Grade 11 ELA Texts
Grade 11 Module 1 - "Girl Interrupted" by Susanna Kayson - Short Story
Grade 11 Module 1 - “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner - Short Story
Grade 11 Module 1 - “Bartleby the Scriviner” by Herman Melville - Short Story
Grade 11 Module 1 - “Notes to my Biographer” by Adam Haslett - Short Story
Grade 11 Module 1- “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Short Story
Grade 11 Module 1 - “Jubilate Agno (For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry)” by Christopher Smart - Poem
Grade 11 Module 1 - “Goblin Market” by Christina Rosetti - Poem
Grade 11 Module 1 - “The Garden of Forking Paths” by Jorge Luis Borges - Poem
Grade 11 Module 1 - "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning - Poem
Grade 11 Module 1 - "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Wolf - Excerpt (Chapter 3)
Grade 11 Module 1 - "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Coleridge - Poem
Grade 11 Module 1 - “The Nose” by Nikolai Gogol - Ebook
Grade 11 Module 1 - "Notes From Underground" by Fyodor Dostoevsky - Excerpt
Grade 11 Module 1 - "Hamlet" by William Shakesphere - Play
Grade 11 Module 2 - "Working" by Studs Turkel - Book
Grade 11 Module 2 - "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, “The Middle Passage” by Olaudah Equiano -Excerpt
Grade 11 Module 2 -"Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich - Book
Grade 11 Module 2 - "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" by Katherine Boo - Book
Grade 11 Module 2 - “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift - Essay
Grade 11 Module 2 - 1852 Speech at Rochester by Frederick Douglass - Speeches
Grade 11 Module 2 - “A Worker Reads History” by Bertolt Brecht - Poem
Grade 11 Module 2 - “Tragedy and the Common Man” by Arthur Miller - Essay
Grade 11 Module 2 - “I Will Fight No More Forever” by Chief Joseph - Speeches
Grade 11 Module 2 - "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas" by Frederick Douglas - Book
Grade 11 Module 2 - "Autobiography of a Face" by Lucy Greely - Book
Grade 11 Module 3 - "The Known World" by Edward Jones - Book
Grade 11 Module 3 - "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" by Anne Fadiman - Book
Grade 11 Module 3 - "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan - Book
Grade 11 Module 3 - "Silent Spring, Chapter 1" by Rachel Carson - Chapter
Grade 11 Module 3 - “Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln - Speeches
Grade 11 Module 3 - “A More Perfect Union" by Barack Obama - Essay
Grade 11 Module 3 - “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin - Essay
Grade 11 Module 3 - "Our Town" by Thorton Wilder - Play
Grade 11 Module 3 - “Funeral Blues” by W.H. Auden - Poem
Grade 11 Module 3 - Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Poem
Grade 11 Module 3 - “New Math” by McKibbon - Essay
Grade 11 Module 3 - "Chief Seattle 1854 Speech" by Chief Seattle - Speech
Grade 11 Module 3 - "A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon" by Gwendolyn Brooks - Poem
Grade 11 Module 3 - "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri - Book
Grade 11 Module 4 - "Hiroshima" by John Hersey - Book
Grade 11 Module 4 - The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov - Play
Grade 11 Module 4 - "The Reader" by Bernard Schlink - Book
Grade 11 Module 4 - "All Deliberate Speed" by Charles Ogletree - Book
Grade 11 Module 4 - “The Moral Side of Murder” by Michael Sandel - Video
Grade 11 Module 4 - "The Emperor" by Ha Jin - Short Story
Grade 11 Module 4 - “The Moment Before the Gun Went Off” by Nadine Gordimer - Short Story
Grade 11 Module 4 - Great Conversation Documents: Segregation - Legal Decision
Grade 11 Module 4 - “The Montgomery Bus Boycott" by Taylor Branch - Excerpt
Grade 11 Module 4 - “On The Rainy River” by Tim O’Brien - Short Story
Grade 11 Module 4 - “The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich - Story
Grade 11 Module 4- “American Journal” by Robert Hayden - Poem
Grade 11 Module 4 - "Inferno" by Dante - Book
Grade 11 Module 4 - "The Trial" by Franz Kafka - Book
Grade 11 Module 4 - "Savage Inequalities" by Jonathan Kozol - Book
Reading Closely Grades 11-12 Unit Texts:
Unit 1 - Promised Land
Unit 1 - Lay Down All My Joys
Reading Closely Grades 11-12 Unit Texts
Unit 2 - Making Evidence Based Claims - "Souls of Black Folk" - W.E.B. DuBois
Grade 11 Module 1 - “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner - Short Story
Grade 11 Module 1 - “Bartleby the Scriviner” by Herman Melville - Short Story
Grade 11 Module 1 - “Notes to my Biographer” by Adam Haslett - Short Story
Grade 11 Module 1- “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne - Short Story
Grade 11 Module 1 - “Jubilate Agno (For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry)” by Christopher Smart - Poem
Grade 11 Module 1 - “Goblin Market” by Christina Rosetti - Poem
Grade 11 Module 1 - “The Garden of Forking Paths” by Jorge Luis Borges - Poem
Grade 11 Module 1 - "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning - Poem
Grade 11 Module 1 - "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Wolf - Excerpt (Chapter 3)
Grade 11 Module 1 - "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Coleridge - Poem
Grade 11 Module 1 - “The Nose” by Nikolai Gogol - Ebook
Grade 11 Module 1 - "Notes From Underground" by Fyodor Dostoevsky - Excerpt
Grade 11 Module 1 - "Hamlet" by William Shakesphere - Play
Grade 11 Module 2 - "Working" by Studs Turkel - Book
Grade 11 Module 2 - "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, “The Middle Passage” by Olaudah Equiano -Excerpt
Grade 11 Module 2 -"Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich - Book
Grade 11 Module 2 - "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" by Katherine Boo - Book
Grade 11 Module 2 - “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift - Essay
Grade 11 Module 2 - 1852 Speech at Rochester by Frederick Douglass - Speeches
Grade 11 Module 2 - “A Worker Reads History” by Bertolt Brecht - Poem
Grade 11 Module 2 - “Tragedy and the Common Man” by Arthur Miller - Essay
Grade 11 Module 2 - “I Will Fight No More Forever” by Chief Joseph - Speeches
Grade 11 Module 2 - "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas" by Frederick Douglas - Book
Grade 11 Module 2 - "Autobiography of a Face" by Lucy Greely - Book
Grade 11 Module 3 - "The Known World" by Edward Jones - Book
Grade 11 Module 3 - "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" by Anne Fadiman - Book
Grade 11 Module 3 - "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan - Book
Grade 11 Module 3 - "Silent Spring, Chapter 1" by Rachel Carson - Chapter
Grade 11 Module 3 - “Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln - Speeches
Grade 11 Module 3 - “A More Perfect Union" by Barack Obama - Essay
Grade 11 Module 3 - “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin - Essay
Grade 11 Module 3 - "Our Town" by Thorton Wilder - Play
Grade 11 Module 3 - “Funeral Blues” by W.H. Auden - Poem
Grade 11 Module 3 - Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare - Poem
Grade 11 Module 3 - “New Math” by McKibbon - Essay
Grade 11 Module 3 - "Chief Seattle 1854 Speech" by Chief Seattle - Speech
Grade 11 Module 3 - "A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon" by Gwendolyn Brooks - Poem
Grade 11 Module 3 - "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri - Book
Grade 11 Module 4 - "Hiroshima" by John Hersey - Book
Grade 11 Module 4 - The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov - Play
Grade 11 Module 4 - "The Reader" by Bernard Schlink - Book
Grade 11 Module 4 - "All Deliberate Speed" by Charles Ogletree - Book
Grade 11 Module 4 - “The Moral Side of Murder” by Michael Sandel - Video
Grade 11 Module 4 - "The Emperor" by Ha Jin - Short Story
Grade 11 Module 4 - “The Moment Before the Gun Went Off” by Nadine Gordimer - Short Story
Grade 11 Module 4 - Great Conversation Documents: Segregation - Legal Decision
Grade 11 Module 4 - “The Montgomery Bus Boycott" by Taylor Branch - Excerpt
Grade 11 Module 4 - “On The Rainy River” by Tim O’Brien - Short Story
Grade 11 Module 4 - “The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich - Story
Grade 11 Module 4- “American Journal” by Robert Hayden - Poem
Grade 11 Module 4 - "Inferno" by Dante - Book
Grade 11 Module 4 - "The Trial" by Franz Kafka - Book
Grade 11 Module 4 - "Savage Inequalities" by Jonathan Kozol - Book
Reading Closely Grades 11-12 Unit Texts:
Unit 1 - Promised Land
Unit 1 - Lay Down All My Joys
Reading Closely Grades 11-12 Unit Texts
Unit 2 - Making Evidence Based Claims - "Souls of Black Folk" - W.E.B. DuBois
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