Grade+9,+Unit+6

= = =UNIT 6: LITERARY NONFICTION – REFLECTION (THE MEMOIR, THE ESSAY, AND THE SPEECH)= = = =ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How is reflecting different from remembering?= = = =LITERARY TEXTS--= =ANTHOLOGIES:= = = =CREATIVE NON-FICTION:= = = =INFORMATIONAL TEXTS--= =ARTICLES:= = = =ESSAYS:= = = =MEMOIRS:= = = =SPEECHES:= = = =ART, MUSIC AND MEDIA--= =ART:= = = =ADDITIONAL RESOURCES--= = = =FUNDAMENTALS--= =WRITING:= = = =GRAMMAR AND USAGE:= = = =TERMINOLOGY:= = =
 * =//Multicultural Reader II//=
 * =//Snapshots//=
 * =//Elements of Literature 4th course//=
 * =//Daybook//=
 * =//Reader’s Handbook: A Student Guide for Reading and Learning//=
 * =//Coming of Age//=
 * = //Night// (Elie Wiesel) =
 * = //Maus// (Art Speigelman) =
 * =//Travels with Charley// (John Steinbeck)=
 * = "The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine" (Ray Kurzweil) (E) =
 * = "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens" (Alice Walker) (EA) =
 * = "Lincoln and the Gettysburg Awakening" (excerpts) (Glenn LaFantasie) =
 * = "Avante-Garde and Kitsch" (Clement Greenberg) =
 * = "Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool" (George Orwell) =
 * = //Life on the Mississippi// (excerpts) (Mark Twain) (EA) =
 * = "Politics and the English Language" (George Orwell) (E) =
 * = "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" (William Wordsworth) =
 * =Excerpts from //The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today// (Martin Seymour-Smith)=
 * ="The Lost Childhood" (Graham Greene)=
 * ="The Lost Childhood" (Graham Greene)=
 * ="A Four Hundred Year Old Woman" (Bharati Mukherjee)=
 * ="A Sketch of the Past" (Virginia Woolf)=
 * = "Learning to Read and Write" (Frederick Douglass) (EA) =
 * =A Childhood: The Biography of a Place (Harry E. Crews)=
 * = "Notes of a Native Son" (James Baldwin) =
 * = "One Writer's Beginnings" (Eudora Welty) =
 * =//Running in the Family// (Michael Ondaatje)=
 * =//The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts// (Maxine Hong Kingston)=
 * = "Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate" (delivered 12 June, 1987, West Berlin) (Ronald Reagan) =
 * = "The Gettysburg Address" by Abraham Lincoln (delivered 19 November 1863) (Abraham Lincoln) =
 * = "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (August 1963) (Martin Luther King Jr.) (E) =
 * =Address at the March on Washington: "I Have a Dream" (delivered 28 August, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial) (Martin Luther King, Jr.) (E)=
 * = "Nobel Prize in Literature Speech 1950" (William Faulkner) (EA) =
 * = "Second Inaugural Address" (4 March 1865) (Abraham Lincoln) (E) =
 * = "Sinews of Peace" (delivered 5 March, 1946, at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri) (Winston Churchill) =
 * =Albrecht Durer, //Self-Portrait at the Age of 13// (1484)=
 * =Artemisia Gentileschi, //Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting// (1630s)=
 * =Balthus, //Le Roi des Chats// (//The King of Cats//) (1935)=
 * =Francis Bacon, //Self-Portrait// (1973)=
 * =Gustave Courbet, //The Desperate Man (self-portrait)// (1843)=
 * =Jacob Lawrence, //Self-Portrait// (1977)=
 * =Jan van Eyck, //Self-Portrait// (1433)=
 * =Leonardo da Vinci, Possible //Self-Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci// (c.1513)=
 * =Louisa Matthíasdóttir, //Self-Portrait with Dark Coat// (No Date)=
 * =Pablo Picasso, //Self-Portrait// (1907)=
 * =Rembrandt van Rijn, //Self-Portrait at an Early Age// (1628)=
 * =Rembrandt van Rijn, //Self-Portrait at the Age of 63// (1669)=
 * =Vincent van Gogh, //Self-Portrait// (1889)=
 * =Online Bank of American Speeches (americanrhetoric.com)=
 * ="Annotated List of Memoirs" (ReadWriteThink)=
 * ="Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Nonfiction" (National Endowment for the Humanities)=
 * =Memoir Assignment (ReadWriteThink)=
 * =Family interview worksheet=
 * =Interjections and their punctuation=
 * =Abstract/universal essay=
 * =Alliteration=
 * =Autobiography=
 * =Chronological order=
 * =Classification and division=
 * =Compare-and-contrast essay=
 * =Ethos, pathos, logos=
 * =Exemplification=
 * =Extended metaphor=
 * =Memoir=
 * =Objective/factual essay=
 * =Personal/autobiographical essay=
 * =Repetition=
 * =Satire=

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