12th grade ELA

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Literary

The Hero with a Thousand Faces Beowulf Hamlet Macbeth The Odyssey Death of a Salesman Oedipus Rex

Informational

Search Newsela for texts and/or text sets on possible modern-day tragic heroes.

Note: This text set could lead into one of the argument writing assessments, a sort of Tragic Hero mini-research assignment.

Possible prompt: Defend, Challenge, or Qualify how: (Insert name of modern-day celebrity, athlete, politician, etc.) is a modern-day tragic hero.

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