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Unit Overview: This unit is not about a certain theme, but rather the skills of deciphering them. However, if teachers would like to have students compare and contrast similar themes and the writers treatment of them, these resources have been included as well.

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Unit Overview: This is a skill-driven unit that can use any texts that mirror the bildungsroman, but different mediums and genres of texts can be used, including a piece of fiction, nonfiction, or film. By the end of the unit, students will participate in a Socratic seminar that exemplifies the structure of the bildungsroman.

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Unit Overview:

Students will study the concept of transcendentalism and its relevance to today’s world.

Have our lives become too complex?

Does society need laws to run effectively, efficiently and justly?

"What law ever made man free? Men have got to make the law free. And if a law is wrong by Heaven, it's the duty of a man to stand up and say so.” –Thoreau.

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Unit Overview:

This is a skill-driven unit that can use any texts that mirror American Romantic literature, but different mediums and genres of texts can be used, including a piece of fiction, nonfiction, or film. By the end of the unit, students will write a literary analysis on a short story they have not read previously.

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Who defines American identity and how has this changed over time?

What ideals, philosophical and legal, underlay the competing conceptions of what it means to be American?

This unit explores the concept of “the Early American Experience” as a means to have students grapple with the questions revolving around early American identity. Students are pushed to work through the complexities of American identity by looking at a mix of informational, historical, and literary texts.

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This unit introduces students to the idea of personal challenges. Students will begin to understand that personal challenges can be influenced through different factors such as environment, culture, gender, age, race, etc.

Skills in this unit include dramatic elements, point of view, theme, and text features.

Students will have a day or two to discuss the summer reading texts and then they will move intoLorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun, that will culminate in an essay comparing the themes from the play with the themes from the summer reading text..

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The Crucible
Salem Field Trip

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Satire

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The Great Gatsby
Gatsby Outline for Final Exam

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Of Mice and Men

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Civil Disobedience

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YGB Page