Text Exemplars Grades 11-12 Informational Texts: English Language Arts

These texts exemplify the level of complexity and quality that the Common Core State Standards require all students in grades 11-12 to engage with.

Includes:

• Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth (included in The American Political Tradition)

• The Bill of Rights (included in The U.S. Constitution)

• Black Boy

• Common Sense

• The Declaration of Independence

• Lee Surrenders to Grant, April 9th, 1865 (included in Eyewitness to America)

• Mother Tongue (included in The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life)

• Politics and the English Language (included in All Art is Propaganda)

• Society and Solitude (included in The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson)

• Take the Tortillas out of Your Poetry (included in The Essays)

• Walden

Common Core standards covered:
RL.11-12.1-10, RI.11-12.1-10