HS ELA 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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