Read outside class: Two novels: In Cold Blood and The Things They Carried
Read inside class: The Crucible and the following texts (some will have to be finished outside of class)
Unit One: August/September
Malala's Speech to the UN TEXT
Malala's Speech to the UN Youtube Video
"Atlanta Expositions Address" by Booker T. Washington
Practice Finding Claims and Evidence: "Felons and the Right to Vote"
Brent Staples "Just Walk On By:
Unit Two
George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language"
Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue"
"If the Japanese Can't Build a Safe Reactor, Who Can?"
"Barbie is Past Saving"
"The Rules of UA Fight or Flight Club"
"Girl Moved to Tears by Of Mice and Men Cliffs Notes" (Satire)
Letter to Mark Twain by Helen Keller, pg 34-35
Unit Three
Inductive vs. Deductive Reasoning
Toulmin
Abigail and John Adams Letters
"On Dumpster Diving"
Clare Booth Luce Speech
Identifying Methods of Organization
Avoiding Logical Fallacies
1.Hasty Generalizations
2. Non Sequitur
3. False Dilemma/Either:Or
4. Slippery Slope
Henry David Thoreau's "Where I Lived and What I Lived For"
David Joliffe's Rhetorical Framework
Unit Four
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
"Restoring Black History"
"The Decline of Grammar"
"Speech on Child Labor" by Florence Kelley
"Blood, Toil, Tears, Sweat" by Winston Churchill
Ralph Waldo Emerson "from Nature"
Mark Twain "Corn Pone Opinions" pg 717 class set
Shirley Chisholm "People and Peace, Not Profits and War"
Charles Murray "A Guaranteed Income for Every American"
Hillary Clinton's Concession Speech
David Sedaris "Me Talk Pretty One Day" (Narrative)
Faulkner "An Innocent at Rinkside" (Descriptive)
"How to Listen to Music" (Exemplification)
Francine Prose "I Know Why the Caged Bird Can't Read" (Cause and Effect)
Barbara Oakley "Why Virtual Classes Can be Better Than Real Ones" (Comparison)
Denby "High School Confidential" (Classification and Division)
Brady "I Want a Wife" (Definition)
Possible: David Foster Wallace: “This is Water: Some Thoughts Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life.”
Possible: Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt: “What the Bagel Man Saw."
Possible: George Orwell. “Shooting an Elephant.”
Unit Five
Malcolm Gladwell's "Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted"
Jonathan Swift "A Modest Proposal" SATIRE
Virginia Woolf's "Professions for Women"
Claudia Rankine "The Meaning of Serena Williams"
Barack Obama "Remarks by the President...Selma to Montgomery"
Mark Greif "Get off the Treadmill"
Andrew Carnegie "The Gospel of Wealth"
Cristina Henriquez "Doubly Denied"
Gay Talese "The Silent Season of a Hero"
Possible: Deborah Tannen: “There is No Unmarked Woman.”
Unit Six
"The Cost of College"
"How the Motorcycle Jacket Lost its Cool and Found it Again"
Rachel Carson "Silent Spring" excerpt
"How Black Boots Lit My Way Along the Appalachian Trail"
Possible: Scott Brown: “Facebook Friendonomics.
Possible: Chuck Klosterman: “My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead.”
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style
DIDLS/Shifts
Using Image Grammar
Ted Talks
Unit Seven
MLK, Jr "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
Thoreau "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"
Samuel Johnson
"America Needs Nerds"
Anne Morros Lindburgh "The Unknown"
James Baldwin "A Talk to Teachers" page 123 class set
Barbara Ehrenreich "Serving in Florida" page 179 class set
Mentor Texts
Grammar
Angelica Jade Bastion "Have Superheroes Killed the Movie Star?"
Possible: Paul Theroux: “Being a Man.”
Possible: “Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and the Billionaire Challenge”
Unit Eight
Sherman Alexie: “Superman and Me.”
Fareed Zakaria: “How to Restore the American Dream.
Terry Tempest Williams: “The Clan of One-Breasted Women.”
Stephen Jay Gould: “Women’s Brains.”
"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas"
"The Road" excerpt
E.O. Wilson "A Biologist's Manifesto for Preserving Life on Earth"
TaNehisi Coates from "Between the World and Me"
Roz Chast "What I Learned"
Sarah Zhang "Save the Galapagos with GMO Rats"
Appositives and Modifiers
Grammar as Rhetoric and Style
Unit Nine
Lewis Thomas "Natural Man"
Zoe Williams "Why Wonder Woman is a Masterpiece of Subversive Feminism"
Read “Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp”
Judith Ortiz Cofer: “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria.”
Chris Hedges: “The Destruction of Culture.”
Synthesis
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