High School: English Language Arts

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Grade 9 

• Be the Change (Slam Dunk)  PDF | PPT*

  How can I advocate to address a problem or issue that affects my community?

• Burning Books: Background on Fahrenheit 451 (Slam Dunk )  PDF | PPT*
  How does Fahrenheit 451 reflect the time in which it was written?

• Cuban Inspiration: Background for The Old Man and the Sea (Slam Dunk)  PDF | PPT*
  How did Cuban society and culture influence the writing of The Old Man and the Sea?

• Inspiration and Transformation: Romeo and Juliet (Slam Dunk)  PDF | PPT*

  How have creative artists interpreted the Romeo and Juliet motif?

• The House on Mango Street - Using Literary Criticism (Slam Dunk)  PDF | PPT*

  How can the critical approaches change our understanding of a text?

• Kindred (Slam Dunk)  PDF | PPT*

  How important is the historical context to interpreting a work?

• The Odyssey: The Effects of War (Slam Dunk)  PDF | PPT*

  How do people endure after facing adversity?

• The Scottsboro Boys (Slam Dunk)  PDF | PPT*

  How have attitudes about race influenced the American justice system?

Grade 10

• A Long Way Gone (Slam Dunk)  PDF | PPT*
  How were the children of Sierra Leone affected by its civil war?

• Ambition, Power, and Corruption: Macbeth (Slam Dunk)  PDF | PPT*
  How do instances of ambition, power & corruption in contemporary society compare to those found in Shakespeare’s Macbeth? 

• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Slam Dunk)  PDF | PPT*
  How do obstacles lead to innovation?

• Characters on the Couch: The Psychological Approach to Literary Criticism (Slam Dunk)  PDF | PPT*

  How does the lens of psychological literary criticism help us understand character motivation?

• In the Time of the Butterflies (Slam Dunk)  PDF | PPT*

  How do people in a country oppressed by its leaders fight for freedom?

• Overcoming Oppression (ORM)  CourseArc

  How should a United States Ambassador respond to oppression in another country?

Grade 11

• The Awakening (ORM)  CourseArc

  How are changes in the role of women in American society at the turn of the century portrayed in Kate Chopin's The Awakening? 

• The Distance Between Us (Slam Dunk)  PDF | PPT*
  What are the impacts of immigration? 
  

• Fences: Facing Obstacles On and Off the Diamond (ORM)  CourseArc

  How did the "fences" faced by Negro League baseball players reflect conditions in America at the time?

• Gatsby as Grail Quest (Slam Dunk)  PDF | PPT*

  How do authors draw on legends and folklore to help them express a theme or idea?
  

• I Declare! The Founding Fathers Sound Off on Contemporary Issues (ORM)  CourseArc

  How would a founding father respond to a contemporary American issue?

• Puritanism, Witch Trials, and McCarthyism (Slam Dunk)  PDF | PPT*

  How does literature convey the idea of protest in America?

Grade 12

• Behind the Lens: Documenting Your Argument (ORM)  CourseArc

  How can you use rhetorical devices and cinematic techniques to influence an audience?

• Henrietta Lacks (Slam Dunk)  PDF | PPT*
  

  How did the culture of Baltimore in the 1940's and 1950's shape the experiences of Henrietta Lacks? 

• Outlier of the Year (Slam Dunk)  PDF | PPT*
  What are the most significant factors that lead to success?

• Poverty in Appalachia: The Glass Castle (Slam Dunk)  PDF | PPT* 
  What factors contributed to poverty in Appalachia, and how can this be addressed?

• The Truth of a Memoir (Slam Dunk)  PDF | PPT*
  

  What is the relationship between truth and memoir?