Text Exemplars Grades 9-10 Stories

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 16 stories:

• The Book Thief
• Candide, Or the Optimist
• Fahrenheit 451
• Fathers and Sons
• The Gift of the Magi
• The Grapes of Wrath
• In the Time of the Butterflies
• The Joy Luck Club
• The Killer Angels
• Metamorphoses
• The Metamorphosis
• The Nose (included in The Overcoat & Other Short Stories)
• The Odyssey
• Things Fall Apart
• To Kill a Mockingbird