Collection 1 “Facing Danger”
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Collection 1 “Facing Danger” Literary Focus: Analyzing Plot Informational Reading Focus: Analyzing Text Structure Elements of Literature Plot Madeline Travers Hovland Reading Skills and Strategies: Summarizing the Plot: Retelling: Kylene Beers Duffy’s Jacket (Short Story by Bruce Coville) Rikki tikki-tavi (Short Story by Rudyard Kipling) immensely- enormous cowered – crouched and trembled in fear valiant - brave and determined consolation – comfort impotent – powerless (From) People, Places, and Changes (Geography Textbook) No Vocabulary Words Three Skeleton Key (Short Story by George Toudouze) hordes- large; moving crowds fathom- understand edible - fit to be eaten derisive – scornful and ridiculing Eeking Out of a Life (Newspaper Article by Matt Surman) No Vocabulary Words The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street (Teleplay by Rod Serling) No Vocabulary Words Cellular Telephone Owner’s Manual (Instructional Manual) No Vocabulary Words Zoo (Short Story by Edward Hoch) No Vocabulary Words The Ruum (Short Story by Arthur Porges) No Vocabulary Words Frankenstein Short Story by Saki) No Vocabulary Words Those Three Wishes (Poem by Edward Field) No Vocabulary Words The Dinner Party (Short Story by Mona Gardener) No Vocabulary Words Textbook, Newspaper Article, Instructional Manual Short Story by Mona Gardener) No Vocabulary Words Collection 2 “Characters: Living Many Lives” Literary Focus: Analyzing Character Informational Reading Focus: Comparison and Contrasting Elements of Characterization: Mara Rockliff Reading Skills and Strategies: Characters and Plots Kylene Beers Girls (Short Story by Gary Paulsen) Mother and Daughter (Short Story by Gary Soto) matinees - afternoon performances of a play or movie antics – playful or silly acts meager – slight, small amount sophisticated – worldly, elegant and refined tirade – long, scolding speech The Smallest Dragon Boy (Short Story by Anne McCaffery) goaded – pushed or driven imminent – about to happen perturbed – disturbed or troubled confrontation – face to face meeting between opposing sides alleviate – relieve, reduce Here Be Dragons (Article by Flo Ota De Lange) No Vocabulary Words A Rice Sandwich (Short Story by Sandra Cisneros) No Vocabulary Words Antaeus (Short Story by Borden Deal) resolute – firm and purposeful domain - territory contemplate – look at or think about carefully shrewd – clever sterile – barren; lacking interest or vitality In a Mix of Cultures, an Olio of Plantings (Newspaper Article by Anne Raver) No Vocabulary Words A Day’s Wait (Short Story by Ernest Hemingway) No Vocabulary Words Stolen Day (Short Story by Sherwood Anderson) No Vocabulary Words Homesick No Vocabulary Words From the Red Girl (Short Story by Jamaica Kincaid) No Vocabulary Words Collection 3 “Living in the Heart” Literary Focus: Analyzing Theme Informational Reading Focus: Analyzing Cause and Effect Elements of Literature: Theme By Mara Rockliff Reading Skills and Strategies: Finding the Theme By Kylene Beers Hearts and Hands (Short Story by O’Henry) No Vocabulary Words The Highwayman (Poem by Alfred Noyes) No Vocabulary Words Gentlemen of the Road (Article by Mara Rockliff) No Vocabulary Words Annabel Lee (Poem by Edgar Allan Poe) No Vocabulary Words The Fall of the House of Poe? (Article by Mara Rockliff) No Vocabulary Words User Friendly (Short StoryErnesto Bethan court) No Vocabulary Words It Just Keeps Going and Going (Article by Joan Burditt) No Vocabulary Words Echo and Narcissus (Myth by Roger Lancelyn Green) detain – hold back; delay vainly – uselessly; without result unrequited – not returned in kind parched – very hot and dry intently – with great concentration Charles (Short Story by Shirley Jackson) No Vocabulary Words Miss Awful (Short Story by Arthur Cavanaugh) No Vocabulary Words The Only Girl in the World for Me (Essay by Bill Cosby) No Vocabulary Words The Golden Hair Girl in a Louisiana Town (Poem by Vachel Lindsay) No Vocabulary Words Home (Short Story by Gwendolyn Brooks) No Vocabulary Words Gold (Poem by Pat Mora) No Vocabulary Words Mongoose on the Loose (Magazine Article by Larry Luxner) No Vocabulary Words Collection 4 “Point of View: Can You See It My Way?” Literary Focus: Analyzing Point of View Informational Reading Focus: Analyzing Author’s Argument Elements of Literature: Point of View John Leggett Reading Skills and Strategies: Author’s Perspective Kylene Beers Canines to the Rescue (Article by Jonah Goldberg) No Vocabulary Words for this story After Twenty Years (Short Story by O’Henry) habitual – done or fixed habit intricate – complicated; full of detail dismally – miserably egotism – conceit, talking about oneself too much simultaneously – at the same time What’s Really in a Name (Article by Joan Burditt) No Vocabulary Words Bargain (Short Story by A.B. Guthrie) No Vocabulary Words Yen-Shen (Short Story by Ai-Ling Louie) No Vocabulary Words Mirror, Mirror What Do I See? (by Joan Burditt) No Vocabulary Words Names/Nombres (Essay by Julia Alvarez) ethnicity- common culture or nationality exotic – foreign, not native heritage – traditions that are passed along convoluted - complicated An Unforgettable Journey (Autobiography by Majue Xiong) refuge - shelter; protection transition – change; passing from one condition to another. persecution – act of willfully injuring or attacking other because of their belief or their ethnic background. refugee – person who flees home or country to escape persecution deprivation – loss, condition having something taken away by force. Exile Eyes ((Radio Commentary by Agate Nesaule) No Vocabulary Words Elizabeth I (Biography by Milton Meltzer) monarch - sole and absolute leader alliance - pact between nations, families or individuals that shows a common cause monopoly – exclusive control of a market arrogant – overly convinced by one’s own importance intolerable – unbearable The Last Dinosaur (Short Story by Jim Murphy) No Vocabulary Words Buffalo Dusk (Poem by Carl Sandburg) No Vocabulary Words I Was Sleeping While the Black Oaks Move (Poem by Louise Erdnich) No Vocabulary Words The Naming of Names (Short Story by Ray Bradbury) No Vocabulary Words for this story Collection 5 “A Matter of Style” Literary Focus: Analyzing Prose and Poetry Informational Reading Focus: Analyzing Main Idea Elements of Literature: Understanding Forms of Prose by Kylene Beers Reading Skills and Strategies: Finding the Main Idea Kylene Beers A Good Reason to Look UP (Poem by Shaquille O’Neal) No Vocabulary Words Amigo Brothers (Short Story by Piri Thomas) bouts – matches, contests pensively – thoughtfully torrent – flood or rush dispelled – driven away frenzied – wild Right Hook, Left Hook: The Boxing Controversy (Article by Joan Burditt) No Vocabulary Words (from) Barrio Boy (Autobiography by Ernesto Galarza) reassuring – comforting contraption – strange machine or gadget assured – promised confidently formidable – awe-inspiring; impressive Song of the Trees (Novella by Mildred D. Taylor) finicky – fussy and extremely careful dispute- argument ambled – walked without hurrying delved – searched curtly – rudely; using a few words skirting – avoiding elude – escape cleverly incredulously – unbelieving ashen – pale sentries – guards Fish Cheeks (Essay by Amy Tan) appalling- horrifying wedges- pie shaped slices clamor – loud; confused noise rumpled- wrinkled and untidy muster- call forth A Mason Dixon Memory (Essay by Clifton Davis) predominantly – mainly forfeit – lose the right to compete resolve – decide ominous – threatening erupted – burst forth Buddies Bare Their Affection for Ill Classmate (Newspaper Article) No Vocabulary Words I’m Nobody (Poem by Emily Dickinson) No Vocabulary Words I Like to See it Lap the Miles (Poem by Emily Dickinson) No Vocabulary Words I Am of the Earth (Poem by Anna Lee Waters) No Vocabulary Words Early Song (Poem by Gogisigi/Carroll Arnett) No Vocabulary Words Madam and the Rent Man (Poem by Langston Hughes) No Vocabulary Words Harlem Night Song (Poem by Langston Hughes) No Vocabulary Words Winter Moon (Poem by Langston Hughes) No Vocabulary Words I Ask My Mother to Sing (Poem by Li-Young Lee) No Vocabulary Words Ode to Family Photographs (Poem by Gary Soto) No Vocabulary Words The Sounds of Poetry (Poem by John Malcom Brinnin) No Vocabulary Words A Tutor (Poem by Carolyn Wells) No Vocabulary Words Jabberwocky (Poem by Lewis Carroll) No Vocabulary Words Father William (Poem by Lewis Carroll) No Vocabulary Words Sarah Cynthia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out (Poem by Shel Silverstein) No Vocabulary Words The Runaway (Poem by Robert Frost) No Vocabulary Words The Pasture (Poem by Robert Frost) No Vocabulary Words A Minor Bird (Poem by Robert Frost) No Vocabulary Words Names of Horses (Poem by Donald Hall) No Vocabulary Words Maggie and milly and molly and may (Poem E.E. Cummings) No Vocabulary Words All in green went my love riding (Poem by E.E. Cummings) No Vocabulary Words Arithmetic (Poem by Carl Sandburg) No Vocabulary Words For Poets (Poem by Al Young) No Vocabulary Words Author Study Sandra Cisneros (No Vocabulary for Author Study) (from) The Infinite Mind (Interview by Marit Haahr) Salvador Late or Early (Short Story by Sandra Cisneros) Chanclas (Short Story by Sandra Cisneros) Abuelito Who Short Story by Sandra Cisneros) Where Dreams Come From Short Story by Sandra Cisneros) The Burning of Books (Poem by Bertolt Brecht) No Vocabulary Words A Prose Listing (List) No Vocabulary Words The Sea (Poem by James Reeves) No Vocabulary Words Collection 6 “Poetry: Sound and Sense” Literary Focus: Analyzing Myths and Folk Tales Informational Reading Focus: Summarizing Elements of Literature: Myths of Greece and Rome by David Adams Leeming Reading Skills and Strategies: Becoming Word Wise Kylene Beers Greek and Latin Roots and Affixes (List) Origins of the Season (Myth by Olivia Coolidge) No Vocabulary or Story Words Orpheus, The Great Musician (Myth by Olivia Coolidge) inconsolable – unable to be comforted; broken hearted ghastly – horrible, ghostlike reluctance – unwillingness ascended – moved up The Power of Music (Autobiography by Madia Salerno Sonnenberg) No Vocabulary or Story Words The Flight of Icarus (Myth by Sally Benson) No Vocabulary or Story Words King Midas and the Golden Touch (Myth by Pamela Oldfield) No Vocabulary or Story Words The Funeral Banquet of King Midas (Magazine Article by John Fleishman) archaeologist – scientists who study the culture of the past, especially by excavating ancient sites. excavating – uncovering or exposing digging avalanche- mass of loosened snow, earth, rocks and so on, suddenly and swiftly down a mountain interior – inner part of anything; opposite of interior is exterior Elements of Literature: Folk Tales (Virginia Hamilton) No Vocabulary or Story Words Oni and the Great Bird (Yoruban Folk Tale by Abayomi Fuja) implored- asked or begged commenced – began invincible – unbeatable hovered – hung in the air imposter – person who pretends to be someone or something that he or she is not. Master Frog (Vietnamese Folk Tale by Lynette Dyer Vuong) admonished – warned or urged entreaties – earnest requests charade – obvious pretense or act presumptuous – too bold; arrogant cowered – crouched or trembled in fear The Crane Wife (Japanese Folk Tale by Sumiko Yagawa) No Vocabulary or Story Words Aunty Misery (Puerto Rican Folk Tale by Judith Ortiz Cofer) No Vocabulary Words The Hummingbird King (Mayan Folk Tale by Argentina Palacios) No Vocabulary Words The Search Goes On (History by Carolyn Meyer and Charles Gallenkamp) decipher - interpret ransacked - searched thoroughly for goods to steal; looted, robbed artifacts – objects made by people or adapted for human use connoisseurs - people are expert on something unscrupulous – dishonest Aschenputtel (German Folk Tale by Jacob and William Grimm) No Vocabulary Words Dinorella (Fairy Tale by Pamela Dencan Edwards) No Vocabulary Words Interview (Poem by Sara Henderson Hay) No Vocabulary Words The Dream of Good Fortune (from the Arabian Nights (Drama by Paul Sills) No Vocabulary Words Belling the Cat (Aesop Fable) No Vocabulary Words Collection 7 “Literary Criticism: Where I Stand” Literary Focus: Criticizing Literature Elements of Literature: Evaluating Evidence Elements of Literature: Criticism by Madeline Travers Hovland Reading Skills and Strategies: Assessing Evidence by Sheri Henderson Letter to the Editor No Vocabulary Words King Arthur: The Sword in the Stone (Legend Hudson Talbott) turbulent – disorderly tournament – series of contests integrity – honesty; uprightness congregation – gathering Three Responses to Literature (Essays) No Vocabulary Words He’s No King (Article by Kings Lot and Urien) No Vocabulary Words Merlin and the Dragons (Legend by Jane Yolen) ruthless – without pity bedraggled - hanging limp and wet; dirty insolence – disrespect recognition – knowing again Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady (Legend by Betsy Hearne) chivalry – code that governed knightly behavior such as courage, honor, and readiness to help the weak countenance – face; appearance loathsome – disgusting sovereignty - control; authority (From) Long Walk to Freedom (Biography by Nelson Mandela) Rosa Parks (Biography by Rita Dove) No Vocabulary or Story Words The Impossible Dream (Song Lyrics by Joe Darion and Mitch Leigh) No Vocabulary or Story Words Essay I: Themes in Arthurian Legends (Essay) No Vocabulary or Story Words Essay II: Women Characters in King Arthur Stories (Essay) No Vocabulary Words Looking for Heroes (Speech) No Vocabulary Words Collection 8 “Reading for Life” Informational Focus: Analyzing Information in Public, Workplace and Consumer Documents Following Technical Directions Reading for Life (Sheri Henderson) No Vocabulary Words From Page to Film (Magazine Article y Kathryn R. Hoffman) No Vocabulary Words Casting Call (Public Announcement) No Vocabulary Words Hollywood Beat (Newspaper Article) No Vocabulary Words Application for Permission to Work in the Entertainment Industry (Application Form) No Vocabulary Words Letter from a Casting Director (Business Letter) No Vocabulary Words Talent Instructions (Workplace Instructions) No Vocabulary Words E-Mail Memo (Job Memorandum) No Vocabulary Words Email Directory (Job Resources) No Vocabulary Words Bart System Map (Transit Map) No Vocabulary Words Bart’s Bicycle Rules (Transit Rules) No Vocabulary Words Bart Ticket Guide (Transit fares) No Vocabulary Words Bart Schedule (Transit Schedule) No Vocabulary Words How to Change a Flat Tire (Technical Directions) No Vocabulary Words Talent Instructions (Workplace Instructions) No Vocabulary Words Talent Instructions (Workplace Instructions) No Vocabulary Words Directory: vp gle vp gle -> Algebra I table of Contents Unit 1: Understanding Numeric Values, Variability, and Change 1 Unit 2: Writing and Solving Proportions and Linear Equations 14 Unit 3: Linear Functions and Their Graphs, Rates of Change, and Applications 25 Unit 4: Linear Download 122.75 Kb. 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