First Half of Semester Unit 1 Heritage and Identity Essential Question: Why is a person s identity important? How does your heritage shape you? The Joy Luck Club The House on Mango Street The Face Behind the Veil Travels in West Africa From Textbook: Everyday Use Alice Walker Crossing the Border Joy Harjo The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mantt W. D. Wetherell The Doll s House Katherine Mansfield Diaspora Joanne Hyppolite Only Daughter Sandra Cisneros Excerpt of Night Elie Wiesel Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston And of Clay We Are Created Isabel Allende Choose words see SAT/ACT Literary terms Narrative writing Trait writing Edit/Revise Write Publish using Internet Peer Present an oral history, p. 271 Autobiographical Narrative, p. 270 Create a children s book, p. 375 Deliver an oral interpretation on poetry, p. 753 Tiger Mother news clips and article Media: Life is Beautiful film W-3 - all W-9a Anderson School District Five Page 1 July 1, 2014
First Half of Semester Unit 2 Love, Relationships and Sacrifice Essential Question: Does love require sacrifice? What is the role of love in a relationship? The Joy Luck Club A Midsummer Night s Dream (if ed by teacher) Interpreter of Maladies A Separate Peace Les Miserables Shoofly Pie Naomi Nye A Marriage Proposal Anton Chekhov Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare Sonnet XXX Edna St. Vincent Millay The Seventh Man Haruki Murakami Two Friends Guy de Maupassant When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine Jhumpa Lahiri The Teacher Who Changed My Life Nicholas Gage A Celebration of Grandfathers Rudolfo Anaya Generational Ties Matter p. 230 Adam and Rosie p. 907 Choose words see SAT/ACT Literary terms Expository/ Informative Trait writing Publish writing Edit/revise Sustain writing Create an Oral Response to, p. 149 How-To Demonstration Deliver an Informative Speech, p. 560 Deliver a dramatic reading, p. 1201 Create a documentary, p. 947 Midsummer Night s Dream film clip Joy Luck Club film clip L-1 -all W-2 - all Anderson School District Five Page 2 July 1, 2014
Second Half of Semester Unit 3 Ambition, Power and Survival Essential Question: When is ambition dangerous? Does power corrupt? What does it take to survive? Julius Caesar (if ed by teacher) Antigone Oedipus Rex Angela s Ashes To Build a Fire Jack London The Seventh Man by Haruki Murakami Song of P eng-ya Tu Fu The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe The Lake Edgar Allan Poe The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights John Steinbeck Julius Caesar Article and film (MediaSmart DVD) The Perfect Storm clips Life is Beautiful film from Blowup on Storm King Mountain: What Went Wrong? by Sebastian Junger Letter to a Young Refugee Andrew Lam On Nuclear Disarmament by Carl Sagan By the Waters of Babylon Stephen Vincent Benet The Man in the Water Roger Rosenblatt from Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales From Night by Elie Wiesel Choose words see SAT/ACT Literary terms & Argument Trait writing Publish writing Edit/revise Sustain writing Peer Create editorial, p. 676 Create brochure, p. 677 Create an online database (book reviews, movie reviews), p. 835 Anderson School District Five Page 3 July 1, 2014
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Second Half of Semester Unit 4 Freedom, Justice Essential Question: Why is freedom so important? What is the price of freedom? Julius Caesar (if ed by teacher) Antigone Les Miserables Gathering of Old Men Harrison Bergeron Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Do Not Weep Maiden for War Is Kind Stephen Crane Interlopers Saki Sonnet- Ballad by Gwendolyn Brooks The Interlopers (short film on youtube.com), Political Ads: Daisy and Let America Be America Again (textbook CD or youtube.com), Aftermath of 9/11 (textbook CD) Daisy America s Back Montgomery Boycott by Coretta Scott King Eulogy for Dr. King by Robert F. Kennedy Choose words see SAT/ACT Literary terms & Argument Trait writing Publish writing Edit/revise Sustain writing Peer Debate an issue, p. 1071 Create a website, p. 1255 paper presentation, with visual aid/ tangibles 0 RL-9 0 L-3 all L-4 all L-5 all L-1 -all L-6 W-1 W-7 W-8 SL-3 SL-6 Anderson School District Five Page 5 July 1, 2014