Readings with Standards

list of literary resources and skills to use with them in the culture unit 2:

Red Book:

"A Smart Cookie," by Sandra Cisneros page 747
"The Medicine Bag" page 759
"An Hour with Abuelo" page 773
"The Old Grandfather and His Little Grandson

• RL 8.3

"Saying Yes," by Diana Chang 753

• RL 8.5 pair with "A Smart Cookie"

"The Wise Old Woman," by Yoshiko Uchida

• RL8.3--Plot

Mrs. Flowers from I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou

• RL 8.3

"First Stop:  Ellis Island"  Photo Essay

Coming to America from New Kids on the Block:  Oral Histories of Immigrant Teens  Oral History

• RI 8.7  Compare and contrast the theme/topic of these two texts--then evaluate the advantages/disadvantages of one medium over the other

"My Mother Pieced Quilts," by Teresa Palomo Acosta

"Everyday Use," by Alice Walker  --Not in book (I have this short story)

•   RL 8.5  Compare and contrast the structure of these two texts....

"Gil's Furniture Bought and Sold," by Sandra Cisneros page 609

• L8.5 a-c

"I Hear America Singing," by Walt Whitman page 671

"I, Too Sing America," by Langston Hughes

• L8.5 a
• W8.3d

"Brer Rabbit and Brer Lion"
"The Ransom of Red Chief," By O. Henry

• L8.5a-c

"Tell-Tale Heart," by Edgar Allen Poe (I know it doesn't really have anything to do with culture, but it has irony!!)

• L8.5 a-c

To explicitly teach narrative openings, look under writing in dropbox.

Yes, there are many many more, but this will do for now. 

-Tiffany