Anchor Texts (We will read the following texts per the ELA adopted curriculum):

• The Poetry of Walt Whitman

• The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

• Ralph Waldo Emerson excerpts “Nature” & “Self-Reliance”

• “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Short Story)

• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (Novel)

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Novel)

• The Crucible by Arthur Miller (Play)

*Additional short story and non-fiction readings per quarter/unit