Click the unit name to expand the unit listing. Selections with a star feature the full selection content. Unit 1 Working Toward Your Dreams Selection / Author Page "Dreams," "A Dream Deferred," and "The Dream Keeper" / Langston Hughes 5 "Moon" / Chaim Potok 12 "Born Worker" / Gary Soto 35 Unit 2 Family Ties Selection / Author Page "The Medicine Bag" / Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve 57 "An Hour with Abuelo" / Judith Ortiz Cofer 69 "Legacies" / Nikki Giovanni 79 "First Lesson" / Phyllis McGinley and "My Father's Hands Held Mine" / Norman H. Russell 86 "Good Housekeeping" / Bailey White 92 "For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties" / Alice Walker 104 Unit 3 Going Down the Road Selection / Author Page from The Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition / Meriwether Lewis and William Clark 123 from Blue Highways: A Journey into America / William Least Heat Moon 137 "Roads Go Ever Ever On" / J. R. R. Tolkien and "Travel" / Edna St. Vincent Millay 152 "Freedom" / William Stafford and "The Road Not Taken" / Robert Frost 159 Unit 4 Understanding Conflict Selection / Author Page "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" / Ray Bradbury 185 "The Bracelet" / Yoshiko Uchida 200 from If You Could Be My Friend / Litsa Boudalika 209 "The Sniper" / Liam O'Flaherty 223 from "Our struggle is against all forms of racism" / Nelson Mandela 233 Unit 5 Open a Book, Open a World "Women" / Alice Walker 251 from The Autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X and Alex Haley 257 "The Story-Teller" / Saki 264 from An American Childhood / Annie Dillard 272 from Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury 281 Unit 6 Far Horizons Selection / Author Page "Obi-Wan Kenobi: Jedi Knight" / David West Reynolds 307 "Lose Now, Pay Later" / Carol Farley 315 "The Ruum" / Arthur Porges 325 "The Third Level" / Jack Finney 340 "The Fun They Had" / Isaac Asimov 348 Unit 7 Folklore of the Americas Selection / Author Page "Pecos Bill" / Adrien Stoutenburg 367 "Paul Bunyan of the North Woods" / Carl Sandburg 377 "Blackbeard's Last Fight" / Richard Walser 387 "The People Could Fly" / Virginia Hamilton 393 "The Tale of Annie Christmas" / Walker Brents 403 "The Blind Boy and the Two Arctic Loons" / Andy Charlie 410 "Where the Girl Rescued Her Brother" / Joseph Bruchac and Gayle Ross 424 "Legend of the Feathered Serpent" / Antonio Hernández Madrigal 435 "Gatored Community" / Barbara and David P. Mikkelson 447 Unit 8 Stories to Tell: Fiction Selection / Author Page "A Mother in Mannville" / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 469 "The War of the Wall" / Toni Cade Bambara 481 "The Osage Orange Tree" / William Stafford 492 "A Retrieved Reformation" / O. Henry 503 The Pearl / John Steinbeck 513 Unit 9 Words in Motion: Poetry Selection / Author Page "Winter" / William Shakespeare 579 "Night Clouds" / Amy Lowell 586 "The Bat" / Theodore Roethke and "Bats" / Randall Jarrell 589 "Wildlife Cameo, Early Morn" / Lawrence Ferlinghetti 597 "Paul Revere's Ride" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 603 "Courage" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee" / Robert Service 611 "Player Piano" / John Updike 621 "Pretty Words" / Elinor Wylie 625 "Blue Cornucopia" / Robert Francis 629 "Digging" / Seamus Heaney 635 "Childhood of the Ancients" / Andrew Hudgins 639 "Without Title" / Diane Glancy 643 "The Highwayman" / Alfred Noyes 649 "A short long story" / Julia Cunningham 656 "There is no frigate like a book," "He ate and drank the precious words," and "The Brain—is wider than the Sky—" / Emily Dickinson 662 "I Ask My Mother to Sing" / Li-Young Lee 667 "Ode to My Socks" / Pablo Neruda 673 Unit 10 Turning Words into Action: Drama Selection / Author Page The Diary of Anne Frank, act 1 / Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett 701 The Diary of Anne Frank, act 2 740 Unit 11 Telling It As It Is: Nonfiction Selection / Author Page from Ishi in Two Worlds / Theodora Kroeber 777 "Do not ask us to give up the buffalo for the sheep" / Chief Ten Bears 789 "A Tale of Two Rocks" / Valerie Jablow 795 "Chac" from Jaguar / Alan Rabinowitz 805 from Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time / Paul Rogat Loeb 817 Unit 12 Reading Between the Lines: Informational and Visual Media Selection / Author Page Map of the Territory of the United States . . . / G. K. Warren and from The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California / Lansford W. Hastings 841 "How to Use a Compass" / Kjetil Kjernsmo 854 "Manners Matter" / Kevin Kelly 861 Pacific Gem Cruise Line 869 "Death and the Miser" from The Nine-Ton Cat / Peggy Thomson with Barbara Moore 873
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Unit 1 Working Toward Your Dreams Selection / Author Page "Dreams," "A Dream Deferred," and "The Dream Keeper" / Langston Hughes 5 "Moon" / Chaim Potok 12 "Born Worker" / Gary Soto 35 Unit 2 Family Ties Selection / Author Page "The Medicine Bag" / Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve 57 "An Hour with Abuelo" / Judith Ortiz Cofer 69 "Legacies" / Nikki Giovanni 79 "First Lesson" / Phyllis McGinley and "My Father's Hands Held Mine" / Norman H. Russell 86 "Good Housekeeping" / Bailey White 92 "For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties" / Alice Walker 104 Unit 3 Going Down the Road Selection / Author Page from The Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition / Meriwether Lewis and William Clark 123 from Blue Highways: A Journey into America / William Least Heat Moon 137 "Roads Go Ever Ever On" / J. R. R. Tolkien and "Travel" / Edna St. Vincent Millay 152 "Freedom" / William Stafford and "The Road Not Taken" / Robert Frost 159 Unit 4 Understanding Conflict Selection / Author Page "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" / Ray Bradbury 185 "The Bracelet" / Yoshiko Uchida 200 from If You Could Be My Friend / Litsa Boudalika 209 "The Sniper" / Liam O'Flaherty 223 from "Our struggle is against all forms of racism" / Nelson Mandela 233 Unit 5 Open a Book, Open a World "Women" / Alice Walker 251 from The Autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X and Alex Haley 257 "The Story-Teller" / Saki 264 from An American Childhood / Annie Dillard 272 from Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury 281 Unit 6 Far Horizons Selection / Author Page "Obi-Wan Kenobi: Jedi Knight" / David West Reynolds 307 "Lose Now, Pay Later" / Carol Farley 315 "The Ruum" / Arthur Porges 325 "The Third Level" / Jack Finney 340 "The Fun They Had" / Isaac Asimov 348
Selection / Author Page "Dreams," "A Dream Deferred," and "The Dream Keeper" / Langston Hughes 5 "Moon" / Chaim Potok 12 "Born Worker" / Gary Soto 35
Selection / Author Page "The Medicine Bag" / Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve 57 "An Hour with Abuelo" / Judith Ortiz Cofer 69 "Legacies" / Nikki Giovanni 79 "First Lesson" / Phyllis McGinley and "My Father's Hands Held Mine" / Norman H. Russell 86 "Good Housekeeping" / Bailey White 92 "For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties" / Alice Walker 104
Selection / Author Page from The Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition / Meriwether Lewis and William Clark 123 from Blue Highways: A Journey into America / William Least Heat Moon 137 "Roads Go Ever Ever On" / J. R. R. Tolkien and "Travel" / Edna St. Vincent Millay 152 "Freedom" / William Stafford and "The Road Not Taken" / Robert Frost 159
Selection / Author Page "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" / Ray Bradbury 185 "The Bracelet" / Yoshiko Uchida 200 from If You Could Be My Friend / Litsa Boudalika 209 "The Sniper" / Liam O'Flaherty 223 from "Our struggle is against all forms of racism" / Nelson Mandela 233
"Women" / Alice Walker 251 from The Autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X and Alex Haley 257 "The Story-Teller" / Saki 264 from An American Childhood / Annie Dillard 272 from Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury 281
Selection / Author Page "Obi-Wan Kenobi: Jedi Knight" / David West Reynolds 307 "Lose Now, Pay Later" / Carol Farley 315 "The Ruum" / Arthur Porges 325 "The Third Level" / Jack Finney 340 "The Fun They Had" / Isaac Asimov 348
Unit 7 Folklore of the Americas Selection / Author Page "Pecos Bill" / Adrien Stoutenburg 367 "Paul Bunyan of the North Woods" / Carl Sandburg 377 "Blackbeard's Last Fight" / Richard Walser 387 "The People Could Fly" / Virginia Hamilton 393 "The Tale of Annie Christmas" / Walker Brents 403 "The Blind Boy and the Two Arctic Loons" / Andy Charlie 410 "Where the Girl Rescued Her Brother" / Joseph Bruchac and Gayle Ross 424 "Legend of the Feathered Serpent" / Antonio Hernández Madrigal 435 "Gatored Community" / Barbara and David P. Mikkelson 447 Unit 8 Stories to Tell: Fiction Selection / Author Page "A Mother in Mannville" / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 469 "The War of the Wall" / Toni Cade Bambara 481 "The Osage Orange Tree" / William Stafford 492 "A Retrieved Reformation" / O. Henry 503 The Pearl / John Steinbeck 513 Unit 9 Words in Motion: Poetry Selection / Author Page "Winter" / William Shakespeare 579 "Night Clouds" / Amy Lowell 586 "The Bat" / Theodore Roethke and "Bats" / Randall Jarrell 589 "Wildlife Cameo, Early Morn" / Lawrence Ferlinghetti 597 "Paul Revere's Ride" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 603 "Courage" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee" / Robert Service 611 "Player Piano" / John Updike 621 "Pretty Words" / Elinor Wylie 625 "Blue Cornucopia" / Robert Francis 629 "Digging" / Seamus Heaney 635 "Childhood of the Ancients" / Andrew Hudgins 639 "Without Title" / Diane Glancy 643 "The Highwayman" / Alfred Noyes 649 "A short long story" / Julia Cunningham 656 "There is no frigate like a book," "He ate and drank the precious words," and "The Brain—is wider than the Sky—" / Emily Dickinson 662 "I Ask My Mother to Sing" / Li-Young Lee 667 "Ode to My Socks" / Pablo Neruda 673 Unit 10 Turning Words into Action: Drama Selection / Author Page The Diary of Anne Frank, act 1 / Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett 701 The Diary of Anne Frank, act 2 740 Unit 11 Telling It As It Is: Nonfiction Selection / Author Page from Ishi in Two Worlds / Theodora Kroeber 777 "Do not ask us to give up the buffalo for the sheep" / Chief Ten Bears 789 "A Tale of Two Rocks" / Valerie Jablow 795 "Chac" from Jaguar / Alan Rabinowitz 805 from Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time / Paul Rogat Loeb 817 Unit 12 Reading Between the Lines: Informational and Visual Media Selection / Author Page Map of the Territory of the United States . . . / G. K. Warren and from The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California / Lansford W. Hastings 841 "How to Use a Compass" / Kjetil Kjernsmo 854 "Manners Matter" / Kevin Kelly 861 Pacific Gem Cruise Line 869 "Death and the Miser" from The Nine-Ton Cat / Peggy Thomson with Barbara Moore 873
Selection / Author Page "Pecos Bill" / Adrien Stoutenburg 367 "Paul Bunyan of the North Woods" / Carl Sandburg 377 "Blackbeard's Last Fight" / Richard Walser 387 "The People Could Fly" / Virginia Hamilton 393 "The Tale of Annie Christmas" / Walker Brents 403 "The Blind Boy and the Two Arctic Loons" / Andy Charlie 410 "Where the Girl Rescued Her Brother" / Joseph Bruchac and Gayle Ross 424 "Legend of the Feathered Serpent" / Antonio Hernández Madrigal 435 "Gatored Community" / Barbara and David P. Mikkelson 447
Selection / Author Page "A Mother in Mannville" / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 469 "The War of the Wall" / Toni Cade Bambara 481 "The Osage Orange Tree" / William Stafford 492 "A Retrieved Reformation" / O. Henry 503 The Pearl / John Steinbeck 513
Selection / Author Page "Winter" / William Shakespeare 579 "Night Clouds" / Amy Lowell 586 "The Bat" / Theodore Roethke and "Bats" / Randall Jarrell 589 "Wildlife Cameo, Early Morn" / Lawrence Ferlinghetti 597 "Paul Revere's Ride" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 603 "Courage" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee" / Robert Service 611 "Player Piano" / John Updike 621 "Pretty Words" / Elinor Wylie 625 "Blue Cornucopia" / Robert Francis 629 "Digging" / Seamus Heaney 635 "Childhood of the Ancients" / Andrew Hudgins 639 "Without Title" / Diane Glancy 643 "The Highwayman" / Alfred Noyes 649 "A short long story" / Julia Cunningham 656 "There is no frigate like a book," "He ate and drank the precious words," and "The Brain—is wider than the Sky—" / Emily Dickinson 662 "I Ask My Mother to Sing" / Li-Young Lee 667 "Ode to My Socks" / Pablo Neruda 673
Selection / Author Page The Diary of Anne Frank, act 1 / Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett 701 The Diary of Anne Frank, act 2 740
Selection / Author Page from Ishi in Two Worlds / Theodora Kroeber 777 "Do not ask us to give up the buffalo for the sheep" / Chief Ten Bears 789 "A Tale of Two Rocks" / Valerie Jablow 795 "Chac" from Jaguar / Alan Rabinowitz 805 from Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time / Paul Rogat Loeb 817
Selection / Author Page Map of the Territory of the United States . . . / G. K. Warren and from The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California / Lansford W. Hastings 841 "How to Use a Compass" / Kjetil Kjernsmo 854 "Manners Matter" / Kevin Kelly 861 Pacific Gem Cruise Line 869 "Death and the Miser" from The Nine-Ton Cat / Peggy Thomson with Barbara Moore 873
Unit 1 Working Toward Your Dreams