BHS ELA Instructional Guide

Media Texts ● Movie versions of Romeo and Juliet ● Art: Frederic Lord Leighton. The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet , 1853-55. ● “The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain” by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore TED

( Mirrors and Windows p. 442) ● “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes ( Mirrors and Windows p. 446) ● “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke ( Mirrors and Windows p. 458-459) ● “My Father’s Song” by Simon Ortiz ( Mirrors and Windows p. 460) Plays ● Romeo and Juliet byWilliam Shakespeare

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Essential Questions

● What role does language play in self-expression? ● How do humans experience infuence and self-expression? ● To what extent can one person infuence the world? ● How do words infuence others? ● How do author’s use rhetoric to purposefully infuence their reader? ● How can language strengthen or weaken an argument?

The Infuence of Language

Literary Texts

Informational Texts

● “I Have a Dream” by Dr. Martin Luter King Jr. ( Mirrors and Windows p. 269-273) ● ”Glory and Hope” by Nelson Mandela ( Mirrors and Windows p. 277-280) ● I amMalala by Malala Youfanzai ● Malala Youfanzai’s Speech to the United Nations July 12, 2013 (16th Birthday) ● Malala Youfanzai’s Speech to the United Nations December 9, 2021 ● Malala Youfanzai’s Nobel Lecture December 10, 2014 ● “Second Inaugural Address” by Abraham Lincoln ● “The Gettysburg Address” Abraham Lincoln ● “Address at the March on Washington” by Martin Luther King, Jr. ● “Letter from a Birmingham Jail“ by Martin Luther King, Jr. ● “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” by Winston Churchill ● Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Address, 2005 ● JK Rowling’s Harvard Commencement Address, 2008 ● John F. Kennedy’s Inauguration Address, 1961 ● George W. Bush’s 2001 speech to Congress and the Nation ● Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan, 1941 ● Advertisements (print and commercials) to teach the rhetorical triangle ● Video of any of the speeches. Compare the impact of the speech delivered vs. read. ● What is the nature of honor? ● What makes a hero and what is heroism? ● Is honor necessary for heroism? ● What role does honor have in the human condition? ● What is the relationship between honor, values, and ethics? ● How do heroes refect the honor, values, and morals of a society/culture? Essential Questions

Unit 2 in Mirrors and Windows Level IV covers nonfction texts. Novels ● Night by Elie Weisel ● Animal Farm by George Orwell Poetry ● “Martin Luther King Jr.” by Gwendolyn Brooks ( Mirrors and Windows p. 274)

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Honor in Heroism

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