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)