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Essential Questions
How do we use stories to both assert ourselves and understand others?
How do memoirs like Persepolis and Maus complicate, resist, or complete dominant understandings of history?
How does the medium through which we tell the story impact the ways others read it?
Anchor Text:
Persepolis
Supplementary Texts:
Rick Steves’ Iran: Yesterday & Tomorrow
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Handmaiden's Tale
Zahra's Paradise
The Queen And I (film)
Persepolis (film)
Formative Assignments & Activities:
Persepolis Quizzes
Shared Inquiry Discussion
Research Preparation Assignments
OPTIC & Close Reading
Summative Assignments:
Iran Culture and History Research Paper and Powerpoint Presentation
Multi-genre paper
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