ESSENTIALS IN WRITING
9th grade
Links to Online Stories
Created 10-1-18
FICTION UNIT
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
http://www.novamil.org/sites/novamil.org/files/secret_life_of_walter_mitty_se.pdf
“The Most Dangerous Game”
http://www.dukeofdefinition.com/dangerous_game.pdf
“Born Worker”
https://www.chino.k12.ca.us/cms/lib8/CA01902308/Centricity/Domain/3749/7.1.1_born_
worker.pdf
“The Monkey’s Paw”
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/jacobs/ww/monkey/
“A White Heron”
http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/awh/heron.htm
“The Bet”
http://aliclassroom.weebly.com/uploads/6/1/2/2/61229617/the-bet_pdf.pdf
“Blues Ain’t No Mockin’ Bird”
https://olliasheville.com/sites/default/files/Instructor_Handouts/Roland/Blues_Aint_No_M
ockin_Bird.pdf
NONFICTION UNIT
Charles Martel-biography
https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/french-history-biographies/charles-martel
History of Jeans
http://www.fashionintime.org/history-jeans/
Origin of Blue Jeans
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/the-origin-of-blue-jeans89612175/
Farewell Letter to the Pilgrims
http://www.pilgrimhallmuseum.org/pdf/John_Robinson_Farewell_Letter_to_Pilgrims.pdf
NPR Review of A WRINKLE IN TIME
https://www.npr.org/2012/03/05/146161011/the-unlikely-best-seller-a-wrinkle-in-timeturns-50
John Steinbeck on falling in love (a 1958 letter)
https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/01/12/john-steinbeck-on-love-1958/
The Guardian review of Mockingbird
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/feb/03/mockingbird-kathryn-erskine-review
POETRY UNIT
“Dreams”
http://www.eggplant.org/pdf/dreams.pdf
“Red Roses”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=17393
“Still I Rise”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46446/still-i-rise
“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
http://www.troup.org/userfiles/929/My%20Files/ELA/HS%20ELA/9th%20ELA/Unit%201/
Nothing%20Gold%20Can%20Stay.pdf?id=11294
“A Poison Tree”
https://literaryballadarchive.com/PDF/Blake7_Poison_Tree_f.pdf
“Fire and Ice”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44263/fire-and-ice
“Sonnet 29”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45090/sonnet-29-when-in-disgrace-withfortune-and-mens-eyes
“The Naming of Cats”
http://writingfix.com/PDFs/poetry_prompts/classics/TS_Eliot_Cat_Poems.pdf
“The Wind Begun to rock the grass”
https://www.bartleby.com/113/2037.html
“Spring Storm”
http://eberhartpoetry.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/6/7/12677529/spring_storm.pdf
“When it is Snowing” AND “Poppies”
http://eberhartpoetry.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/6/7/12677529/when_it_is_snowing__popp
ies.pdf
“The Raven”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven
“The Eagle”
https://www.acaedu.net/cms/lib3/TX01001550/Centricity/Domain/518/The%20Eagle.pdf
“The Rose that Grew from Concrete”
https://www.commonlit.org/texts/the-rose-that-grew-from-concrete
“A Wise Old Apple Tree in Spring”
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/pastoral-20