Units for the Year!

• Unit One: American Voices

  • Essential Question: What does it mean to be “American”?

  • Anchor Text: Anthem by Ayn Rand

  • AR Book Options:

1. Student Choice

2. Animal Farm

• Unit Two: Survival

  • Essential Question: What does it take to survive?

  • Anchor Text: Lord of the Flies by William Golding

  • AR Book Options:

1. Student Choice

2. The Hunger Games

3. Night

• Unit Three: The Literature of Civil Rights

  • Essential Question: How Can Words Inspire Change?

  • Anchor Text: A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

  • AR Book Options:

1. Student Choice

2. Night

3. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

4. The Color Purple

5. A Raisin in the Sun

• Unit Four: Star-Crossed Lovers

  • Essential Question: Do We Determine Our Own Destinies?

  • Anchor Text: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

  • Anchor Text: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

  • AR Book Options:

1. Student Choice