Unit Materials for 10th Grade English
Explore the texts and supporting materials used in each unit of 10th Grade English.
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"If This Goes On..." Technology, Truth, and Happiness in Fahrenheit 451
Core Texts
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Book: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Simon & Schuster, 2012)
Supporting Texts
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Article: “Americans Check Their Phones an Alarming Number of Times Per Day” by Emily Forlini (PC Mag) ("Americans' Cell Phone Usage and Habits" infographic)
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Video: “Virginia students speak out on school cell phone bans” by TODAY
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Video: “Changing to a Flip Phone changed my Life” by gracie K
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Video: “What is Technology Addiction?” by the American Psychiatric Association
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Article: “Social media's impact on our mental health and tips to use it safely” by UC Davis Health
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Short Story: “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury
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Website: First Amendment of the United States Constitution (Library of Congress)
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Article: “Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico” by Emily Richardson (Britannica)
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Article: “Banned in the USA: The Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools” by PEN America ("Subject Matter of Banned Content" bar graph)
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Article: “Book Bans: Should Parents or Other Adults Be Able to Ban Books from Schools and Libraries?” by Britannica ("Pros and Cons at a Glance" table)
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Article: “Americans' Views on Book Restrictions in U.S. Public Schools 2024” by the Knight Foundation
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Video: “Meet The Brave Students Who Fought Back Against Pennsylvania School District Book Ban” by The Kelly Clarkson Show
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Blog Post: “The Banned Books Project: Ray Bradbury, 'Fahrenheit 451'” by Artemis Carpenter (Carnegie Mellon University)
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Letter: “I Am Very Real” by Kurt Vonnegut
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Essay: “My Young Mind Was Disturbed By a Book. It Changed My Life” by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Excerpt: Allegory of the Cave by Plato
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Article: “What to Know About Meta's 'Political Content' Limit—and How to Turn It Off on Instagram” by Chad de Guzman (TIME)
- Resource: Recommended Texts for Independent Reading
Flowers of Freedom: Voice, Defiance, and Coming of Age in Purple Hibiscus
Core Texts
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Book: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Algonquin Books, 2012)
Supporting Texts
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Essay: “How to Write About Africa” by Binyavanga Wainaina (Granta)
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Poem: “Hanging Fire” by Audre Lorde
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Poem: “They Don't Love You Like I Love You” by Natalie Diaz
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Transcript: “The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Facing History)
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Video: “Ibrahim Babangida: Military Dictator and Nigeria's Complex History” by African Biographics (YouTube)
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Video: “The Scramble for Africa: A History of Independence” (Al Jazeera)
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Video: “TED Talk: The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Video: “The Genius of Fela Kuti and Afrobeats” by Sound Field (YouTube)
- Resource: Recommended Texts for Independent Reading
"I was born to join in love, not hate—that is my nature": Civil Disobedience in Antigone
Core Texts
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Play: Antigone by Sophocles; Translated by Robert Fagles (Pearson; First Edition)
Supporting Texts
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Article: “The Legend of Oedipus” (CommonLit)
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Non-Fiction Text: “Excerpt of 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail'” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Podcast: “Death Interrupted” by Radiolab (YouTube)
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Transcript: “Emma Watson's UN Speech on Gender Equality”
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Transcript: “Every kid needs a champion” by Rita Pierson
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Video: “An Introduction to Greek Theatre” by National Theatre (YouTube)
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Video: “An Introduction to Greek Tragedy” by National Theatre (YouTube)
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Video: “How to lead in a crisis” by Amy Edmondson (TED)
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Video: “Emma Watson's UN Speech on Gender Equality” by United Nations (YouTube)
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Video: “Every kid needs a champion” by Rita Pierson (TED)
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Video: “Antigone in Ferguson” by House Seats (PBS)
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Visual: Antigone's Family Tree
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Video: “Free Will” by Sam Harris (YouTube)
- Resource: Recommended Texts for Independent Reading
Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: Magical Realism in Latin American Literature
Core Texts
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Book: Collected Stories by Gabriel García Márquez (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
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Book: The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende (Atria Books)
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Book: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell (Vintage Contemporaries 2007 version)
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Book: Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez (Vintage) — 1210L
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Short Story: “My Life with the Wave” by Octavio Paz
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Short Story: “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortázar
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Short Story: “The Book of Sand” by Jorge Luis Borges
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Short Story: “The Rememberer” by Aimee Bender
Supporting Texts
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Painting: Beach of Dangast with Flying Boat by Franz Radziwill (Google Arts & Culture)
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Painting: American Gothic by Grant Wood (Art Institute Chicago)
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Painting: Late Visitors to Pompeii by Carel Willink (museum noijmans van beuningen)
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Painting: Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo (1940)
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Painting: Nighthawks by Edward Hopper (Art Institute Chicago)
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Painting: The Subway by George Tooker (Whitney Museum of American Art)
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Podcast: “Someone to Watch Over Me: Act Three” (This American Life)
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Podcast: “Revisionist History: Free Brian Williams” by Malcolm Gladwell (Pushkin)
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Transcript: “Free Brian Williams” (Revisionist History)
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Video: “Remembering the literary magic of Gabriel García Márquez” by PBS NewsHour (YouTube)
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Video: “Author Isabel Allende on "The Wind Knows My Name"” by CBS Sunday Morning (YouTube)
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Video: “Isabel Allende on the Difference Between Magic Realism and Fantasy” by The Queen's Reading Room (Vimeo)
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Video: “Native American Boarding Schools: A Lost History” by KARE 11 (YouTube)
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Video: “Kitty Genovese and the Bystander Effect” (PBS)
- Resource: Recommended Texts for Independent Reading
Reading as Resistance: Reading Lolita in Tehran
Core Texts
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Book: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Supporting Texts
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Article: “Behind the Veil” by Lorraine Ali (The New York Times)
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Essay: “On Censorship” by Salman Rushdie (The New Yorker)
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Chart paper
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Colored markers
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Poem: “Rumi poetry (G10, U5, L19)” by Rumi
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Video: “The Revolution that Led to the Iran We Know Today” by Wall Street Journal (YouTube)
- Resource: Recommended Texts for Independent Reading
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