Unit Materials for 9th Grade English

Book: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain (Crown)   —  1170L

Book: Fresh Ink: An Anthology (Ember)

Excerpt: How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity

Book: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu (Saga Press)   —  950L

Book: One Good Story, That One by Thomas King (Harper Perennial)

Poem: “Counterfactual” by Clint Smith

Poem: “I'm Nobody! Who are you? (260)” by Emily Dickinson (The Poetry Foundation)

Poem: “(citizen)(illegal)” by José Olivarez (Poet's House)

Poem: “Hair” by Elizabeth Acevedo (The George Washington University, YouTube)

Written Text: “Hair” by Elizabeth Acevedo (Medium)

Video: “My Honest Poem” by Rudy Francisco (Button Poetry, YouTube)

Video: “Our Fight for Disability Rights and Why We're Not Done Yet” by Judith Heumann (TED Talk)

Video: “Judy Heumann Reads an Excerpt from Her Memoir Being Heumann” by Judith Heumann (RespectAbility, YouTube)

Article: “In 'Turning Red' I Finally Saw Myself Reflected in a Main Character” by Evelyn Kwong (The Toronto Star)

Book: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (One World)

Article: “Apartheid” by Mike Kubic (CommonLit)

Primary Source: Apartheid Policies

Speech: “Inaugural Speech” by Nelson Mandela, May 10, 1994 (African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania)

Video: “Nelson Mandela, the Man Who Changed the World”

Video: “South Africa's coloured community: 'Still marginalised after apartheid'” (BBC News Africa)

Book: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Book: The Central Park Five: The Untold Story Behind One of New York City's Most Infamous Crimes by Sarah Burns

Essay: “Excerpt from John Steinbeck's The Harvest Gypsies” by John Steinbeck

Photo: Migrant worker on California Highway (1935) by Dorothea Lange

Photo: Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936) by Dorothea Lange

Photo: Dorothea Lange: Drought refugees from Texas encamped in California near Exeter. Seven in Family (1936)

Letter: “John Steinbeck’s Letter to Claire Luce” by John Steinbeck

Poem: “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns

Article: “Supreme Court Denies Stay of Execution for Marvin Williams” by Brandi Grissom

Article: “Supreme Court Bars Executing Mentally Retarded” by David Stout

Article: “Family of John Steinbeck 'deeply troubled' by Scheduled Execution of Marvin Williams” by Thomas Steinbeck

Article: “What is Cognitive Bias and How Does it Contribute to Wrongful Convictions” by Vanessa Meterko

Article: “Black People are Wrongly Convicted More Than Any Other Group” by Christina Swarms

Movie: When They See Us by Ava DuVernay

Book: In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (Algonquin Books of Chapel)

Article: “Trujillo & the Mirabal Sisters” by Mike Kubic (CommonLit)

Video: “Interview with Julia Alvarez” by National Endowment for the Arts Podcast (2010)

Excerpt: Parable of the Pearl of Great Price, NKJV Matthew 13:45-46

Excerpt: Bible excerpts from the Gospels of Luke and Matthew

Video: “What's in the heads of heroes” by CBS 60 Minutes

Video: “The Danger of Silence” by Clint Smith (TED Talk)

Play: The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (Folger Shakespeare Library)

Article: “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid (CommonLit)

Article: “Angel Reese isn’t harming women’s sports. Her pearl-clutching critics are” by Mary McNamara (LA Times)

“Edwidge Danticat reads Jamaica Kincaid” by The New Yorker Fiction Podcast (Podcast)

Poem: “How to Be a Man” by Simar Singh

Poem: “Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun” by William Shakespeare (Poetry Foundation)

Non-Fiction Text: “Declaration of Sentiments” by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (PBS)

Document: “Declaration of Independence”

Song: “The Man”

Essay: “I Want a Wife” by Judy Brady (Ms. Magazine, 1972)

Video: “We Should All be Feminists” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TED Talk)

Video: “Why I'm Done Trying to be Man Enough” by Justin Baldoni (TED Talk)

Video: “Shakespeare's Globe | Taming of the Shrew (2012) | Act 1 Scene 1”

Video: “Royal Shakespeare Company | Act 1 Scene 1 | The Taming of the Shrew (2019)” (Royal Shakespeare Company)

Video: “Franco Zeffirelli's Taming of the Shrew (1967)”

Video: “BBC Shakespeare Retold: Taming of the Shrew (2005)”

Video: “Shakespeare's Globe Act 2, Scene 1 Part 1”

Video: “Shakespeare's Globe Act 2, Scene 1 Part 2”

Video: “Royal Shakespeare Company Act 2, Scene 1”

Video: “10 Things I Hate About You Clip 1”

Video: “10 Things I Hate About You Clip 2”

Video: “10 Things I Hate About You Clip 3”