Mentor Texts

"Scary New World" by John Green (young adult dystopian novels review)
"Modern Family: 'A Hard Jay's Night':Wash That Man Right Outta Your Hair" by Joshua Alston (television show review)
"Two Against the World" by John Green (book review)
"Pharrell Williams: Just Exhilaratingly Happy" by Ken Tucker(music review)
"Fred and Barney Would Feel Right At Home" by Pete Wells (Restaurant Review)
"A Farewell to Twang" by Jon Caramanica (review of 1989, Taylor Swift's fifth album)
"Titanfall Supplants its Ancestors with Speed and Scale" by Ryan Smith (review of a multiplayer, first-person video game)"New York City in 17 Syllables" haiku writing
"Young Love, Complicated by Cancer" by A. O. Scott (review of romantic, comedy-drama film)
"Vernal Sentiment" a poem by Theodore Roethke
"On the Eve of Its Finale: It's Time to Compare How I Met Your Mother to Itself" by Donna Bowman (nuanced comparison)
"The Ghost Writer: Lucie Brock-Broido's 'Stay, Illusion'" by Dan Chiasson (literary review of a book of poems)
"Carrie" by A.A. Dowd (film review)
"The New Stephen Curry: How the Warrior's Super-Shooter Has Transformed His Game in the Playoffs" by Zach Lowe (This article shows what the skill of supplying evidence looks like.)
"Bullying: Why Zero-Tolerance Policies Don't Work" by Andrew Zack (Commentary)
"Social Media Can Be Deadly" by Leonard Pitts Jr. (Commentary)
"It's Not Just the Guns, It's the Person" by Mitch Albom (Commentary)"Better with Age" by Chris B. Brown (Writing technique: using evidence to support an argument; Purpose: analyze cause of Manning's success
"Repetition" by Phil Kaye (Spoken Word)
"Save Us from the SAT" by Jennifer Finney Boylan (great opinion piece)
"How Teen Read-The Kids Are Alright" by DELANO SCOTT AND DANIEL VECCHITTO (Infographic)
"With Poetic Intensity, Kevin Powers Tackles the Terror of War" by Abigail Deutsch (NPR)
Sam Tanenhaus Interview
"New York City in 17 Syllables" Haiku Writing
"Child's Play" by Reeves Wiederman (re: Venus and Serena Williams's father)
"Facebook Fandom Map 2015"
"Life in the 30's" by Anna Quindlen (Notebook Time-Sentence)
"Solitude" by Margaret Gibson (Notebook Time: Poem)
"How Much Snow It Typically Takes to Cancel School in the U.S." by Eleanor Barkhorn (Notebook Time: Raw Data)
"Rise and Shine: What Kids Around the World Eat for Breakfast" by Hannah Whitaker and Malia Wollen (Notebook Time: Image)
"Back Road" by Bruce Guernsey (poem)
"Ross: Children of the Ghetto" by George Szirtes (poem)

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