BHS ELA Instructional Guide

Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Windows , p. 441) ● “Ain’t I a Woman” by Sojourner Truth ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 465) ● “Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 495) ● The Souls of Black Folks by W. E. B. Du Bois ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 497)

Short Stories ● “To Build a Fire” by Jack London ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 418) ● “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 481) ● “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poetry ● “I hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman ● “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman ● “Ode to Walt Whitman” by Pablo Neruda ● “Booker T. and W. E. B.” by Dudley Randlall ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 508)

Media Texts ● Frederick Douglass, Crash Course ● “The Gettysburg Address: The Two-Minute Speech That Saved America” American Battlefeld Trust

Theme

Essential Questions

Emerging Modernism / Twentieth Century

Emerging Modernism ● How did world events infuence isolation and disillusionment in the early American twentieth century? ● How did the historical events and social issues of the 1920’s affect the country? ● How did the Harlem Renaissance shape the future of African American culture and civil rights? ● How did the changes in the Women’s movement affect politics? Twentieth Century ● How does postmodern text refect change in American values and culture? ● How did the emergence of civil right movements affect women, African Americans and other minorities? ● How did the 1960’s and the Vietnam war impact the country? ● How have the events of the 1960’s affected the 21st century? ● “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy” ( Mirrors and Windows , p.720) ● “A Noiseless Flash” from Hiroshima by John Hersey ( Mirrors and Windows , p.735) ● “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan ( Mirrors and Windows , p.1207) ● “Throughput” from Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser ( Mirrors and Windows , p.1254) ● “What is the American Dream?” By Library of Congress, USHistory (Newsela) ● “Progressive Era: The Roaring Twenties” by Joshua Zeitz (Newsela) ● “WWI Sparked the Artistic Movement that Transformed Black America” by Elizabeth J. West ● “The Harlem Renaissance” by James Hall and Andrew Matthews ● “Dorothea Lange used photography to make an ugly world beautiful” by Washington Post (Newsela) Informational Texts

Literary Texts

Unit 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 in Mirrors and Windows : American Tradition . Novels ● The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ● MyAntonia by Willa Cather ● Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Short Stories ● “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner ( Mirrors and Windows , p.772) ● “The Chrysanthemums” by

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