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Gifted English 10: World Literature and Composition

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Course Information:


Travelling Around the World through Literature

I look upon travel as a means of spiritual testing. What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, we are so far from our country . . . we are seized by an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. This is the most obvious benefit of travel. At that moment, we are feverish, but also porous, so that the slightest touch makes us quiver to the depth of our being. By exercising our most intimate senses, we understand a culture. It is through travel that we learn about ourselves. (Albert Camus)

 


Unit 1: Border Crossing and Cultural Clashes

Essential Questions:

  • What forces influence individuals to cross borders and cultures?
  • How does what we know about the world shape the way we view ourselves?
  • What are the benefits and detriments of crossing borders?
  • How does the experience of crossing borders and experiencing diverse cultures affect an individual’s identity?

Literary Texts:

  • Bless Me, Ultima
  • Things Fall Apart

Independent Reading Choices:

Frankenstein, Into Thin Air, Metamorphosis, Life of Oloudah Equiano, Obasan, Annie John, The House on Mango Street, Sold, The Things They Carried, The Joy Luck Club, OR A Long Way Gone  

 

 

Week of 2 August

  • student information 
  • introduction to voice through art (PPT)
  • Vocabulary Workshop Lesson 1
  • review of course policies (PPT
  • 8/6/10 summer reading assignment DUE (instructions)
  • 8/6/10 self-portrait and expository paragraph DUE 
  • alliterative adjective introduction & summer reading activity (instructions, personality trait adjectives)
  • journal response: essential question for Unit 1 (PPT)
  • root word vocabulary: A, AN (root words beginning with A)
  • discussion of independent reading choices 

 Week of 9 August

Week of 16 August

  • 8/16/10 summer reading novels timed-writing essays 
  • 8/18/10 Vocabulary Lessons 1 & 2 review: cartoon creation DUE (instructions 
  • 8/20/10 QUIZ: Vocabulary Workshop Lessons 1 & 2

Week of 23 August

  • Vocabulary Workshop Lesson 3
  • timed-writing SAT essay prompt   

Week of 30 August

  • Vocabulary Workshop Lesson 4 

Week of 6 September

  • QUIZ: Vocabulary Workshop Lessons 3 & 4
  • timed-writing AP Literature Exam essay prompt  

Week of 13 September

  • Vocabulary Workshop Lesson 5  

Week of 20 September

  • Vocabulary Workshop Lesson 6 
  • timed-writing AP Language Exam essay prompt   

Week of 27 September

  • QUIZ: Vocabulary Workshop Lessons 5 & 6   

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Links to Critical-Thinking Games:

 

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