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Holt Thematic Breakdown
Grades 9 and 10
 

THEMATIC BREAKDOWN OF HOLT TEXT AND HOLT READER - 9th Grade

First Marking Period--self-awareness

Col.

Title

Author

Theme

Pg.

Genre

Found

1

2

Teaching Chess, and Life

Carlos Capellan

self-awareness

96

essay

text

2

2

Community Service & You

T.J. Saftner

self-awareness

98

article

text

3

2

Feeding Frenzy

Peter Ames Carlin/ Don Sider

self-awareness

100

article

text

4

2

Helen on Eighty-sixth Street

Wendi Kaufman

self-awareness

104

short story

text

5

2

Forgive My Guilt

Robert P. Tristram Coffin

self-awareness

128

poem

text

6

2

Old Man at the Bridge

Ernest Hemingway

self-awareness

140

short story

text

7

3

My Delicate Heart Condition

Toni Cade Bambara

self-awareness

94

short story

hr

8

4

Fifteen

William stafford

self-awareness

134

poem

hr

9

5

A Defense of the Jury Systen

Thomas M. Ross, Esq.

self-awareness

308

essay

text

10

5

The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost

self-awareness

314

poem

text

11

5

Crossing Paths

Robert Frost

self-awareness

317

letter

text

12

5

The Princess and the Tin Box

James Thurber

self-awareness

332

fable

text

13

5

August Heat

William Fryer Harvey

self-awareness

154

short story

hr

14

6

I May, I Might, I Must

Marianne Moore

self-awareness

341

poem

text

15

6

If There Be Sorrow

Mari Evans

self-awareness

355

poem

text

16

6

The Scarlet Ibis

James Hurst

self-awareness

342/168

short story

text/hr

17

7

Woman Work

Maya Angelou

self-awareness

408

poem

text

18

7

Daily

Naomi Shihab Nye

self-awareness

410

poem

text

19

7

in Just-

e.e.cummings

self-awareness

413

poem

text

20

7

Eyeglasses for the Mind

Stephen King

self-awareness

415

interview

text

21

7

"Hope" is the thing with feathers

Emily Dickinson

self-awareness

435

poem

text

22

7

Internment

Juliet S. Kono

self-awareness

436

poem

text

23

7

Fog

Carl Sandburg

self-awareness

440

poem

text

24

7

Fire and Ice

Robert Frost

self-awareness

441

poem

text

25

7

The Seven Ages of Man

William Shakespeare

self-awareness

444

poem

text

26

7

Boy at the Window

Richard Wilbur

self-awareness

450

poem

text

27

7

The Sacred

Stephen Dunn

self-awareness

206

poem

hr

7

How I Learned English

Gregory Djanikian

self-awareness

214

poem

hr

28

7

Dust of Snow

Robert Frost

self-awareness

455

poem

text

29

7

The Bagel

David Ignatow

self-awareness

456

poem

text

30

7

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

William Wadsworth

self-awareness

457

poem

text

31

10

Penelope to Ulysses

Meredith Schwartz

self-awareness

697

poem

text

32

10

An Ancient Gesture

Edna St. Vincent Millay

self-awareness

697

poem

text

33

11

Your Laughter

Pablo Neruda

self-awareness

911

poem

text

34

11

How Do I Love Thee?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

self-awareness

911

sonnet

text

35

11

from Barefoot in the Park

Neil Simon

self-awareness

938

comedy

text

Second Marking Period--family and loyalty

Col.

Title

Author

Theme

Pg.

Genre

Found

1

1

The Most Dangerous Game

Richard Connell

family/loyalty

4

short story

text/hr

2

1

Can Animals Think?

Eugene Linden

family/ loyalty

26

article

text

3

1

Dog Star

Arthur C. Clarke

family/loyalty

32

short story

text

4

1

A Christmas Memory

Truman Capote

family/loyalty

50

short story

text

5

1

My Father Is A Simple Man

Luis Omar Salinas

family/loyalty

62

poem

text

6

2

Mother To Son

Langston Hughes

family/loyalty

92

monologue

text

7

2

The White Umbrella

Gish Jen

family/loyalty

63

short story

hr

8

3

The Interlopers

Saki

family/loyalty

150/80

short story

text/hr

9

3

The Trapper Trapped

Vai traditional

family/loyalty

156

fable

text

10

3

The Necklace

Guy de Maupassant

family/ loyalty

159

short story

text

11

4

The Sniper

Liam O'Flaherty

family/ loyalty

210/110

short story

text/hr

12

4

Thoughts of Hanoi

Nguyen thi Vinh

family/ loyalty

115

poem

hr

13

4

Cranes

Hwang Sunwon

family/ loyalty

220

short story

text

14

4

A Country Divided

Patricia McMahon

family/ loyalty

231

history book

text

15

4

Lives in the Crossfire

Laurel Holliday

family/ loyalty

236

nonfiction

text

16

4

Liberty

Julia Alvarez

family/ loyalty

245

short story

text

17

4

Exile

Julia Alvarez

family/ loyalty

255

poem

text

18

4

Papa Who Wakes Up Tired In the Dark

Sandra Cisneros

family/ loyalty

278

short story

text

19

4

Those Winter Sundays

Robert Hayden

family/loyalty

278

poem

text

20

5

The Gift of the Magi

O. Henry

family/loyalty

286/140

short story

text/hr

21

5

Los Ancianos

Pat Mora

family/loyalty

294

poem

text

22

5

The Lady, or the Tiger?

Frank R. Stockton

family/loyalty

297

short story

text

24

7

Mooring

Cathy Song

family/ loyalty

207

poem

hr

25

7

this morning

Lucille Clifton

family/ loyalty

213

poem

hr

26

7

The Courage That My Mother Had

Edna St. Vincent Millay

family/ loyalty

461

poem

text

27

7

The Gift

Li-Young Lee

family/ loyalty

468

poem

text

28

7

The Girl Who Loved the Sky

Anita Endrezze

family/ loyalty

490

poem

text

29

9

Address to Congress, November 27, 1963

Lyndon B. Johnson

family/ loyalty

584

speech

text

30

9

The Houseguest

Paul Darcy Boler

family/ loyalty

266

short story

HR

32

11

Visitor from Forest Hills from Plaza Suite

Neil Simon

family/ loyalty

755

comedy

text

33

11

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

family/ loyalty

783

tragedy

text

34

11

Dear Juliet

Lisa Bannon

family/ loyalty

918

news feature

text

35

11

Romeo and Juliet in Bosnia

Bob Herbert

family/ loyalty

921

article

text

Third Marking Period--cultural diversity

Col.

Title

Author

Theme

Pg.

Genre

Found

1

1

The World Is Not A Pleasant Place To Be

Nikki Giovanni

cultural diversity

40

poem

text

2

2

Thank You, M'am

Langston Hughes

cultural diversity

86

short story

text/hr

3

2

Marigolds

Eugenia W. Collier

cultural diversity

118

short story

text

4

3

Snow

Julia Alvarez

cultural diversity

202

short story

text

5

4

Peace Isn't Impossible

George J. Mitchell

cultural diversity

240

essay

text

6

4

An American Story

Anthony Lewis

cultural diversity

261

news feature

text

7

4

Ex-Refugee Is Nominated for Justice Post

Dena Bunis/ Anh Do

cultural diversity

265

article

text

8

4

The Moustache

Robert Cormier

cultural diversity

123

short story

hr

9

7

Haiku

Chora, Chiyo, Basho, Issa

cultural diversity

418

haiku

text

10

7

Folding Won Tons In

Abraham Chang

cultural diversity

432

poem

text

11

7

On "Folding Won Tons In"

Abraham Chang

cultural diversity

434

reflection

text

12

7

Ballad of Birmingham

Dudley Randall

cultural diversity

463

poem

text

13

7

The History Behind the Ballad

Taylor Branch

cultural diversity

466

poem

text

14

7

Legal Alien/ Extranjera legal

Pat Mora

cultural diversity

472

poem

text

15

8

To Da-duh, in Memoriam

Paule Marshall

cultural diversity

525

short story

text

16

8

How to Eat a Guava

Esmeralda Santiago

cultural diversity

541

autobiography

text

17

8

The Tropics in New York

Claude McKay

cultural diversity

545

poem

text

18

8

Salvador Late or Early

Sandra Cisneros

cultural diversity

556

short story

text

19

9

American History

Judith Ortiz Cofer

cultural diversity

564

short story

text

20

9

Volar

Judith Ortiz Cofer

cultural diversity

573

essay

text

21

9

A Warm, Clear Day in Dallas

Marta Randall

cultural diversity

578

biography

text

22

9

Students React to President Kennedy's Death

various

cultural diversity

586

essay

text

23

10

Calypso

Suzanne Vega

cultural diversity

655

song

text

24

10

The Cyclops in the Ocean

Nikki Giovanni

cultural diversity

672

poem

text

Fourth Marking Period--journeys/ heroism and Imagination/ fantasy

Col.

Title

Author

Theme

Pg.

Genre

Found

1

1

Far-out Housekeeping on the ISS

Ron Koczor

journeys/heroism/ imag./ fantasy

43

web page

text

2

1

Crime on Mars

Arthur C. Clarke

journeys/heroism/ imag./ fantasy

40

short story

hr

3

1

So You Want To Be An Astronaut

Richard Knight

journeys/heroism/ imag./ fantasy

76

article

text

4

3

The Cask of Amontillado

Edgar Allen Poe

journeys/heroism/ imag./ fantasy

172

short story

text

5

3

Poe's Final Days

Kenneth Silverman

journeys/heroism/ imag./ fantasy

183

biography

text

6

3

Poe's Death Is Rewritten as Case of Rabies

The New York Times

journeys/heroism/ imag./ fantasy

187

article

text

7

3

If Only Poe Had Succeeded When He Said

Burton R. Pollin/Robert E. Benedetto

journeys/heroism/ imag./ fantasy

189

letter

text

8

3

Rabies Death Theory

R. Michael Benitez, M.D.

journeys/heroism/ imag./ fantasy

190

letter

text

9

6

The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind

Ray Bradbury

journeys/heroism/ imag./ fantasy

364

short story

text

10

6

Weapons of the Spirit