HS ELA Guide

● “The Ides of March” by

Tranquillus (Newsela) ● “Comparing governments: democracy vs. authoritarianism” by UShistory.org (Newsela) ● “Ides of March Marked Murder of Julius Caesar” by Jennifer Vernon ● “The Rise of Caesarism” by Steve Bonta ● “Brutus on Broadway: Et tu, Denzel? Washington shakes up Shakespeare” by Allison Samuels ( Mirrors and Windows p. 641-642) Media Texts ● Twelve Angry Men (1957) ● The great conspiracy against Julius Caesar - Kathryn Tempest (TedEd)

Constantine Cavafy ( Mirrors and Windows p. 600-601)

Plays ●

Julius Caesar byWilliam Shakespeare

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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 infuence how we look at and understand the world? ● How do we fulfll 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

Unit 2 in Mirrors and Windows Level V covers non-fction texts about the Japanese Internment, Holocaust, and9/11. 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?

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