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Year 9 and 10 Writing Program
Theme: Friendship and Loyalty
POEM: "A Poison Tree" by William Blake
ARTICLE: "More Facebook Friends, Fewer Real Ones" by Ned Potter
POEM: "No Man is an Island" by John Donne
FICTION: "Excerpts from "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
NON-FICTION: "Clownfish and Sea Anenome" by CommonLit Staff
SHORT STORY: "The Interlopers" by Saki
ARTICLE: "The Life of Julius Caesar" by David White
FABLE: "The Donkey, the Fox and the Lion" by Aesop
SHORT STORY: "The Cone" by H.G. Wells
SHORT STORY: "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
SHORT STORY: "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
NON-FICTION: "What's Your True Age?" by Susan Krauss Whitbourne
SHORT STORY: "Sleeping" by Katharine Weber
NON-FICTION: "Mirror Stage" by CommonLit Staff
SHORT STORY: "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield
POEM: "My Lost Youth" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
ARTICLE: "Forever Young" by Dale Archer
SHORT STORY: "Home" by Anton Checkov
POEM: "On Turning Ten" by Billy Collins
NON-FICTION: "The Role Reverser: Growing Up Too Soon" by Gregory L. Jantz
POEM: "Morning in the Burned House" by Margaret Atwood
MEMOIR: "Two Ways of Looking at a River" by MarK Twain
Theme: Growing Up and Valuing Our Youth
Theme: Identity - What Makes You Who You Are?
NON-FICTION: "The Nature vs Nurture Debate" by CommonLit Staff
ESSAY: Excerpt from "Self Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
POEM: "The Tyger" by William Blake
NON-FICTION: "Freud's Theory of the Id, Ego and Superego" by CommonLit Staff
NON-FICTION: "Classical Conditioning" by Saul McLeod
Themes: Comedy and Tragedy, Right and Wrong, Success
Themes: Comedy and Tragedy, Right and Wrong, Success
SHORT STORY: "The Reef" by Samuel Scoville
ARTICLE: "When Good People Do Bad Things" by Ann Trafton
INTERVIEW: "Nice Kids Finish First" by Audie Cornish
NON-FICTION: "The Milgram Experiment" by Saul McLeod
SPEECH: "Stanford University Speech" by Steve Jobs
ARTICLE: "Can a Shark Attack Lead to a Better Life?" by Melanie Greenberg
NON-FICTION: "The Kohlberg Dilemmas" by Lawrence Kohlberg
MYTH: "Midas" by Thomas Bulfinch
POEM: "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" by Robert Browning
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