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 Introduction o Introduction o Welcome o Credits o Search  Essays o Essays o Introduction

o "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan

 Introduction

 First Reading

 Second Reading

 Questions for Analysis

 Now, Your Voice!

o "The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death" by Peter Stark

 Introduction

 First Reading

 Second Reading

 Author's Voice!

 Skill Building Focus Activity

o Essay from A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut

 Introduction

 First Reading

 Second Reading

 Third Reading

 Now, Your Voice—Again!

 Panorama Prompt o Summaries  Work Summary  Notes Summary o Teacher Created  Keyboard Test  keyboard test 2  Documentary Films o Documentary Films o Introduction

o How Do Documentaries Work?

 Introduction

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o Jack by Grace Jackson

 Introduction

 First Viewing

 Second Viewing

 Third Viewing

o The Record Breaker by Brian McGinn

 Introduction

 First Viewing

 Second Viewing

 Third Viewing

 Now, Your Voice—Again! o Summaries

 Work Summary

 Notes Summary

 Biographies and Autobiographies

o Biographies and Autobiographies o Introduction

o Excerpt from The Dark Story of Eminem

 About Biographies

 Excerpt from The Dark Story of Eminem

 Reading

o Excerpt from Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

 About Autobiographies

 Excerpt from Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

 Reading

 Now, Your Voice!—Again! o Summaries  Work Summary  Notes Summary  Eyewitness Accounts o Eyewitness Accounts o Introduction

o “The Outhouse” by Clyde

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o Excerpt from Courage Was My Only Option by Roman Kent

 Introduction

 Reading and Post-Reading Reflection Questions

o James Brophy’s Eyewitness Account of the Roer River Crossing

 Introduction

 First Reading

 Second Reading

o A Chaplain’s Account of the Death of a Soldier

 Introduction

 Reading

o More on Eyewitness Accounts

 Panorama Prompt 1

 Panorama Prompt 2 o Summaries

 Work Summary

 Notes Summary

 Speeches on Going to War

o Speeches on Going to War o Introduction

o What Are Rhetorical Appeals?

 Introduction

o “Day of Infamy” Speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt

 Introduction

 First Reading

 Second Reading

 Video of “Day of Infamy” Speech  Questions for Analysis

 Now, Research It!

o George Bush's Address on the Start of the Iraq War

 Introduction

 First Reading

 Second Reading

 Video of Start of Iraq War Speech

 Panorama Prompt

o “Declaration of War Against Germany” by Woodrow Wilson

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 Reading

 Questions for Analysis o Summaries  Work Summary  Notes Summary  Manifestos! o Manifestos! o Introduction

o Excerpt from The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino

 Introduction, Reading, and Questions for Analysis o Excerpt from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

 Introduction

 First Reading

 Second Reading

 Questions for Analysis o The Declaration of Independence

 Introduction

 First Reading

 Second Reading

 Panorama Prompt

 Jefferson Memorial: Extended Challenge o “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau

 Introduction

 Reading

 Questions for Analysis o Summaries

 Work Summary

 Notes Summary

 Voices that Inspire

o Voices that Inspire o Introduction

o “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr.

 Introduction

 First Reading

 Second Reading

 Now, Research It!

o Elie Wiesel’s Nobel Acceptance Speech

 Introduction

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 Second Reading

 Skill Building Focus Activity

o Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln

 Introduction

 First Reading

 Second Reading

 Third Reading

 Panorama Prompt o Summaries

 Work Summary

 Notes Summary

 Ad, Ads Everywhere

o Ads, Ads Everywhere o Introduction

o What Is Advertising?

 What Is Advertising?

o Persuasive Techniques in Advertising

 Introduction

 Now, Your Voice! Evaluating Ads, Part 1

 Now, Your Voice! Evaluating Ads, Part 2

 What Do You Think?

 Panorama Prompt o Weasel Words in Advertising

 Weasel Words in Advertising

 What Do You Think? o Doublespeak

 What Is Doublespeak?

 What Do You Think?

o Persuasive Techniques in Political Advertising

 Political Advertising 

 What Do You Think? o Marketing Department

 Marketing Versus Advertising

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 Image Marketing Case Study, Continued o Summaries  Work Summary  Notes Summary  Film Reviews o Film Reviews o Introduction

o A Look at Film Reviews

 A Look at Film Reviews

 Analysis of a Film Review

 Post-Reading Reflection Questions o Write a Film Review

 How to Write Your Own Film Review

 Review the Film, Mr. Christmas

 Pre-Writing Reflection Questions

 Now, Your Voice! o Summaries

 Work Summary

 Notes Summary

 Democracy Written Down

o Democracy Written Down o Introduction

o Primary Versus Secondary Sources

 Introduction

 Exercise

o Town Council Minutes

 Introduction

 Reading

 Post-Reading Reflection Questions o The US Constitution

 Introduction

 Reading

 Building Connections

o Supreme Court Case, Morse v. Frederick

 Introduction

 Background on Morse v. Frederick

 First Reading

 Second Reading

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 Further Reading on the Case o Summaries

 Work Summary

 Notes Summary

 Research and Interpretation

o Research and Interpretation o Introduction

o Research Study: Solving Underwater Crimes

 Introduction

 Part 1: First Look

 Part 2: Closer Look

 Now, Your Voice! o Research Interpreted

 Introduction

 "America's Real Criminal Element: Lead"

 Reading

 Questions for Analysis 1

 Weighing the Evidence

 Response: "Lead and Crime"

 Questions for Analysis 2 o Summaries  Work Summary  Notes Summary  Instructions o Instructions o Introduction o Evaluating Instructions  Introduction  Activity #1  Activity #2  Activity #3  Comparing Instructions o Writing Instructions  Introduction  Exploring Audience

 Use Your Imagination!

 Panorama Prompt o Summaries

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 Notes Summary

 Letters: Then and Now

o Letters: Then and Now o Introduction

o Postcards

 Introduction

 Postcard Activites

 What Do You Think? o Love Letters

 Introduction

 An Exchange of Letters

 Now, Your Voice! o Text Messages  Text Messages  Panorama o Letters Now  Introduction  Reading

 Now, Your Voice! o Summaries  Work Summary  Notes Summary  Everyday Texts o Everyday Texts o Introduction o Forms  Introduction  Activity #1  Activity #2  Activity #3

 Now, Your Voice! o Bills

 Introduction

 Activity #1 o Road Signs

 About Road Signs

 Sample Road Signs and Questions

 More About Road Signs o Summaries

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 Notes Summary

 And the Wider World of Nonfiction…

o And the Wider World of Nonfiction... o Introduction

o Excerpt from Prison Life in Andersonville

 Reading

 Questions for Analysis o "Advice to Youth" by Mark Twain

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 Questions for Analysis o Articles on the Common Core

 Reading 1

 Reading 2

o Excerpt from Language in Action by S.I. Hayakawa

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o “Shiloh: A Requiem,” by Herman Melville

 Introduction

 Reading

 Questions for Analysis/Comparison

 Writer's Toolbox

o Writer's Toolbox o Introduction

o Defining Purpose and Audience o Prewriting

o Writing a Rough Draft o Revising

o Editing and Proofreading

o Common Writing Errors Checklist o Publishing

o What Is Parallel Structure?

o Using Periods, Colons, and Semicolons

 Student's Toolbox

o Student's Toolbox o Introduction o Collaboration

o Finding and Evaluating Sources o Tips for Giving an Oral Presentation o What Is Plagiarism?