Class Texts
Quarter 1
"Where I'm From" - poem
"What Really Happened During the Salem Witch Trials" - TED Talk
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
Allegory
McCarthyism
Joseph McCarthy: “Enemies from Within”
Night by Eli Wiesel
Quarter 2
Poetry
"In Flanders Field"
"To An Athlete Dying Young"
The Great Gatsby
Ch 1 excerpt - Jay
Ch 1 excerpt - Nick
Ch 2 excerpt - Tom/Myrtle
Ch. 3 excerpt - the party
Meet Gatsby
Quarter 3
Of Mice and Men (full text)
Poetry
Poem: "A Time to Talk"
Poem: “To a Mouse”
Photos
Photo: Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange
Article: 4"The Story of the 'Migrant Mother'"
Speeches
"I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King
Articles
Article: “Letter to My Son” by Ta-Nahisi Coates
Article: “Friendship in an Age of Economics” by Todd May
Article: “The Harvest Gypsies: Article I” by John Steinbeck (San Francisco News, 1936)
Article: “John Steinbeck Biography”
"Behind Bars, Vets with PTSD Face a New War Zone, with Little Support"
Videos
Video: “Of Mice and Men (1/10) Movie CLIP - Lennie's Dead Mouse (1992) HD” by Movieclips (YouTube)
Quarter 4
A Raisin in the Sun - pdf
"On the Rainy River" - pdf