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Enduring Understandings
Enduring Understandings
While literature is not history, stories help readers understand the past.
Social and historical forces shape an author’s work.
Literature that engages with the issues of its time may lead to social change.
Essential Questions
Essential Questions
How do authors manipulate historical events to get at larger truths?
What effects can a work of literature have on the present and the future?
How do historical and social factors affect the creation of a work of literature?
Core Texts
Core Texts
(historical narrative, nonfiction, essays)
(historical narrative, nonfiction, essays)
April Morning
Cry, the Beloved Country
A Farewell to Arms
Great Expectations
Hiroshima
Les Misérables
March, Book Three
My Antonía
Our Town
A Raisin in the Sun
To Kill a Mockingbird
Anthologies
Anthologies
Contemporary Short Stories
The Language of Literature
Points of View
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