Common Core Texts Grade 10
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Module Resources
1

"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe (Poetry Foundation)

"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh (Poetry Foundation)

"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
 
"The Talented Tenth" by W.E.B. DuBois

"The Double Helix" by James D. Watson

"Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card (Original short story)

"Joseph's Dream" (Genesis 37-45 - New American Standard Bible)

"The Problem That Has No Name" by Betty Friedan (Chapter One of The Feminine Mystique)
 
2
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King

"In this Blind Alley" by Ahmad Shamlu

Freedom” by Rabindranath Tagore

"Women" by Alice Walker

"A Genetics of Justice" by Julia Alvarez

"Remembering to Never Forget: Dominican Republic's 'Parsley Massacre'" by Mark Memmott

"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights"

"On the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights" by Eleanor Roosevelt 
"Address to the United Nations Youth Assembly” by Malala Yousafzai
"The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling (The Kipling Society)

Great Conversation Documents: 19th Century Women's Rights
"How It Feels To Be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston

"Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

"Telephone Conversation" by Wole Soyinka

"The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
 
3 "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot A Court Allows Payment for Bone Marrow. Should People be Able to Sell Their Parts?” by Alice Park

Do We Own Our Own Bodily Tissues?” by Margaret Ng Thow Hing

Tissue Banks Trigger Worry About Ownership Issues” by Charlie Schmidt

Human Tissue For Sale: What are the Costs?” by Deborah Josefson

My Body, My Property” by Lori B. Andrews

Body of Research—Ownership and Use of Human Tissue” by R. Alta Charo
 
 4
"The Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli (Harvard Classics edition from Bartleby.com)

"Macbeth" by William Shakespeare(Open Source Shakespeare)

Death of a Pig” by E.B. White

 Alternate Module 1 "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot (Poetry Foundation)
 Alternate Module 2

"Seneca Falls Declaration" by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Ain’t I a Woman” by Sojourner Truth

"Telephone Conversation” by Wole Soyinka (Lit Genius)