grades 9-12 Text Selections

These modules include authentic reading materials. Authentic reading materials include published works that are typically encountered by students in daily life, such as in magazines, books or newspapers. The use of authentic reading material may mean that some material is emotionally charged or may use language outside of a student's particular cultural experience. As always, curriculum decisions are made at the local level.

Grade 11
Module 1
Faulkner, A Rose for Emily Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted Melville, Bartleby the Scriviner Haslett, Notes to my Biographer Dostoyevsky, Notes From Underground Gogol, The Nose Hawthorne, The Ministers Black Veil Smart, Jubilate Agno (For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry) Rosetti, Goblin Market Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths Shakespeare, Hamlet

Module 2
Swift, A Modest Proposal Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, The Middle Passage Douglass, 1852 Speech at Rochester Turkel, Working
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Module 3
Lincoln, Gettysburg Address Obama, A More Perfect Union Baldwin, Sonnys Blues Jones, The Known World Wilder, Our Town Auden, Funeral Blues Shakespeare, Sonnet 29 Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies Chief Seattle 1854 Speech Egan, The Worst Hard Time Carson, Silent Spring, Chapter 1 McKibbon, New Math

Module 4
Sandel, The Moral Side of Murder Hersey, Hiroshima Jin, The Emperor Gordimer, The Moment Before the Gun Went Off Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard Schlink, The Reader Great Conversation Documents: 9 Segregation Plessy v. Ferguson Brown v. BOE Branch, The Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Brecht, A Worker Reads History Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed Miller, Tragedy and the Common Man Chief Joseph, I Will Fight No More Forever Boo, Beyond the Beautiful Forevers Greely, Anatomy of a Face Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Ogletree, All Deliberate Speed Kozol, Savage Inequalities OBrien, On The Rainy River Erdrich, The Red Convertible Hayden, *American Journal+ Kafka, The Trial

Swift, Gulliver's Travels Brooks, A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon

Browning, "My Last Duchess" Coleridge. "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Dante, " Inferno"

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Interviews with Acuna, Salerno, Schmidt, Hoellen, Page, and/or Rogers http://www.justiceharvard.org/2011/03/episode-01/#watch 9 Includes here Plessy v. Ferguson (including Harlans dissent) and Brown v. Board of Education 10 From his book Parting the Waters

NYS Grades 9-12 Text Selections

These modules include authentic reading materials. Authentic reading materials include published works that are typically encountered by students in daily life, such as in magazines, books or newspapers. The use of authentic reading material may mean that some material is emotionally charged or may use language outside of a student's particular cultural experience. As always, curriculum decisions are made at the local level.

Grade 12
Module 1
Shelley, Frankenstein Casey, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest Shakespeare, Richard III Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter 15 Sun Tsu, The Art of War, Chapter 3 Diamond, Collision at Cajamarca Great Conversation Documents: 12 Revolutionary Era
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Module 2
Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Larkin, Church Going Collins, Questions about Angels DeGrasse Tyson, "The Perimeter of Ignorance" Salzman, Lying Awake Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany King, I Have a Dream Lincoln, Second Inaugural Book of Ruth Quran, Sura 37 (As-Saaffat): 83-112 Clough, The Latest Decalogue Haught, God Says Yes To Me Arnold, Dover Beach Osbourne, What If God Was One of Us VIDEO LINK Nothing

Module 3
Shakespeare, Much Ado About

Module 4
Wallace, This is Water Walker, Everyday Use Morrison, Nobel Prize Lecture Thoreau, Where I Lived, & What I Lived For
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Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband Shakespeare, Sonnet 138 Halberstam, Fifties, Chapters 21 & 39 Proulx, Brokeback Mountain 1 Corinthians 13 Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Cheever, Goodbye, My Brother Diaz, The Three Heartbreaks of 15 Belicia Cabral Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha Ackerman, A Natural History of Love Duras, The Atlantic Man Dacey, Jill, Afterwards Shange, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide

Dillard, Living Like Weasels Jewett, A White Heron Joyce, The Dead Whitman, This Compost Chesterton, The Fallacy of Success Hitchcock, Rear Window McCann, Let The Great World Spin McEwan, Atonement Dennis, The God Who Loves You Chaucer, "The Canterbury Tales"

Dec. of Independence Preamble Bill of Rights

Malcolm X, Autobiography Haidt, The moral roots of liberals 13 and conservatives Tolan, The Lemon Tree Fitzgerald, Bernice Bobs Her Hair Plath, Lady Lazarus Shakespeare, King Lear Aeschylus, Oresteia
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From his Guns, Germs, and Steel Includes the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights 13 http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html 14 http://www.homelands.org/inc/player.php?track=the_lemon_tree.mp3&tracktitle=The%20Lemon%20Tree 15 From his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 16 Chapter 2 of Walden