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1 Correlation of EMC s Mirrors & Windows: Level V to California State Standards for the Language Arts, Grades 9/10 Unit 1: Fiction Introduction to Fiction 2, 3.3, 3.6, 3.8 The Open Window by Saki 5 Literary Response and Analysis 3.3, 3.4, 1.4 Listening and Speaking Strategies 2.1 Understanding Plot 12 Literary Response and Analysis 3.6 The Monkey s Paw by W. W. Jacobs 14 Literary Response and Analysis 3.6, Listening and Speaking Strategies 1.7 Grammar & Style: Subject-Verb Agreement 26 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.2 Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing 28 Literary Response and Analysis 3.3, 3.6, 3.7 Listening and Speaking Strategies 1.7 Speaking Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 2.3 Literature Connection: Death of a Young Son by Drowning by Margaret Atwood 37 Grammar & Style: Parallel Structure 40 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.2 Understanding Point of View 42 Literary Response and Analysis 3.9 Lather and Nothing Else by Hernando Téllez 44 The Moment Before the Gun Went Off by Nadine Gordimer 50 Literary Response and Analysis 3.3, 3.4, Listening and Speaking Strategies 1.2 Literary Response and Analysis 3.8, 3.9 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 2.3 Grammar & Style: Pronoun and Antecedent Agreement 58 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.3 Understanding Character 60 Literary Response and Analysis 3.3 Catch the Moon by Judith Ortiz Cofer 63 Literary Response and Analysis 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 2.3 Two Kinds by Amy Tan 69 Understanding Setting 80 Literary Response and Analysis 3.12 The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe 82 Informational Text Connection: Questions and Answers about Plague 89, 3.12, ,, 2.6 1

2 Vocabulary & Spelling: Idioms, Metaphors, and Similes 92 Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant 94 Development 1.1 Literary Response and Analysis 3.6, 3.8, 3.12 Grammar & Style: Sentence Variety 104 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.2 Understanding Theme 106 Literary Response and Analysis 3.5 Everyday Use by Alice Walker 108 The Leap by Louise Erdrich 118 Development 1.3 Literary Response and Analysis 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.7 Listening and Speaking Strategies 2.3, 3.3 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics), 2.6 Literature Connection: Her Flying Trapeze, 3.7 by Nikki Giovanni 125 Grammar & Style: Comma Usage 128 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.1 Reading Fiction Independently 130 Literary Response and Analysis 3.6, 3.9 Cranes by Hwang Sun-wôn 132 Literary Response and Analysis 3.3, 3.6 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) On the Rainy River by Tim O Brien 137 Literary Response and Analysis 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.9 Excerpt from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 150 Informational Text Connection: The Kite Runner: A Servant s Son by Edward Hower 155 Who Said We All Have to Talk Alike by Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel 157 Informational Text Connection: Employment Contract for a Nanny 163 Chee s Daughter by Juanita Platero and Siyowin Miller 167 Literature Connection: Freeway 280 by Lorna Dee Cervantes 178 Civil Peace by Chinua Achebe 180 A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett 185 The Enchanted Garden by Italo Calvino 195 Like the Sun by R. K. Narayan Literary Response and Analysis 3.6, 3.9 Literary Response and Analysis 3.4, 3.6, 3.7, 3.9 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics), Literary Response and Analysis 3.6, 3.8 Literary Response and Analysis 3.5, 3.6, 3.9, 3.11 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics), 2.3 Literary Response and Analysis 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7, 3.9 Literary Response and Analysis 3.5, 3.7, 3.8 Literary Response and Analysis 3.6, 3.8 For Your Reading List 204 Literary Response and Analysis 3.0 2

3 Speaking & Listening Workshop: Present a Horror Story 205 Listening and Speaking Strategies 1.3, 1.4, 1.9 Speaking Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 2.1 Writing Workshop: Plot Analysis 206 Writing Strategies 1.1, 1.4, 1.9 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.4, 1.5 Test Practice Workshop 213 Writing Strategies 1.9 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.0, 1.3 Unit 2: Nonfiction Introduction to Nonfiction 218 Montgomery Boycott by Coretta Scott King Literary Response and Analysis 3.9 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics), Listening and Speaking Strategies 1.2 Speaking Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 2.3 Understanding Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir 232 Literary Response and Analysis 3.0 Excerpt from My Left Foot by Christy Brown 235 Excerpt from The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 241, Literary Response and Analysis 3.5, 3.7, 3.8, 1.5, 1.6 Listening and Speaking Strategies 1.9 Excerpt from Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese- American Family by Yoshiko Uchida 246 Literary Response and Analysis 3.12 Informational Text Connection: Proclamation 4417: Termination of Executive Order 9066 by Gerald R. Ford 255 Literary Response and Analysis 3.6, 3.8, 3.12 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics), Listening and Speaking Strategies 1.9 Speaking Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 2.1 Grammar & Style: Colons and Semicolons 258 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.1 Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People by Langston Hughes Literary Response and Analysis 3.3, 3.7, 3.11, 3.12 Writing Strategies 1.8 Literature Connection: Go Down, Moses (Anonymous) 269 Literary Response and Analysis 3.12 Grammar & Style: Consistent Use of Verb Tenses 272 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.2 Vocabulary & Style: Word Meanings in Synonyms, Antonyms, Homophones, and Homographs 274 Understanding the Essay The Trouble with Television by Robert MacNeil Literary Response and Analysis 3.12 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics), Listening and Speaking Strategies 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.11

4 Grammar & Style: Irregular Verbs 284 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.3 Excerpt from How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen Literary Response and Analysis 3.0, 3.2, 3.11, 3.12 Writing Strategies 1.6, 1.8 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Understanding Speeches 296 Listening and Speaking Strategies 1.11, 1.13 Keep Memory Alive by Elie Wiesel 298 Literary Response and Analysis 3.12 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 2.3, Listening and Speaking Strategies 1.10, 1.12 Speaking Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Informational Text Connection: No News from Auschwitz Literary Response and Analysis 3.12 by A. M. Rosenthal 301 Grammar & Style: Capitalization 304 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.3 Vocabulary & Spelling: Word Origins 306 Yonder Sky That Has Wept Tears of Compassion by Chief Seattle 308, 3.12, 1.5 Listening and Speaking Strategies 1.10, 1.14 Vocabulary & Spelling: Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes 314 Understanding Informational Text We Heard It Before We Saw Anything by Julian West 318 Informational Text Connection: Like Being Spun in a Giant Washer by David Williams ,, 2.8, 1.4, 1.5 Grammar & Style: Sentence Fragments and Run-Ons 326 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.2 Short Assignments by Anne Lamott , 2.7, 2.8 Literary Response and Analysis Informational Text Connection: How to Write a Short Story Grammar & Style: Paragraph Form 336 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.3 Reading Nonfiction Independently Excerpt from A Choice of Weapons by Gordon Parks 340 Getting It Right at Ground Zero by Rudolph Giuliani 347 Literary Response and Analysis 3.3, 3.8, 3.9 Writing Strategies1.3, 1.5, 2.8 Literature Connection: Land of the Living by Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Litvin 350, 3.7 Literature Connection: On This Day in Excerpt from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip 353 Literary Response and Analysis 3.3, 3.7

5 Literature Connection: Thoughts of Hanoi by Nguyen Thi Vinyh 359 Something Could Happen to You by Esmeralda Santiago 362 Literature Connection: On Loan to the Lonely by Barbara Gutierrez 368 An Encounter with an Interviewer by Mark Twain 370 Literary Response and Analysis 3.3, 3.6, 3.7 Literary Response and Analysis 3.3, 3.7, 3.8 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) For Your Reading List 376 Literary Response and Analysis 3.0 Speaking & Listening Workshop: Listen Actively and Take Listening and Speaking Strategies 1.12 Notes 377 Writing Workshop: Personal Narrative 378 Writing Strategies 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.9 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) W2.1 Test Practice Workshop Writing Strategies 1.9 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.0, 1.3 Unit 3: Poetry Introduction to Poetry 390, 3.9 I Am Offering This Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca 395, 3.8, 1.5 Understanding Speaker and Tone 398 Literary Response and Analysis 3.9 Making a Fist by Naomi Shihab Nye 400 Literary Response and Analysis 3.5, 3.9, 3.12, 1.8,, 2.6 Grammar & Style: Phrases 404 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.1 Remember by Joy Harjo 406 Literary Response and Analysis 3.9, 3.12, Speaking Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 2.0 Understanding Setting and Context 410 Literary Response and Analysis 3.12 Eating Alone by Li-Young Lee 412 Literary Response and Analysis 3.11, 1.8 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) The Floral Apron by Marilyn Chin 414 Grammar & Style: Sensory Details 416 Writing Strategies 1.2 Understanding Structure and Form 418 Literary Response and Analysis 3.6 Shall I compare thee to a summer s day? by William Shakespeare 421 I know I am but summer to your heart by Edna St. Vincent Millay 422 Informational Text Connection: Well-Versed Approach Merits Poetry Prize 424 The Broken Oar by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 425 Literary Response and Analysis 3.5, 3.11, 3.12 Listening and Speaking Strategies Literary Response and Analysis

6 Vocabulary & Spelling: Literal and Figurative Meanings of Words 428 Development 1.1 Ex-Basketball Player by John Updike 430 Literary Response and Analysis 3.6 Writing Strategies1.3, 1.5 Marching Through a Novel by John Updike 433 Vocabulary & Spelling: Denotation and Connotation 434 Development 1.2 Excerpt from Holidays by Jamaica Kincaid 436 Development 1.3 Literary Response and Analysis 3.6, 3.11, 3.12 Grammar & Style: Possessives 442 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.2, 1.3 Understanding Figurative Language 444 Development 1.1 Poetry by Nikki Giovanni 447 Literary Response and Analysis 3.12 Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins 449 Literary Response and Analysis 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, Primary Source Connection: Elizabeth Farnsworth Talks to Billy Collins 450 Understanding Sight and Sound 452 The Bean Eaters by Gwendolyn Brooks 455 Dream Variations by Langston Hughes 456 We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks 459 Teacher by Langston Hughes 459 Grammar & Style: Use Precise Language and Avoid Clichés 460 Jazz Fantasia by Carl Sandburg 462 Three Tanka by Okamoto Kanoko, Miyazawa Kenji, and Tsukamoto Kunio 466 Literary Response and Analysis 3.5, 3.7, 3.12 Writing Strategies 1.7 Speaking Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 2.0 Literary Response and Analysis 3.5 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.3, 3.9, 3.11, 3.12 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Speaking Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 2.0, 3.11 Reading Poetry Independently 470 Development 1.2 miss rosie by Lucille Clifton 472 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Simple Song Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) by Marge Piercy 474 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost 476 6

7 Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden 478 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Listening and Speaking Strategies 1.2 Eight Puppies / Ocho perritos by Gabriela Mistral 480, 3.11 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Immigrants and Family Ties by Pat Mora 482, 483 Literary Response and Analysis 3.11 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Informational Text Connection: Immigration Statistics , The Waking by Theodore Roethke 486 For Your Reading List 488 Literary Response and Analysis 3.0 Speaking & Listening Workshop: Present an Oral Response to Listening and Speaking Strategies 1/3. ¼. 1/8, 1.9 Literature 489 Speaking Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Writing Workshop: Lyric Poem 490 Writing Strategies 1.2, 1.4, 1.8, 1.9 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 2.0 Test Practice Workshop 496 Literary Response and Analysis 3.6 Writing Strategies 1.9 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.0, 1.3 Unit 4: Drama Introduction to Drama 502 Literary Response and Analysis 3.1, 3.4, 3.10 A Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekhov 506 Literary Response and Analysis 3.4, 3.6, 3.10 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Listening and Speaking Strategies Understanding Shakespeare 524 Literary Response and Analysis 3.1, 3.11, 3.12 The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act I Literary Response and Analysis 3.4, 3.6, 3.12 by William Shakespeare 530 Informational Text Connection: In Search of Shakespeare Literary Response and Analysis Grammar & Style: Active and Passive Voice 554 Writing Strategies 1.2 Vocabulary & Spelling: Using a Dictionary and a Thesaurus 556 The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act II Literary Response and Analysis 3.4, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.10, 3.12 by William Shakespeare 558 The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act III by William Shakespeare 577 Literary Response and Analysis 3.3, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.10, 3.12 Listening and Speaking Strategies 1.11, 1.12, 1.13 Speaking Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 2.0 Literature Connection: The Ides of March, 3.11 by Constantine Cavafy 600 Vocabulary & Spelling: Spelling Rules and Tips 602 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.0 The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act IV Literary Response and Analysis 3.1, 3.4, 3.6, 3.7, 3.10 by William Shakespeare 604 The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act V by William Shakespeare 620 Literary Response and Analysis 3.1, 3.4, 3.7, 3.8, 3.10, 3.12, 1.5 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Literature Connection: excerpt from The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 635 Informational Text Connection: Brutus on Broadway: Et tu, Denzel? Washington Shakes Up Shakespeare by Allison Samuels 641 Grammar & Style: Hyphens, Dashes, and Ellipses 644 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.1 Understanding Greek Drama and the Story of Oedipus 646 Literary Response and Analysis 3.1 7

8 Antigone by Sophocles 648 Literature Connection: Pride by Dahlia Ravikovitch 693 Literary Response and Analysis 3.1, 3.5, 3.6, 3.8, 3.10, 3.12 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Speaking Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 2.0,, 3.9 Coordination, Subordination, and Apposition 696 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.2 Reading Drama Independently 698 Literary Response and Analysis 3.1, 3.4, 3.10 The Still Alarm by George S. Kaufman 700 Literary Response and Analysis 3.1, 3.8 Trifles by Susan Glaspell 708 Literary Response and Analysis 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.10 Literature Connection: Glaspell s Trifles by Judith Kay Russell 723 For Your Reading List 726 Literary Response and Analysis 3.0 Speaking & Listening Workshop: Deliver a Persuasive Speech Listening and Speaking Strategies 1.3, 1.6, Speaking Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Writing Workshop: Persuasive Essay 728 Writing Strategies 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.8, 1.9 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.2 Test Practice Workshop 734 Writing Strategies 1.9 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.0, 1.3 Listening and Speaking Strategies 1.12 Unit 5: Folk Literature Introduction to Folk Literature 740 Literary Response and Analysis 3.0 Magic Words by Nalungiaq 743 Literary Response and Analysis 3.0, 3.2 Speaking Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 2.1, 2.3 Understanding Myths and Legends 746 Literary Response and Analysis 3.0 Orpheus by Robert Graves 748 Literary Response and Analysis 3.6, 3.8, 3.12 Listening and Speaking Strategies 1.7 Speaking Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 2.1 Literature Connection: Tree Telling of Orpheus, 3.5 by Denise Levertov 753 Excerpt from Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali by D. T. Niane 760 Literary Response and Analysis 3.0, 3.6, 3.7 Excerpt from The Once and Future King by T. H. White 768 Primary Source Connection: excerpt from Le Morte d Arthur Literary Response and Analysis 3.5 by Sir Thomas Malory 779 Grammar & Style: Transitions 784 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.3 Vocabulary & Spelling: Words with Multiple Meanings 786 Understanding Folk Tales 788 Literary Response and Analysis 3.0 Naked Truth and Resplendent Parable (Anonymous) 790 Literary Response and Analysis 3.5, 3.7, 3.11 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 8

9 Mother Holle and The Wonderful Hair by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 794, 795 Vocabulary & Spelling: Informal and Archaic Language 804, 3.7 Writing Strategies 1.2 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics), 2.6 Understanding Epics 806 Literary Response and Analysis 3.0 The Drowned Maid from The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot 808 Literature Connection: In the Blue Woodland by Ruth MacKenzie 819 Informational Text Connection: Lord of the Rings: Inspired by an Ancient Epic 821 Excerpt from The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 825 Literary Response and Analysis 3.6, 3.7, 3.11, 3.12 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Speaking Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 2.0 Literary Response and Analysis 3.11, 3.12 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Speaking Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 2.1 Grammar & Style: Adjectives and Adverbs 835 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.3 Reading Folk Literature Independently 836 Literary Response and Analysis 3.0 Mu-lan (Anonymous) 838 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics), The Love of Cupid and Psyche by Sally Benson 841 Damon and Pythias by William F. Russell 848 Savitri and Satyavant by Walker Brents 852 The Death of Balder by Walker Brents 857 Literary Response and Analysis 3.6, 3.7 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics),, 3.6 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Literary Response and Analysis 3.3, 3.4, 3.7 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Literary Response and Analysis 3.3, 3.6 Excerpt from The Iliad by Homer 861 Literary Response and Analysis 3.6, 3.7, 3.10 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) For Your Reading List 872 Literary Response and Analysis 3.0 Speaking & Listening Workshop: Prepare a Multimedia Listening and Speaking Strategies 1.3, 1.7, 1.9, Presentation 873 Writing Workshop: Research Paper 874, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 2.3 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.3 Test Practice Workshop 882 Literary Response and Analysis 3.6 Writing Strategies 1.9 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Unit 6: Independent Reading Reading Independently: Use Reading Strategies 888 Literary Response and Analysis 3.0 Geraldine Moore the Poet by Toni Cade Bambara 890 Literary Response and Analysis 3.4, 3.6 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Geraldo No Last Name by Sandra Cisneros 895 Literary Response and Analysis 3.12 The Legend by Garrett Hongo 897 Literary Response and Analysis 3.11 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 9

10 Primary Source Connection: Hongo Reflects on The Legend by Garrett Hongo 899 New Dog by Mark Doty 901 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 2.3, Contents of the Dead Man s Pocket by Jack Finney 903 Literary Response and Analysis 3.4, 3.6, 3.8, 3.11 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics), Informational Text Connection: Mind/Body Health: Job Stress 916 Excerpt from In a Sunburned Country, 3.9, 3.11, 3.12 by Bill Bryson 918 Excerpt from Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck 928 Literary Response and Analysis 3.5 Land Enough for a Man by Leo Tolstoy 931 Literary Response and Analysis 3.4, 3.7, 3.9, 3.12 Reading Independently: Use Reading Skills 942, 3.9, 3.11 By the Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benét 944 Literary Response and Analysis 3.9 There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury 955 Literature Connection: Houseby Pablo Neruda 960 Miriam by Truman Capote 962 Literature Connection: The only ghost I ever saw by Emily Dickinson 972 A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel García Márquez 974 Heartburn by Hortense Calisher 981 Literary Response and Analysis 3.3, 3.4, 3.7, 3.11 Literary Response and Analysis 3.8, 3.11 Literary Response and Analysis 3.4, 3.7 Literary Response and Analysis 3.4, 3.6, 3.7 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) Literary Response and Analysis 3.6, 3.7, 3.11 Informational Text Connection: Health Information Privacy Rights 990 The Happy Man by Maguib Mahfouz 993 The Hitchhiker by Lucille Fletcher 1000 Literature Connection: Excerpt from The Vanishing Hitchhiker by Jan Harold Brunvand 1012 For Your Reading List 1016 Literary Response and Analysis 3.0 Speaking & Listening Workshop: Analyze a Media Presentation 1017 Writing Workshop: Short Story 1018 Writing Strategies 1.2, 1.8, 1.9 Written and Oral English Language Conventions 1.1 Test Practice Workshop 1024 Writing Strategies 1.9 Writing Applications (Genres and their Characteristics) 10

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