HS ELA Guide

Media Texts ●​ Frederick Douglass , Crash Course ●​ “The Gettysburg Address: The Two-Minute Speech That Saved America” American Battlefield Trust

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Poetry ●​ “I hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman ●​ “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman ●​ “Ode to Walt Whitman” by Pablo Neruda ●​ “Booker T. and W. E. B.” by Dudley Randlall ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 508)

Theme

Essential Questions

Emerging Modernism / Twentieth Century

Emerging Modernism ●​ How did world events influence isolation and disillusionment in the early American twentieth century? ●​ How did the historical events and social issues of the 1920’s affect the country? ●​ How did the Harlem Renaissance shape the future of African American culture and civil rights? ●​ How did the changes in the Women’s movement affect politics? Twentieth Century ●​ How does postmodern text reflect change in American values and culture? ●​ How did the emergence of civil right movements affect women, African Americans and other minorities? ●​ How did the 1960’s and the Vietnam war impact the country? ●​ How have the events of the 1960’s affected the 21st century? ●​ “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy” ( Mirrors and Windows , p.720) ●​ “A Noiseless Flash” from Hiroshima by John Hersey ( Mirrors and Windows , p.735) ●​ “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan ( Mirrors and Windows , p.1207) ●​ “Throughput” from Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser ( Mirrors and Windows , p.1254) ●​ “What is the American Dream?” By Library of Congress, USHistory (Newsela) ●​ “Progressive Era: The Roaring Twenties” by Joshua Zeitz (Newsela) ●​ “WWI Sparked the Artistic Movement that Transformed Black America” by Elizabeth J. West ●​ “The Harlem Renaissance” by James Hall and Andrew Matthews ●​ “Dorothea Lange used photography to make an ugly world beautiful” by Washington Post (Newsela) Media Texts ●​ WWII Recruitment Posters ●​ The Great Gatsby: Living the Dream in the Valley of Ashes , John Green ●​ The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock Animation ●​ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by Julian Peters (Comic) Informational Texts

Literary Texts

Unit 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 in Mirrors and Windows : American Tradition . Novels ●​ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ●​ My Antonia by Willa Cather ●​ Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Short Stories

●​ “A Rose for Emily” by

William Faulkner ( Mirrors and Windows , p.772) ●​ “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck ( Mirrors and Windows , p. 710)

Plays

●​ A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Poetry

●​ “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot ●​ “I, Too, Sing America” by Langston Hughes

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High School ELA, Page 94

Jun 2, 2025