Memoir Unit

This unit will explore personal storytelling by reading a variety of memoirs and analyzing how authors use voice, structure, and reflection to convey their experiences. Through guided writing exercises, students will reflect on their own experience, focusing on themes of identity, growth, and perspective. The unit encourages self-expression while strengthening narrative techniques, critical thinking, and connections between literature and personal experience. 

• • Atomic Habits

Classical Literature

This unit will utilize the classical text Oedipus, to cover analytical and critical reading skills, establish traits of the tragedy/tragic hero, develop knowledge of themes, motifs and central ideas as well as their development over the course of a text.  Additionally, writing assignments will be utilized to create and support academic claims using textual evidence while understanding appropriate style and tone. 

• Oedipus

Contemporary Literature Units

This unit will utilize contemporary texts to cover analytical and critical reading skills, establish traits of the narrative writing, develop knowledge of themes, motifs and central ideas as well as their development over the course of a text.  Additionally, writing assignments will be utilized to create and support academic claims using textual evidence while understanding appropriate style and tone. 

• Homegoing

• Independent Novel Unit