Mr. I. Alex. Harris’s Syllabus Guidelines Using
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Class Rules and Requirements and Weekly Assignments for English I
Honors and Regular Are Posted Online at
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District Pacing Guide
English /English Honors- Grade 9
Course Code: 100131001 /100132001
Year at a Glance 2014-2015
Suggested Readings from McDougal Littell Literature
First Quarter
August 18 – October 24
Weeks 1 – 10
Hispanic Heritage
1. “The Seven Ages of Man”
(Shakespeare,) p. 720 (poetry); “The Road
Not Taken” (Robert Frost), p. 720 (poetry)
CPALMS Resource ID# 48639
The Seven Ages of Man
2-4. from “The House on Mango Street”
(Sandra Cisneros), p. 568 (excerpt)
OR
Novel Study: The House on Mango Street
(Sandra Cisneros)
Discovery Education Model Lesson
Dreams: Sandra Cisneros’ “The House on
Mango Street”
5-6. “Daughter of Invention”
(Julia Alvarez), p. 78 (short story)
OR
“Future in My Arms” (Edwidge Danticat),
p. 459 (short story)
7-8. “The Most Dangerous Game”
(Richard Connell), p. 52 (short story)
CPALMS Resource ID# 23616
Literary Elements in The Most Dangerous
Game
OR
“A Sound of Thunder” (Ray Bradbury), p.
Second Quarter
October 27 – January 16
Weeks 11 – 20
Native American Heritage
11-12. “The Cask of Amontillado”
(Edgar Allan Poe), p. 342 and “The
Raven” (Edgar Allen Poe) , p. 138
EXEMPLAR LESSON (short stories)
CPALMS Resource ID# 31569
Modeling Reading and Analysis
Processes with the Works of Edgar
Allan Poe
Honors Resources:
ReadWriteThink resource
Exploring Setting: Constructing Character,
Point of View, Atmosphere, and Theme
Edsitement resource
Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the
Unreliable Biographers
13-14. “Primal Screen “(Ellen
Goodman), p. 638 (essay);
“The Pedestrian” (Ray Bradbury), p. 638
(short story)
Honor Resources
ReadWriteThink resource
Paying Attention to Technology:
Exploring a Fictional Technology;
Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury was
born in 1920
OR
“The Scarlet Ibis” (James Hurst), p. 426
(short story)
Division of Academics– Department of English Language Arts
Third Quarter
January 19 – March 20
Weeks 21 – 29
Black History
Women’s History
Fourth Quarter
March 30 – June 5
Weeks 30 – 39
American Jewish Heritage
Haitian Heritage
21-22: “I Have a Dream” (Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.), p. 600-609 (speech);
“Testimony Before the Senate Speech”
Michael J. Fox, p. 610 (speech)
EXEMPLAR LESSON
30. “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass,”
“’Hope’ is the thing with feathers”
(Emily Dickinson), p. 790 (poetry);
“Unraveling the Mystery of Emily
Dickinson,” p. 794 (article)
23. “Tropics in New York” (Claude
McKay), p. 896 (poem); “Theme for
English B” (Langston Hughes), p. 898
(poem)
Honors Resource:
CPALMS Resource ID #26266
A Renaissance of Jazz and Poetry
Discovery Education Model Lesson
1852 Emily Dickinson (introduction)
24-25. “The Rights to the Streets of
Memphis” (Richard Wright), p. 110
(autobiography)
OR
“Marigolds” (Eugenia Collier), p. 410
(short story); “Sowing Change” (Donna
Freedman), p. 422 (article)
26-27. from I Know Why The Caged
Bird Sings (Maya Angelou), p. 236
(excerpt); “Caged Bird” (Maya Angelou),
p. 246 (poem)
OR
from Rosa Parks (Douglas Brinkley)
(excerpt/biography) and “Rosa” (Rita
Dove), p. 274 (poem)
31-35. “Shakespeare’s World,”
“Shakespearean Drama,” “The
Language of Shakespeare,” and
“Reading Shakespearean Drama” p.
926 (articles)
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
(Shakespeare), p. 940 (play)
EXEMPLAR LESSON
Honors Resource:
CPALMS Resource ID#48834
Don't Bite Your Thumb at Me, Sir! Using
Storyboards to bring Act One of Romeo
and Juliet to Life
36-39.
Mixed Media: Integrating 21st Century
Literacies – Publishing with Technology,
p. 391
CPALMS Resource ID# 25845
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles
of Composition
Page 1 of 4
First Quarter
August 18 – October 24
Weeks 1 – 10
Hispanic Heritage
32 (short story)
9. “The Necklace”
(Guy de Maupassant), p. 206 (short story)
Discovery Education Model Lesson
Diamonds Aren’t Always a Girl’s Best
Friend: Exploring Social Class and
Materialism in Guy de Maupassant’s “The
Necklace”
OR
“The Open Window” (Saki), p. 560
(short story)
OR
“The Gift of the Magi” (O. Henry), p. 94
(short story)
Discovery Education Model Lesson
“The Gift of the Magi” (guiding questions)
CPALMS Resource ID# 48587
Context Clues in Context: The Gift of the
Magi--Lesson 1 of 3
Honors Resource: from EDSITEment!
Launchpad: O. Henry’s “The Gift of the
Magi”: A common Core Exemplar
http://edsitement.neh.gov/launchpad-ohenrys-gift-magi-common-core-exemplar
10. Mixed Media: Integrating 21st Century
Literacies – Getting Acquainted with our
Heritage
Novel Study
Suggested Titles
 The House on Mango Street (Sandra
Cisneros)
 In The Time of the Butterflies(Julia
Alvarez)
OR
School-approved title
OR
See “Suggested Novel Selections” on page 3
Second Quarter
October 27 – January 16
Weeks 11 – 20
Native American Heritage
15-18: “The Odyssey” (Homer), p.
1088 EXEMPLAR LESSON (epic poem)
CPALMS Resource ID# 45209
“Greek Mythology Version 2.0: To Be or
Not to Be an Epic Hero?”
CPALMS Resource ID# 24441
Epic Comics: Vivid Language in Homer’s
Odyssey
Honors Resources:
ReadWriteThink resource
Weaving the Old into the New: Pairing
The Odyssey with Contemporary Works
Teaching the Epic through Ghost Stories
ArtsEdge resource
Deep Roots of Ancient Greece
Edsitement resources
A Story of Epic Proportions: What makes
a Poem an Epic?
EDSITEment's Recommended Reading
List for College-Bound Students
Summer Reading for Teachers, Grades
9–10
19-20. Revisiting Sacred Ground (M.
Scott Momady), p. 852 (essay)
The Wilderness Letter (Stegner), p.372
(letter)
Discovery Education Model Lesson
Civil Rights and Native American
American Indians Heritage Month
Third Quarter
January 19 – March 20
Weeks 21 – 29
Black History
Women’s History
Fourth Quarter
March 30 – June 5
Weeks 30 – 39
American Jewish Heritage
Haitian Heritage
Discovery Education Model Lesson
The PBS News Hour: The Story We Did
Not Know About Rosa Parks
Discovery Education Model Lesson
Content Collection “Women’s History
Month” discussion guide
OR
“Georgia O’Keeffe” (Joan Didion), p. 524
(essay)
CPALMS Resource ID# 48950
Not Your Analogue Research Paper
CPALMS Resource ID# 43073
Technology vs. Ethics Debate
CPALMS Resource ID# 43687
The History of Miami Research Paper
Discovery Education Model Lesson
Finding Strength: Rebuilding After a
Natural Disaster
Honors Resource:
Edsitement
Having Fun: Leisure and Entertainment at
the Turn of the Twentieth Century
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lessonplan/having-fun-leisure-andentertainment-turn-twentieth-century#sectintroduction
28-29. “Two Kinds” (Amy Tan) p. 472
(short story); “Rice and Rose Bowl
Blues” (Diane Mei Lin Mark), pp. 472
(poem) ; “Fish Cheeks” (Amy Tan) p.
176 (short story)
OR
Novel Study
Suggested Titles
 I Know Why The Caged Bird
Sings (Maya Angelou)
 The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)
OR
School-approved title
OR
See “Suggested Novel Selections” on
page 3 of this document
OR
Novel Study
School-approved title
OR
See “Suggested Novel Selections” on
page 3 of this document
Native American Burials: The Science vs.
Culture Controversy Over Kennewick Man
The Myth of the West: Exploring the
Complicated Past of Manifest Destiny
Honors Resources:
Poinsettias, Posadas, Piñatas, Pathways
of Light! Holiday Traditions from Mexico
OR
Division of Academics– Department of English Language Arts
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First Quarter
August 18 – October 24
Weeks 1 – 10
Hispanic Heritage
of this document.
Second Quarter
October 27 – January 16
Weeks 11 – 20
Native American Heritage
Third Quarter
January 19 – March 20
Weeks 21 – 29
Black History
Women’s History
Fourth Quarter
March 30 – June 5
Weeks 30 – 39
American Jewish Heritage
Haitian Heritage
Suggested Title:
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
CPALMS Resource ID# 40021
Annotation and Close Reading Analysis:
excerpt from Fahrenheit 451
CPALMS Resource ID# 42764
Annotation and Close Reading Passage
Analysis: excerpt from Fahrenheit 451
Part 2 of 3
CPALMS Resource ID# 44814
Annotation and Close Reading Passage
Analysis: excerpt from Fahrenheit 451
Part 2 of 3
OR
School-approved title
OR
See “Suggested Novel Selections” on
page 3 of this document
Honors Resources:
Socratic Seminars
http://www.readwritethink.org/professional
-development/strategy-guides/socraticseminars-30600.html
Rhetorical Analysis for Pre-AP English
https://coretools.ldc.org/#/search?lower_gr
ade=10&discipline_id=3
Division of Academics– Department of English Language Arts
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English 1 – Grade 9
Unit 1
The Autobiography of Miss Jane PittmanErnest J. Gaines
And Then There Were None- Agatha
Christie
In These Girls, Hope is a MuscleMadeleine Blais
Shoeless Joe- W.P. Kinsella
All Quiet on the Western Front- Erich Maria
Remarque
The Pact: Three Young Men Make a
Promise and Fulfill a Dream- Dr. Sampson
Davis, et al.
Bad Boy: A Memoir- Walter Dean Myers
The Natural- Bernard Malamud
The Miracle Worker- William Gibson
Unit 5
Desert Solitaire- Edward Abbey
Barrio Boy- Ernesto Galarza
My Place- Sally Morgan
Picture Bride- Yoshiko Uchida
Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy’s Remarkable
Journey from a Refugee Camp to HarvardMawi Asgedom
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their AccentsJulia Alvarez
The Kitchen God’s Wife- Amy Tan
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water- Michael Dorris
Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
Suggested Novel Selections
Course Code: 100131001
Unit 2
Into the Wild- Jon Krakauer
The Chosen- Chaim Potok
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
The Outsiders- S.E. Hinton
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court- Mark Twain
Kaffir Boy- Mark Mathabane
Finding Fish- Antwone Fisher
Coming of Age in Mississippi- Anne
Moody
O Pioneers!- Willa Cather
Unit 3
The Moves Make the Man- Bruse Brooks
The Friends- Rosa Guy
Sula- Toni Morrison
In the Middle of the Night- Robert Cormier
Hamlet- William Shakespeare
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest- Ken
Kesey
The Call of the Wild- Jack London
The Last Unicorn- Peter Beagle
The Birthday Boys- Beryl Bainbridge
Unit 4
Music of the Heart- Roberta Gaspari
Gifted Hands- Ben Carson, M.D. with Cecil
Murphy
Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors- Marian Wright
Edelman
The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
The Once and Future King- T.H. White
This Boy’s Life- Tobias Wolff
One Writer’s Beginning- Eudora Welty
I’d Rather Teach Peace- Colman McCarthy
The Other Side of the Mountain- Evans G. Valens
Unit 6
Mountains Beyond Mountains- Tracy
Kidder
Eco-Heroes: Twelve Tales of
Environmental Victory- Aubrey Wallace
Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights
Years, 1954-1965- Juan Williams
Silent Spring- Rachel Carson
Still Me- Christopher Reeve
How the Other Half Lives- Jacob Riis
The Right to Privacy- Ellen Alderman
and Caroline Kennedy
The Firm- John Grishman
1984- George Orwell
Unit 7
The Old Man and the Sea- Ernest
Hemingway
The Hot Zone- Richard Preston
The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and
Fowl Obsession- Mark Obmascik
About this Life- Barry Lopez
19 Varieties of Gazelle- Naomi Shihab Nye
Spoon River Anthology- Edgar Lee Masters
We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and
Endurance- David Howarth
Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
In the Shadow of Man- Jane Goodall
Unit 8
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich- Alexander
Solzhenitsyn
Things Fall Apart- Chinua Achebe
Ethan Frome- Edith Wharton
All Creatures Great and Small- James Herriot
Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural
Revolution- Ji-li Jiang
I’m a Stranger Here Myself- Bill Bryson
Funny Letters from Famous People- Charles
Osgood
The Wit and the Wisdom of Mark Twain- edited
by Alex Ayres
Unit 9
Watership Down- Richard Adams
A Separate Peace- John Knowles
The Beekeeper’s Daughter- Laurie R. King
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place- Terry
Tempest Williams
Small Wonder- Barbara Kingsolver
A World of Hurt: Between Innocence and Arrogance in
Vietnam- Mary Reynolds Powell
Dust Tracks on a Dirt Road: An Autobiography- Zora Neale
Hurston
The Names: A Memoir- N. Scott Momaday
Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed- Phillip Hallie
Unit 10
West Side Story- Leonard Bernstein, Irving Schulman,
and Stephen Sondheim
Metamorphoses- Ovid
A Midsummer’s Night Dream- William Shakespeare
Othello- William Shakespeare
The Wings of a Dove- Henry James
A Natural History of Love- Diane Ackerman
Division of Academics– Department of English Language Arts
Unit 11
The Iliad- Homer
The Aeneid- Virgil
The Epic of Gilgamesh- translated by Stephen Mitchell
Omeros- Derek Walcott
Cold Mountain- Charles Frazier
The Hero with a Thousand Faces- Joseph Campbell
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