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9th Grade English

Students read a plethora of contemporary, traditional, and multimedia texts about underlying themes of invisibility, marginalization, and otherness, and examine the structures and institutions that show how race, class, nationality, gender, sexuality, and community shape the extent to which someone is visible.

10th Grade English

In this 10th grade course, students explore core texts from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, while considering what, if any, responsibility we have for others and examining the things, people, and places that motivate people to act in the best interests of others.

9th Grade - Me, Myself, and I: Examining Personal Identity in Short Texts

Students explore the factors that contribute to and impact one’s personal identity through their reading of short stories, poems, and nonfiction.

9th Grade - You Laugh But It’s True: Humor and Institutional Racism in Born a Crime

Students explore how Trevor Noah leverages elements of fiction, such as characterization, figurative language, and tone, to develop his complex argument about institutional racism and its impact on identity development.

10th Grade - Flowers of Freedom: Voice, Defiance, and Coming of Age in Purple Hibiscus

Students will explore how Adichie uses characterization, structure, point of view, and motifs to develop themes connected to freedom, tyranny, and coming of age.

10th Grade - Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: Magical Realism in Latin American Literature

Students will explore the literary genre of magical realism through a selection of short stories and the novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold, analyzing how writers blend realism with fantastical elements to reveal truths about human nature.

10th Grade - "I was born to join in love, not hate—that is my nature": Civil Disobedience in Antigone

Students will examine the central conflict in Antigone between loyalty to one's family and religion and loyalty to society and the law, exploring how characters use rhetorical appeals and devices to convey their stance about their allegiance.

9th Grade - ¡Viva Las Mariposas! Voice and Agency in In the Time of the Butterflies

Students will examine how Julia Alvarez structures her historical fiction novel and gives voice to the four Mirabal sisters as they come of age under Trujillo's dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.

10th Grade - Reading as Resistance: Reading Lolita in Tehran

In Reading Lolita in Tehran, students will examine the central conflict between citizens and their oppressive government, considering how fiction, as well as the reading and discussion of it, can be a powerful form of resistance.

9th Grade - Gender and Power in The Taming of the Shrew

Through their reading of Shakespeare's play and supplemental texts, students examine the thematic ideas of gender and power, making connections between the play and contemporary societal messages.

9th Grade English - Unit 1: Me, Myself, and I: Examining Personal Identity in Short Texts - Lesson 4

Analyze how Rudy Francisco uses specific personal details and figurative language to develop his central idea.

10th Grade English - Unit 3: "I was born to join in love, not hate—that is my nature": Civil Disobedience in Antigone - Lesson 5

Evaluate Antigone's argument for reasoning, rhetorical appeals, and logical fallacies.

9th Grade English - Unit 4: ¡Viva Las Mariposas! Voice and Agency in In the Time of the Butterflies - Lesson 6

Analyze how biblical allusions and religious imagery contribute to an understanding of Patria's character.

10th Grade English - Unit 4: Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: Magical Realism in Latin American Literature - Lesson 8

Analyze the diction and imagery Paz uses to describe the different stages of the narrator's relationship with the wave.

9th Grade English - Unit 5: Gender and Power in The Taming of the Shrew - Lesson 8

Analyze how Shakespeare uses imagery and figurative language to satirize unrealistic notions of a woman's desirability.

9th Grade English - Unit 1: Me, Myself, and I: Examining Personal Identity in Short Texts - Lesson 8

Analyze how the author uses literary devices to convey the boy's complex experience as a child of immigrant parents.

10th Grade English - Unit 2: Flowers of Freedom: Voice, Defiance, and Coming of Age in Purple Hibiscus - Lesson 8

Apply the characteristics of postcolonial literature to a poem and Purple Hibiscus.

9th Grade English - Unit 4: ¡Viva Las Mariposas! Voice and Agency in In the Time of the Butterflies - Lesson 10

Analyze how Alvarez uses symbols and motifs to convey Minerva's character development.

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