Unit Materials for 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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Article: “Multi-level barrage of US book bans is 'unprecedented', says PEN America” by Marina Dunbar (The Guardian)
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Article: “What You Need to Know About the Book Bans Sweeping the U.S.” by Teachers College (Columbia University)
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Article: “Most banned books feature people of color and LGBTQ+ people, report finds” by Gloria Oladipo (The Guardian)
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Article: “How Students Fought a Book Ban and Won, for Now” by Isabella Grullón Paz and Maria Cramer (The New York Times)
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Article: “Removing Books From Libraries Often Takes Debate. But There's a Quieter Way.” by Elizabeth A. Harris (The New York Times)
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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)
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Article: “"Phones Track Everything but Their Role in Car Wrecks"” by Matt Richtel (The New York Times)
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Article: “"How a driving score turned road safety into a national game in Korea"” by Moon Joon-hyun (Korea Herald)
- 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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Video: “The Scramble for Africa: A History of Independence” by Al Jazeera
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Essay: “How to Write About Africa” by Binyavanga Wainaina (Granta)
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Video: “TED Talk: The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Poem: “They Don't Love You Like I Love You” by Natalie Diaz
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Song: “Water No Get Enemy”
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Song: “Sorrow Tears and Blood”
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Song: “Beasts of No Nation”
- 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 (Penguin Classics)
Supporting Texts
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Video: “An Introduction to Greek Theatre” by the National Theatre (YouTube)
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Video: “An Introduction to Greek Tragedy” by the National Theatre (YouTube)
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Article: “The Legend of Oedipus” by Fishtank Staff
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Podcast: “Death Interrupted” by Radiolab (YouTube)
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Letter: “Excerpt of 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail'” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Video: “Free Will” by Sam Harris (YouTube)
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Video: “How to Lead in a Crisis” by Amy Edmondson (TED)
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Speech: “Emma Watson at the HeForShe Campaign 2014” by the United Nations (YouTube)
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Video: “Antigone in Ferguson” by Theater of War Productions (PBS)
- Resource: Recommended Texts for Independent Reading
Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: Magical Realism in Latin American Literature
Core Texts
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Book: Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez (Vintage) — 1210L
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Book: Collected Stories by Gabriel García Márquez (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
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Short Story: “Two Words” from The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
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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: “My Life with the Wave” by Octavio Paz
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Short Story: “The Rememberer” by Aimee Bender
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Excerpt: “St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” from St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
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: The Subway by George Tooker (Whitney Museum of American Art)
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Podcast: “Revisionist History: Free Brian Williams” by Malcolm Gladwell (Pushkin)
- 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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Video: “The Revolution that Led to the Iran We Know Today” by The Wall Street Journal (YouTube)
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Essay: “On Censorship” by Salman Rushdie (The New Yorker)
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Poem: “Selected Poems by Rumi”
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Essay: “First Impressions” by Isabel Hui (The New York Times)
- Resource: Recommended Texts for Independent Reading
