Title
“ The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
“ The Necklace”
“ The Scarlet Ibis”
“ Most Dangerous Game”
“Cask of Amontillado”
“Gift of the Magi”
“Sweet Potato Pie”
“My Name”, “Eleven”, “Hair”
“Before the End of Summer”
“She Flies”
“El Sapo”
"Two Kinds"
"Catch the Moon"
"Through the Tunnel"
"Tuesday Siesta"
"The Monkey's Paw"
"Masque of the Red Death"
"A Sound of Thunder"
"The Interlopers"
"Waltz of the Fat Man"
"Chee's Daughter"
"The Boar Hunt"
"The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit"
"Chango", "Yolanda"
"Clothes"
SHORT PIECES
W.E.H.S. English Curriculum
Author
James Thurber
Guy de Maupassant
Richard Connell
Edgar Allan Poe
O. Henry
Eugenia Collier
Sandra Cisneros
Grant Moss, Jr.
David Rice
David Rice
Amy Tan
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Doris Lessing
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
William Jacobs
Edgar Allan Poe
Ray Bradbury
Saki (H. H. Munro)
Alberto Alvaro Rios
Juanita Platero & Siyowin
Miller
Jose Vasconcelos
Ray Bradbury
Oscar Casares
Chitra Divakaruni
Textbook
Textbook
Textbook
Textbook
Textbook
Source
Textbook
Textbook
House on Mango Street,
Woman Hollering Creek
Crazy Loco
Give the Pig a Chance
Textbook
Textbook
Textbook
Textbook
Textbook
Textbook
Textbook
Textbook
Textbook
Textbook
Theme / Conceptual Lens
Identity- Personal
Identity- Social
Identity- Family
Identity- Shifting
Identity revealed through
Characterization
Identity- Relationships
Identity- Family
Identity- Personal
Identity- Shifting, family
Identity- Cultural
Identity-Cultural
Identity- Personal, family
Identity- Personal, family
Identity- Social
Identity- Personal
Identity- Human
Identity- Personal
Identity- Personal, social
Identity- Social, family, personal
Textbook Identity- Personal
The Stories of Ray Bradbury Identity- Personal
Brownsville Identity- Personal
Arranged Marriage Identity- Personal
Unit Grade
1
1
1
1
1
9
9
9
9
1
1
1
9
9
9
9
1
1
9
9
1 9
1 10
1 10
1 10
1 10
1 10
1 10
1 10
1 10
1 10
1 10
1 10
1 10
1 10
1 10

Title
“Night” (excerpt)
“Black Boy”
“Only Daughter”
“The Circuit”
“A Christmas Memory”
“Like Mexicans”
“Breaking the Ice”
“U.S. vs. Susan B. Anthony
"Kaffir Boy"
"I Have Seen the Promised Land"
"The Swimming Lesson"
"A Farewell to Manzanar"
"A Match to the Heart"
"My First Conk"
Out of the Valley
"Opposing Viewpoints"
Travels With Charley
Author
Elie Wiesel
Richard Wright
Sandra Cisneros
Francisco Jimenez
Truman Capote
Gary Soto
Margaret Truman
Mark Mathabane
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jewelle Gomez
James Houston
Gretel Ehrlich
Malcom X
various
various
John Steinbeck
Textbook
Textbook
Textbook
Textbook
Textbook
Textbook
Textbook
Source
Textbook
Textbook
The Autobiography of
Malcom X
Perspectives- race relations
Perspectives
Perspectives- memoir, societal roles
Perspectives
California State University Perspectives
Textbook (excerpt)
Theme / Conceptual Lens
Perspectives
Perspectives
Perspectives
Perspectives
Perspectives
Perspectives
Perspectives- violence, education
Perspectives- race relations
Perspectives- societal issues
Unit Grade
2
2
9
9
2
2
2
2
9
9
9
9
2 9
2 10
2 10
2 10
2 10
2 10
2 10
2 10
2 10
2 10

Speeches
“I Have a Dream” (excerpt)
“Aint I A Woman?”
Political Speeches
Current Events
Channel One
Documentaries
Documentary Films
Free Documentaries
HBO Documentaries
“Best Online Documentaries”
“30 Days”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sojourner Truth
Morgan Spurlock TV show- FX
Textbook
Internet

Other
“News of the Weird”
Title
“I Was a Skinny Tomboy Kid”
“ My Mother Combs My Hair”
“I’m Nobody, Who Are You?”
Chuck Shepherd
Author
Alma Luz Villanueva
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Emily Dickinson
Internet / newspaper
Source
Textbook
Textbook
Textbook
Theme / Conceptual Lens
Identity
Identity
Identity
Unit Grade
1
1
9
9
1 9

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