Resources for Unit 2: How and Why We Read
Fiction Resources:
Practice:
Kate Chopin's "Regret"
James Thurber's "In the Catbird Seat"
Tim O'Brien's "The Man I Killed"
Liliana Hecker's "The Stolen Party" (Formative Quiz)
Fiction Summative Assignment and Rubric
-Summative Reading: Langston Hughes' "Thank You, Ma'am"
Nonfiction Resources:
Practice:
Excerpt from Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle
NY Times "Author is Kicked Out of Oprah's Book Club"
Synthesis Paragraph Assignment (Formative)
Article Options for Synthesis:
-"Black Women helped land a man on the moon"
-"Mavis Batey, code breaker, who helped to ensure D-Day success, dies"
-"Syrian inventions that changed the world"
-"Scientist sees the light; it comes from cement"
Audrey Carlsen's "See Me As I Am" (Formative Quiz)
Summative Assignment and Rubric
-Summative Reading: Brent Staple's "Black Men in Public Spaces"
Practice:
Kate Chopin's "Regret"
James Thurber's "In the Catbird Seat"
Tim O'Brien's "The Man I Killed"
Liliana Hecker's "The Stolen Party" (Formative Quiz)
Fiction Summative Assignment and Rubric
-Summative Reading: Langston Hughes' "Thank You, Ma'am"
Nonfiction Resources:
Practice:
Excerpt from Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle
NY Times "Author is Kicked Out of Oprah's Book Club"
Synthesis Paragraph Assignment (Formative)
Article Options for Synthesis:
-"Black Women helped land a man on the moon"
-"Mavis Batey, code breaker, who helped to ensure D-Day success, dies"
-"Syrian inventions that changed the world"
-"Scientist sees the light; it comes from cement"
Audrey Carlsen's "See Me As I Am" (Formative Quiz)
Summative Assignment and Rubric
-Summative Reading: Brent Staple's "Black Men in Public Spaces"