GRADE 9. Perspectives CALIFORNIA ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

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1 GRADE 9 Perspectives ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS CALIFORNIA TM

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3 UNIT 1 American Voices unit INtRODUCTION Small-Group learning Compare Text Unit ACTIVITY Launch Text: NONFICTION NARRATIVE MODEL We All Came Here From Somewhere Aretta Okafor whole-class learning ANCHOR TEXT: ESSAY A Quilt of a Country Anna Quindlen ANCHOR TEXT: ESSAY The Immigrant Contribution from A Nation of Immigrants John F. Kennedy SHORT STORY Rules of the Game Amy Tan BLOG POST The Writing on the Wall Camille Dungy MEMOIR With a Little Help From My Friends from Funny in Farsi Firoozeh Dumas POETRY Morning Talk Roberta Hill Immigrant Picnic Gregory Djanikian MEDIA: TIMELINE NYT Interactive Immigration Map SHORT STORY American History Judith Ortiz Cofer WRITING FOCUS Write a Nonfiction Narrative SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS Present a Nonfiction Narrative iv Grade 9

4 essential question: What makes people feel American? Independent Learning MEMOIR from When I Was Puerto Rican Esmeralda Santiago ESSAY from What is an American? J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Finding a Voice: A Taiwanese Family Adapts to America Diane Tsai POETRY The New Colossus Emma Lazarus Legal Alien Pat Mora performance-based assessment Nonfiction Narrative: Reflective Essay and Informal Speech Unit Reflection Reflect on the Unit MEDIA: VIDEO What Does Citizenship Mean to You? Damola Akinola and Maria Cornejo Performance-based assessment prep Review Evidence for a Nonfiction Narrative SCAN FOR MULTIMEDIA Unit Introduction Videos Media Selections Modeling Videos Selection Audio Recordings Use the Bounce Page app whenever you see Scan for Multimedia to access: Additional digital resources can be found in: Interactive Student Edition myperspectives+ Contents v

5 UNIT 2 Survival unit INtRODUCTION Small-Group learning UNIT ACTIVITY Launch Text: Argument Model The Cost of Survival Theo Tucker whole-class learning Anchor TExt: Short Story The Seventh Man Haruki Murakami Anchor TExt: Opinion Piece The Moral Logic of Survivor Guilt Nancy Sherman MEDIA: PoDCAST The Key to Disaster Survival? Friends and Neighbors Shankar Vedantam NARRATIVE NONFICTION The Voyage of the James Caird from The Endurance Caroline Alexander MEDIA: PHOTO GALLERY The Endurance and the James Caird in Images Frank Hurley Compare novel EXCERPT from Life of Pi Yann Martel ARGUMENT The Value of a Sherpa Life Grayson Schaffer Poetry I Am Offering This Poem Jimmy Santiago Baca The Writer Richard Wilbur Hugging the Jukebox Naomi Shihab Nye Writing Focus Write an Argument Speaking and Listening Focus Present an Argument vi Grade 9

6 essential question: What does it take to survive? Independent Learning Short story To Build a Fire Jack London Short Story The Most Dangerous Game Richard Connell BIOGRAPHY from Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand Expository nonfiction Seven Steps to Surviving a Disaster Jim Y. Kim performance-based assessment Argument: Essay and Oral Presentation Unit Reflection Reflect on the Unit Magazine article Titanic vs. Lusitania: How People Behave in a Disaster Jeffrey Kluger memoir from Wave Sonali Deraniyagala Performance-based assessment prep Review Evidence for an Argument SCAN FOR MULTIMEDIA Unit Introduction Videos Media Selections Modeling Videos Selection Audio Recordings Use the Bounce Page app whenever you see Scan for Multimedia to access: Additional digital resources can be found in: Interactive Student Edition myperspectives+ Contents vii

7 UNIT 3 The Literature of Civil Rights unit INtRODUCTION Small-Group learning Compare Unit ACTIVITY Launch Text: EXPLANATORY MODEL 1963: The Year That Changed Everything Sara Taylor whole-class learning ANCHOR TEXT: SPEECH I Have A Dream... Martin Luther King, Jr MEDIA: VIDEO I Have A Dream... Martin Luther King, Jr ANCHOR TEXT: ARGUMENT Letter from a Birmingham City Jail Martin Luther King, Jr MEDIA: VIDEO Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Robert F. Kennedy MEDIA: NEWSCAST Remembering Civil Rights History, When Words Meant Everything PBS Newshour POETRY For My People Margaret Walker Incident Natasha Trethewey SPEECH Lessons of Martin Luther King, Jr. Cesar Chavez MEMOIR Traveling Grace Paley WRITING FOCUS Write a Research Outline SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS Present Research viii Grade 9

8 essential question: How can words inspire change? Independent Learning ARGUMENT Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Spaces Brent Staples NEWSPAPER ARTICLE How the Children of Birmingham Changed the Civil-Rights Movement Lottie L. Joiner AUTOBIOGRAPHY from Black Boy Richard Wright MAGAZINE ARTICLE The Many Lives of Hazel Bryan David Margolick performance-based assessment Explanatory Text: Research-Based Essay and Multimedia Presentation Unit Reflection Reflect on the Unit SHORT STORY Liars Don t Qualify Junius Edwards MEDIA: RADIO BROADCAST Sam Cooke s Swan Song of Protest All Things Considered Performance-based assessment prep Review and Organize Research SCAN FOR MULTIMEDIA Unit Introduction Videos Media Selections Modeling Videos Selection Audio Recordings Use the Bounce Page app whenever you see Scan for Multimedia to access: Additional digital resources can be found in: Interactive Student Edition myperspectives+ Contents ix

9 UNIT 4 Star-Crossed Romances COMPARe unit INtRODUCTION Unit ACTIVITY Launch Text: ARGUMENT MODEL Romeo and Juliet: A Tragedy? Or Just a Tragic Misunderstanding? Olivia Dasha whole-class learning ANCHOR TEXT: DRAMA The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare MEDIA: AUDIO PERFORMANCE The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Los Angeles Theatre Works Small-Group learning LITERARY CRITICISM Romeo and Juliet Is a Terrible Play Alyssa Rosenberg In Defense of Romeo and Juliet: It s Not Childish, It s *About* Childishness Noah Berlatsky COMPARe JOURNALISM Twenty Years On: The Unfinished Lives of Sarajevo s Romeo and Juliet Gordana Sandic-Hadzihasanovic media: NEWSCAST Tragic Romeo and Juliet Offers Bosnia Hope Nic Robertson SHORT STORY Pyramus and Thisbe Ovid WRITING FOCUS Write a Critical Review SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS Present a Claim and Summary x Grade 9

10 essential question: Do we determine our own destinies? Independent Learning MYTH Popocatepetl and Ixtlaccihuatl Juliet Piggot Wood POEM Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe NONFICTION What s the Rush?: Young Brains Cause Doomed Love TK GRAPHIC NOVEL Romeo and Juliet Eli Neugeboren performance-based assessment Argument: Critical Review and Oral Presentation Unit Reflection Reflect on the Unit NEWSPAPER ARTICLE If Romeo and Juliet Had Cell Phones Misty Harris Performance-based assessment prep Review Evidence for a Critical Review.. 00 SCAN FOR MULTIMEDIA Unit Introduction Videos Media Selections Modeling Videos Selection Audio Recordings Use the Bounce Page app whenever you see Scan for Multimedia to access: Additional digital resources can be found in: Interactive Student Edition myperspectives+ Contents xi

11 UNIT 5 Journeys of Transformation Compare Text unit INtRODUCTION Unit ACTIVITY Launch Text: INFORMATIVE MODEL Gone and Back Again: A Traveler s Advice Luis Rivera whole-class learning ANCHOR TEXT: EPIC POEM from the Odyssey Homer GRAPHIC NOVEL The Odyssey Gareth Hinds WORKPLACE/FUNCTIONAL DOCUMENT Application for a Mariner s License United States Coast Guard Small-Group learning SHORT STORY Half a Day Naguib Mahfouz INTERVIEW Bill Moyers Interview with Joseph Campbell Moyers/Campbell POETRY Courage Anne Sexton Ithaka C. P. Cavafy from Narrow Road to a Far Province Matsuo Bashō WRITING FOCUS Write an Informative Article SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS Deliver an Informative Talk xii Grade 9

12 essential question: Which matters more, the journey or the destination? Independent Learning NEWSPAPER ARTICLE Polynesians Set Sail on Three Year, Historic Journey Amy Lieu POETRY The Road Not Taken Robert Frost Your World Georgia Douglas Johnson SHORT STORY The Return Ngugi wa Thiong o performance-based assessment Informative Text: Informative Essay and Formal Speech.. 00 Unit Reflection Reflect on the Unit MEDIA: PHOTO GALLERY 13 Epic Animal Migrations That Prove Just How Cool Mother Nature Is Brianna Elliott MEMOIR from Wild Cheryl Strayed MAGAZINE ARTICLE Traveling Teaches Students in a Way Schools Can t Amanda Machado Performance-based assessment prep Review Evidence for an Informative Essay SCAN FOR MULTIMEDIA Unit Introduction Videos Media Selections Modeling Videos Selection Audio Recordings Use the Bounce Page app whenever you see Scan for Multimedia to access: Additional digital resources can be found in: Interactive Student Edition myperspectives+ Contents xiii

13 UNIT 6 World s End unit INtRODUCTION Small-Group learning Unit ACTIVITY Launch Text: FICTIONAL NARRATIVE Story Outline: Dream s Winter Maya Allison whole-class learning ANCHOR TEXT: SHORT STORY By the Waters of Babylon Stephen Vincent Benet ANCHOR TEXT: SHORT STORY There Will Come Soft Rains Ray Bradbury MAGAZINE ARTICLE The Nuclear Tourist George Johnson POETRY The beginning of the end of the world Lucille Clifton The Powwow at the End of the World Sherman Alexie A Song on the End of the World Czeslaw Milosz Compare MEDIA: RADIO BROADCAST from War of the Worlds Radiolab MEDIA: DOCUMENTARY from War of the Worlds PBS American Experience MAGAZINE ARTICLE The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic Jefferson Pooley and Michael Socolow WRITING FOCUS Write a Short Story SPEAKING AND LISTENING FOCUS Present a Work of Flash Fiction xiv Grade 9

14 essential question: What does doomsday literature say about us? Independent Learning GOVERNMENT BLOG POST Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse Ali S. Khan WEBSITE ARTICLE The Secret Bunker Congress Never Used NPR Staff SHORT STORY Patient Zero Tananarive Due MAGAZINE ARTICLE The End of the World May Look Just Like This Megan Gambino performance-based assessment Narrative: Short Story and Recitation Unit Reflection Reflect on the Unit POETRY Fire and Ice Robert Frost Perhaps the World Ends Here Joy Harjo MEDIA: NEWSCAST A Visit to the Doomsday Vault 60 Minutes with Scott Pelley Performance-based assessment prep Review Details for a Short Story SCAN FOR MULTIMEDIA Unit Introduction Videos Media Selections Modeling Videos Selection Audio Recordings Use the Bounce Page app whenever you see Scan for Multimedia to access: Additional digital resources can be found in: Interactive Student Edition myperspectives+ Contents xv