Each unit document contains essential questions crafted for highly gifted students along with goals, standards, assessments, resources, suggested texts, and connections to the ASPIRE AP history course that students will be taking concurrently with English.
The Elements of Narrative Fiction: The Novella
Reviews as Response and Repercussion
Portfolio as Personal Progression
Teaching Living Poets: Emulation and Evaluation
The "Archaic" Novel: English in Evolution
Classical Drama: Underpinnings of Literature and of Western Civilization
Modern Drama: The Revisioning of Modernity
Existentialist Drama: The Challenge of the Self at Center
*under construction*
Unit 1: Thinking Like a Researcher
Unit 2: Researching Like a Researcher: Refining Secondary Research Skills
Unit 3: Writing Like a Researcher: The Literature Review
Unit 4: Researching Like a Researcher: Ethical Primary Research
Unit 5: Writing Like a Researcher: The Proposal
Unit 6: Researching Like a Researcher: Data Collection & Analysis
Unit 7: Presenting Like a Researcher: Defending Your Gap
Unit 8: Writing Like a Researcher: Hypothesis and Bias
Unit 9: Researching Like a Researcher: Conducting Your Experiment
Unit 10: Writing Like a Researcher: Reporting and Analyzing Your Results
Unit 11: Writing Like a Researcher: Peer Reviewing and Revising
Unit 12: Presenting Like a Researcher
Unit 13: Communicating Your Results with the Broader Community Like a Researcher