9th Grade Text Pairing Ideas - Romeo & Juliet, The Odyssey, The Great Gatsby

Ready to make your novel studies more inclusive? Add text pairings to your units! These curated lists for The Odyssey, Romeo & Juliet, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, The Outsiders, and The Giver will help add more voices to your core texts.

Each list includes text pairing ideas and activities:

• Songs
• Poems
• Documentaries
• Art
• Podcast episodes
• TED talks
• and more!

For each text, we share easy changes, like paired texts (videos, poems, articles, etc.) you could incorporate on a budget (or for free!). We also share more difficult changes, like substitutions you could request in the future. We are not saying that you need to replace every text -- we want to continue a dialogue on how to make our curricula more inclusive.

Each curated list represents 15+ hours of research. You can use any of these text suggestions as you plan your unit.

>>>Find the rest of Rethinking the Classics resources here.<<<

What other teachers are saying:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "I'm always looking for ways to supplement unit novels, and this resource definitely helped to lighten my load. This was a wonderful resource and I look forward to using it in the years to come." -Amber B. (To Kill a Mockingbird)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "I love having this resource! It takes so much time to find text pairings and this makes it so much easier. I love having the more diverse texts and nonfiction to pair with Romeo and Juliet." -Linda I.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "I've never likes teaching the Odyssey an when I saw this came out I knew I HAD to have it! I love the variety of the text pairings and the breakdown by thematic focus. It inspired me to bring in other texts and media as well." -Jessica S.

What You Get:

1. 30+ inclusive text suggestions & annotated ideas organized by teaching topic for each core text (this is a Google Doc that we'll update as we encounter more resources and ideas)
2. Suggestions for replacement texts
3. Expert advice on Rethinking the Classics - affirmations for Rethinking the Classics, ideas for auditing your texts

This resource was co-created by Danielle Hall from Nouvelle ELA and Sheila Frye from Teaching Literacy.

About Your Resource:

Your resource is a .pdf with a link to the Google Doc of text suggestions. Please let us know if you have any questions! You can also email me (Danielle) at nouvelle.ela@gmail.com. :)

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