ELA+Grade+9+Module+C

= Chicopee Comprehensive Schools =

‍ Module C - War and Suffering
Extended Text
 * //Hiroshima// by John Hersey - [|Audiobook available in the CHHS library.]

‍ Short Fiction

 * [|"The Bet"] by Anton Chekov

‍ Poetry (choose 2 or 3)

 * [|"Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"] by Randall Jarrell
 * [|"The Dark Hills"] by Edwin Arlington Robinson
 * [|"Your Attention Please"] by Peter Porter
 * [|"Goodnight Saigon"] by Billy Joel [|Video]
 * [|"Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition"] by Frank Loesser [|Video] (audio from 1943)

‍ Multimedia

 * [|"The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb"] Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
 * "Hiroshima: Why the Bomb was Dropped" (ABC News with Peter Jennings)
 * "Hiroshima" ELA Dept Library
 * [|"Hiroshima War Art Project 2001-2003: Hiroshima After the Atomic Bomb"] by Mauro Bordin
 * "Fatman and Little Boy" (film)

‍ Contemporary Nonfiction (choose 1)

 * [|"Why Did We Drop the Bomb?"] by Walter Isaacson
 * [|"The Role of Bombing in WWII"] by Pamela Feltus
 * [|"History of the Atomic Bomb and the Manhatten Project"] by Mary Bellis

‍ Historical Nonfiction (choose 1)

 * [|"The Baruch Plan or Control of Atomic Energy"](primary source) by Bernard Baruch [|Secondary source],by the United States State Department. [|Secondary source], by History Channel
 * [|"White House Press Release, August 8, 1945"] (primary source, 3 pages) by Harry S. Truman [|Text version]