Sample Curriculum
9-10th Grade English
11-12th Grade English
- To Kill a Mockingbird - 4 week Unit - Coming soon
Teaches the content and themes of To Kill a Mockingbird using the 1962 feature film. Students conduct research on a relevant historical topic and present their findings to the class. Students analyze the film for its cultural and historical relevancy at the time period and today. - Romeo and Juliet - 4 week Unit - Coming Soon
Teaches the content and thematic elements of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet using a comparative approach to the 1996 feature film directed by Baz Lurhrman, the 2014 adaptation directed by xxx, and Shakespeare's original text.
- Persuasive Argument on a Controversial Topic: Mass Shootings in America - 4 week Unit - PDF Download
Uses Expository Reading and Writing strategies. Students critically read and respond to three different informational texts and develop a culminating in project of choice to argue the causes or potential solutions for mass shootings in America: a traditional essay, a public service announcement poster, a persuasive speech, or a class debate.
11-12th Grade English
- The Hunger Games - 4 week Unit - View ITU website
Combines curriculum for both English and Math with added components for Visual Arts and Social Justice. - American Romanticism and Dark Romanticism - 5 week Unit - PDF Download
Challenges students to read and analyze iconic and complex texts representative of the Romantic literary movement, including poetry and short prose. View a sample of student work from this unit here. - American Realism, Modernism and Post Modernism - 6 week Unit - Coming Soon