BHS ELA Instructional Guide

● How does education and learning affect equity and disparity? ● How can individuals and societies protect human rights and dignity? ● How does accessibility affect equity and disparity? ● How does the author’s point of view impact their argument?

Literary Texts

Informational Texts

Novels ●

● “Radium Girls: The Women Who Fought for Their Lives in a Killer Workplace” by Don Vaughan ● Flesh and Blood So Cheap by Albert Marrin ● “On Dumpster Diving” by Lar Eighner ● “The U.S. men's and women's soccer teams will be paid equally under a new deal” by Joe Hernandez ● “Why Women Apologize and Should Stop” by Sloane Crosley ● “Social Media Changing The Nature Of Activism?” by NPR ● “The Perils of Indifference” by Elie Wiesel ● “A 105-mile-long city will snake through the Saudi desert. Is that a good idea?” by Bill Chappell ● “How it Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston ● “Teens are using TikTok to talk about diffcult issues” by Philadelphia Inquirer (Newsela) ● “Teenagers are rewriting the rules of the news” by The Economist (Newsela) Media Texts ● Miley Cyrus 2014 VMA Video of the Year Speech ● The Miniature Earth . 2010 edition ● What is Health Equity? By Health Equity Institute ● Global Wealth Inequality by The RulesOrg ● What does adulthood mean? How/when does one “adult”? ● What does it mean to be mature? ● What does it mean to be a responsible adult? ● Are mature adults responsible? ● How do personal choices help or hinder your transition to adulthood? ● How do we grow up by adapting to our environment? ● How do you navigate the journey from adolescence to adulthood? ● “Today’s Exhausted Superkids” by Frank Bruni, The New York Times ● “The Teen Brain: It's Just Not Grown Up Yet” by Richard Knox, NPR ● “The teenage brain” by Amanda Leigh Mascarelli, Science News Explorers ● “The rocky road to adulthood” by Anne Byrne MediaText ● This I Believe Essays and Audio ● Why 30 is not the new 20 by Meg Jay (Ted-Ed) Essential Questions Informational Texts

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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Theme

Transition to Adulthood

Literary Texts

Novels ●

Tuesdays with Morrie byMitch Albom The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Poetry ● “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas ● “To An Athlete” by AE Housman ● “When I Consider How My Light is Spent” by John Milton ●

Last Updated August 13, 2024

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