Common Core Book Trailers - Movies for the Mind

The page is a update to the main booktrailer site, and uses suggested CCSS books from the New York CCSS list of recommendations.

This page represents the beginning of a website of short movies (generally 30 to 45 seconds) designed to increase student motivation to READ! Below are a couple of samples.

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Grade Module/Domain Title Author Full-length text/excerpt/article Notes/Comments/Source
PK All About Me Shades of People  Shelly Rotner and Sheila M. Kelly Full-length text  
PK All About Me My Five Senses  Aliki Full-length text  
PK All About Me My Amazing Body: A First Look at Health and Fitness,  Pat Thomas Full-length text  
PK All About Me Whoever You Are Mem Fox Full-length text  
PK All About Me A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World Unicef Full-length text  
PK Animals  Is Your Mama a Llama?  Deborah Guarino and Steven Kellogg Full-length text  
PK Animals  See Me Grow Penelope Arlon & Tory Gordon-Harris Full-length text  
PK Animals  The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle Full-length text  
PK Plants Flowers Vijaya Khisty Bodach Full-length text  
PK Plants A Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds Jean Richards Full-length text  
PK Plants Sunflower House Eve Bunting Full-length text  
PK Plants Plant Secrets Emily Goodman Full-length text  
PK Plants How a Plant Grows Bobbie Kalman Full-length text  
PK Habitats  Forest Bright/Forest Night Jennifer Ward Full-length text  
PK Habitats  Life in a Pond Carol Lindeen Full-length text  
PK Habitats  Life in a Stream Carol Lindeen Full-length text  
PK Habitats  Here Is the Southwestern Desert Madeleine Dunphy Full-length text  
PK Family Families Ann Morris Full-length text  
PK Family Me and My Family Tree Joan Sweeney Full-length text  
PK Family Houses and Homes Ken Heyman Full-length text  
PK Family Families Are Different Nini Pellegrini Full-length text  
PK Family All Families Are Special Norma Simon Full-length text  
K* Five Senses Seven Blind Mice Ed Young Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
K* Stories The Story of Jumping Mouse John Steptoe Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
1* Different Lands, Similar Stories The Irish Cinderlad Shirley Climo Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
1* Different Lands, Similar Stories Little Red Riding Hood Jerry Pinkney Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
1* Different Lands, Similar Stories Lon Po Po Ed Young Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
1* Different Lands, Similar Stories Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters John Steptoe Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
1* Different Lands, Similar Stories Pretty Salma: A Little Red Riding Hood Story from Africa Niki Daly Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
1* Different Lands, Similar Stories Tom Thumb Claudia Venturini Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
1* Fables and Stories It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale Margot Zemach Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
1* Fables and Stories Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock Eric A. Kimmel Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Fighting for a Cause Susan B. Anthony: Fighter for Freedom and Equality  Suzanne Slade Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Fighting for a Cause The Ballot Box Battle  Emily Arnold McCully Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Fighting for a Cause A Picture Book of Eleanor Roosevelt David A. Adler Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Fighting for a Cause When Marian Sang Pam Muñoz Ryan Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Fighting for a Cause Mary McLeod Bethune Eloise Greenfield Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Fighting for a Cause The Story of Ruby Bridges Robert Coles Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Fighting for a Cause Teammates  Peter Golenbock Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Fighting for a Cause A Picture Book of Rosa Parks  David A. Adler Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Fighting for a Cause Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins Carole Boston Weatherford Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Fighting for a Cause A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr,  David A. Adler Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Fighting for a Cause Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez Kathleen Krull Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Fairy Tales and Tall Tales The Fisherman and His Wife   Rachel Isadora Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Fairy Tales and Tall Tales The Emperor’s New Clothes: A Tale Set in China Demi Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Fairy Tales and Tall Tales Beauty and the Beast Jan Brett Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Fairy Tales and Tall Tales Paul Bunyan  Steven Kellogg Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Fairy Tales and Tall Tales Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett Steven Kellogg Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Fairy Tales and Tall Tales Pecos Bill  Steven Kellogg Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Fairy Tales and Tall Tales John Henry: An American Legend Ezra Jack Keats Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Cycles of Nature Sunshine Makes the Seasons Franklyn Branley Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Cycles of Nature The Reasons for Seasons Gail Gibbons Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Cycles of Nature How Do Birds Find Their Way? Roma Gans Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Cycles of Nature From Seed to Maple Tree Laura Purdie Salas Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Cycles of Nature Monarch Butterfly Gail Gibbons Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Cycles of Nature From Tadpole to Frog Wendy Pfeffer Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Cycles of Nature Where Do Chicks Come From? Amy E. Sklansky Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Cycles of Nature What Happens to a Hamburger? Paul Showers Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Cycles of Nature The Water Cycle Bobbie Kalman and Rebecca Sjonger Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Cycles of Nature The Water Cycle Rebecca Olien Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Cycles of Nature Clouds Anne Rockwell Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Insects About Insects Cathryn Sill Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Insects Bugs Are Insects Anne Rockwell Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Insects Are You a Grasshopper? Judy Allen Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Insects Chirping Crickets Melvin Berger Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Insects Are You a Dragonfly? Judy Allen Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Insects From Caterpillar to Butterfly Deborah Heiligman Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Insects Clara Caterpillar Pamela Duncan Edwards Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Insects The Honey Makers Gail Gibbons Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Insects Ant Cities Arthur Dorros Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
2* Charlotte’s Web, Part 1 & II Charlotte’s Web E. B. White Full-length text, but see column F * Not required, but recommended.  While the Core Knowledge Language Arts New York materials are being revised to eliminate reliance on specific trade books, it is recommended that schools and districts make informed decisions about trade books that can work within the Core Knowledge Listening and Learning and Skills strands while allowing for guided reading and accountable student reading.
3 Module 1 My Librarian Is a Camel: How Books Are Brought to Children around the World Margriet Ruurs Full-length text  
3 Module 1 Rain School James Rumford Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
3 Module 1 The Librarian of Basra Jeanette Winter Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
3 Module 1 Thank You, Mr. Falker Patricia Polacco Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
3 Module 1 The Incredible Book Eating Boy  Oliver Jeffers  Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
3 Module 1 The Boy Who Loved Words Roni Schotter Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
3 Module 1 Waiting for the Biblioburro Monica Brown Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
3 Module 1 Nasreen’s Secret School Jeanette Winter Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
3 Module 1 That Book Woman Heather Henson Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
3 Module 2 Poison Dart Frogs Up Close Carmen Bredeson Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
3 Module 2 Deadly Poison Dart Frogs  Lincoln James Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
3 Module 2 Lizards, Frogs and Polliwogs  Florian, Douglas Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
3 Module 2 Everything You Need to Know about Frogs and Other Slippery Creatures (DK Publishing) Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
3 Module 2 Bullfrog at Magnolia Circle Deborah Dennard, illustrated by Kristin Kest Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
  Module 2 "The Spadefoot Toad" Melanie Freeman Article This article can be found on the online library NovelNY (novelnewyork.org) free of charge. You will need a New York library card, New York driver license or non-driver ID to gain access.
3 Module 2 "Staying Alive: Animal Adaptations" Expeditionary Learning see column F Text appears as part of unit/module
3 Module 2 "Transparent Wonder" Expeditionary Learning see column F Text appears as part of unit/module
3 Module 2 "All About the Water-Holding Frog" Expeditionary Learning see column F Text appears as part of unit/module
3 Module 2 "The Amazon Horned Frog" Expeditionary Learning see column F Text appears as part of unit/module
3 Module 2 All the Small Poems and Fourteen More  Valerie Worth  Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
3 Module 3 Classic Starts Peter Pan   J. M. Barrie, Adapted by Tania Zamorski Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
3 Module 4 One Well: The Story of Water on Earth Rochelle Strauss Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
4 Module 1 The Iroquois: The Six Nations Confederacy Mary Englar Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
4 Module 1 Eagle Song Joseph Bruchac  Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
4 Module 1 "The (Really) Great Law of Peace" Cynthia O'Brien Article This article can be found on the online library NovelNY (novelnewyork.org) free of charge. You will need a New York library card, New York driver license or non-driver ID to gain access.
4 Module 1 "Overview and Background Information: Oral Tradition" Expeditionary Learning Article http://www.indigenouspeople.net/iroqcon.htm
4 Module 1 "The Great Law of Peace (Iroquois Constitution)"   Article http://www.indigenouspeople.net/iroqcon.htm
4 Module 1 "Sections 93 and 107 of the Great Law of Peace (Iroquois Constitution)"   Article http://www.indigenouspeople.net/iroqcon.htm
4 Module 1 “Most Frequent Ways of Being Bullied at School” 2011 PACT for Families Collaborative/SHARE Data on Bullying Article http://www.pact4.org/Media//152012105740SHARE%20bullying%20data%202011.pdf
4 Module 1 “Smart-Speak” Marilyn Cram Donahue Article This article can be found on the online library NovelNY (novelnewyork.org) free of charge. You will need a New York library card, New York driver license or non-driver ID to gain access.
4 Module 1 “Speaking Up” Clarisel Gonzalez Article This article can be found on the online library NovelNY (novelnewyork.org) free of charge. You will need a New York library card, New York driver license or non-driver ID to gain access.
4 Module 1 "Excerpt from Section 1 of The Great Law of Peace (Iroquois Constitution)"   Article Text appears as part of unit/module
4 Module 2 The Scoop on Clothes, Homes, and Daily Life in Colonial America Elizabeth Raum Full-length text  
4 Module 2 If You Lived in Colonial Times Ann McGovern, illustrated by June Otani Full-length text  
4 Module 2 Joshua's Gold Mary Louis Sanders Article This article can be found on the online library NovelNY (novelnewyork.org) free of charge. You will need a New York library card, New York driver license or non-driver ID to gain access.
4 Module 3 Simple Machines: Forces in Action (Do It Yourself) Buffy Silverman Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
4 Module 3 Take a Quick Bow!  Pamela Marx Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
4 Module 4 The Hope Chest Karen Schwabach Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
5 Module 1 Esperanza Rising Pam Munoz Ryan Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
5 Module 1 "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" United Nations Article http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Documents/UDHR_Translations/eng.pdf
5 Module 1 “From Kosovo to the United States,” Isau Ajeti (as told to Blanche Gosselin)" Skipping Stones Article This article can be found on the online library NovelNY (novelnewyork.org) free of charge. You will need a New York library card, New York driver license or non-driver ID to gain access.
5 Module 1 "The History of the UDHR" Human Rights Educators’ Network Article http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/edumat/hreduseries/hereandnow/Part-1/whatare.htm
5 Module 1 "Teaching Nepalis to Read, Plant, and Vote" Faces Article This article can be found on the online library NovelNY (novelnewyork.org) free of charge. You will need a New York library card, New York driver license or non-driver ID to gain access.
5 Module 1 "Background Texts about Mexico in the 1920s" Expeditionary Learning for Instructional Purposes Article Text appears as part of unit/module
5 Module 1 “American Heroes” Readers Theater Script Article  
5 Module 1 "Writing Transitions" (excerpt) The Writing Lab & The OWL at Purdue and Purdue University excerpt  
5 Module 1 “Esperanza Rising” Readers Theater Full-length text http://www.pammunozryan.com/pages/scriptEsperanza.pdf
5 Module 2 Rainforest Research Journal Paul Mason Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
5 Module 2 The Most Beautiful Roof in the World  Kathryn Lasky  Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
5 Module 2 "Interview with Sloth Canopy Researcher: Bryson Voirin" UntamedScience.com Article http://www.thewildclassroom.com/biomes/scientistprofile/scientists/byrson.html
5 Module 2 "Hawaii’s Endangered Happy Face Spider" Expeditionary Learning Article  
5 Module 2 “Live Online Interview with Eve Nilson” Scholastic Article This article can be found on the online library NovelNY (novelnewyork.org) free of charge. You will need a New York library card, New York driver license or non-driver ID to gain access.
5 Module 2 “Great Bear Rainforest Remote Camera Project” Twyla Roscovich video http://vimeo.com/9433768
5 Module 2 "The Amazon Rainforest" Phyllis Barkas Goldman Article This article can be found on the online library NovelNY (novelnewyork.org) free of charge. You will need a New York library card, New York driver license or non-driver ID to gain access.
5 Module 2 "Meg Lowman Interview Questions and Answers" Marian Smith Holmes Article  
5 Module 2 “The Wings of a Butterfly: A Tale of the Amazon Rainforest” Aaron Shepard   http://www.aaronshep.com/stories/030.html
5 Module 2 "I Want to Be a Rainforest Scientist" Expeditionary Learning    
5 Module 2 Field Journal Page   Article  
5 Module 2 Drawn to Nature Claire Walker Leslie Article http://www.amazon.com/Drawn-Nature-Through-Journals-Walker/dp/B004JZWKI2/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3
5 Module 2 Fire Ants Reading   Article http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/04/pictures/110425-fire-ants-life-rafts-swarms-science-proceedings/#
5 Module 2 Ants   Article http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/ant/
5 Module 2 "Ant Expert Groups Texts: Ant Group 1 – Bullet Ants" Expeditionary Learning Article  
5 Module 2 "Ant Expert Groups Texts: Ant Group 2 – Army Ants"   Article http://www.stri.si.edu/sites/rainforest/Army_ants.html
5 Module 2 "Ant Expert Groups Texts: Ant Group 3 – Leafcutter Ants"   Article https://www.msu.edu/user/urquhart/rainforest/Content/Army-Ants.html#LC)
5 Module 2 “Rainforest: The Most Precious Environment on Earth” Adrian Hoskins Article http://www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/Rainforests.htm
5 Module 2 "Facts About Howler Monkeys" Source 1   Article http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/sites/kids/NGS/wpf/printcreature/howler-monkey.html
5 Module 2 "Howler Monkey" Source 2 Video Article http://thinkjungle.com/rainforest-animals/mammals/howler-monkey/
5 Module 2 "Howler Monkey" Source 3 webpage Article http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/howler-monkey/
5 Module 2 "Quote from R T Peterson" Roger Tory Peterson Article http://www.amazon.com/Peterson-First-Guide-Birds-America/dp/0395906660/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1351519474&sr=1-3&keywords=peterson%27s+first+guides
5 Module 3 Promises To Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America Sharon Robinson Full-length text http://www.amazon.com/Promises-Keep-Robinson-Changed-America/dp/0439678757/ref=sr_1_1_title_1_pap?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364220562&sr=1-1&keywords=Promises+To+Keep%3A+How+Jackie+Robinson+Changed+America
5 Module 3 "It’s Not Just a Game!" Lori Calabrese Article This article can be found on the online library NovelNY (novelnewyork.org) free of charge. You will need a New York library card, New York driver license or non-driver ID to gain access.
5 Module 3 "Roots of American Sports" Allosaurus Publishers Article This article can be found on the online library NovelNY (novelnewyork.org) free of charge. You will need a New York library card, New York driver license or non-driver ID to gain access.
5 Module 3 “Sports in America” U.S. State Department IIP publications and other U.S. government materials Article http://usa.usembassy.de/sports.htm
5 Module 4 Dark Water Rising Marian Hale Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
5 Module 4 Eight Days: A Story of Haiti Edwidge Danticat Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
6 Module 1 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
6 Module 1 D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
6 Module 2 Bud Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
6 Module 3 Dragonwings Laurence Yep Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
6 Module 4 Frightful's Mountain Jean Craighead George Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
6 Module 1 "The Hero's Journey" Zachary Hamby Article www.mythologyteacher.com
6 Module 1 "Shrouded in Myth" Jessica Fisher Neiidl Article This article can be found on the online library NovelNY (novelnewyork.org) free of charge. You will need a New York library card, New York driver license or non-driver ID to gain access.
7 Module 1 A Long Walk to Water Linda Sue Park Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
7 Module 1 “Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War” Karl Vick Article http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/daily/july99/sudan7.htm
7 Module 1 "Loss of Culturally Vital Cattle Leaves Dinka Tribe Adrift in Refugee Camps" Stephen Buckley Article http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/africanlives/sudan/sudan.htm
7 Module 1 “Life and Death in Darfur: Sudan’s Refugee Crisis Continues,” Weekly Reader Corporation Article This article can be found on the online library NovelNY (novelnewyork.org) free of charge. You will need a New York library card, New York driver license or non-driver ID to gain access.
7 Module 1 "Time Trip: Sudan’s Civil War" Weekly Reader Corporation Article This article can be found on the online library NovelNY (novelnewyork.org) free of charge. You will need a New York library card, New York driver license or non-driver ID to gain access.
7 Module 2 Lyddie Katherine Patterson Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
7 Module 3 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
7 Module 4 Water Is Life Barbara Kingsolver Article http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/04/water-is-life/kingsolver-text
8 Module 1 Inside Out and Back Again Thanhha Lai Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
8 Module 1 "The Vietnam Wars" Tod Olson Article This article can be found on the online library NovelNY (novelnewyork.org) free of charge. You will need a New York library card, New York driver license or non-driver ID to gain access.
8 Module 2 To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
8 Module 3 Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption Laura Hillenbrand Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
8 Module 4 The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat, Young Readers Edition Michael Pollan Full-length text Available at http://www.americanreading.com/expeditionary-learning/
9 Module 1 Black Swan Green David Mitchell TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
9 Module 1 “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" Karen Russell short story From the book “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves"
9 Module 1 Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood Mary McCarthy TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
9 Module 1 Letters to a Young Poet, Letters 1, 4, 7-8 Rainer Maria Rilke TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
9 Module 1 “A Poem  of Changgan” Li Po poem Available at:
http://www.inspirationalstories.com/poems/a-song-of-changgan-li-po-poems/
 
9 Module 1  Mornings on Horseback David McCullough  TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
9 Module 1 “Every Little Hurricane” Sherman Alexie short story From  The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
9 Module 1 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
9 Module 2 The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
9 Module 2 Devil in a Blue Dress Walter Mosley TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
9 Module 2 The Beekeeper’s Apprentice Laurie R. King TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
9 Module 2 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Mark Haddon TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
9 Module 2 The Lost Painting Jonathan Harr TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
9 Module 2 “Tell-Tale Heart” Edgar Allan Poe short story Available at http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/poe/telltale.html
 
9 Module 2 “A Scandal in Bohemia” Arthur Conan Doyle short story Available at http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/ScanBohe.shtml or http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DoyScan.html or 
9 Module 2 “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” Oliver Sacks excerpt from the Man who Mistook his wife for a Hat
9 Module 2 "One Art,"
 " In the Waiting Room"		 Elizabeth Bishop poem Available at http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/one-art/ orhttp://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176996 ; available at http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15211 or http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-the-waiting-room/
9 Module 2  "Musee des Beaux Arts" W.H. Auden poem Available at http://english.emory.edu/classes/paintings&poems/auden.html
9 Module 2 "What Do Sumo Wrestlers and Schoolteachers Have In Common?”  Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner excerpt From Freakonomics--available at  http://www.amazon.com/Freakonomics-Economist-Explores-Hidden-Everything/dp/0060731338/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364220795&sr=1-1&keywords=freakonomics
9 Module 3 The Awakening Kate Chopin TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
9 Module 3 The Stranger Albert Camus TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
9 Module 3  A Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
9 Module 3 “A Poetry Reading At West Point” William Matthews poem Available at http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-poetry-reading-at-west-point/ 
9 Module 3 “Did I Miss Anything” Tom Wayman poem Available at http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/013.html 
9 Module 3 “To Room 19” Doris Lessing short story  From To Room Nineteen: Collected Stories Volume One  available at http://www.amazon.com/Room-Nineteen-Flamingo-Modern-Classics/dp/0007143001/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364222778&sr=1-1&keywords=To+Room+Nineteen
9 Module 3 "The depressive and the psychopath" Dave Cullen Article http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/assessment/2004/04/the_depressive_and_the_psychopath.html
9 Module 3 "girl" Jamaica Kincaid poem Available at http://www.my-island-jamaica.com/girl_by_jamaica_kincaid.htm or At the Bottom of the River 
9 Module 3 "Death of a pig" E.B. White short story Available at http://www.theatlantic.com/ideastour/animals/white-full.html
9 Module 3 "Snake" D.H. Lawrence poem Available at http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/dhl.snake.html 
9 Module 3 "The Wood Pile" Robert Frost poem Available at http://www.bartleby.com/118/16.html or http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173541 
9 Module 3 "The Fish" Elizabeth Bishop poem Available at http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-fish/ or http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-fish/ 
9 Module 3  Animals in Translation Temple Grandin TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
9 Module 4 Oedipus the King Sophocles TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
9 Module 4 Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel Garcia Marquez TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
9 Module 4 Metamorphosis Franz Kafka TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
9 Module 4 “Consolation to his Wife” Plutarch Letter Available at http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Consolatio_ad_uxorem*.html or In Consolation to His Wife (Penguin Great Ideas) 
9 Module 4 “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber Ernest Hemingway short story Available at http://www.tarleton.edu/Faculty/sword/Short%20Story/The%20Short%20Happy%20Life%20of%20Francis%20Macomber.pdf
9 Module 4 1 Samuel 17   Passage from The Bible: New Revised Standard Version 
9 Module 4 "Self Reliance" Ralph Waldo Emerson essay Availabe at http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm or http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~doyle/docs/self/self.pdf 
9 Module 4 Great Conversation Documents FDR speeches FDR’s First Inaugural: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/104
 first fireside chat: (audio can be found here: http://archive.org/details/1stFiresideChat1933
text available at http://www.mhric.org/fdr/chat1.html )
 his “Day of Infamy” speech: (audio available at http://archive.org/details/FranklinDelanoRooseveltDayOfInfamySpeech; transcript at  http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=73 
9 Module 4 “You’re the Result of Yourself” Pablo Neruda poem Available at http://wingsofsong.blogspot.com/2008/10/youre-result-of-yourself-pablo-neruda.html 
9 Module 4 “Lift Every Voice and Sing” James Weldon Johnson poem Available at http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15588 or http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175885 
9 Module 4 The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
9 Module 4 Their Eyes were watching God Zora Neale Hurston TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 1 The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 1 The Natural Bernard Malamud TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 1 Friday Night Lights Buzz Bissinger TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 1 Counting Coup Larry Colton TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 1 "The Palace Thief" Ethan Canin short story Available at http://www.amazon.com/Palace-Thief-Stories-Ethan-Canin/dp/0812976177
10 Module 1 "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" Mark Twain short story Available at http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/jumpingfrog.html 
10 Module 1 “The Search for Marvin Gardens” John McPhee Article Available at http://wendtenglish201f09.wikispaces.com/file/view/The+Search+for+Marvin+Gardens.pdf or The John McPhee Reader [978-0374517199]
10 Module 1 “The Talented Tenth” W.E.B. Du Bois essay Available at http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=174 
10 Module 1 Ender's Game Orson Scott Card TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 1 Genesis 37-45   Passage from The Bible: New Revised Standard Version 
10 Module 1 “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love” Christopher Marlowe poem Available at http://www.bartleby.com/106/5.html 
10 Module 1 “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” Sir Walter Raleigh poem Available at http://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/201/marlowe/shepherd_&_notes.htm
10 Module 1 Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 1 The Double Helix James Watson TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 2 Song of Solomon  Toni Morrison TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 2 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 2 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 2 Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 2 “White Man’s Burden”  Rudyard Kipling poem Available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/kipling.asp 
10 Module 2 “Letter from Birmingham Jail”  Martin Luther King Jr. letter Available at http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html or http://www.uscrossier.org/pullias/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/king.pdf
10 Module 2 Great Conversation Documents: 19th Century Women’s Rights Various speeches  Seneca Falls Declaration:
http://www.csus.edu/owl/index/read/sacbee/sen_dec.htm

Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a woman?"
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/sojtruth-woman.asp
10 Module 2 “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” Zora Neale Hurston essay Available at http://grammar.about.com/od/60essays/a/theireyesessay.htm?p=1 
10 Module 2 “Telephone Conversation” Wole Soyinka poem Available at http://www.nexuslearning.net/books/elements_of_lit_course6/20th%20Century/Collection%2015/TelephoneConversation.htm or http://lit205a.blogspot.com/2008/01/week-10-telephone-conversation-by-wole.html 
10 Module 2 "The Problem that has no name" Betty Friedan excerpt Chapter 1 of The Feminine Mystique available at http://instruct.westvalley.edu/kelly/Distance_Learning/History_17B/Readings/Friedan.htm 
10 Module 2  “Master Harold… and the Boys” Athol Fugard TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt Available at  http://www.amazon.com/Master-Harold-Boys-A-Drama/dp/0573640394
10 Module 3 Everyman   TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 3 The Book Thief Markus Zusak TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 3 Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers Mary Roach TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 3  Lord of the Flies William Golding TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 3 Maus Art Spiegelman TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 3 Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko short story  
10 Module 3 “The Destructors” Graham Greene short story Available at http://100mudcats.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/destructors.pdf or Twenty-One Stories [ISBN 978-0140185348]
10 Module 3 “Because I could not stop for Death” Emily Dickinson poem Available at http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15395 or http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/stop.html
10 Module 3 “Porphyria’s Lover” Robert Browning poem Available at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175584 or http://www.bartleby.com/101/720.html 
10 Module 3 “Home Burial” Robert Frost poem Available at http://www.bartleby.com/118/6.html or http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/238120
10 Module 3 “The Death of the Moth” Virginia Woolf essay Available at http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/everythingsanargument4e/content/cat_020/Woolf_DeathoftheMoth.pdf or http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91d/chapter1.html 
10 Module 3 Stanford Prison Experiment   website/slide show http://www.prisonexp.org/ 
10 Module 3 "The Author to her Book" Anne Bradstreet poem Available at http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16069 or http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172953
10 Module 3 "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" T.S. Eliot TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt Available at http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html
10 Module 4 What Arabs Think James Zogby TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 4 Fences August Wilson TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 4 Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 4 Animal Farm George Orwell TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 4 Screwtape Letters, Letter #1 C.S. Lewis TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 4 The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx essay  
10 Module 4 “On Being an American” H.L. Menken essay Available at http://www.prismnet.com/gibbonsb/mencken/american.html 
10 Module 4 “Good Country People” Flannery O’Connor short story available at http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-Stories-Flannery-OConnor/dp/0374515360 
10 Module 4 “A & P” John Updike short story Available at http://www.tiger-town.com/whatnot/updike/ 
10 Module 4 “The Garden Party” Katherine Mansfield essay Available at http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/GardPart.shtml , http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1429/1429-h/1429-h.htm#link2H_4_0015 or http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/mansfield/garden/garden.html#party
10 Module 4 “Thinking Like a Mountain”  Aldo Leopold poem Available at http://www.eco-action.org/dt/thinking.html 
10 Module 4 “I sing of Olaf glad and big”  ee cummings poem Available at http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15408 or http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-sing-of-olaf-glad-and-big/ 
10 Module 4 Prometheus Bound Aeschylus TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
10 Module 4 No Impact Man Colin Beavan TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
11 Module 1 Girl, Interrupted Susanna Kaysen short story  
11 Module 1 “A Rose for Emily” William Faulkner short story Available at http://flightline.highline.edu/tkim/Files/Lit100_SS2.pdf or http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/wf_rose.html 
11 Module 1 “Bartleby the Scriviner” Herman Melville short story Available at http://www.bartleby.com/129/
11 Module 1 “Notes to my Biographer” Adam Haslett short story Available at http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=46&part=all or http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11231/pg11231.html
11 Module 1 “The Minister’s Black Veil” Nathaniel Hawthorne short story Available at http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/mbv.html 
11 Module 1 “Jubilate Agno (For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry)” Christopher Smart poem Available at http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15798 or http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/for-i-will-consider-my-cat-jeoffry-excerpt-jubil/
11 Module 1  “Goblin Market” Christina Rosetti poem Available at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174262 or http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16950/pg16950.html 
11 Module 1 “The Garden of Forking Paths” Jorge Luis Borges short story Available at http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/borges-garden.html
11 Module 1 "My Last Duchess" Robert Browning poem Available at http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-last-duchess/ 
11 Module 1 "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Samuel Coleridge poem Available at http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Coleridg/mariner.html or http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Coleridg/mariner.html 
11 Module 1 “The Nose” Nikolai Gogol short story Available at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36238/36238-h/36238-h.htm#Page_67
11 Module 1 Notes From Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky excerpt  
11 Module 2 The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, “The Middle Passage” Olaudah Equiano TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt Available at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15399/15399-h/15399-h.htm or http://www.amazon.com/Interesting-Narrative-Other-Writings-Classics/dp/0142437166/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363635432&sr=1-3&keywords=The+Interesting+Narrative+of+the+Life+of+Olaudah+Equiano
11 Module 2 Working  Studs Turkel TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
11 Module 2 Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
11 Module 2 Beyond the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
11 Module 2 “A Modest Proposal” Jonathan Swift essay/satire Available at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm 
11 Module 2 1852 Speech at Rochester Frederick Douglass speeches Available at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927t.html  or  http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/douglassjuly4.html or  http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/douglass.htm
11 Module 2 “A Worker Reads History” Bertolt Brecht poem Available at http://allpoetry.com/poem/8503711-A_Worker_Reads_History-by-Bertolt_Brecht
11 Module 2 “Tragedy and the Common Man” Arthur Miller essay Available at http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/12/specials/miller-common.html
11 Module 2 “I Will Fight No More Forever” Chief Joseph speeches Available at http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/joseph.htm 
11 Module 2 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt Available at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927t.html or http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/douglassjuly4.html or http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/douglass.htm
11 Module 2 Anatomy of a Face Lucy Greely TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
11 Module 3 The Known World Edward P. Jones TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
11 Module 3 The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down  Anne Fadiman TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
11 Module 3 The Worst Hard Time  Timothy Egan TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
11 Module 3 Silent Spring, Chapter 1  RachelCarson excerpt Available at http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Spring-Rachel-Carson/dp/0618249060
11 Module 3 “Gettysburg Address” Abraham Lincoln speeches Available at http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm 
11 Module 3 “A More Perfect Union Barack Obama speeches Available at http://obamaspeeches.com/E05-Barack-Obama-A-More-Perfect-Union-the-Race-Speech-Philadelphia-PA-March-18-2008.htm 
11 Module 3 “Sonny’s Blues” James Baldwin TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt Available at http://www.amazon.com/Sonnys-Blues-Penguin-James-Baldwin/dp/0146000137
11 Module 3 “Our Town”(need 2) Thorton Wilder Plays Available at http://www.amazon.com/Three-Plays-Matchmaker-Perennial-Classics/dp/0060512644
11 Module 3 “Funeral Blues” W.H. Auden poem Available at http://www.wussu.com/poems/whafb.htm or http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/poetry/wystan-hugh-auden.html
11 Module 3 Sonnet 29 William Shakespeare poem Available at http://www.albionmich.com/inspiration/whenindisgrace.html or http://shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/29.html
11 Module 3 “New Math” McKibbon essay Available at http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719?print=true 
11 Module 3 Chief Seattle 1854 Speech Chief Seattle speeches Available at http://www.synaptic.bc.ca/ejournal/wslibrry.htm 
11 Module 3 A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon Gwendolyn Brooks poem Available at http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-bronzeville-mother-loiters-in-mississippi-mean/  
11 Module 3 “Interpreter of Maladies” Jhumpa Lahiri TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt Available at http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/lahiri-maladies.html 
11 Module 4 Hiroshima John Hersey TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
11 Module 4 The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
11 Module 4 The Reader Bernhard Schlink TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
11 Module 4 All Deliberate Speed Charles Ogletree TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
11 Module 4 “The Moral Side of Murder” Michael Sandel video http://www.justiceharvard.org/2011/03/episode-01/#watch
11 Module 4 “The Emperor” Ha Jin short story From short story collection "Under the Red Flag"
http://www.amazon.com/Under-Red-Flag-Ha-Jin/dp/1581950063
11 Module 4 “The Moment Before the Gun Went Off” Nadine Gordimer short story From Jump and Other Stories http://www.amazon.com/Jump-and-Other-Stories-ebook/dp/B000V2115K
11 Module 4 Great Conversation Documents: Segregation   legal decision Plessy v. Ferguson:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0163_0537_ZS.html
Harlan's dissent:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0163_0537_ZD.html
 Brown v. Board of Education
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0347_0483_ZS.html
11 Module 4 “The Montgomery Bus Boycott" Taylor Branch excerpt From his book Parting the Waters   Available at http://spot.colorado.edu/~wehr/5025B.TXT 
11 Module 4 “On The Rainy River” Tim O’Brien short story Available at http://www.amazon.com/Things-They-Carried-Tim-OBrien/dp/0618706410/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363635748&sr=1-1&keywords=the+things+they+carried
11 Module 4 “The Red Convertible” Louise Erdrich short story Available at http://www.amazon.com/Red-Convertible-Selected-Stories-1978-2008/dp/B002SB8PE2/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363635774&sr=1-1&keywords=Red+Convertible%3A+Selected+and+New+Stories
11 Module 4 “[American Journal]” Robert Hayden poem Available at http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19218 
11 Module 4 " Inferno" Dante TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
11 Module 4 The Trial Franz Kafka TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
11 Module 4 Savage Inequalities Jonathan Kozol TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
12 Module 1 Frankenstein  Mary Shelley TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
12 Module 1 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
12 Module 1 Richard III William Shakespeare TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
12 Module 1 The Prince, Chapter 15 Nicolo Machiavelli TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1232/1232-h/1232-h.htm
12 Module 1 Autobiography Malcolm X TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
12 Module 2 Lying Awake  Mark Salzman TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
12 Module 2 A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
12 Module 3 Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
12 Module 3 Fifties, Chapters 21 & 39 David Halberstam excerpt available at http://www.amazon.com/Fifties-David-Halberstam/dp/0449909336 
12 Module 3 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
12 Module 3 A Natural History of Love Diane Ackerman TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
12 Module 4 Let The Great World Spin Colum McCann TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
12 Module 4 Atonement Ian McEwan TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
12 Module 1 The Art of War, Chapter 3 Sun Tzu excerpt http://www.gutenberg.org/files/132/132.txt
12 Module 1 “Collision at Cajamarca” from   Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond excerpt http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies/dp/0393317552
12 Module 1 Great Conversation Documents: Revolutionary Era Various primary documents  Declaration of Independence
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
The Preamble to the Constitution
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/preamble
The Bill of Rights
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html
12 Module 1 “The moral roots of liberals and conservatives” Jonathan Haidt video http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html 
12 Module 1 “The Lemon Tree” Sandy Tolan short story http://www.homelands.org/inc/player.php?track=the_lemon_tree.mp3&tracktitle=The%20Lemon%20Tree  
12 Module 1 “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” F. Scott Fitzgerald poem http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4368/4368-h/4368-h.htm#Bernice_Bobs_Her_Hair
12 Module 1  “Lady Lazarus” Slyvia Plath TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-P-S-Sylvia-Plath/dp/0061558893
12 Module 1  King Lear William Shakespeare TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
12 Module 1 Oresteia Aeschylus essay  
12 Module 2 “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Jonathan Edwards poem http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/archive/resources/documents/ch03_03.htm
12 Module 2  “Church Going” Phillip Larkin poem from
12 Module 2 “Questions about Angels” Billy Collins poem  
12 Module 2 "The Perimeter of Ignorance" Neil DeGrasse Tyson Article available at http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/read/2005/11/01/the-perimeter-of-ignorance
12 Module 2  “I Have a Dream” Martin Luther King Jr. speeches  
12 Module 2 Second Inaugural Abraham Lincoln speeches http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres32.html
12 Module 2 Book of Ruth   Passage from The Bible: New Revised Standard Version 
12 Module 2 Qur’an, Sura 37 (As-Saaffat): 83-112   Passage Ali Unal's The Qur'an with Annotated Interpretation in Modern English.
12 Module 2  “The Latest Decalogue”  Arthur Hugh Clough poem http://www.bartleby.com/71/1423.html
12 Module 2 “God Says Yes To Me”  Kaylin Haught poem http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/126.html
12 Module 2  “Dover Beach” Matthew Arnold poem http://www.bartleby.com/42/705.html
12 Module 3  Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
12 Module 3 “To My Dear and Loving Husband” Anne Bradstreet poem http://www.annebradstreet.com/to_my_dear_and_loving_husband.htm
12 Module 3  Sonnet 138 William Shakespeare poem http://www.bartleby.com/70/50138.html
12 Module 3  Fifties, Chapters 21 & 39 David Halberstam excerpt http://www.amazon.com/Fifties-David-Halberstam/dp/0449909336
12 Module 3 “Brokeback Mountain”  Annie Proulx short story http://www.amazon.com/Brokeback-Mountain-Annie-Proulx/dp/0743271327
12 Module 3 1 Corinthians 13   Passage from The Bible: New Revised Standard Version 
12 Module 3  “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” Raymond Carver short story http://www.amazon.com/What-Talk-About-When-Love/dp/0679723056
12 Module 3  “Goodbye, My Brother” John Cheever short story  
12 Module 3  “The Three Heartbreaks of Belicia Cabral” Junot Diaz excerpt From the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao available at
 http://www.amazon.com/Brief-Wondrous-Life-Oscar-Wao/dp/1594483299
12 Module 3 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt http://www.amazon.com/Memoirs-Geisha-Novel-Arthur-Golden/dp/0679781587
12 Module 3  A Natural History of Love Diane Ackerman TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt http://www.amazon.com/Natural-History-Love-Diane-Ackerman/dp/0679761837
12 Module 3 “The Atlantic Man” Marguerette Duras short story http://www.amazon.com/Two-Duras-Marguerite/dp/0889104417
12 Module 3 “Jill, Afterwards” Phillip Dacey poem  
12 Module 3 "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf" Ntozake Shange TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt http://www.amazon.com/Colored-Girls-Considered-Suicide-Rainbow/dp/0684843269
12 Module 4 "This is water" David Foster Wallace speeches http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in-his-own-words
12 Module 4  “Everyday Use” Alice Walker short story  
12 Module 4  Nobel Prize Lecture Toni Morrison speeches http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1993/morrison-lecture.html
12 Module 4  “Where I Lived, & What I Lived For” Henry Thoreau excerpt  Chapter 2 of Walden
12 Module 4  “Living Like Weasels” Annie Dilliard TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
12 Module 4 “A White Heron”  Sarah Orne Jewett TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
12 Module 4  “The Dead” James Joyce TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt  
12 Module 4 “This Compost” Walt Whitman poem http://www.bartleby.com/142/159.html
12 Module 4  “The Fallacy of Success” G.K. Chesterton poem http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11505/11505-h/11505-h.htm
12 Module 4  Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt/public domain http://www.amazon.com/Window-Collectors-Edition-James-Stewart/dp/B00003CXC7
12 Module 4  Let The Great World Spin Colum McCann TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt/public domain http://www.amazon.com/Let-Great-World-Spin-Novel/dp/0812973992
12 Module 4 Atonement Ian McEwan TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt/public domain http://www.amazon.com/Atonement-Novel-Ian-McEwan/dp/038572179X
12 Module 4 “The God Who Loves You” Carl Dennis poem  
12 Module 4  "The Canterbury Tales" Geoffrey Chaucer TO BE DETERMINED: Full-length text vs. excerpt/public domain http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2383
 
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