UNITS OF STUDY

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Grade 9

Units:

• Narrative Writing
• Expository Writing
• Research Writing
• Argumentative Writing

Texts:

• Short Stories
• Nonfiction Texts
• Speak
• Of Mice and Men

• Lord of the Flies
• To Kill A Mockingbird
• Call of the Wild

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Grade 10

Units:

• Style, Tone, & Meaning
• Formal Literary Analysis
• Research
• Public Speaking & Presentation

Texts:

• Animal Farm
• Anthem
• The Road
  
• Brave New World

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Grade 11 

• Argument in Advertising

• Argument in Speeches/Politics
• Literary Arguments
• Understanding Models for Change
• Developing Proposals for Change

Texts:

• Advertisements
• Selected speeches
• Selected nonfiction texts (e.g., Into the Wild, Fast Food Nation, Mountains Beyond Mountains)
• Selected documentaries (e.g., Grizzly Man, Supersize Me, Bowling for Columbine)

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Grade 12 

• Analyzing Technique in Short Fiction

• Analyzing Technique in Novels
• Myth and the Hero Archetype
• Cultural Context in the Novel
• Film Analysis

Texts:

• Selected short stories and flash fiction
• Selected classic novels (e.g., Frankenstein, Great Expectations, The Great Gatsby)
• Selected modern novels (e.g., The Things They Carried, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
• Selected Mythology (e.g., Odyssey, Beowulf, Gilgamesh)
• Selected films (e.g., Citizen Kane, Psycho, Casablanca)