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The Assassin Game
The Curious Case of the Dog in the Nighttime
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Call me by My Name
The Secret Life of Bees
The Body - Stephen King

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Cask of Amontillado
The Lottery
Harrison Bergeron
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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Craft and structure standards

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RI 1-6

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RI 7/9

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My favorite short literary texts to teach

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My favorite short literary texts to teach

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“Menagerie, a Child’s Fable” by Charles Johnson

“We Ate the Children Last” by Yann Martel

Trifles by Susan Glaspell

The Epic of Gilgamesh (particularly the Sandars translation for Penguin, the McCaughrean version, and there’s an awesome three-part picture book I use too)

“If We Must Die” by Claude McKay

“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver

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My favorite short information texts to teach

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My favorite short information texts to teach

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“There’s No Recipe for Growing Up” by Scaachi Koul

“Scars” by David Owen

The Milgram experiment (write-up and video, response & criticism)

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“Menagerie, a Child’s Fable” by Charles Johnson (especially RL1, RL2, and RL3)

“We Ate the Children Last” by Yann Martel (especially RL5 and RL6)

Trifles by Susan Glaspell (with “A Jury of Her Peers,” RL9)

The Epic of Gilgamesh (especially RL7; tablets/illustrations vs text, variable interpretations)

Poetry: RL4 and RL5

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The Milgram experiment (especially RI7, RI8, and RI9)

“There’s No Recipe for Growing Up” by Scaachi Koul (especially RI1, RI2, RI3, and RI6)

“Scars” by David Owen (especially RI7)

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·       Lord of the Flies

·       Macbeth

·       “The Sniper”

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Romeo and Juliet

Macbeth

Free Jim’s Mine

The Lottery

Hamlet

Mending Wall

Early Autumn

Dreams

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The Distance Between Us Reyna Grande... The Great Gatsby... Short stories like Mother Tongue (Amy Tann).. 

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The Distance Between Us Reyna Grande... The Great Gatsby... Short stories like Mother Tongue (Amy Tann).. 

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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.
simultaneously with The Autobiography of Malcolm X
RI1,2,3,W1,W2
RL1,2,3, W1,W2 (Autobiography of Malcolm X, reads like a novel)

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·       Lord of the Flies

·       Macbeth

·       “The Sniper”
A bunch of new articles and TED Talks about wrongful convictions

Haven’t TAUGHT but used several YA texts for 10th Lit book clubs

“The Wretched and the Beautiful”

Excerpt from The Glass Castle

“The First Day”

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The Crucible
A Raisin in the Sun
House on Mango Street
Romeo and Juliet

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Free Jim’s Mine, The Lottery, The Necklace, The Boar Hunt, The Interlopers, Mending Wall, What the Dead Know by Heart, The Chaperone, Early Autumn, Thank You, Ma’am, The Poison Tree, Salvation, Shame, Dreams, The Cask of Amontillado, Ask Yourself, Black Men and Public Space, Ego-Tripping, Theme for English B

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Macbeth: RL 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7

LOTF: RL1, 2, 3, 5, 9

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The Lottery- RL3, RL2

The Chaperone, Early Autumn- W3, RL2, RL4

Free Jim’s Mine- W3

Dreams, What the Dead Know by Heart- RL4

The Necklace, The Boar Hunt- RL3, RL2

The Interlopers, Mending Wall, The Poison Tree- RL2

Thank You, Ma’am- RL3

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A lot of speeches and persuasive articles for RI 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9

"The Psychology of Evil" - TED Talk (minus the graphic images-- I don't show that part): RI 1, 2, 4, 5

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"The Sniper" and "The First Day" and ch 1 (only) from The Glass Castle are great short texts for RL 1, 2, 3, 5 and also as text models for student narrative writing