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Paired Passages: Nonfiction and Literature Pairings with Activities for Secondary ELA Book

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Paired Passages includes 26 nonfiction pieces—speeches, magazine articles, short stories, book excerpts—paired with poetry, which explore a stated theme that students analyze using varied techniques and activities. Paired Passages encourages:

  • Reading: Timely and relevant themes illustrated with pieces by Mark Twain, Steve Jobs, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—even Ashton Kutcher.
  • Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Evaluation activities involve students in analysis of subject and theme.
  • Engagement: Analytical and creative research and writing activities.
  • Vocabulary: Difficult or unfamiliar words and terms are bolded. The Definitions section expands meaning, and it's reproducible!
Table of Contents
About the Author
To the Teacher
How to Use This Book
Discussion Strategies
  • Inner Circle-Outer Circle
  • Question Wall
  • Socratic Seminar
  • Think-Pair-Share
  • Philosophical Chairs
  • Philosophical Chairs Report
  • Written Evaluation Sheet
  • Reflections
Virtual Poster Rubric
SET 1
  • "On Turning Ten," by Billy Collins
  • Mark Twain's 70th Birthday Speech
SET 2
  • "The Song of Hiawatha," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • "Brother Eagle, Sister Sky," by Chief Seattle
SET 3
  • "First They Came...," by Pastor Martin Niemöller
  • "Hitler's Silent Partners: How Much Responsibility Did Ordinary Citizens Bear for the Holocaust?" by Barry Gewen
SET 4
  • "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," by Maya Angelou
  • "Gang Violence: A Teenager's Point of View," by Helene B.
SET 5
  • "To the Crazy Ones," by Apple
  • "Teen Choice Award Speech," by Chris Ashton Kutcher
SET 6
  • "Dreams" and "Harlem," by Langston Hughes
  • "I Have a Dream," by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
SET 7
  • Nobel Prize Lecture: "Hope, Despair and Memory," by Elie Wiesel
  • "Hope and Memory: A Dialogue," by Rev. George Crabbe
SET 8
  • "The Third Wave," by Ron Jones
  • "A Noiseless Patient Spider," by Walt Whitman, "Student," by Ted Kooser, After Death," by Christina Rossetti, and "A Poison Tree," by William Blake
SET 9
  • "Remarks at the Dedication of Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum," by Elie Wiesel
  • "Silences," by John Montague
SET 10
  • Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau
  • "The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be," by Nikki Giovanni
SET 11
  • Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut
  • "The World Is Too Much With Us," by William Wordsworth
SET 12
  • The Man Without a Country, by William J. Bennett
  • "Fable for When There's No Way Out," by May Swenson
SET 13
  • The Case of S, by Milton Meltzer
  • "I Find No Peace," by Sir Thomas Wyatt
SET 14
  • "The Flight from Conversation," by Sherry Turkle
  • "The Forecast," by Dan Jaffe
SET 15
  • "Speech at Buchenwald Concentration Camp," by Elie Wiesel
  • "Song of the Trees," by Mary Colborne-Veel
SET 16
  • "You've Got to Find What You Love," by Steve Jobs
  • "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," by Dylan Thomas, and "Life Doesn't Frighten Me," by Maya Angelou
SET 17
  • President Harry Truman's Atomic Bomb Press Release
  • "Give Back Peace," by Sankichi Toge, and "an atomic bomb," by Hatsumi Sakamoto
SET 18
  • "Together Let Us Explore the Stars," by President John F. Kennedy
  • "Auguries of Innocence," by William Blake
SET 19
  • "Lost Generation," by Jonathan Reed
  • "Something to Ponder, or, the Paradox of Our Time," by Dr. Bob Moorehead
SET 20
  • "The Declaration of Sentiments," by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • "The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered," by Clive James
SET 21
  • "The Charge of the Light Brigade," by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death," by Patrick Henry
SET 22
  • "House Divided," by Abraham Lincoln
  • "One," by James Berry
SET 23
  • "A Nation Says Goodbye to President Kennedy," by Stephen Smith
  • "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman
SET 24
  • "The Wreck of the Hesperus," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Titanic, from The History Channel
SET 25
  • "The Swamp Fox," by William Gilmore Simms
  • The Declaration of Independence, by Thomas Jefferson
SET 26
  • "The Perils of Indifference," by Elie Wiesel
  • "Indifference," by Peter Loeffler, of Chevelle
Definitions
Common Core Standards Chart

©2016. English, High school. Reproducible. 200 pages. 

Book Download: PDF. Adobe® Reader® required to view PDF. PDF pages include color images and clickable web links.

Print Book: Softcover. 8 x 11 inches. Black and white pages.

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Paired Passages: Nonfiction and Literature Pairings with Activities for Secondary ELA Book

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Paired Passages includes 26 nonfiction pieces—speeches, magazine articles, short stories, book excerpts—paired with poetry, which explore a stated theme that students analyze using varied techniques and activities. Paired Passages encourages:

Table of Contents
About the Author
To the Teacher
How to Use This Book
Discussion Strategies
  • Inner Circle-Outer Circle
  • Question Wall
  • Socratic Seminar
  • Think-Pair-Share
  • Philosophical Chairs
  • Philosophical Chairs Report
  • Written Evaluation Sheet
  • Reflections
Virtual Poster Rubric
SET 1
  • "On Turning Ten," by Billy Collins
  • Mark Twain's 70th Birthday Speech
SET 2
  • "The Song of Hiawatha," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • "Brother Eagle, Sister Sky," by Chief Seattle
SET 3
  • "First They Came...," by Pastor Martin Niemöller
  • "Hitler's Silent Partners: How Much Responsibility Did Ordinary Citizens Bear for the Holocaust?" by Barry Gewen
SET 4
  • "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," by Maya Angelou
  • "Gang Violence: A Teenager's Point of View," by Helene B.
SET 5
  • "To the Crazy Ones," by Apple
  • "Teen Choice Award Speech," by Chris Ashton Kutcher
SET 6
  • "Dreams" and "Harlem," by Langston Hughes
  • "I Have a Dream," by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
SET 7
  • Nobel Prize Lecture: "Hope, Despair and Memory," by Elie Wiesel
  • "Hope and Memory: A Dialogue," by Rev. George Crabbe
SET 8
  • "The Third Wave," by Ron Jones
  • "A Noiseless Patient Spider," by Walt Whitman, "Student," by Ted Kooser, After Death," by Christina Rossetti, and "A Poison Tree," by William Blake
SET 9
  • "Remarks at the Dedication of Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum," by Elie Wiesel
  • "Silences," by John Montague
SET 10
  • Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau
  • "The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be," by Nikki Giovanni
SET 11
  • Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut
  • "The World Is Too Much With Us," by William Wordsworth
SET 12
  • The Man Without a Country, by William J. Bennett
  • "Fable for When There's No Way Out," by May Swenson
SET 13
  • The Case of S, by Milton Meltzer
  • "I Find No Peace," by Sir Thomas Wyatt
SET 14
  • "The Flight from Conversation," by Sherry Turkle
  • "The Forecast," by Dan Jaffe
SET 15
  • "Speech at Buchenwald Concentration Camp," by Elie Wiesel
  • "Song of the Trees," by Mary Colborne-Veel
SET 16
  • "You've Got to Find What You Love," by Steve Jobs
  • "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," by Dylan Thomas, and "Life Doesn't Frighten Me," by Maya Angelou
SET 17
  • President Harry Truman's Atomic Bomb Press Release
  • "Give Back Peace," by Sankichi Toge, and "an atomic bomb," by Hatsumi Sakamoto
SET 18
  • "Together Let Us Explore the Stars," by President John F. Kennedy
  • "Auguries of Innocence," by William Blake
SET 19
  • "Lost Generation," by Jonathan Reed
  • "Something to Ponder, or, the Paradox of Our Time," by Dr. Bob Moorehead
SET 20
  • "The Declaration of Sentiments," by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • "The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered," by Clive James
SET 21
  • "The Charge of the Light Brigade," by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death," by Patrick Henry
SET 22
  • "House Divided," by Abraham Lincoln
  • "One," by James Berry
SET 23
  • "A Nation Says Goodbye to President Kennedy," by Stephen Smith
  • "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman
SET 24
  • "The Wreck of the Hesperus," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Titanic, from The History Channel
SET 25
  • "The Swamp Fox," by William Gilmore Simms
  • The Declaration of Independence, by Thomas Jefferson
SET 26
  • "The Perils of Indifference," by Elie Wiesel
  • "Indifference," by Peter Loeffler, of Chevelle
Definitions
Common Core Standards Chart

©2016. English, High school. Reproducible. 200 pages. 

Book Download: PDF. Adobe® Reader® required to view PDF. PDF pages include color images and clickable web links.

Print Book: Softcover. 8 x 11 inches. Black and white pages.

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