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Curr. Unit	Lesson Plan	Class Period(s)	Worksheets
No	"A Raisin in the Sun": The Quest for the American Dream	1	Yes
No	"Animal Farm": Allegory and the Art of Persuasion	2	Yes
No	"Three Shots": Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams	3-4	Yes
No	"World enough, and time"—Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress	1-2	Yes
No	A Story of Epic Proportions: What makes a Poem an Epic?	2	Yes
No	A Storybook Romance: Dante's Paolo and Francesca	2	No
No	A Trip to Wonderland: The Nursery 'Alice'	2-3	No
No	A Wrinkle in Time: The Board Game	UNKNOWN	Yes
No	Aesop and Ananse: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales	2	No
No	All Together Now: Collaborations in Poetry Writing	3-4	Yes
No	Analyzing Poetic Devices: Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz"	1-2	No
No	Animals of the Chinese Zodiac	3-4	Yes
No	Animating Poetry: Reading Poems about the Natural World	4-5	Yes
No	Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands	3	Yes
No	Arabic Poetry: Guzzle a Ghazal!	3	No
No	Australian Aboriginal Art and Storytelling	2	Yes
No	Beatrix Potter's Naughty Animal Tales	5-7	Yes
No	Being in the Noh: An Introduction to Japanese Noh Plays	2	Yes
No	Browning's "My Last Duchess" and Dramatic Monologue	1-2	Yes
No	Can You Haiku?	4-5	No
No	Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": Bringing a Great City Alive	2-3	Yes
No	Charles Baudelaire: Poète Maudit (The Cursed Poet)	3	Yes
No	Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper"—The "New Woman"	1-2	Yes
No	Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper"—Writing Women	1-2	Yes
No	Chaucer's Wife of Bath	2-3	Yes
No	Childhood Through the Looking-Glass	1-3	Yes
No	Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Teaching Through the Novel	1	Yes
No	Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: Oral and Literary Strategies	4	Yes
No	Cinderella Folk Tales: Variations in Character	2-3	Yes
No	Cinderella Folk Tales: Variations in Plot and Setting	2-4	Yes
No	Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism	1-2	Yes
No	Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context	10-15	Yes
No	Death in Poetry: A.E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" and Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"	2-3	Yes
No	Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible"	10-12	Yes
No	Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Biographers	5-6	Yes
No	Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, and the Unreliable Narrator	4	Yes
No	Edith Wharton: War Correspondent	2	Yes
No	Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad: From Painting to Poem	3-6	Yes
No	Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: A Little Nonsense	2	No
No	Edward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: There Once Was…	2	No
No	Egyptian Symbols and Figures: Hieroglyphs	2	No
No	Egyptian Symbols and Figures: Scroll Paintings	2	No
No	Emily Dickinson & Poetic Imagination: "Leap, plashless"	1-2	Yes
No	Esperanza renace: Aprendiendo a no temer el comenzar de nuevo	UNKNOWN	Yes
No	Esperanza Rising: Learning Not to Be Afraid to Start Over	4-5	Yes
No	Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" in Graphical Representation	1-3	Yes
No	Evaluating Eyewitness Reports	2-3	No
No	Exploring Arthurian Legend	4-7	No
No	Fables and Trickster Tales Around the World	3-5	No
No	Fairy Tales Around the World	13-15	Yes
No	Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find": Who's the Real Misfit?	2-3	No
No	Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"	7-8	Yes
No	Folktales and Ecology: Animals and Humans in Cooperation and Conflict	3	Yes
No	George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma: "Shooting An Elephant"	2-3	Yes
No	Hamlet and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film	7-8	Yes
No	Hamlet Meets Chushingura: Traditions of the Revenge Tragedy	8-10	No
No	Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales	11-14	Yes
No	Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird: Profiles in Courage	5-8	Yes
No	Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before? Samsara and karma in the Jataka Tales	2	No
No	Hawthorne: Author and Narrator	2-3	No
No	Helpful Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore	3	Yes
No	I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Someone a Letter	8-12	No
No	Introducing Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Victorian Heroine	3-4	No
No	Introducing Metaphors Through Poetry	1	Yes
No	Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass, and American Non-Fiction	2-3	Yes
No	Investigating Jack London's White Fang: Nature and Culture Detectives	3-4	Yes
No	It Came From Greek Mythology	4	Yes
No	Jack London's The Call of the Wild: "Nature Faker"?	2-3	Yes
No	Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series: Removing the Mask	2-3	Yes
No	Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice": The Novel as Historical Source	4	No
No	Japanese Poetry: Tanka? You're Welcome!	1-2	No
No	John Steinbeck’s "The Grapes of Wrath": The Inner Chapters	UNKNOWN	Yes
No	John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”: Verbal Pictures	1-2	Yes
No	Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London's "To Build a Fire"	1-2	Yes
No	Learning the Blues	4	No
Yes	Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Form of a Funeral Lesson 1: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Images of Faulkner and the South	1-2	No
Yes	William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": Narrating the Compson Family Decline and the Changing South Lesson 1: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Introduction	1-2	No
Yes	From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography Lesson 1: From Courage to Freedom: The Reality behind the Song	2	Yes
Yes	Letters from Emily Dickinson: 'Will you be my preceptor?' Lesson 1: In Emily Dickinson's Own Words: Letters and Poems	1-2	Yes
Yes	Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" Lesson 1: Kate Chopin's "The Awakening": No Choice but Under?	1-2	Yes
Yes	American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris, and Nathaniel Hawthorne Lesson 1: Mark Twain and American Humor	1-2	Yes
Yes	The Alphabet is Historic Lesson 1: The Phoenicians and the Beginnings of the Alphabet	3-4	No
Yes	Introduction to Modernist Poetry Lesson 1: Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry	1	Yes
Yes	American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris, and Nathaniel Hawthorne Lesson 2: "Old Southwest" Humorists and George Washington Harris	1-2	No
Yes	Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Form of a Funeral Lesson 2: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Family Voices In As I Lay Dying	1-2	Yes
Yes	William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": Narrating the Compson Family Decline and the Changing South Lesson 2: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Benjy's Sense of Time and Narrative Voice	1-2	Yes
Yes	From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography Lesson 2: From Courage to Freedom: Slavery's Dehumanizing Effects	1-2	Yes
Yes	Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" Lesson 2: Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Chopin, Realism, and Local Color in late 19th Century America	2-3	No
Yes	Letters from Emily Dickinson: 'Will you be my preceptor?' Lesson 2: Responding to Emily Dickinson: Poetic Analysis	1-2	No
Yes	The Alphabet is Historic Lesson 2: The Greek Alphabet: more familiar than you think!	4-5	Yes
Yes	Introduction to Modernist Poetry Lesson 2: Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem	1-2	Yes
Yes	Letters from Emily Dickinson: 'Will you be my preceptor?' Lesson 3: Emulating Emily Dickinson: Poetry Writing	1-2	Yes
Yes	Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Form of a Funeral Lesson 3: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Crossing the River	1-2	Yes
Yes	William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": Narrating the Compson Family Decline and the Changing South Lesson 3: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Narrating Quentin's Mental Breakdown	1-2	Yes
Yes	From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography Lesson 3: From Courage to Freedom	1-2	No
Yes	Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" Lesson 3: Kate Chopin's "The Awakening": Searching for Women & Identity in Chopin's "The Awakening"	2-5	Yes
Yes	American Literary Humor: Mark Twain, George Harris, and Nathaniel Hawthorne Lesson 3: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Literary Humor	1-2	No
Yes	Introduction to Modernist Poetry Lesson 3: Navigating Modernism with J. Alfred Prufrock	1-2	Yes
Yes	The Alphabet is Historic Lesson 3: The Roman Alphabet is our Alphabet	3	No
Yes	Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Form of a Funeral Lesson 4: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Burying Addie's Voice	1-2	Yes
Yes	William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": Narrating the Compson Family Decline and the Changing South Lesson 4: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Narration, Voice, and the Compson Family's New System	1-2	Yes
Yes	The Alphabet is Historic Lesson 4: The Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Romans, and Us	2-3	No
Yes	Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Form of a Funeral Lesson 5: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Concluding the Novel	1-2	Yes
Yes	William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury": Narrating the Compson Family Decline and the Changing South Lesson 5: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: April Eighth, 1928: Narrating from an 'Ordered Place'?	1-2	Yes
No	Lessons of the Indian Epics: Following the Dharma	3	Yes
No	Lessons of the Indian Epics: The Ramayana	2	Yes
No	Lessons of the Indian Epics: The Ramayana: Showing your Dharma	1	Yes
No	Lions, Dragons, and Nian: Animals of the Chinese New Year	4	No
No	Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet	3-4	No
No	Live from Ancient Olympia!	2	Yes
No	Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Power of Nonviolence	2	No
No	Metaphorical Gold: Mining the Gold Rush for Stories	4-5	Yes
No	Morality "Tails" East and West: European Fables and Buddhist Jataka Tales	2	Yes
No	More Amazing Americans: A WebQuest	4-6	Yes
No	Not Only Paul Revere: Other Riders of the American Revolution	3	Yes
No	On the Oregon Trail	1	No
No	Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement	2	Yes
No	Pearl S. Buck: "On Discovering America"	2-3	Yes
No	Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome	3-5	Yes
No	Perspective on the Slave Narrative	3	No
No	Picture Lincoln	2-3	Yes
No	Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's "My Antonia"	6-7	Yes
No	Play with Words: Rhyme & Verse	6-8	Yes
No	Poems of Tennyson and Noyes: Pictures in Words	5	Yes
No	Poems that Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost	4-5	Yes
No	Poetry of The Great War: 'From Darkness to Light'?	3-5	Yes
No	Portrait of a Hero	2-3	Yes
No	Practical Criticism	1-2	No
No	Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps	1	Yes
No	Recognizing Similes: Fast as a Whip	1	Yes
No	Remember the Ladies: The First Ladies	1	Yes
No	Robert Frost's "Mending Wall": A Marriage of Poetic Form and Content	1	Yes
No	Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi": Mixing Fact and Fiction	2-3	Yes
No	Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi": Mixing Words and Pictures	2-3	Yes
No	Say Hi to Haibun Fun	3	Yes
No	Scripting the Past: Exploring Women's History Through Film	4-6	No
No	Seeing Sense in Photographs & Poems	1-3	Yes
No	Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the "Dagger of the Mind"	2	No
No	Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the Motives of Evil	3	Yes
No	Shakespeare's Othello and the Power of Language	8-12	Yes
No	Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: 'You Kiss by the Book'	2	Yes
No	Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources	3	Yes
No	Sophocles' Antigone: Ancient Greek Theatre, Live From Antiquity!	2-3	No
Yes	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: The First Great Latin American Poet Sor Juana the Nun and Writer: Las Redondillas and The Reply	UNKNOWN	Yes
Yes	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: La primer gran poeta de Latinoamérica Sor Juana, la monja y la escritora: Las Redondillas y La Respuesta	1	Yes
Yes	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: La primer gran poeta de Latinoamérica Sor Juana, la poetisa: Los sonetos	UNKNOWN	Yes
Yes	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: The First Great Latin American Poet Sor Juana, the Poet: The Sonnets	1	Yes
No	Steinbeck’s Use of Nonfiction Sources in "The Grapes of Wrath"	2	Yes
No	Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat"	1-2	Yes
No	Stories in Quilts	4	No
No	Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	3-4	Yes
No	Tales of King Arthur	7-9	Yes
No	Tales of the Supernatural	UNKNOWN	No
No	The "Secret Society" and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby	3-6	Yes
No	The Beauty of Anglo-Saxon Poetry: A Prelude to Beowulf	2-3	Yes
No	The Cuneiform Writing System in Ancient Mesopotamia: Emergence and Evolution	4-5	Yes
No	The Election of Barack Obama 44th President of the United States	3	Yes
No	The Impact of a Poem's Line Breaks: Enjambment and Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool"	1	Yes
No	The Industrial Age in America: Robber Barons and Captains of Industry	3-4	Yes
No	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	4-5	No
No	The Magical World of Russian Fairy Tales	2-5	Yes
No	The Meaning Behind the Mask	3	No
No	The Olympic Medal: It's All Greek to Us!	2-3	Yes
No	The Poet's Voice: Langston Hughes and You	1	No
No	The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Courage	2-3	Yes
No	The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Realism	2-3	Yes
No	The Statue of Liberty: Bringing the 'New Colossus' to America	4	No
No	The Statue of Liberty: The Meaning and Use of a National Symbol	4-6	Yes
No	The Victor's Virtue: A Cultural History of Sport	2	Yes
No	The World of Haiku	3-4	No
No	Thomas Edison's Inventions in the 1900s and Today: From "New" to You!	4	Yes
No	Thornton Wilder's "Our Town": The Reader as Writer	5-10	Yes
No	To Kill A Mockingbird and the Scottsboro Boys Trial: Profiles in Courage	5-8	Yes
No	Unicorns, Dragons, and Other Magical Creatures	5-6	No
No	Vengeful Verbs in Shakespeare’s Hamlet	1	Yes
No	Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy	3-4	Yes
No	Walt Whitman's Notebooks and Poetry: the Sweep of the Universe	4-5	Yes
No	What is History? Timelines and Oral Histories	4-6	Yes
No	What Makes a Hero?	5-8	Yes
No	What Was Columbus Thinking?	2	No
No	Why Do We Remember Revere? Paul Revere's Ride in History and Literature	3	Yes
No	William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: Conflict Resolution and Happy Endings	5-10	Yes
No	Women in Africa: Tradition and Change	3-4	No
No	Women in the White House	2	No
No	Writing Poetry Like Pros	2-3	No

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