4CP1 English
Self Unit
Self Unit
Works:
Works:
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Crashing Through by Robert Kurson
Self Unit Essential Questions:
Self Unit Essential Questions:
- What is identity?
- What choices most significantly shape one’s identity?
- How do an individual’s choices affect the people and events around him or her?
- What part of one’s identity is within one’s control? What is outside of one’s control?
Other Course Materials:
Other Course Materials:
Previous Units
Previous Units
Family Unit
Family Unit
Works:
Works:
- "Scrubs" Season 1, Episode 19, “My Old Man”
- My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
- All My Sons by Arthur Miller
Family Unit Essential Questions:
Family Unit Essential Questions:
- What do individual family members need from and owe to each other and what happens when those expectations are not met?
- How, when, and why do we choose between responsibility to ourselves and responsibility to our family members?
- What strengths and weaknesses arise out of family conflict and stress?
- What is a family dynamic and how does the family dynamic affect the family as whole as well as individual members of the family?
- What roles do families develop or create for their members? What are the advantages and disadvantages of having these roles?
Community Unit
Community Unit
Works:
Works:
Community Unit Essential Questions:
Community Unit Essential Questions:
- What are the responsibilities of the individual to his or her community and vice versa?
- What should you do for your community?
- What should your community do for you?
- What happens when an individual faces competing demands from two communities to which he or she belongs?
- How should a person choose which community to be loyal to?
- What happens when the demands of the community are in opposition to the individual’s beliefs?
- What do you do when your community asks you to do something you disagree with?
Unit Materials:
Unit Materials:
- Community Unit Overview & intro questions
- "Good Form" questions
- "Good Form" smartboard class notes
- "In the Field" questions handout
- "In the Field" smartboard class notes (with vocab!)
- "Field Trip" smartboard class notes (with vocab!)
- "The Lottery" smartboard class notes (vocab in the next link!)
- "The Lottery" vocabulary list with definitions
- "A Jury of Her Peers" smartboard class notes - includes character notes & vocabulary (10/30/18)
- "A Jury of Her Peers" list of characters by community
Choice Book Resources
Choice Book Resources
For your choice book you will read for 2 hours each week. You will fill out the update from on Tuesday's (just a check in on progress) and Friday's (the reading due date & discussion day).
Materials:
Materials:
Midyear Exam Resources
Midyear Exam Resources
- Exam overview & list of works (includes materials for creating an individual study guide)
- The best review materials are the materials from each unit. Extra copies of stories & class notes can be found under "unit materials" for each unit.