HS ELA Guide

Unit 2

Supplemental (paired/outside) Texts Extended Learning Activity

●​ Socratic Seminar regarding the impact/effect that the person’s influence has had on the world. ●​ Debate an issue (SIRS or NYT Room for Debate ) ●​ Research a social issue and create a PSA about the issue ●​ Research an aspect of the Human Rights Declaration and complete a PSA about the selected issues

Research and Inquiry Integration

Project Based Learning Question

●​ Service project ●​ This I Believe

Outside Project

●​ Make a documentary film about someone whose ingenuity/expression influenced the world. ●​ Mini or full research project with oral presentation about someone whose ingenuity/expression influenced the world.

Supplemental Activities

Unit 3

Supplemental (paired/outside) Texts

●​ Read other works by Shakespeare ●​ If doing Romeo and Juliet, finding informational text about different cultural context for relationships and love ●​ Creative writing competition ●​ Poetry competition: Poetry Out Loud ●​ Create a music/poem video ●​ Rewrite scenes from the play in a different time period/context. ●​ Playbill (Cover, character list, scene summary, actor bio, thematic paper, socratic paper) ●​ Socratic Seminar ●​ Character Project (playlist, mask, facebook page, etc) ●​ Create a website about poets

Extended Learning Activity

Research and Inquiry Integration

●​ Performance Poetry: Poetry Out Loud ●​ Adobe Youth Voices ●​ Literary Magazine

Project Based Learning Question Outside Project Supplemental Activities

●​ Renaissance Fair

●​ Any assignment for Renaissance Fair ●​ Submit work to online poetry site

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Jun 2, 2025

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