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Unit Texts Assessments Eng Goals # of WeeksUnit 2: TeenStruggles

Into the Wild(book and/orfilm)

The Outsidersby S.E. Hinton(book and/orfilm)

Choose one:Please DontKill theFreshman: AMemoir by Zoe

TropeOrCrazy: A Novelby BenjaminLebertOrOpheliaSpeaks:Adolescent

Keep own diaryabout your life-can bewhatever youwant to say,you just haveto write

Write a shortstory about aperson youlook up to

Literaryanalysiscomparing anovel to thefilm

Choosing onebook orcollection ofshort stories,

Get to knowone another

Talking aboutthe future

Topics of love,loss,friendship,family,heartbreak,disabilities,socialdivisions, andclass warfare

Readingaloud/Discussions

Closer looks atthe text

8 weeks

Unit Texts Assessments Eng Goals # of Weeks

Unit 1:Immigration

and Identity

Under theSame Moon (La

Misma Luna)(film)

Desert Blood:Juarez Murdersby AliciaGasper de Alba(excerpts)

The House onMango Streetby SandraCisneros

Odyssey to theNorth by MarioBencastro

ReadingQuizzes/Short

LiteraryAnalyses

Writing a storyin the samestyle as TheHouse onMango Street

Discussion ofimmigrantidentity

Juarezmurders-discussion ofrape, murder,and violenceagainstwomen.

Variousreadings

Novels (basedon realsituations)

Film

Look atvoyages North,Latino andChicanoLiterature

Get involvedwith thesituation of

Juarez-website(maybe raisingmoney?)

Power points togive historicalperspective

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Reformationand TudorEngland.

Create a story

written fromthe point ofview of one ofHenry VIIIswives.

Unit Texts Assessments Eng Goals WeeksUnit 4: Theinfluence ofthe GreatDepression/Race Relationsand Diversity

Of Mice andMen by JohnSteinbeck

FDR Firesidechats

Harlem byLangstonHughes

A look intothe way lifewas at thetime of theGreatDepression,the onset ofwar economy

Leading intorace relationsand racial

inequality

WWII Pop Art,Video,Propaganda(make ownpropagandaposter)

Record ownFireside Chaton topic ofown choosing

Readingquizzes for OfMice and Men

Analyzing aliterary workcovered inthis unitthrough

American novels

Media influence

The power of speech

Historical context(Race/Class/Social/Gender)

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writing orlook at a timeyou had amoraldilemma, howdid you

handle it?

Unit Texts Assessments Eng Goals # of Weeks

Unit 5: CivilRights/ Speechand PublicSpeaking/Debate

Fences byAugust Wilson

MLKs I Havea DreamSpeech vs.Malcom XsGod's

Judgment ofWhite America(The ChickensCome Home toRoost)

LoraineHansberry-ARaisin in theSun (Broadwayplay)

Still I Rise-Maya Angelou

Write a shortspeechbeginning withI Have aDream andperform infront of theclass(Memorization)

Defending therights anddignity of yourown as well asothers (whywas thismovement soimportant?)

What obstacleshave youovercome inyour life? Writea short story.

Plays

Speech-Writingand Speaking

Drama-Broadway(watch)

Understandthe Civil RightsMovement,segregation

Memorization

Overcominggreat obstaclesand oppression

Social Art

Racism, Racerelations anddiscrimination-how it stillexists

AfricanAmerican

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writing-newperspectives

Unit Texts Assessments Eng Goals # of Weeks

Unit 6: Mediaand itsinfluence(itsuse andtechnology)

NY Times

Newseum.org

Other forms ofmedia: art,photography,music, film,advertising(Look at each

in the contextof the readingsin past units)

1984 byGeorge Orwell

Read a currentevent everyweek- writeresponse

journals (selfassessment ofyour role insociety)

Using a form of

media/technology to depict anovel, play, orspeech thathas beencovered in anyunit (webpage,collage, film,write music,etc.)

Readingquizzes for

1984

Keep informedon currenttimes

Experience anovel, play,speech in acreative,engaging way

Violence,Sexism, andsimilarmessages inthe media

The strongsocial andcultural impactupon society

5 weeks

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Unit 7: Voicesof War.

The tensionsurroundingVietnam andthe protests

that tookplace.

We AreSoldiers Still: A

Journey Backto theBattlefields ofVietnam by

Harold G.Moore andJoseph L.GallowayORWe wereSoldiersOnce...And

Young: IaDrang--TheBattle ThatChanged TheWar In Vietnamby Harold G.Moore and

Joseph L.Galloway

Across theUniverse (film)

Stop-Loss(film)

A final projectthat will tieunits together,eithercomparing atext to another

timeperiod/historical context, twotexts fromseparate units,two authors,etc.

Discussions ofthe current warin Iraq and alook at howsociety differedor was similarduring Vietnam

Make protestsigns or signsthat displayyour feelingson war

A look atexactly whathappened inVietnam, acountry inuproar, war

protests, theculture of the60s, racerelations.

Novel

Films

ComparingVietnam to Iraq

Discussion

6 weeks

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