Grade+9,+Unit+1

= = = = =UNIT 1: LITERARY ELEMENTS THE SHORT STORY= = = =ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Why do we tell stories?= = = =LITERARY TEXTS--= =ANTHOLOGIES:= = = =SHORT STORIES:= = = =ART, MUSIC AND MEDIA--= =ART:= = = =MUSIC:= = = =FILM:= = = =FUNDAMENTALS--= =WRITING:= = = =GRAMMAR AND USAGE:= = = =MECHANICS:= = = =TERMINOLOGY:=
 * =//Multicultural Reader II//=
 * =//Snapshots//=
 * =//Elements of Literature 4th course//=
 * =//Daybook//=
 * =//Reader’s Handbook: A Student Guide for Reading and Learning//=
 * =Drinking Coffee Elsewhere: Stories (ZZ Packer)=
 * = "Everyday Use" (Alice Walker) (EA) =
 * = "How Much Land Does a Man Need? 1886" (Leo Tolstoy) =
 * =//Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories// (James Moffett and Kenneth L. McElheny, eds.) (1968 edition)=
 * = "The Black Cat" (Edgar Allan Poe) (EA) =
 * = "The Cask of Amontillado" (Edgar Allan Poe) (EA) =
 * = "The Gift of the Magi" (O. Henry) (E) =
 * =“The Kitchen Boy” (Alaa Al Aswany)=
 * = "The Minister's Black Veil" (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (EA) =
 * = "The Most Dangerous Game" (Richard Connell) =
 * = "The Overcoat" (Nikolai Gogol) (EA) =
 * = "The Scarlet Ibis" (James Hurst) =
 * = "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (James Thurber) (EA) =
 * = "The Tell-Tale Heart" (Edgar Allan Poe) (EA) =
 * =Emanuel Leutze, //Washington Crossing The Delaware// (1851)=
 * =Jacob Lawrence, //On The Way// (1990)=
 * =Michelangelo, //The Creation of Adam, Sistine Chapel// (c. 1511)=
 * =Pablo Picasso, //Young Acrobat on a Ball// (1905)=
 * =Roy DeCarava, //Untitled// (1950)=
 * =Sultan Muhammad, //From a Khamsa of Nizami// (1539-43)=
 * =Tina Barney, //Marina’s Room// (1987)=
 * ="Clothesline Saga" (Bob Dylan)=
 * ="Me and Bobby McGee" (Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster)=
 * ="Peter and The Wolf" (Sergei Prokofiev)=
 * ="The Bonnie Lass o'Fyvie" ("Peggy-O") (Folk Ballad)=
 * =“Variations on an Original Theme ('Enigma')” (Edward Elgar)=
 * =Ang Lee, dir., //Chosen// (and other BMW short films)=
 * =Ken Burns, dir., //Brooklyn Bridge// (1981)=
 * =Martin Scorsese, dir., //No Direction Home// (2005)=
 * =Unreliable Narrator? worksheet=
 * =Verbs: principal parts of verbs, especially irregular past and past participles; simple, perfect, and progressive tenses; agreement of subject and verb=
 * =Nouns: common, proper, concrete, abstract, countable, collective, compound, possessive, gerunds=
 * =Capitalizing of common and proper nouns=
 * =Character, characterization=
 * =Figurative language=
 * =Irony (e.g., dramatic, situational, verbal)=
 * =Narrator=
 * =Parable=
 * =Plot (i.e., exposition, rising action, crisis/climax, falling action, resolution/denoument) Point of view=
 * =Sensory imagery=
 * =Setting=
 * =Style=
 * =Symbol, symbolism=
 * =Theme=
 * =Tone=

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