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11th Grade ELA
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Unit 1: Myths, Narratives, Counternarratives
Week 1: Introduction to Myth, Narratives, and Counternarratives
Week 2: Myths of Superiority: Unpacking Racist Narratives
Week 3: From Declaration to Dream:Analyzing the Roots of the American Dream
Week 4: Singing about the Dream: Whitman, Hughes, and Modern Music
Unit 2: Systemic Racism and the American Dream
Week 1: Mapping Inequality: The Legacy of Redlining and Segregation
BPDA Neighborhood Data
Week 2: Opening the Door to the Younger Family
Week 3: Unexpected Guests Knocking on the Younger's Door
Week 4: Passing the Torch: Mama’s Trust, Walter’s Trial
Week 5: Hansberry's Intentions: What Happens to a Dream Deferred?
Unit 3: The Land of Opportunity: Narratology and the Immigrant Experience
Week 1: Between Worlds: Narratology, Immigrant Voices and Magical Tales
Week 2: Lost and Found: Discovering the Self through Perspective
Week 3: What's Left Unsaid: The Power of Language
Week 4: Becoming an Author with Purpose
Unit 4: Nothing is Certain: Death, Taxes, and Dreams
Week 1: Dreams for Sale
Week 2: Attention must be paid
Weeks 3-4: Take that phony dream and burn it
12th Grade ELA
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Unit 1: Out of the Cave: Intro to Philosophy and Persuasion
Week 1: Intro to Philosophy, Plato, Ignorance and Knowledge
Week 2: Introduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric and Rhetorical Appeals
Examples of Ethos
Examples of Logos
Examples of Pathos
Week 3: Practicing identifying rhetorical appeals
Week 4: Writing Your Way In: Cover Letters and College Essays
Week 5: Baldwin’s Blueprint: Dissecting Rhetorical Mastery
Unit 2: The Root of All Evil: Understanding Money, Capitalism, and Consumer
Week 1: Work, Worth, and Alienation
Week 2: Into the Absurd: Exploring Kafka and the Kafkaesque
Week 3: From Provider to Pest: The Decline of Gregor Samsa
Week 4: A Full House: The Lodgers, the Family, and the Vermin
Week 5: Kafka's Cockroach and Criticism
Unit 3: Picture This: Personal Narratives in Graphic Novels
Week 1: Graphic Narratives, Global Perspectives: Entering Marjane Satrapi’s
Week 2: War and Rebellion in Black and White
Week 3: The Final Panels: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Week 4: Plotting Out Our Story
Unit 4: Challenging the Status Quo
Week 1: Witch Hunts
Week 2: Needles and Lies
Week 3: Choosing Your Crucible
AP Language and Composition
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Unit 1: The Art of Persuasion: Rhetoric, Power, and Manipulation
Week 1: Intro to Philosophy, Plato, Ignorance and Knowledge
Week 2: Introduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric and Rhetorical Appeals
Week 3: Practicing identifying rhetorical appeals
Week 4: Writing Your Way In: Cover Letters and College Essays
Week 5: Baldwin’s Blueprint: Dissecting Rhetorical Mastery
Unit 2: Argumentation, Synthesis, and Philosophy
Week 1: Taking a Stance: The Argumentation Essay
Week 2: Putting it all Together: The Synthesis Essay
Week 3: Seeing Through the Words: The Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Week 4: The Art of Choice: From Exam Bubbles to Life-Altering Tracks
Week 5: Seeing the Water, Considering the Lobster: Awareness and Choice
Unit 3: Refinement and Polish
Week 1: Camus' Meaning of Meaninglessness and Humor in Rhetoric
Week 2: Ironing out the Kinks
Week 3: Addressing America's Mythology
Week 4: Performative Morals and Witch Hunts
Unit 4: Practice and Preparation
Week 1: Performative Morals and Witch Hunts
Week 2: The Burden of Proof
Week 3: Needles and Lies
Week 4: Final Project and Preparing for the Exam
English Class
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Resources
Unit 1
Myths, Narratives, Counternarratives
Unit 2
Systemic Racism and the American Dream
Unit 3
The Land of Opportunity: Narratology and the Immigrant Experience
Unit 4
Nothing is Certain: Death, Taxes, and Dreams
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