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“ For years, teachers have been gathering various texts that connect in theme, create
conversation, target certain skills, and promote writing, and this textbook has done
essentially that. It also offers appropriate texts for various levels, especially the honors
students who tend to be left out when other textbooks are adopted. Not this time!”
—Cinthia Sierra, Rivera HS, TX

How a thematic chapter works

Each chapter centers on a vital
and relevant theme and a serious CHAPTER 5
of essential questions, to Changing the World
engage students in the important
conversations going on in the world • What are the conditions required to make change happen?
around them. • How does one gain the appropriate amount and type of power
to create change?
• How does effective, persuasive communication help to bring
about change?
Each chapter’s Skill Workshop and • When — if ever — is violence an appropriate means for
Skill Focus questions that introduce creating change?
and practice the skill students will
focus on developing in the chapter. Skill Workshop – Understanding Personal
Experience in Argument
Malala Yousafzai, UN Speech
Leveled Text Sections allow teachers
to easily differentiate readings for SECTION 1
students of all levels.
Bill Bystricky, When 16-Year-Olds Vote, We All Benefit
Amber Tamblyn, I’m not Ready for the Redemption of Men
The Central Text is an exemplar text David Hogg, The Road to Change
that demonstrates exceptional use of
language and style. It also is a strong SECTION 2
example of the Skill Focus of the
chapter, and is used as a model in the Denise Cummins, How to Get People to Change Their Minds
Writing Workshop. Michelle Alexander, What if we’re all coming back?
Dolores Huerta, UCLA Speech (Edited)
Central Text: DeRay Mckesson, Bully and the Pulpit
Exploring Other Genres adds a layer
of enrichment to the chapter by looking
at the theme across genres. SECTION 3
Nelson Mandela, An Ideal for which I am Prepared to Die
Martin Luther King Jr., I Have Been to the Mountaintop
Each chapter’s Writing Workshop Virginia Woolf, Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
takes students step-by-step through the
process of writing an academic essay or Exploring Other Genres
persuasive argument.
Luisa Valenzuela, The Censors
Writing Workshop – Writing an Argument
Using Personal Experience
With Continuing the Conversation,
students engage with the chapter
theme and Essential Questions by Continuing the Conversation
making text-to-self, text-to-text, and
text-to-world connections.

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