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Hamlet along with Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Candide

Raisin in the Sun

A Farewell to Arms

The Bluest Eye

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| Texts I’ve Taught within the last 2 years…too many to count  Hamlet along with Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
In the Time of the Butterflies
Candide
Huckleberry Finn
A Farewell to Arms
The Bluest Eye
Frankenstein
Raisin in the Sun

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1.     The Catcher in the Rye

2.     The Things They Carried

3.     The Great Gatsby

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Fences, Slaughterhouse 5, Into the Wild

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Feminist Critical Theory

Priority Standard: ELAGSE11-12RL6: Analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).

Texts

Major Text:        Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus

Minor Texts:      “The Yellow Wallpaper”; “Hills like White Elephants”; “Train from Rhodesia”

Poetry:                “Lady Lazarus”; “Siren Song”; “Barbie Doll”

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Frankenstein

The Kite Runner

The Things They Carried

Beloved

The Awakening

Lit Circles: Marginalized Voice – There, There/Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao/Sing, Unburied, Sing/Nickle Boys/Where the Crawdad Sings/A Burning/American Dirt

Lit Circles: Dystopian – The Handmaid’s Tale/Station Eleven/The Road/Kindred/Brave New World

Films
Crash

Stranger than Fiction

Shawshank Redemption

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Frankenstein
As I Lay Dying
Bluest Eye
Handmaid's Tale
Catch 22

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The Great Gatsby

Othello

Hamlet

MacBeth

The Crucible

Maus

The Kite Runner

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Fences by August Wilson
We should all be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie

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The Color Purple           Frankenstein                              Hamlet  Secret Life of Bees       Where the Crawdads Sing              All the Light We Cannot See            A Lesson before Dying  

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The Color Purple           Frankenstein                              Hamlet  Secret Life of Bees       Where the Crawdads Sing              All the Light We Cannot See            A Lesson before Dying  

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Evicted-Poverty & Profit in the American City

Used along with a myriad of supplemental readings, podcasts, etc for the entirety of research unit and semester long project. Primarily W-1, 2 & RI 1,3,5,6

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-Othello

-“Desiree’s Baby”

-The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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Stealing Buddha's Dinner
The Awakening
Slaughterhouse 5
Crucible
Gatsby
Fences

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The Giver
Frankenstein
The Bluest Eye
The Crucible
Romeo & Juliet
Just Mercy

When I taught Middle School: Fever 1793 & All American Boys

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Longer Texts:
The Awakening
Frankenstein
The Importance of Being Earnest

Shorter Texts:
Girl (Jamaica Kincaid)
Am I Blue? (Alice Walker)
Hills Like White Elephants (Hemingway)
Let America Be America Again (Hughes)
This is America (Childish Gambino)

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Othello  (Literary)

ELAGSE11-12RL3 Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

ELAGSE11-12RL7 Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live production of a play or recorded novel or poetry), evaluating how each version interprets the source text. (Include at least one play by Shakespeare as well as one play by an American dramatist.)

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The Crucible

If We Must Die

Kennedy’s Civil Rights Speech

The Story of an Hour

Every Day Use

Fish cheeks

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Lebron's letter to Cleveland
Joc Pederson's letter
John Lewis's obituary

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Informational)

ELAGSE11-12RI4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze how an author uses and refines the meaning of a key term or terms over the course of a text (e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10).

ELAGSE11-12RI5 Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.

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RL 1-9 I mean....they are all great texts.

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How to Read Literature Like a Professor RI 6

Voice Lessons: RI 4, RI 5, L1

Critical Theory Today RI 7

Save the Cat: RI 5

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The Kite Runner
The Alchemist
The Things They Carried
1984
The Handmaid's Tale

Films
The Shawshank Redemption
Good Will Hunting
V for Vendetta

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Just Mercy

Frankenstein

The Bluest Eye

The Stranger

The Color Purple

Romeo & Juliet

The Crucible

Lord of the Flies

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Frankenstein, Where the Crawdads Sing, Secret Life of Bees, Hamlet, The Color Purple, A Lesson Before Dying, All the Light We Cannot See, The Heart of Darkness

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Informational:
Comparison of Emma Watson "He for She" speech and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Women's Suffrage speech
MLK: I Have a Dream and/or Letter from a Birmingham Jail

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Slaughterhouse 5 - RL3: Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

"Walden" paired with "Song of Myself" - RL2: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

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Catch 22 RL6
As I Lay Dying RL6
Handmaid's Tale RL6
Bluest Eye RL3
Frankenstein RL2

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Author studies on :  John Steinbeck, Hanif Abdurraqib, Shirley Jackson, Wesley Morris, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Lauren Groff, Gary Shteyngart, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison

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Author studies on :  John Steinbeck, Hanif Abdurraqib, Shirley Jackson, Wesley Morris, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Lauren Groff, Gary Shteyngart, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison

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How to Read Literature Like a Professor-AP Lit

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The Crucible

If We Must Die

Kennedy’s Civil Rights Speech

The Story of an Hour

Every Day Use

Fish cheeks

Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge

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Banneker letter to Jefferson paired with Coates Case for Reparations - RI6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.

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The Great Gatsby
Macbeth
Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Lebron's letter to Cleveland RI2 RI6

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Caesar
"Everyday Use"
"Coming to an Awareness of Language"

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RL6 "One Thousand Dollars"
RL2, RL3 "Everyday Use"