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=English 10 - unless otherwise indicated, all page numbers refer to the English 10 textbook=

Unit 1 - Latin and Central America

 * Novel: NONE
 * Short Stories: "And of Clay Are We Created" pg 963 (character development story set during the aftermath of a mudslide in Columbia - inspired by a true story - students like it)
 * Non-fiction: "Girl Trapped in Water for 55 Hours Dies..." pg 998 (inspiration story for "And of Clay...")
 * Poetry: "Eight puppies" 274; "Exile" pg 433 (Alvarez is American-born, but lived in the Dominican Republic until age 10 when her family had to flee); "I Am Not I" pg 903; "Nocturne" pg 994; //from// "Simple Poetry" pg 555; "The Street" pg 903; "They Have Not Been Able" 569; "Tonight I Can Write" 351

Unit 2 - Asia

 * Novel: __Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress__ (I currently use this with AP - together with Balzac's __Cousin Bette__ - not that it can't be moved; It is a great book about re-education during the cultural revolution in China - high interest for students - would work well, though they will most likely not understand the dominant allusion to Balzac's writing, and not get the conclusion as a consequence - I will have my AP kids pull essential passages from __Cousin Bette__ so that student have some idea of what Balzac was writing); MAYBE excerpts from __The Joy Luck Club__ for comp/con purposes
 * Short Stories: "Cranes" pg 585 (kind of confusing, but good historical look at Korean War); "Like the Sun" pg 849 (Indian - very interesting story that looks at the pro/cons of perfect honesty)
 * Non-fiction: __First They Killed My Father__ (though obviously we couldn't use it this year as most of our students would have read it as freshmen - we decided to keep this with freshmen for "Memoir"); MAYBE "The Remembered War: A Korean War Vet Offers a History Lesson" pg 590 (from and American soldier's perspective); MAYBE "Fish Cheeks" pg 184 (an Amy Tan essay)
 * Poetry: NONE; I have a bunch of stuff on Rabindranath Tagore from research I did years ago. (He was a big influence in Neruda, Paz, and Mistral - which connects nicely with Latin America)

Unit 3 - Africa and the Middle East

 * Novel: __Things Fall Apart__ ; MAYBE excerpts from __The Poisonwood Bible__ for comp/con purposes
 * Short stories: "A Chip of Glass Ruby" pg 964 (about an Indian-South African during apartheid); "The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses" pg 652 (Also about apartheid South Africa); "Marriage is a Private Affair" pg 188; "No Witchcraft for Sale" pg 148 (about clashing cultures in colonial Zimbabwe); "Mother was a Great Man" pg 179 (in Things Fall Apart book - a look at the roles of women in some African societies)
 * Non-fiction: __A Long Way Gone__; "Nelson Mandela" pg 662 - a very short excerpt
 * Poetry: "Prayer to Masks"

Unit 4 - Russia

 * Novel: __One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich__ (I currently use this for AP but can find something else if I know they'll be reading it sophomore year); and MAYBE __Animal Farm__ (I know, not written by a Russian, but would provide an interesting comp/con with Ivan)
 * Short Stories: "After the Ball" pg 664 (I don't remember the story, but I have it marked as "good" and that it involves a lot of flashbacks); "The Son from America" pg 159 (clash of cultures: son vs. parents, American immigrant vs. those in the homeland, addresses Russian Jews); additionally, Anton Chekov has been dead long enough that all of his stories can be photocopied without copyright infringement.
 * Non-fiction: an essay about the Soviet Union in the back of the Animal Farm book
 * Poetry: NONE
 * Additional Resource: I spent a month in Russia (Moscow and the far east) a few years ago and have hundreds of pictures and lots of artifacts and anecdotal stories that I'd be happy to share