Close Reading for English: Additional Resources

We spent some time specifically looking at exemplars for ELA and then researched sources that met the close read criteria and rigor. Based upon what we looked through, these are some of the strongest text we found and will recommend:

Grade 10

Elie Weisel’s Hope, Despair and Memory Nobel Lecture:

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/holocaust/wiesel.htm

Holocaust, genocide, human rights

Elie Weisel’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech:

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1986/wiesel-acceptance.html

Holocaust, genocide, human rights, Darfur, bearing witness, taking an active role in ensuring access to human rights

Garcia-Marquez’s Nobel Lecture: The Solitude of Latin America:

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1982/marquez-lecture.html

Marquez discusses the roots and sources of Latin American literature, its ties to magic realism, its uniqueness, etc.

Excerpt from The Communist Manifesto:

http://ohhs.ohsd.net/~jcrouch/Honors/readings/09-4%20Marx.pdf

In conjunction with Animal Farm, Cold War, Totalitarianism, etc.

Reagan’s “Address to Students at Moscow State University”

http://old.nationalreview.com/document/reagan_moscow200406070914.asp

in conjunction with Animal Farm and/or Kite Runner

Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

http://www.un.org/events/humanrights/2007/hrphotos/declaration%20_eng.pdf

Kite Runner, Documentary Unit, Animal Farm, War/Night Unit

Basic Prohibitions and Obligations of Islam:

https://picasaweb.google.com/107334272393358072192/DropBox?authkey=Gv1sRgCMXf5I-xj5H88AE#5654148518953830514

Used in conjunction with the rules of the Taliban in Afghanistan for The Kite Runner unit

George W. Bush’s Address to The Nation: 9/11

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gwbush911addresstothenation.htm

Kite Runner

Obama’s Speech: Osama Bin Laden Dead

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead-obama-speech-video-transcript_n_856122.html

Kite Runner

I have a Dream Speech

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

Civil Rights, freedom/human rights, race issues

11

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, Henry

http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/henry-liberty.html

Ain’t I a Woman? Truth

http://www.sojournertruth.org/Library/Speeches/AintIAWoman.htm

The Declaration of Sentiments

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/senecafalls.asp

Kennedy’s Inaugural Address

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkinaugural.htm

Obama’s 2004 Democratic Convention Speech

http://www.zimbio.com/Democratic+National+Convention+Speech+Transcripts/articles/17/2008+Barack+Obama+Convention+Speech+Transcript

Letter from Alice Walker to President Clinton

http://www.cubasolidarity.net/awalker.html

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html