Here are the primary (“anchor”) texts presented at the beginning of each unit in our textbook. To practice (practice, practice) your new skills and knowledge and, thereby, deepen your learning, your team should consider selecting one or more texts related to the theme of your current unit’s anchor text that you want to read, highlight, annotate, and discuss. Ask Mr. Simone to create the text (e.g., in hard copy, in a Google Doc, in Perusall). You can also ask Mr. Simone to confer with team members about their reading—individually and/or as a group.

Unit One:  Greta Thunberg’s speech to the United Nations Climate Action Summit (2019)

Unit Two: Malala Yousafzai’s speech to the United Nations Youth Assembly (2013)

Unit Three: “What We Eat,” from the introduction to Eric Schlosser’s book Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001)

Unit Four: The “Conclusions” of Government Report GAO-10-702: “Homelessness: A Common Vocabulary Could Help Agencies Collaborate and Collect More Consistent Data” (2010)

Unit Five: Aung San Suu Kyi’s speech accepting the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought (1990)

Unit Six: “The Ways We Lie” by Stephanie Ericsson (1992)

Unit Seven: “How the Loss of the Landline Is Changing Family Life” by Julia Cho (2019)

Unit Eight: “On Morality” by Joan Didion (1965)

Unit Nine: “Games,” from Steven Johnson’s Everything Bad Is Good For You (2005)