Text Exemplars Grades 9-10 Informational Texts: English Language Arts

Grade: 9-10

These texts exemplify the level of complexity and quality that the State Standards require all students in grades 9-10 to engage with. Additionally, they cover the range of text types required by the Standards, featuring both literature (stories and poetry) and informational texts. Paperback.

Includes 11 English Language Arts texts:

• Address to Students at Moscow State University (included in The American Reader)
• Speech to the Second Virginia Convention (included in The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History 1775-1865)
• Gettysburg Address
• Second Inaugural Address
• State of the Union Address (all 3 titles above included in Great Speeches)
• Hope, Despair, and Memory (included in Nobel Lectures in Peace 1981-1990)
• I Am an American Day Address (included in American Heritage Book of Great American Speeches for Young People)
• I Have a Dream (included in Great Speeches by African Americans)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• Letter from Birmingham Jail (included in Why We Can’t Wait)
• A Quilt of a Country (included in Loud and Clear)