Unit Materials for 10th Grade English

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"If This Goes On..." Technology, Truth, and Happiness in Fahrenheit 451

Core Texts

Book: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Simon & Schuster, 2012)

Supporting Texts

Article: “Americans Check Their Phones an Alarming Number of Times Per Day” by Emily Forlini (PC Mag) ("Americans' Cell Phone Usage and Habits" infographic)
Video: “Virginia students speak out on school cell phone bans” by TODAY
Video: “Changing to a Flip Phone changed my Life” by gracie K
Video: “What is Technology Addiction?” by the American Psychiatric Association
Article: “Social media's impact on our mental health and tips to use it safely” by UC Davis Health
Short Story: “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury
First Amendment of the United States Constitution
Article: “Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico” by Emily Richardson (Britannica)
Map: Censorship by the Numbers
Article: “Banned in the USA: The Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools” by PEN America ("Subject Matter of Banned Content" bar graph)
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)
Article: “Americans' Views on Book Restrictions in U.S. Public Schools 2024” by the Knight Foundation
Video: “Meet The Brave Students Who Fought Back Against Pennsylvania School District Book Ban” by The Kelly Clarkson Show
Blog Post: “The Banned Books Project: Ray Bradbury, 'Fahrenheit 451'” by Artemis Carpenter (Carnegie Mellon University)
Letter: “I Am Very Real” by Kurt Vonnegut
Essay: “My Young Mind Was Disturbed By a Book. It Changed My Life” by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Excerpt: Allegory of the Cave by Plato
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

Book: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Algonquin Books, 2012)

Supporting Texts

Article: “How to Write about Africa” by Binyavanga Wainaina (Granta, 2006)
Poem: “Hanging Fire” by Audre Lorde
Poem: “They Don't Love You Like I Love You” by Natalie Diaz (Poets.org)
Transcript: “The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Facing History)
Video: “Ibrahim Babangida: Military Dictator and Nigeria's Complex History” by African Biographics (YouTube)
Video: “The Scramble for Africa: A History of Independence” (Aljazeera)
Video: “TED Talk: The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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

Book: Antigone by Sophocles; Translated by Robert Fagles (Pearson; First Edition)

Supporting Texts

Article: “The Legend of Oedipus” (CommonLit)
Non-Fiction Text: “Excerpt of 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail'” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Podcast: “Death Interrupted” by Radiolab (YouTube)
Transcript: “Emma Watson's UN Speech on Gender Equality”
Transcript: “Every kid needs a champion” by Rita Pierson
Video: “An Introduction to Greek Theatre” by National Theatre (YouTube)
Video: “An Introduction to Greek Tragedy” by National Theatre (YouTube)
Video: “How to lead in a crisis” by Amy Edmondson (TED)
Video: “Emma Watson's UN Speech on Gender Equality” by United Nations (YouTube)
Video: “Every kid needs a champion” by Rita Pierson (TED)
Video: “Antigone in Ferguson” by House Seats (PBS)
Visual: Antigone's Family Tree
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

Book: Collected Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Book: The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende (Atria Books)
Book: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell (Vintage Contemporaries 2007 version)
Book: Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez (Vintage) — 1210L
Short Story: “My Life with the Wave” by Octavio Paz
Short Story: “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortázar
Short Story: “The Book of Sand” by Jorge Luis Borges
Short Story: “The Rememberer” by Aimee Bender

Supporting Texts

Painting: Beach of Dangast with Flying Boat by Franz Radziwill (Google Arts & Culture)
Painting: American Gothic by Grant Wood (Art Institute Chicago)
Painting: Late Visitors to Pompeii by Carel Willink (museum noijmans van beuningen)
Painting: Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo (1940)
Painting: Nighthawks by Edward Hopper (Art Institute Chicago)
Painting: The Subway by George Tooker (Whitney Museum of American Art)
Podcast: “Someone to Watch Over Me: Act Three” (This American Life)
Podcast: “Revisionist History: Free Brian Williams” by Malcolm Gladwell (Pushkin)
Transcript: “Free Brian Williams” (Revisionist History)
Video: “Remembering the literary magic of Gabriel García Márquez” by PBS NewsHour (YouTube)
Video: “Author Isabel Allende on "The Wind Knows My Name"” by CBS Sunday Morning (YouTube)
Video: “Isabel Allende on the Difference Between Magic Realism and Fantasy” by The Queen's Reading Room (Vimeo)
Video: “Native American Boarding Schools: A Lost History” by KARE 11 (YouTube)
Video: “Kitty Genovese and the Bystander Effect” (PBS)
Resource: Recommended Texts for Independent Reading

Reading as Resistance: Reading Lolita in Tehran

Core Texts

Book: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (Random House Trade Paperbacks)

Supporting Texts

Article: “Behind the Veil” by Lorraine Ali (The New York Times)
Essay: “On Censorship” by Salman Rushdie (The New Yorker)
Chart paper
Colored markers
Poem: “Rumi poetry (G10, U5, L19)” by Rumi
Video: “The Revolution that Led to the Iran We Know Today” by Wall Street Journal (YouTube)
Resource: Recommended Texts for Independent Reading

Unit Materials for 10th Grade English

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"If This Goes On..." Technology, Truth, and Happiness in Fahrenheit 451

Core Texts

Supporting Texts

Flowers of Freedom: Voice, Defiance, and Coming of Age in Purple Hibiscus

Core Texts

Supporting Texts

"I was born to join in love, not hate—that is my nature": Civil Disobedience in Antigone

Core Texts

Supporting Texts

Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: Magical Realism in Latin American Literature

Core Texts

Supporting Texts

Reading as Resistance: Reading Lolita in Tehran

Core Texts

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