BHS ELA Instructional Guide
relationships? ● What ethical considerations should guide our use of media and technology? ● In what ways does academic language foster and convey clear, analytical, critical thinking in all subject areas? ● How does the ability to communicate affect our social, economic, and academic opportunities? ● How does language evolve over time? ● Patton’s speech to the 3rd Army by General George Patton ● Letter from Gandhi to Hitler (Example of weak, ineffective speech) ● Jenny Horne: Republican who helped banish Confederate fag by BBC ● 2015 AP Language and Composition Synthesis Prompt: The Place for Polite Speech ● “Ordeal by Cheque” by Uther Crue ● “Speech to the Troops at Tilbury” by Queen Elizabeth I ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 238) ● “How Propaganda Works” (Newsela) Informational Texts
Literary Texts
Novels ●
ThePoet X by Ellizabeth Acevedo
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Plays ●
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Theme
Essential Questions
● What is
Archetypes in Life and Literature
(author) arguing about
(archetypal
situation), and is he/she right? ● Good and Evil: Is man inherently good or evil? Somewhere in between? ● Nature vs. Mechanistic World: Is technological progress always good? (Were the hippies right?) ● The Fall From Innocence: Is experience necessary? Is ignorance bliss? ● Fate vs. Free Will: Are we in control of our own destinies?
Literary Texts
Informational Texts
Plays ●
● “Opinion: "Black Panther" celebrates strong black characters” by Christian Science Monitor (Newsela) ● “How the Ancient Greeks Colonized the Mediterranean” by Ancient History Encyclopedia (Newsela) ● “All about the knights of old” (Newsela) ● “Learning Shakespeare and writing sonnets in youth prison” by Madeline Buckley (Newsela) Media Texts ● What makes a hero? by Matthew Winkler (TED-Ed) ● Power in Literature, Short Stories Part 5: Characterization and Archetype by Shmoop ● Everything you need to know to read Homer's "Odyssey" by Jill Dash (TED-Ed)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare MacBeth by William Shakespeare ( Mirrors and Windows , Unit 4)
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Myths and Legends ● “Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight” ( Mirrors and Windows, p. 177)
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The Odyssey byHomer
Poetry ●
Beowulf ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 22)
Theme
Essential Questions
● How does literature refect and/or comment on political and social issues? ● What is the difference between equity and equality?
Equity and Disparity
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