Eleventh Grade
English Language Arts
BRITISH & WORLD LITERATURE
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Disposition – Transformational Thinking
Unit 11.1 – The Power of Language to Transform Lives:
Unit 11.2 – Informed Decision-Making, The Renaissance:
Unit 11.1 – The Power of Language to Transform Lives:
- Beowulf
- The Canterbury Tales
Unit 11.2 – Informed Decision-Making, The Renaissance:
- The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
- Linking Texts –The Tragedy of Macbeth, Shakespearean Sonnets
- Essays “With a Little Help from Your Mom” Carol Jago
- “Guidelines for Letters of Recommendation” Jim Burke
- College application timeline (SAT I and/or ACT)
- Unit 11.4 – Understanding Human Nature: Coping with Crisis, Chaos and Change:
- The Lord of the Flies by William Golding,
- Linking Text - “Leadership Lessons for the Real World” Leader to Leader Magazine by Margaret Wheatley;
- “Putting Chaos in Order” by Andrei Codrescu
- Speeches/Essays “Components of an Effective Presentation or Speech” by Jim Burke
- Literary Authors – Bronte, Conrad, Houseman, Joyce, Orwell, Shaw, Tennyson, Wells, Wilde
Unit 11.5 – The DNA of Survival:
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- Hiroshima by John Hersey
- Linking Text - Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
- Elie Wiesel; “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs”
- Oprah Winfrey’s interview of Elie Wiesel
- “How to Write a Literary Critique”
- “Address to the Graduating Class” 1951 William Faulkner