Quarter 1

• "Where I'm From" - poem

• "What Really Happened During the Salem Witch Trials" - TED Talk

• The Crucible

  • • Act 1 - pg 10/30

    • Act 2 - pg 2/24

    • Act 3 - pg 2/24

    • Act 4

    • Listen as you read here.

• "A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials"

• Arthur Miller

  • • Why I Wrote The Crucible

• Allegory

  • • The Crucible and McCarthyism

• McCarthyism

  • • Read page 2-4  in The Crucible booklet introductory materials. 

    • The Hollywood Blacklist

    • Video: What is McCarthyism?

• Joseph McCarthy:  “Enemies from Within”

• Night by Eli Wiesel

  • • Excerpt

      • • "Inside the Nazi State"

        • "Beloved Objects"

Quarter 2

• Poetry

  • "In Flanders Field"

  • "To An Athlete Dying Young"

  • "I Hear America Singing"

• The Great Gatsby

  • Ch 1 excerpt - Jay

  • Ch 1 excerpt - Nick

  • Ch 2 excerpt - Tom/Myrtle

  • Ch. 3 excerpt - the party

  • Ch. 3 - whole chapter

    • Meet Gatsby

  • Ch. 4 - Who is Gatsby?

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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

• F. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address

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