Common+Core--9th+Grade

**__9-1 Literary Texts—Literary Elements and the Short Story__**
**Short Stories** § “[|The Gift of the Magi]” (O. Henry) (E) § “[|The Overcoat]” (Nikolai Gogol) (EA) § “[|The Most Dangerous Game]” (Richard Connell) § “[|The Kitchen Boy]” (Alaa Al Aswany) § “[|The Secret Life of Walter Mitty]” (James Thurber) (EA) § “[|The Cask of Amontillado]” (Edgar Allan Poe) (EA) § “[|The Black Cat]” (Edgar Allan Poe) (EA) § “[|The Tell-Tale Heart]” (Edgar Allan Poe) (EA) § “[|The Scarlet Ibis]” (James Hurst) § “[|Everyday Use]” (Alice Walker) (EA) § “[|The Minister's Black Veil]” (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (EA) § “[|How Much Land Does a Man Need]?” (Leo Tolstoy) § [|Drinking Coffee Elsewhere: Stories] (ZZ Packer)

**Informational Texts** None for this unit

**Art, Music, and Media** __Prompt__: How do artists create visual narratives in photography and painting?

**Art** § Michelangelo, [|The Creation of Adam], Sistine Chapel (1482) § Sultan Muhammad, (1539-43) § Jacob Lawrence, [|On The Way] (1990) § Emanuel Leutze, [|Washington Crossing The Delaware] (1851) § Pablo Picasso, [|Young Acrobat on a Ball] (1905) § Tina Barney, [|Marina’s Room] (1987) § Roy DeCarava, [|Untitled] (1950)

**Media** § // [|Brooklyn Bridge] // (documentary film, Ken Burns, director) § [|BMW short films] (e.g., “Chosen,” Ang Lee, director)

**__9-2 Literary Texts—The Novel--Honor__**
**Novels** //Recommended// § //To Kill A Mockingbird// (Harper Lee) (L933) //Alternate Selections// § //The Killer Angels// (Michael Shaara) (E) (L610) § //All Quiet on the Western Front// (Erich Maria Remarque) (L830) § //The Color Purple// (Alice Walker) (IB) (L630) § //Of Mice and Men// (John Steinbeck) (EA) (L630) § //Black Boy// (Richard Wright) (L855)

**Informational Texts**

**Additional Resources** § [|Famous American Trials: “The Scottsboro Boys” Trials (1931-37)] (University of Missouri-Kansas School of Law) //(Note: This website contains primary and secondary source accounts of “The Scottsboro Boys” trial.)//

**Art, Music, and Media**

**Art (Photographs)** § Dorothea Lange, [|selected photographs] taken for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression § “ [|America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945] ” (Library of Congress)

**Media** § //To Kill A Mockingbird// (1962) (Robert Mulligan, director)

**__9-3 Literary Texts—Poetry--Beauty__**
**Poems**
 * “[|Ozymandias]” (Percy Bysshe Shelley) (E)
 * “[|The Raven]” (Edgar Allan Poe) (E)
 * “[|Sonnet 73]” (William Shakespeare) (E)
 * “[|Ode on a Grecian Urn]” (John Keats) (E)
 * “[|We grow accustomed to the Dark]” (Emily Dickinson) (E)
 * “[|Mending Wall]” (Robert Frost) (E)
 * “Homecoming” (Julia Alvarez) (EA)
 * “[|Love Is]” (Nikki Giovanni) (EA)
 * “[|A Lemon]” (Pablo Neruda) (EA)
 * “Saturday’s Child” (Countée Cullen) (EA)
 * “Dream Variations” (Langston Hughes) (EA)
 * “In Time of Silver Rain” (Langston Hughes) (EA)
 * “I Ask My Mother to Sing” (Li-Young Lee)
 * “The Gift” (Li-Young Lee)
 * “Phantom Limbs” (Anne Michaels)
 * [|Psalm 96] (King James Bible)
 * “Lord Randall” (Anonymous)
 * “Campo di Fiori” (Czeslaw Milosz)
 * “The Darkling Thrush” (Thomas Hardy)
 * “Poetry” (Marianne Moore)
 * “Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard” (Thomas Gray)
 * “The Sound of the Sea” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
 * “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (William Wordsworth)
 * “The Lady of Shalott” (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
 * “The Underground” (Seamus Heaney)
 * “In Trackless Woods” (Richard Wilbur)
 * “The Reader” (Richard Wilbur)
 * “Walking Distance” (Debra Allbery)
 * “Morning Glory” (Naomi Shihab Nye)
 * Haiku selections

**Informational Texts**

**Informational Text**
 * Excerpts from //Faulkner in the University: Class Conferences at the University of Virginia 1957-1958// (William Faulkner, Frederick L. Gwynn, ed.)
 * Excerpts from “Crediting Poetry,” the Nobel Prize Lecture, 1995 (Seamus Heaney)

**Art, Music, and Media**

Prompt: "What similarities can we find between great poems and masterpieces of other kinds?"

**Music**
 * Giacomo Puccini, “[|Un bel di, vedremo]” (//Madama Butterfly//, 1904)
 * Giacomo Puccini, “[|O mio babbino caro]” (//Gianni Schicchi//, 1918)

**Art and Architecture**
 * Leonardo da Vinci//, [|Mona Lisa] (1503-06)//
 * Sandro Botticelli, [|The Birth of Venus] (1486)
 * Vincent van Gogh, [|Starry Night] (1889)
 * Michelangelo, [|David] (1504)
 * [|The Parthenon] (447-432 BC)
 * Frank Lloyd Wright, [|Frederick C. Robie House] (1909)
 * [|Chartres Cathedral](begun around 1200)

**__9-4 Literary Texts—Drama--Fate__**
**Plays**
 * [|Romeo and Juliet] (William Shakespeare) (E) (L1260)
 * [|Antigone] (Sophocles) (E)(L1090)
 * [|Oedipus the King] (Sophocles)(1010)

**Informational Text**
 * Excerpt on comedy and tragedy from [|Poetics] (Aristotle)

**Art, Music, and Media**

**Prompt: What similarities exist between how playwrights and painters depict tragedy?** **Art**
 * Pablo Picasso, (1903)
 * Caravaggio, // [|The Death of the Virgin] // (1604-1606)
 * Artemesia Gentileschi, // [|Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes] // (1625)

**__9-5 Literary Texts—Epic Poetry--Heroism__**
**Stories** **Poems**
 * //Mythology// (Edith Hamilton)
 * [|The Odyssey] (Homer) (E)
 * [|The Aeneid](Virgil)
 * “[|The Lotos-Eaters]” (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
 * Excerpts from “[|Endymion”] (John Keats) (EA)
 * “[|The Song of Hiawatha]” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (EA)
 * Excerpts from the [|Ramayana] (attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki)

**Informational Text**
 * Excerpts from //The Gold of Troy// (Robert Payne)
 * Excerpts from //Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming// (Jonathan Shay)
 * Excerpts from //Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War// (William Manchester)
 * //Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point// (Elizabeth D. Samet)
 * //Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families// (Andrew Carroll, ed.)
 * [|The Hero with a Thousand Faces] (Joseph Campbell)

**Art, Music, and Media** Music
 * Henry Purcell, [|Dido and Aeneas] (1689)

__ **9-6 Literary Texts—Literary Nonfiction—Reflection (The Memoir, The Essay, and The Speech)** __
**Memoirs**
 * //One Writer's Beginnings// (Eudora Welty)
 * //A Childhood: The Biography of a Place// (Harry E. Crews)
 * //Running in the Family// (Michael Ondaatje)
 * “A Four Hundred Year Old Woman” (Bharati Mukherjee)
 * [|In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens]Alice Walker) (EA)(L1160)
 * //The Woman Warrior//: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Maxine Hong Kingston)
 * “[|Learning to Read and Write]” (Frederick Douglass) (EA)
 * //Notes of a Native Son// (James Baldwin)
 * “[|A Sketch of the Past]” (Virginia Woolf)

**Essay**
 * Excerpts from [|Life on the Mississippi](Mark Twain) (EA)

**Informational Texts**

**Speeches**
 * “[|Second Inaugural Address]” (E) and/or “[|The Gettysburg Address]” (Abraham Lincoln) (E)
 * “[|Address at the March on Washington]” and/or “[|Letter from a Birmingham Jail]” (Martin Luther King, Jr.) (E)
 * Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech 1949 (William Faulkner) (EA)
 * “[|Sinews of Peace Address]” (Winston Churchill) and/or “[|Brandenburg Gate Address]” (Ronald Reagan)

**Essays**
 * “[|Politics and the English Language]” (George Orwell) (E)
 * “The Lost Childhood” (Graham Greene)
 * Excerpts from //The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today// (Martin Seymour-Smith)
 * “[|Lear, Tolstoy, and The Fool]” (George Orwell)
 * “[|Avant-Garde and Kitsch]” (Clement Greenberg)
 * “[|Preface to Lyrical Ballads]” (William Wordsworth)

**Art, Music, and Media**

**Prompt: How is a self-portrait like a memoir?** **Art**
 * Vincent van Gogh, // [|Self-Portrait] // (1889)
 * Jan van Eyck, // [|Self-Portrait] // (1433)
 * Albrecht Durer, // [|Self-Portrait at the age of 13] // (1484)
 * Leonardo da Vinci, (c.1513)
 * Rembrandt van Rijn, // [|Self-Portrait at an early age] // (1628)
 * Rembrandt van Rijn, // [|Self-Portrait at the Age of 63] // (1669)
 * Artemisia Gentileschi, // [|Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting] // (1630s)
 * Jacob Lawrence, // [|Self-Portrait] // (1977)
 * Gustave Courbet, // [|The Desperate Man] // (self-portrait) (1843)
 * Louisa Matthíasdóttir, // [|Self-Portrait with Dark Coat] // (No Date)
 * Francis Bacon, // [|Self-Portrait] // (1973)
 * Balthus, [|Le roi des chats] (The king of cats) (1935)
 * Pablo Picasso, // [|Self-Portrait] // (1907)