HS ELA Guide

Media Texts ●​ Twelve Angry Men (1957) ●​ The great conspiracy against Julius Caesar - Kathryn Tempest (TedEd)

●​ Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose

●​ www.youthforhumanrights.org ●​ The Children's March | 1963

Theme

Essential Questions

●​ How does fear drive individual and collective behavior? ●​ What is the relationship between fear and intolerance? ●​ What are we conditioned to fear? ●​ How does fear impede rational thought? ●​ How does fear relate to intolerance?

The Power of Fear

Literary Texts

Informational Texts

●​ “Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family” by Yoshiko Uchida ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 247-254) ●​ Executive Order 9066 , Franklin D. Roosevelt, National Archives ●​ Proclamation 4417: Termination of Executive Order 9066, Gerald R. Ford, National Archives ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 255-256) ●​ “Keep Memory Alive” by Elie Wiesel ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 299) ●​ “No News from Auschwitz” by A. M. Rosenthal ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 301-302) ●​ “Six Million Paper Clips” by Leisah Namm ●​ “The real electric "Frankenstein" experiments of the 1800s” by Atlas Obscura (Newsela) ●​ “Dear Science: Why do people like scary movies and haunted houses?” by Rachel Feltman and Sarah Kaplan (Newsela) Media Texts ●​ One Survivor Remembers , Tolerance.org ●​ “The Monsters Are on Maple Street” Twilight Zone ●​ “Japanese American incarceration camps” Ted-Ed ●​ “Why do people fear the wrong things?” by Gerd Gigerenzer, Ted-Ed ●​ “Why is being scared so fun?” by Margee Kerr, Ted-Ed ●​ “What fear can teach us” by Karen Thompson Walker, Ted-Ed ●​ How does labeling and stereotyping influence how we look at and understand the world? ●​ How do we fulfill our responsibility to learn about other cultures? ●​ How do we acknowledge diversity? ●​ What can you do to make the world a better place? ●​ Why do we care? What are the effects if we don’t care? ●​ What is a need in our community that we can help with? ●​ What is the best thing we can do to effect the most change with the time and resources we have? ●​ How can writing influence change or increase awareness? ●​ “What is activism?” by Gale, Cengage Learning (Newsela) ●​ “King's granddaughter, 10, is finding her own way as an activist” by Shayna Orens (Newsela) ●​ “For teens, big problems may lead to meaningful research” by Caolyn Wilke (Newsela) ●​ “Opinion: Diversity produces better results” by Katherine W. Phillips, Informational Texts

Unit 2 in Mirrors and Windows Level V covers non-fiction texts about the Japanese Internment, Holocaust, and 9/11. Novels ●​ Night by Elie Wiesel ●​ Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ●​ Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson ●​ Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ●​ Animal Farm by George Orwell

Theme Essential Questions Respect Diversity and Be the Change ●​ What is the value of respecting diversity in the world?

Literary Texts

Novels ●​ Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Patillo Beales ●​ Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe ●​ American Born Chinese by Gene

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Jun 2, 2025

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