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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.

10th Grade - "If This Goes On..." Technology, Truth, and Happiness in Fahrenheit 451

Students will explore the effects of technology and censorship in Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel and make connections between his futuristic society and their own.

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 - Power, Justice, and Culpability: Of Mice and Men and The Central Park Five

Students will read Of Mice and Men, examining elements of Steinbeck's craft—setting, characterization, and structure—and connecting his thematic exploration of racism and classism to the 2011 nonfiction text The Central Park Five by Sarah Burns.

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.

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 - "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.

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.

10th Grade English - Unit 5: Reading as Resistance: Reading Lolita in Tehran - Lesson 1

Develop questions for a research topic, gather and evaluate the credibility of sources, and begin to take notes for research.

9th Grade English - Unit 4: ¡Viva Las Mariposas! Voice and Agency in In the Time of the Butterflies - Lesson 1

Analyze Alvarez's reasons for writing the story of the Mirabal sisters as historical fiction.

9th Grade English - Unit 1: Me, Myself, and I: Examining Personal Identity in Short Texts - Lesson 3

Determine an author's attitude towards introversion or extroversion.

9th Grade English - Unit 5: Gender and Power in The Taming of the Shrew - Lesson 3

Examine the structure and meaning of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Declaration of Sentiments.

9th Grade English - Unit 5: Gender and Power in The Taming of the Shrew - Lesson 4

Analyze Adichie's point of view and purpose in her TED Talk.

10th Grade English - Unit 5: Reading as Resistance: Reading Lolita in Tehran - Lesson 5

Analyze how Nafisi opens her memoir and what events led her to create a reading group.

10th Grade English - Unit 5: Reading as Resistance: Reading Lolita in Tehran - Lesson 6

Analyze how certain events and anecdotes further develop Nafiisi's ideas about life in Tehran.

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