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6‐9th Grade Curricular Materials List Math: Algebra 1/2
Algebra 1/2, 3rd edition, by Stephen Hake and John Saxon
ISBN: 1-56577-149-4
Math: Algebra I/Geometry
The book used for the course is Algebra 1: An Incremental Development, 3rd Edition by
John H. Saxon Jr., ISBN-10: 1565771346.
A classroom set will also be available for Saxon Geometry: 9th Edition, ISBN-10:
160277305X
Math: Algebra II/Geometry
Title: Algebra 2, Second Edition, Author: Saxon, J., Publisher: Saxon publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 0-939798-62-X
A classroom set will also be available for Saxon Geometry: 9th Edition, ISBN-10:
160277305X
Biology 6-8
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Life on an Ocean Planet Anatomy & Physiology: The Unity of From and Function The Trials of Life Birds of Prey Starfinder Ferns These are the Endangered Ecology and the Quality of our Environment Flowers of the World Microbiology Biology Understanding Nutrition iGenetics: A Mendelian Approach and other science related books Magazines:  Nature  National Geographic  Scientific American  Scholastic Science News  Science in the Classroom “Science”  And other science related magazines Supplemental Resources (clips, videos, articles):  PBS 
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History Channel Discovery Channel TED Talks National Geographic Interesting Engineering NGSS Life Science You Tube Channels: o Amoeba Sisters o TED ED – You Tube o ASAP Science o Crash Course o SciShow o The Brain Scoop o Science News o DNews And other science related supplemental resources Documentaries/Videos:  Blackfish  Blue Planet  Bats  Fish  National Geographic: Rocky Mountain Beaver Pond  National Geographic: Among the Wild Chimpanzees  Mammals  NOVA: The Secret of Photo 51  Human Planet  Cosmos: A Space‐Time Odyssey  The Blue Planet  Life  Food, Inc.  Mankind: The Story of Us All  The Universe Collection  Tesla: Master of Lightening  Nature’s Great Events  Life of Mammals  Wildest Islands  Planet Earth  Hidden Kingdoms  Mysteries of the Unseen World  Bears: Spy in the Woods  National Geographic: Amazing Planet  The Life of Birds 
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TED Talks: Defying Disease Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Wildest Arctic Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice Nature: The Private Life of Deer Vanishing of the Bees Nature: Ireland’s Wild River And other science related documentaries Thefollowingwebsitesmaybeusedinclassorreferencedassupplementalresourcesfor
bothstudyaidsandprojectresearch:
BrainPOPSciencehttp://www.brainpop.com/science/
DiscoveryKidsSciencehttp://discoverykids.com/category/science/
NASAEducationforStudentshttp://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/
NationalGeographicKidshttp://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
NOAAEducationResourceshttp://www.education.noaa.gov/index.html
USGeologicalSurveyhttp://www.usgs.gov/
TimeforKidshttp://www.timeforkids.com/
HowardHughesMedicalInstitutehttps://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive
ScienceNewsforKidshttp://www.sciencenews.org
Biology4Kidshttp://www.biology4kids.com
https://www.biologycorner.com/anatomy/circulatory/heart/heart_dissection.html
http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/virtual_labs/BL_14/BL_14.html
http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/virtual_labs/BL_16/BL_16.html
6-8th Grade Physics
PhET interactive simulations http:\\phet.colorado.edu/
/en/simulations/category/physics. University of Colorado, 2013
The Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey FOX/National Geographic 2103 (Video)
NASA and ESA Websites: www.nasa.gov, www.esa.int
Looney Tunes, Road-Runner and Wiley E Coyote Episodes Warner Brothers
(Video)
Hyperphysics: http://hyperphysics.phy-aster.gsu/hbase/Hframe.html
The mechanical universe: http://www.learner.org/resources/seriese42.html
AP Physics: http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_physb.html
Physics.org http://www.physics.org
The physics classroom http://www.thephysicsclassroom.com
Notes: www.edmodo.com
7th Grade Logic
Course materials will be provided in class. During the course, students will be reading and
analyzing a variety of texts, most of them related to the theme of civil liberties and to “hotbutton” societal issues. The readings will include: the Declaration of Independence; Abraham
Lincoln’s Gettysburg address; Susan B. Anthony’s “Women’s Right to Vote” speech; Martin Luther
King’s “I Have a Dream” speech; George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant,” “Such, Such Were the
Joys …” (parts 1 - 3), and “A Hanging”; Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem”; Walt Whitman’s
poem “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”; and Lewis Carroll riddles. At various times
throughout the school year students will also view in class advertisements and other media
related to the subject of logic and rhetoric.
Logic puzzles
Lewis Carroll puzzles
Ted-ed
Youtube videos
12 Angry Men
Roberts Rules of Order
Plato’s Cave
Selections from A Man for All Seasons
Various movie clips, books, short stories, poems, essays, puzzles as needed
English 6
Grammar for Middle School: A Sentence-Composing Approach (A Student Worktext)
by Don and Jenny Killgallon
The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1
by Rick Riordan
The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkein
The Birchbark House
by Louise Erdrich
Note Well: In addition to the literature selections listed above, students will be engaging with
age-appropriate myths, folklore, and epic poetry related to ancient Greek, Germanic, and
Native American cultures. E.g. The myth of Perseus and Medusa will be used alongside the
Percy Jackson novel for comparison purposes.’
Novels Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor‐ ISBN: 978-0142401125 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle - ISBN: 978‐0312367541 Poetry Invictus by William Ernest Henley‐ We Plow the Fields by Matthias Claudius Foul Shot by Edwin A. Hoey Any additional literature selections such as short stories, informational texts, or poems will be photocopied and distributed to students as needed throughout the year. Dramas Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare Short Stories‐ To Build a Fire by Jack London Textbooks Easy Grammar 6 (teacher edition) ISBN: 978‐0‐936981‐444 & 978‐0‐936981‐468 & 978-0-936981-529 7th Grade English Novels Sandra Cisneros- The House on Mango Street – ISBN: 978‐0679734772 Harper Lee‐ To Kill a Mockingbird – ISBN: 978‐0446310789 Short Stories Edgar Allan Poe – The Raven & The Tell‐Tale Heart Beowulf Poetry Annabelle Lee “Alone,” & “A Dream” by Edgar Allan Poe” “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” by Robert Frost The Little Boy Lost by William Blake “There is another sky,” “‘Hope’” is the thing with feathers –,” by Emily Dickinson *Photocopies will be provided). Sonnets Sonnet 73, Sonnet 116, & Sonnet 154 by William Shakespeare Any additional literature selections such as short stories, informational texts, or poems will be photocopied and distributed to students as needed throughout the year. Textbooks Easy Grammar 7 (teacher edition) ISBN: 978‐0‐936981‐307 & 978‐0‐936981‐376 Feed The Giver Maus: Vol. 1 Night 8th Grade English Novels Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‐ ISBN: 978-0743273565 The Native Son by Richard Wright‐ ISBN: 978-0062357250 Short Stories‐ The Cask of the Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe Plays Romeo Juliet by William Shakespeare Sonnets William Shakespeare‐ Sonnets 18, 130, & 154 * Photocopies will be provided). Poetry Phenomenal Woman & I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou‐ A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes‐ Fire & Ice,” & “The Road Not Taken,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” by Robert Frost *Photocopies will be provided). Songs Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday‐ A Change is Going to Come by Sam Cook The Rose that Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur Speeches I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King‐ Obama Inaugural Address Any additional literature selections such as short stories, informational texts, or poems will be photocopied and distributed to students as needed throughout the year. *William Blake, William Shakespeare, and The Norton Anthology of Poetry. Textbook Glencoe Writers Choice 8th Grade (Already Have It) Easy Grammar 8‐ ISBN : 978‐0‐936981‐635 & 978‐0‐936981‐635 & 978‐0‐936981‐734 Romeo and Juliet And Then There Were None Flowers for Algernon Brave New World Spanish
Spanish Educational YouTube videos
Spanish book and workbook( Realidades) / Realidades 1 and Realidades 2
Neflix “ Novela “ and Spanish movies with vocabulary that we learn in class.
Songs in Spanish / music
Spanish video clips
Soccer game in Spanish
Grammar videos and songs
Poems and short stories in Spanish
Spanish magazines
Art in Spanish
History in Spanish
Dia denlos muertos , Cinco de Mayo, Dia de las madres.
6-8 History
1. Various handouts including worksheets and maps
2. Articles from the following magazines:
A. National Geographic
B. Military History
C. Armchair General
D. History
E. Various news magazines such as Time, Newsweek etc.
3. Various YouTube videos dealing with world and American history. The videos
will not be shown directly from YouTube, but will instead be uploaded into the
PowerPoint slides.
4. Selections of videos from Ken Burns PBS example: (Civil War, The Dust Bowl
etc.)
5. Photographs from the internet dealing with world history, primarily structures,
or artists renditions of early civilizations.
9th Grade AP English Language
Texts:
The Language of Composition (Second Edition)
Shea, Renee, Scanlon, Lawrence, Aufses, Robin Dissin
The Elements of Style (Fourth Edition)
Strunk, William and E.B. White
NOVELS:
1. Animal Farm by George Orwell ISBN-10: 0451526341
2. Beloved by Toni Morrison ISBN-10: 1400033411
3. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger ISBN-10: 0316769487
4. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes ISBN-10: 0060934344
5. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ISBN-10: 1451673310
6. Lord of the Flies by William Golding ISBN-10: 0399501487
7. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN-10: 0060883287
8. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe ISBN-10: 0486440281
9. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton ISBN-10: 1508475571
10. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ISBN-10: 1512090565
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Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
ISBN-10: 0385740077
12. Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston ISBN-10: 0679721886
13. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank ISBN-10: 9780553296983
14. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass a Slave by Frederick Douglass ISBN-10:
0486284999
15. Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs ISBN-10: 0486419312
Films:
PBS Films
Diary of Anne Frank
9th Grade Honors English Literature and Composition 9th The Crucible Macbeth The adding machine Invisible Man The picture of Dorian Gray Poems: “Abandoned Farmhouse,” by Ted Kooser “Deserted Farm,” by Mark Vinz “When It Is Snowing,” by Siv Cedering “Poppies,” by Roy Scheele “Speak Up,” by Janet S. Wong “A Poison Tree,” by William Blake “Summertime Sharing,” by Nikki Grimes “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Every Cat Has a Story,” by Naomi Shihab Nye “Street Painting,” by Ann Turner “Seeing the World,” by Steven Herrick “Four Haiku,” by J. Patrick Lewis “Tugboat at Daybreak,” by Lillian Morrison “Ode to Family Photographs,” by Gary Soto “Hoods,” by Paul B. Janeczko “Friends in the Klan,” by Marilyn Nelson “Spring Storm,” by Jim Wayne Miller “Foul Shot,” by Edwin A. Hoey “A Hot Property,” by Ronald Wallace “Junkyards,” by Julian Lee Rayford “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” by Robert Frost “Eating Poetry”
“Fire and Ice”
“Having a coke with you”
“Mother to Son”
“A dream within a dream”
“Still I rise”
“And the Ghosts”
“So you want to be a writer”
Shakespeare sonnets
“The Giver (for Berdis)”
“Secret of Life”
by Dianan Der-Hovanessain
“The Past”
by Billy Collins
Handouts of additional materials will be provided in class, including but not limited to:
Poetry by Maya Angelou, Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Langston
Hughes, Walter de la Mare,
Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and William Carlos Williams.
Short stories by Richard Connell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jack London, Edgar Allan
Poe, and Mark Twain.
Several video clips will be shown in class when the topic is pertinent to something we are covering in
class.
We will be doing a compare and contrast essay on the movie version of "The Giver" and text, so naturally
we will be viewing the "The Giver".
We will also be watching "The boy in the stripped pajamas" and will watch small portions of the movie
"Life is Beautiful" during our “literature as a response to society” unit.
We will read several nonfiction texts that demonstrate real world circumstances that surround several of
the topics we will discuss, such as: technology in society, holocaust survivors, and solider perspectives.
Deformities-A modern Western prejudice with ancient origins
Past and Present perceptions towards disability: A historical perceptive
Several articles about genetic engineering in fictions specifically. We will discuss and watch video
segments from: Star Trek, Star Wars, Gundam SEEd, Guardians of The Galaxy, Gattaca, Metal Gear
Solid, The Moreau Series, Olaf Stapledon, Sonic the Hedgehog Series, and Biohazard/Resident Evil
series
Article: Genetic Engineering- uses and implications
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short prose
o Excerpt from Arnold’s “The Study of Poetry”
o Bradbury, “The Pedestrian” and other short stories
o Hemingway’s “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”
o Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”
o Iyer’s “In Praise of the Humble Comma”
o Lederer’s “English is a Crazy Language”
o Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
o Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”
o Wodehouse’s “Buried Treasure”
o The fairy tales of Oscar Wilde
o Excerpts and stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
o Excerpts from Wuthering Heights
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o Excerpts from Huxley’s Brave New World
Essays and Articles
o Brians, “Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and the Dystopian Tradition”
o NYT obituary for Ray Bradbury
o Crouch, “Heated Debates, Burning Books” The New Yorker
o Hill, Lawrence, “What Lawrence Hill tells Dutch group planning to burn his book”
o Melville, “Hell is Other I-Pods”
o Rahner, “Digital gains changing our brains, especially young ones”
o Thiebaud, “Effects of Technology on People”
o Wilde, “The Decay of Lying”
o Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy
o Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
o Speeches of Joseph McCarthy
o Proceedings on witch trials and The Witches’ Hammer
o Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life
Non-fiction
o Goldsmith, Kenneth “I Love Speech”
o Rushdie, Salman, Joseph Anton
o Drakulic, Slavenka, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
Poetry
o Browning’s “How do I love thee?” and “My Last Duchess”
o Byron’s “She walks in beauty”
o Galvin, James “Art Class”
o Goldsmith, Kenneth “Metropolitan Forecast”
o Graves’ “The Devil’s Advice to Story-tellers”
o Poe’s “Anabel Lee”
o Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
o Shakespeare’s Sonnet 20 “A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand painted”
o Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”
o Swift’s “A Digression in Praise of Digressions”
o Wilde, “The New Helen” and “Portia”
o Emily Dickinson poetry
6th-9th Grade Social Studies
Pre-Columbian Civilizations and Colonization
Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)
Apocalypto
1492: Conquest of Paradise
The New World
Cabeza de Vaca
The Mission
Black Robe
God in America: Episode 1 - The New Adam
We Shall Remain: Episode 1 - After the Mayflower
Africans in America: The Terrible Transformation
America: The Story of Us - Rebels
The Scarlet Letter
The Crucible
Salem Witch Trials
The Last of the Mohicans
Revolutionary Era
Biography: Benjamin Franklin- Citizen of the World
Founding Brothers
Liberty! The American Revolution
1776
The Crossing
The Patriot
American Experience: War Letters
American Experience: Into the Deep - America, Whaling & the World
America: The Story of Us - Revolution
Africans in America: Revolution
Nova: Saving the National Treasures
New Republic
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson: A Film by Ken Burns
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
Jefferson in Paris
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery by Ken Burns
We Shall Remain: Episode 2 - Tecumseh's Vision
The War of 1812
American Experience: Dolley Madison
Slavery, Western Expansion, & Sectional Crisis
Roots
Amistad
Africans in America: Brotherly Love
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
12 Years a Slave
Birth of a Nation (2016)
American Experience: The Abolitionists
Biography: Frederick Douglass
Underground Railroad: The William Still Story
Whispers of Angels: The Story of the Underground Railroad
We Shall Remain: Episode 3 - Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy
God in America: Episode 2 - A New Eden
American Experience: The Amish
PBS: The Mormons, Part I
Prohibition - Episode 1 - A Nation of Drunkards by Ken Burns
Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
American Experience: The Donner Party
America: The Story of Us - Westward
America: The Story of Us - Division
Houston: The Legend of Texas also known as Gone to Texas
The Alamo (1960 or 2004)
Walker (1987)
Civil War & Reconstruction
The Civil War- by Ken Burns
America: The Story of Us - Civil War
Civil War Journal
American Experience: Robert E. Lee
American Experience: U.S. Grant - Warrior
Gods & Generals
Gettysburg
Glory
Andersonville
American Experience: Death & the Civil War
American Experience: Abraham & Mary Lincoln - A House Divided
American Experience: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Killing Lincoln
Gone with the Wind
Birth of a Nation (1915)
Africans in America: Judgment Day
Slavery by Another Name
Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War
Cold Mountain
God in America: Episode 3 - A Nation Reborn
American Experience: Walt Whitman
The Color Purple
Gilded Age, Populism & Progressivism
Coal Miners
Hatfields & McCoys
The Molly Maguires
Matewan
Western Migration
The West by Ken Burns
America: The Story of Us - Heartland
The Railroads That Tamed the West
Far and Away
Outlaws & Gunslingers
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
High Noon
The Magnificent Seven
True Grit
Shane
Tombstone
Wyatt Earp
American Experience: Wyatt Earp
American Experience: Annie Oakley
American Experience: Billy the Kid
American Experience: Jesse James
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
American Experience: Dinosaur Wars
American Experience: Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Soldiers
Plains Indians
We Shall Remain: Episode 4 - Geronimo
American Experience: Custer's Last Stand
Fort Apache
Dances with Wolves
Little Big Man
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
There Will Be Blood
Immigration, Industrialization & Urbanization
Alexander Graham Bell
The Men Who Built America
American Experience: The Rockefellers
The Wright Brothers' Flying Machine
Thomas Edison: Father of Invention
Tesla: Master of Lightning
The Prestige
Madness in the White City
American Experience: Henry Ford
Henry Ford: Tin Lizzie Tycoon
America: The Story of Us - Cities
Mark Twain by Ken Burns
Gangs of New York
Ellis Island
The Statue of Liberty
The Orphan Trains
Hester Street
American Experience: Triangle Fire
The Godfather, Part II
God in America: Episode 4 - A New Light
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Unit 7: America on the World Stage
The Last Samurai
Hawaii’s Last Queen
Amigo
Rough Riders
American Experience: Panama Canal
American Experience: The Greeley Expedition
All Quiet on the Western Front
Battleship Potemkin
American Experience: The Great Famine
Lawrence of Arabia
Strike
Reds
Johnny Got His Gun
A Farewell to Arms
American Experience: Influenza 1918
1920s & Great Depression
Sacco & Vanzetti
Rosewood
Eight Men Out
Field of Dreams
A League of Their Own
Iron Jawed Angels
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Inherit the Wind
The Great Debaters
Jazz by Ken Burns
Ragtime
Bird
The Great Gatsby
The Aviator
American Experience: Amelia Earhart
American Experience: War of the Worlds
America: The Story of Us - Boom
Citizen Kane
Modern Times
Man with a Movie Camera
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Prohibition - Episode 2 - A Nation of Scofflaws by Ken Burns
Prohibition - Episode 3 - A Nation of Hypocrites by Ken Burns
The Untouchables
Road to Perdition
Public Enemies
Reefer Madness
American Experience: The Crash of 1929
America: The Story of Us - Bust
American Experience: Mount Rushmore
American Experience: Hoover Dam
American Experience: Grand Coulee Dam
Frank Lloyd Wright
The Dust Bowl by Ken Burns
American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl
Black Blizzard
East of Eden
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice & Men
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
The March of the Bonus Army
American Experience: The Hurricane of '38
American Experience: Riding the Rails
O Brother Where Art Thou?
American Experience: Seabiscuit
Seabiscuit
Cinderella Man
American Experience: FDR
American Experience: Civilian Conservation Corps
American Experience: Huey Long
Warm Springs
World War II
Road to War
The Great Dictator
The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade
The War by Ken Burns
European Theater
America: The Story of Us - World War II
Casablanca
Das Boot
Enemy at the Gates
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers
Patton
A Bridge Too Far
The Tuskegee Airmen
Red Tails
American Experience: The Bombing of Germany
Slaughterhouse Five
Saints & Soldiers
Valkyrie
Downfall
Pacific Theater
Empire of the Sun
Tora Tora Tora
Pearl Harbor
Midway
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Thin Red Line
The Pacific
Flags of Our Fathers
Letters from Iwo Jima
Windtalkers
American Experience: Victory in the Pacific
The Manhattan Project
Hiroshima
Trinity & Beyond
Fat Man and Little Boy
American Experience: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Homefront & Holocaust
American Pastime
The Rape of Europa
Auschwitz: The Nazi Final Solution
The Sorrow and the Pity
Schindler’s List
Life is Beautiful
The Pianist
Unit 10: Cold War
Post-WWII Economy & Society
Salesman
Death of a Salesman
A Beautiful Mind
Awakenings
Good Night & Good Luck
The Majestic
Citizen Cohn
Point of Order
The Good Shepherd
Atomic Cafe
Radio Bikini
Chosin
American Experience: The Lobotomist
American Experience: The Polio Crusade
Pleasantville
American Experience: Tupperware!
Julie & Julia
Space Race & Cold War Technology
October Sky
The Right Stuff
From the Earth to the Moon
When We Left Earth
Apollo 13
American Experience: The Living Weapon
Capote
Dr. Strangelove
J. Edgar
Hoffa
Thirteen Days
JFK
The Kennedys
Bobby
American Experience: The Kennedys
The Motorcycle Diaries
Che
I Am Cuba
Fidel Castro
America: The Story of Us - Superpower
Julie & Julia
Monterrey Pop
Woodstock
Quiz Show
54
Cider House Rules
Norma Rae
Vietnam War
The Fog of War
In the Year of the Pig
Hearts & Minds
American Experience: My Lai
Rescue Dawn
We Were Soldiers
Platoon
Born on the Fourth of July
The Deer Hunter
Full Metal Jacket
Good Morning, Vietnam
Apocalypse Now
The Most Dangerous Man in America
The Killing Fields
Berkeley in the Sixties
The Weather Underground
Nixon & Ford Administrations
The Battle of Chile
One Bright Shining Moment
All the President’s Men
Nixon
Frost/Nixon
Carter Administration
Argo
Miracle
Reagan Administration
God in America: Episode 6 - Of God & Caesar
Silkwood
War Games
Charlie Wilson's War
The Hunt for Red October
Crimson Tide
Romero
Unit 11: Peoples Movements
African Americans & Civil Rights
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
42
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Raisin in the Sun
American Experience: A Class Apart
The Help
Far From Heaven
Separate but Equal
Remember the Titans
God in America: Episode 5 - Soul of a Nation
Architects of Civil Rights
The Rosa Parks Story
American Experience: Freedom Riders
American Experience: Soundtrack for a Revolution
Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement
The Murder of Emmitt Till
Four Little Girls
Mississippi Burning
Ghosts of Mississippi
The Last White Knight
A Force More Powerful
Citizen King
Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream
Dr. Martin Luther King: A Historical Perspective
Been to the Mountain Top: Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Experience: Roads to Memphis - The Assassination of Martin Luther King
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement
Thurgood Marshall: Justice For All
We Shall Overcome
Selma
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Malcolm X
Panther
When We Were Kings
Ali
Little Rock Central High: 50 Years Later
Searching for the Promised Land
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
Hispanics & Latinos
American Experience: Roberto Clemente
Native Americans
We Shall Remain: Episode 5 - Wounded Knee
Trudell
Smoke Signals
Youth & Pop Culture
Rebel Without a Cause
Quiz Show
Monterrey Pop
Woodstock
54
Women
The Cider House Rules
Antiwar Movement
King: A Man of Peace in a Time of War
The Weather Underground
Gay Liberation
American Experience: Stonewall Uprising
Milk
The Times of Harvey Milk
How to Survive a Plague
Dear Jesse
Consumer Rights
Ralph Nader: An Unreasonable Man
Environmentalism
American Experience: Earth Days
Silkwood
Labor
Norma Rae
Harlan County, USA
Other Social Issues
American Experience: Jonestown - The Life & Death of Peoples Temple
Unit 12: Into the 21st Century
Foreign Policy
Jarhead
Three Kings
The Devil's Double
Black Hawk Down
Captain Phillips
Hotel Rwanda
Sometimes in April
The Constant Gardener
Breach
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
World Trade Center
United 93
Fahrenheit 9/11
The Special Relationship
W.
Frontline: Bush's War
Iraq for Sale
The Hurt Locker
No End in Sight
Standard Operating Procedure
Dirty Wars
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden
Zero Dark Thirty
The Square
Economics
Roger & Me
Barbarians at the Gates
Wall Street
Trading Places
Coming to America
The Insider
American Experience: Silicon Valley
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Capitalism: A Love Story
Detropia
Inequality for All
Politics
American Experience: Jimmy Carter
American Experience: Reagan
American Experience: Clinton
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
Hot Coffee
Mitt
Environmentalism
An Inconvenient Truth
Gasland
Gasland II
Media
Page One: Inside the New York Times
MissRepresentation
The Social Network
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
The Fifth Estate
Helvetica
Social Issues
Powwow Highway
Trudell
Reel Injun
Smoke Signals
Lone Star
Freedom Writers
Waiting for Superman
Bully
Bowling for Columbine
American History X
Bamboozled
Traffic
The House I Live In
America: The Story of Us - Millenium
Facing the New Millenium
Man on Wire
A Mighty Heart
Sicko
Lake of Fire
PBS: The Mormons, Part II
Hoop Dreams
Urbanized
Supersize Me
30 Days
Inside Man (CNN)
American Experience: Test Tube Babies
Baraka
Samsara
NatGeo, “Guns, Germs, and Steel” (2005)
BBC, “The Story of India” (2009)
Engineering an Empire: The Complete Series (History Channel)
PBS: Luther
PBS: Joseph McCarthy (McCarthy v. The Army of the United States)
PBS: “Black in Latin America”
PBS: “Barbarians”
Disney, “Mulan”
CRASHCOURSE UNITED STATES VIDEOS
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s
CRASHCOURSE GOVERNMENT VIDEOS
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtOfse2ncvffeelTrqvhrz8H
CRASHCOURSE WOLD HISTORY VIDEOS
Disease!
War & Human Nature
The Agricultural Revolution
Indus Valley Civilization
Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
The Persians & Greeks
Buddha & Ashoka
2,000 Years of Chinese History! The Mandate of Heaven & Confucius
Alexander the Great and the Situation... the Great?
The Silk Road & Ancient Trade
The Roman Empire. Or Republic. Or... Which Was It?
Christianity from Judaism to the Constantine
Fall of the Roman Empire... in the 15th Century
Islam, the Quran, and the Five Pillars All Without a Flamewar
The Dark Ages... How Dark Were They, Really?
The Crusades - Pilgrimage or Holy War
Mansa Musa & Islam in Africa
Wait For It... The Mongols!
International Commerce, Snorkeling Camels, & The Indian Ocean Trade
Venice & The Ottoman Empire
Crash Course World History Outtakes Part I
Hanging Out at Crash Course
Russia, The Kievan Rus, and the Mongols
Columbus, de Gama, and Zheng He! 15th Century Mariners
The Renaissance... Was it a Thing?
The Colombian Exchange
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Spanish Empire, Silver, and Runaway Inflation
The Seven Years War
The Amazing Life and Strange Death of Captain Cook
Tea, Taxes, and The American Revolution
The French Revolution
Haitian Revolutions
Latin American Revolutions
Coal, Steam, and The Industrial Revolution
Capitalism and Socialism
Population, Sustainability, and Malthus
Samurai, Daimyo, Matthew Perry, and Nationalism
Imperialism
Archdukes, Cynicism, and World War I
Communists, Nationalists, and China's Revolutions
World War II
USA vs USSR Fight! The Cold War
Decolonization and Nationalism Triumphant
Globalization I - The Upside
Globalization II - Good or Bad?
Luther and the Protestant Reformation
The Vikings!
Rethinking Civilization
Money & Debt
Climate Change, Chaos, and The Little Ice Age
War and Civilization
Humans and Energy
Drought and Famine
HOW World War I Started
Who Started World War I?
The End of Civilization (In the Bronze Age)
The Rise of the West and Historical Methodology
Asian Responses to Imperialism
The Railroad Journey and the Industrial Revolution
Islam and Politics
The Mughal Empire and Historical Reputation
Charles V and the Holy Roman Empire
World War II, A War for Resources
World History Outtakes!
Congo and Africa's World War
Water and Classical Civilizations
Conflict in Israel and Palestine
War and Nation Building in Latin America
Iran's Revolution(s)
Japan in the Heian Period and Cultural History
Nonviolence and Peace Movements
Capitalism and the Dutch East India Company
Democracy, Authoritarian Capitalism, and China
Supplemental readings:
Jürgen Habermas, The Crisis of the European Union: A Response (Polity, 2012 – ISBN 9780745662428)
• Anthony Pagden, The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters (Random House, 2013) – ISBN
978-1400060689
• Lynn Hunt, The Family Romance of the French Revolution (UC Press, 1993) – ISBN 9780520082700
• Joyce Appleby, The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism (Norton, 2011) – ISBN 9780393339390
• Jennifer Sessions, By Sword and By Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria (Cornell, 2011) –
ISBN 978-0801449758
• Elaine Hadley, Living Liberalism: Practical Citizenship in Mid-Victorian Britain (University of
Chicago Press, 2010) – ISBN 978-0226311883
• Seth Koven, Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London (Princeton, 2006) – ISBN
978-0691128009
• Isabel Hull, Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany
(Cornell, 2006) – ISBN 978-0801472930
• Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet
Union (Cornell, 2005) – ISBN 978-0801489082
• Marion Kaplan, Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (Oxford, 1999 –
ISBN 978-0195130928)
• Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our
Times (Cambridge, 2007) – ISBN 978-0521703147
• Quinn Slobodian, Foreign Front: Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany (Duke, 2012) –
ISBN 978-0822351849
• Joan Scott, The Politics of the Veil (Princeton, 2010) – ISBN 978-0691147987
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John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (2002)
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David L. Preston, The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of
Iroquoi, 1667-1783 (2009)
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Bernard Bailyn, The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction (1986)
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Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and
Lowcountry (1998)
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Brendan McConville, The King’s Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776 (2006)
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Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom (1975)
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Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the
Revolutionary Atlantic (2000)
David Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007)
Joshua Rothman, Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism in the Age of Jackson (2012)
Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America,
1830-1870 (1983)
Anne F. Hyde, Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860
(2012)
Lacy K. Ford, Deliver Us From Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South (2009)
Ira Berlin, et al., eds., Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War (1992)
Elliott West, The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story (2009)
Michael Dockrill and John Fisher (eds), The Paris Peace Conference, 1919: Peace Without Victory?
(2001)
David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the
Modern Middle East (1989)
Thomas J. Knock, To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order (1995)
Sally Marks, The Illusion of Peace: International Relations in Europe, 1918-1933 (2nd ed., 2004)
Arno J. Mayer, Politics and Diplomacy of Peacemaking: Containment and Counter-Revolution at Versailles,
1918–19 (1967)
Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World (2002).
Erez Manela, The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial
Nationalism (2009)
Michael Reynolds, Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires
1908-1918 (2011)
Alan Sharp, The Versailles Settlement: Peacemaking after the First World War, 1919-1923 (2nd ed.,
2008)
John Locke, 2nd Treatise of Government
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Ken Kollman, Readings in American Politics: Analysis and Perspectives (3rd ed., 2014)
Mark Konnert, Early Modern Europe: The Age of Religious War, 1559-1715 (2006)
Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest (2011)
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1999)
Peter Stearns, World History I Documents: A Comparative Reader, 2nd ed. (2008)
Kevin Reilly, Worlds of History: Volumes 1 and 2, 5th ed. (2008)
Tom Standage, A History of the World in 6 Glasses (2006)
9th Grade Biology
References:
Boardman, R., A. Cheetham, and A. Rowell, eds. (1987). Fossil Invertebrates. Blackwell
Scientific Publications. ISBN 0-86542-302-4.
Bonner, J.T., ed. (1982). Evolution and Development. Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-113312.
Buss, L. (1987). The Evolution of Individuality. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-084696.
Clarkson, E.N.K. (1986). Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution. ISBN 0-04-560010-4.
Darwin, Charles (1859). On the Origin of Species (1st ed.). London: John Murray. ISBN 08014-1319-2. [http://darwinonline.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F373&viewtype=text&pageseq=1. ]
Dawkins, R. (2006). The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition. Oxford University Press.
ISBN 0-19-929115-2.
Eldredge, N. (1985). Unfinished Synthesis. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505574-8.
Gould, S.J. (1989). Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. New York:
W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-30700-X.
Gould, S.J. (2002). The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. Cambridge: Belknap Press
(Harvard University Press). ISBN 0-674-00613-5.
Hillis, D.M., et al., 2012. Principles of Life. W.H. Freeman & Co., 915 p. [Text for Honors &
AP Biology]
Maynard Smith, J. (1993). The Theory of Evolution: Canto Edition. Cambridge University
Press. ISBN 0-521-45128-0.
Maynard Smith, J. and Szathmáry, E. (1997). The Major Transitions in Evolution.
Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-850294-X.
National Geographic Magazine. Various magazine issues and articles with associated
maps.
Simpson, G.G. (1983). Fossils and the History of Life. Scientific American Library. ISBN 07167-1564-3.
Valentine, J. (1973). Evolutionary Paleoecology of the Marine Biosphere. Prentice-Hall,
Inc. ISBN 0-13-293720-4.
Vermeij, G. (1987). Evolution and Excalation. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-084467.
**It is assumed that all materials, documents, articles, and abstracts referred to in literature and
materials on this list are, likewise, considered to be proper resources, as assigned for Dr. Speyer’s
classes.
Internet Resources:
Carroll SB. "The Making of the Fittest". http://www.molbio.wisc.edu/carroll/Fittest.html.
[video]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Evolutionary_biology . [website]
"Understanding Evolution: your one-stop resource for information on Evolution".
University of California, Berkeley. http://evolution.berkeley.edu/. [website]
"The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online". National University of Singapore.
http://darwin-online.org.uk/. [website]
6th‐8th Grade Chemistry Living By Chemistry (1st edition); Stacy, Angelica; Freeman and Company
Chemistry The Central Science (12th edition); Brown, LeMay, et al.; Prentice Hall
Chemistry Websites:
www.chem4kids.com http://www.chemteam.info/ChemTeamIndex.html http://www.sciencegeek.net/ http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtext/virtualtextbook.html http://www.periodicvideos.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse https://www.youtube.com/user/CalChemDemo https://www.youtube.com/user/bozemanbiology http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/index.shtml http://www.chem.uiuc.edu/clcwebsite/clctutorials.html http://www.compoundchem.com/2016/08/03/russian‐doping/ Learning Support Websites:
http://coe.jmu.edu/learningtoolbox/index.html Videos:
NOVA – Hunting the Elements, Making Things….., Einstein’s Big Idea
The Atomic Bomb Movie