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What will we study this year?
Below is a brief overview of this year's units of study. Below each unit is a preview of some of the novels, short stories, informational texts, films, and poems we will use to dig in to each of the thematic units for the year.
UNIT ONE: The Choices We Make
- Novel: The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton
- Poetry: "The Road Not Taken," by Robert Frost
- Poetry: "Choices," by Nikki Giovanni
- Personal Narrative: "The Scholarship Jacket," by Marta Salinas
- Memoir: excerpt from Bad Boy, by Walter Dean Myers
- Personal Narrative: "Why Couldn't I Have Been Named Ashley?," by Imma Achilike
- Myth: "Phaethon," by Bernard Evslin
- Myth: "Arachne," by Olivia E. Coolidge
- Fable: "The Burro and the Fox," by Angel Vigil
- Informational Text: from In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World, by Virginia Hamilton
- Creation Myth: "Huveane and Clay People," from Voices of the Ancestors: African Myth, by Tony Allan, Fergus Flemming, and Charles Phillips
- Creation Myth: "Mbombo," from Voices of the Ancestors: African Myth, by Tony Allan, Fergus Flemming, and Charles Phillips
- Creation Story: "The Creation of Earth, Sky, Animals, and Man," by Edward Morris Opler
UNIT TWO: What Influecnces My Choices?
- Informational Text: "How Kids Can Resist Advertising and Be Smart Consumers," by Caroline Knorr
- Informational Text: "Mobile Kids," from Nielsen
- Informational Text: "Statement of Commissioner Michael J. Copps," from teh Federal Communications Commission
- Online Film: The Myth of Choice: How Junk-Food Marketers Target Our Kids
- News Article: "marketing to Kids Gets More Savvy with New Technologies
- Essay: "American the Not-So Beautiful," by Andrew A. Rooney
- News Article: "Another Study Highlights the Insanity of Selling Junk Good in School Vending Machines," by Karen Kaplan
- Speech: "Ain't I a Woman?" by Sojourner Truth
- Speech: "Nobel Lecture," by Malala Yousafzai
- Essay: "Should We Live Life, Or Capture It?" by Marcelo Gleiser
- Essay: "The Joy of Instagram," by Megan Garber
- Student Essay: "Screen Time?"
UNIT THREE: Choices and Consequences
- Novel: Tangerine, by Edward Bloor
- Poetry: "To an Athlete Dying Young," by A.E. Housman
- Film: Invictus, directed by Clint Eastwood
- Biography: The Nobel Peace Prize 1993, Biography of Nelson Mandela
- AutoBiography: excerpt from Long Walk to Freedom, by Nelson Mandela
- Informational Text: Landmarks of Nelson Mandela's Life
- Poetry: "Invictus," by William Ernest Henley
- Nonfiction: excerpts from Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation, by John Carlin
- Speech: excerpt from Nelson Mandela's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
- *Speeches by Great Leaders
UNIT FOUR: How We Choose to Act
- Poetry: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," by Robert Frost
- Poetry: "maggie and milly and molly and may," by E.E. Cummings
- Poetry: "Mother to Son," by Langston Hughes
- Poetry: "Haiku" by Jose Juan Tablada
- Poetry: "Homesteaders," by Rosemary Catacalos
- Monologue: "The Paper Avalanche," by Mary Hall Surface
- Monologue: "Dreams," by Mary Hall Surface
- Monologue: "Study Tips," by Mary Hall Surface
- Monolgue: "The Children's Crusade," by Jenny Lyn Bader
- Poetry: "The Raven," by Edgar Allan Poe
- Poetry: "Little Red Riding hood and the Wolf," by Ronald Dahl
- Informational Text: "The Highwayment of Hounslow Heath"
- Poetry: "The Highwayman," by Alfred Noyes
- Poetry: "We Wear the Mask," by paul Laurence Dunbar
- Drama: excerpts from Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare