CCSS: RL.9-10.1, RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.3 - these common core standards are oriented around reading literature with an emphasis on themes, characterization, details, and ideas. Many of the resources in this collection use separate anchor texts as their focus, but there are plenty with the anchor texts or selections from them included within the resource itself. Anchor texts are a mix of poetry and prose.