Unit #3: Defiance

Unit Works:

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Unit Essential Questions:

1. What causes an individual to reject the beliefs of his community?
2. What are the consequences of defying societal expectations?
3. How does non-conformity lead to a greater sense of self?

Unit #2: Isolation

Unit Works:

• "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Unit Essential Questions:

1. What are the causes and consequences of isolation?
2. How does isolation lead to greater self-awareness?
3. How does one deal with feelings of isolation?

Unit Materials:

• "The Yellow Wallpaper" passage
  • Audio version of "The Yellow Wallpaper"
• "Self-Reliance" passage
• "Civil Disobedience" passage
• "Civil Disobedience" & "On Civil Disobedience" questions
• Passage analysis practice - Catcher: claim
  • Responses
• Passage analysis practice - Catcher: paragraph
  • Responses

Unit Materials:

• Course selection form
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest slides (intro materials, motif list, etc.)
• Symbol vs. Motif handout
• Motif tracking document
• Passage Analysis Practice (topic sentences) (2/9/18)
  • Passage analysis strategies (form)
    • Responses - Great Strategies! :)
  • Passage analysis practice - take 1 (form)
    • Responses
  • Passage analysis practice - take 2 (form)
    • Responses