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English Course Tips and Models/Frameworks
- Course Tip #1 – How to Achieve Your Goals in English Class
- Course Tip #2 – Daily Dozen – Fake-It-Until-You-Make-It
- Course Tip #3 – Read-to-Remember Strategies
- Overview of English Course Models and Frameworks
English 9 Readings
Stories:
- Alexie, Sherman. “One Good Man.” The Toughest Indian in the World. New York Grove Press, 2000.
- Gordon, Arthur. “The Sea Devil.”
- Hurston, Zora Neale. “Sweat.” The Oxford Book of American Short Stories. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 999-1011.
- Hurston, Zora Neale. “The Gilded Six-Bits.” The Oxford Book of American Short Stories. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 1011-1019.
- Larsen, Nella. Passing. New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1929.
- Hughes, Langston. “Thank You M’am.” CommonLit, www.commonlit.org/en/texts/thank-you-m-am.
- King, Thomas. “Borders.” One Good Story, That One : Stories. Minneapolis, University Of Minnesota Press, 2013, pp. 131–145.
- King, Thomas. “The One About Coyote Going West.”
- Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Tell-Tale Heart.”
- Rowell, Rainbow. “Midnights.” My True Love Gave to Me : Twelve Holiday Stories. Edited by Stephanie Perkins, New York, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014, pp. 1-22.
- Stork, Fransico X. “Captain, My Captain.” Unbroken : 13 Stories Staring Disabled Teens. Edited by Marieke Nijkamp, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018, pp. 156-176.
Essays/Chapters/Articles:
- Bruner, Jerome. “The Narrative Construction of Reality.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 18, no. 1, 1991, pp. 1–21.
- King, Thomas. the truth about stories A Native Narrative. Dead Dog Café Productions Inc. and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2003.
- Robinson, Eden. The Sasquatch at Home. University of Alberta, 2012.
- Florence Davidson, Sara, and Robert Davidson. “Celebrating One More Time in a Way They Know How.” Potlatch as Pedagogy : Learning Through Ceremony. Winnipeg, Portage and Main Press, 2018, pp. 35-45.
- Brown, Dennis. “The Battle of Prince Rupert.” Salmon Wars : The Battle for the West Coast Salmon Fishery, Madeira Park, BC, Harbour Publishing, pp. 176–195.
- Maracle, Lee. Untitled. My Conversations with Canadians, Toronto, BookThug, 2017, pp. 139–160.
- Wightman, Andy. “To Spoil the Kirk of Christ of Her Patrimony.” The Poor Had No Lawyers : Who Owns Scotland (and How They Got It), Edinburgh , Birlin Limited, 2013, pp. 23–30.
- Mills, Antonia. “Witsuwit’en Law.” Eagle down Is Our Law : Witsuwit’en Law, Feasts, and Land Claims, Gitksan-Witsuwit’en Tribal Government, Vancouver, UBC Press, 1994, pp. 141–164.
Books (available from the school library):
- The Outsiders
- The Giver
- Romeo and Juliet
- Measure for Measure (class set)
Films
- Romeo and Juliet
- The Outsiders
- The Giver
- All Is True
- Measure for Measure
Speeches:
- Douglass, Frederick. “What To the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
- King, Martin Luther. “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.”
- Pankhurst, Emmeline. “Freedom or Death.”
- Truth, Sojourner. “Ain’t I a Woman?”