Te 407 Curricular Map Revised

TE 407 Curricular Map Revised: Emily Mullins Unit

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Eng Goals

# of Weeks

Unit 1: Immigration and Identity

Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna) (film)

Reading Quizzes/Short Literary Analyses

Various readings

6 weeks

Desert Blood: Juarez Murders by Alicia Gasper de Alba (excerpts)

Writing a story in the same style as The House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Discussion of immigrant identity

Odyssey to the North by Mario Bencastro

Unit Unit 2: Teen Struggles

Texts Into the Wild (book and/or film) The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (book and/or film) Choose one: Please Don’t Kill the Freshman: A Memoir by Zoe Trope Or Crazy: A Novel by Benjamin Lebert Or Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent

Novels (based on real situations) Film Look at voyages North, Latino and Chicano Literature

Juarez murdersdiscussion of rape, murder, and violence against women.

Get involved with the situation of Juarez-website (maybe raising money?)

Assessments Keep own diary about your lifecan be whatever you want to say, you just have to write

Eng Goals Get to know one another

Write a short story about a person you look up to Literary analysis comparing a novel to the film Choosing one book or collection of short stories,

Power points to give historical perspective

Talking about the future Topics of love, loss, friendship, family, heartbreak, disabilities, social divisions, and class warfare Reading aloud/Discussi ons Closer looks at the text

# of Weeks 8 weeks

Girls Write about Their Search for Self Or Real Boys’ Voices

Unit Unit 3: Gender and self, historically and currently

Texts Written on the Body by Jeannette Winterson “The Other Boleyn Girl”, a look at the Tudors (film) “The Tudors’ True Story” (filmdocumentary)

read and create a project to best exemplify what you have read and how you feel about it

Comparing films and books

Create a Post Secret Postcard

Society and self

Assessments Short paperwhy do you think the author kept the narrator gender-less

Novels/Stories written by teens for teens

Eng Goals Film Novel Short fiction Documentary

Take effective and useful notes from a video and the documentary. Research, and create an oral report about an assigned aspect of the video. Synthesize historical information from a variety of sources. Express an understanding of the King’s six wives’ lives and the culture of the times. Express a historical and cultural understanding of the

Learning cultural, gender, and social issues in the modern world versus in the historical England Digging deeper into the lines, finding the true meaning— self discovery, love found and lost Gender issues in Tudor England in the time of Henry VIII

# of Weeks 4-5 weeks

Reformation and Tudor England. Create a story written from the point of view of one of Henry VIII’s wives.

Unit Unit 4: The influence of the Great Depression/Ra ce Relations and Diversity

Texts Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck FDR Fireside chats Harlem by Langston Hughes

Assessments A look into the way life was at the time of the Great Depression, the onset of war economy Leading into race relations and racial inequality WWII Pop Art, Video, Propaganda (make own propaganda poster) Record own Fireside Chat on topic of own choosing Reading quizzes for Of Mice and Men Analyzing a literary work covered in this unit through

Eng Goals American novels Media influence The power of speech Historical context (Race/Class/Social/Ge nder)

Weeks 6 Weeks

writing or look at a time you had a moral dilemma, how did you handle it?

Unit Unit 5: Civil Rights/ Speech and Public Speaking/ Debate

Texts Fences by August Wilson MLK’s “I Have a Dream…” Speech vs. Malcom X’s God's Judgment of White America (The Chickens Come Home to Roost) Loraine Hansberry- A Raisin in the Sun (Broadway play) Still I RiseMaya Angelou

Assessments Write a short speech beginning with “I Have a Dream…” and perform in front of the class (Memorization) Defending the rights and dignity of your own as well as other’s (why was this movement so important?) What obstacles have you overcome in your life? Write a short story.

Eng Goals Plays Speech-Writing and Speaking DramaBroadway (watch) Understand the Civil Rights Movement, segregation Memorization Overcoming great obstacles and oppression Social Art Racism, Race relations and discriminationhow it still exists African American

# of Weeks 4 weeks

writing-new perspectives

Unit Unit 6: Media and its influence(its use and technology)

Texts NY Times Newseum.org Other forms of media: art, photography, music, film, advertising (Look at each in the context of the readings in past units) 1984 by George Orwell

Assessments Read a current event every week- write response journals (self assessment of your role in society) Using a form of media/technol ogy to depict a novel, play, or speech that has been covered in any unit (webpage, collage, film, write music, etc.)

Eng Goals Keep informed on current times

# of Weeks 5 weeks

Experience a novel, play, speech in a creative, engaging way Violence, Sexism, and similar messages in the media The strong social and cultural impact upon society

Reading quizzes for 1984

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Unit 7: Voices of War. The tension surrounding Vietnam and the protests that took place.

We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway OR We were Soldiers Once...And Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway Across the Universe (film) Stop-Loss (film)

A final project that will tie units together, either comparing a text to another time period/historic al context, two texts from separate units, two authors, etc. Discussions of the current war in Iraq and a look at how society differed or was similar during Vietnam Make protest signs or signs that display your feelings on war

A look at exactly what happened in Vietnam, a country in uproar, war protests, the culture of the 60’s, race relations. Novel Films Comparing Vietnam to Iraq Discussion

6 weeks