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9th grade books-readings (redirected from 10th grade accelerated books-readings)

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Elements of a Story

*Guiding Questions:

- How can one better understand what one reads?

- How do authors' choices affect how one reads?

Short Stories/Works:

"The Story of the Three Bears"

"38 Who Saw Murder" or online at: http://www2.southeastern.edu/Academics/Faculty/scraig/gansberg.html

"The Lovers: A Halloween Tale of Horror"

"The Cask of Amontillado" or online at: http://www.literature.org/authors/poe-edgar-allan/amontillado.html

"Lather and Nothing Else"

"The Sniper"

Non-Fiction

*Guiding Questions:

- What is the responsibility of one community to another?

- Why do we care about some things more than others?

- What is ones responsibility to the past?

Primary Source Video:

Fox News Flashback 9/11: As It Happened Video

Graphic Novel:

The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaption

*Intro & Ch 1: "We Have Some Planes..."*	Ch 2: The Foundation of the New Terrorism	Ch 3: Counterterrorism Evolves	Ch 4: Responses to Al Qaeda's Initial Assaults	Ch 5: Al Qaeda Aims at the American Homeland
Ch 6: From Threat to Threat	Ch 7: The Attack Looms	Ch 8: "The System was Blinking Red"	*Ch 9: Heroism and Horror*	Ch 10: Wartime
	*Ch 11: Foresight -- and Hindsight*	*Ch 12: What to do? A Global Strategy*	*Ch 13 & Postscript: How to do it? A Different way of Organizing the Government*

Bold = US focused chapters Italicized = Terrorist focused chapters Bold/Italicized = Both

Film Adaption:

Flight 93

Beyond 9/11 Documentary

Independent Reading/Read Aloud

*Guiding Questions:

- How can reading help one be a better thinker?

- How can being a better thinker help one be a better student?

- How can being a better student help one lead a more productive life?

Classic Fiction:

-Of Mice and Men

Contemporary Fiction:

-The First Part Last

Mythology/Research/Speech

*Guiding Questions:

- How are cultures connected through shared ideas?

- How can one use their voice to help inform others?

- How can one responsibly use information collected from others?

Intro Video/Readings:

What makes a hero? by Matthew Winkler

Hero movie The Lion King

"Hamlet"

"Sundiata"

Myths - Short form Classic Hero:

"Perseus"

"Heracles"

Film Adaption:

Hercules

Myths - Long form Classic Hero:

The Odyssey

The Odyssey (graphic novel):

Book 1	Book 2	Book 3	Book 4	Book 5	Book 6	Book 7	Book 8
Book 9	Book 10	Book 11	Book 12	Book 13	Book 14	Book 15	Book 16
Book 17	Book 18	Book 19	Book 20	Book 21	Book 22	Book 23	Book 24