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9 th -Grade Concept Requirements & Suggested Texts
Concepts & Reading Requirements
Universality: Epic Journey
Requirement: All students will read excerpts
from at least one Eastern and one Western
epic.
This requirement may be met in collaboration
between language arts and social studies as
agreed upon at the building level.
Systems: Genre: Origins of Drama
Requirement: All students will read an
Ancient Greek tragedy or an ancient Eastern
drama.
Universality: Search for Knowledge
Requirement: All students will read a variety
of Eastern and Western creation stories.
This requirement may be met in collaboration
between language arts and social studies as
agreed upon at the building level.
Teachers should select texts appropriate for their students.
The following texts are currently under consideration by
grade-level teachers across the division.
Western
• Gilgamesh (in world lit text)
• The Iliad (in world lit text)
• The Aeneid (in world lit text)
• The Odyssey (in Elements book)
Eastern
• The Mahabharata (in world lit text)
• The Ramayana (in world lit text)
• Sundiata (in world lit text)
• Bhagavad-Vita (in world lit text)
Western
• Oedipus Rex/Oedipus the King (in world lit text)
• Antigone (in Elements text)
• Medea (Euripides)
• The Theban Plays (Sophocles)
Eastern
• Love Suicides at Sonesaki (Chikamatsu)
• Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu (Keene)
• Selections from The Noh Theatre of Japan (Pound)
Note: This text contains 15 selections.
Western
• “The Creation and the Fall” (in world lit text)
• “The Story of the Flood” (in world lit text)
• The Bible as/in Literature (Ackerman, J. et al)
Eastern
• Excerpts from the Tao te Ching (in world lit text)
• Zen Parables (in world lit text)
• Excerpts from Rig Veda (in world lit text)
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