Unit Materials for 10th Grade English

Book: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Simon & Schuster, 2012)

Article: “Screen Time Up as Reading Scores Drop” by Sarah D. Sparks (Education Week)

Article: “Police love Google's surveillance data. Here's how to protect yourself” by Shira Ovide (The Washington Post)

Article: “An Ugly Toll of Technology: Impatience and Forgetfulness” by Tara Parker-Pope (NYTimes)

Article: “The truth about teens, social media and the mental health crisis” by Michaeleen Doucleff (NPR)

Article: “Is Technology Causing Our Unhappiness?” by Dan Pontefract (Forbes)

Excerpt: Allegory of the Cave by Plato

Letter: “I Am Very Real” by Kurt Vonnegut

Podcast: “Why Teens Find the End of the World So Appealing” by Elissa Nadworny (NPR)

Song: “The Cave”

Short Story: “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury

Video: “Plato's Allegory of the Cave” (Ted-Ed)

Video: “The Fight Over Banning Books” by CBS Sunday Morning (YouTube)

Video: “Above the Noise: How is Tech Changing the Way We Read” (PBS Learning Media)

Visual: Banned Books Weeks: A visual dive into an alarming increase in attempts to ban books by Jennifer Borresen

Book: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Algonquin Books, 2012)

Article: “How to Write about Africa” by Binyavanga Wainaina (Granta, 2006)

Poem: “Hanging Fire” by Audre Lorde

Poem: “They Don't Love You Like I Love You” by Natalie Diaz (Poets.org)

Transcript: “The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Facing History)

Video: “Ibrahim Babangida: Military Dictator and Nigeria's Complex History” by African Biographics (YouTube)

Video: “The Scramble for Africa: A History of Independence” (Aljazeera)

Video: “TED Talk: The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Video: “The Genius of Fela Kuti and Afrobeats” by Sound Field (YouTube)

Book: Antigone by Sophocles; Translated by Robert Fagles (Pearson; First Edition)

Article: “The Legend of Oedipus” (CommonLit)

Non-Fiction Text: “Excerpt of 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail'” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Podcast: “Death Interrupted” by Radiolab (YouTube)

Transcript: “Emma Watson's UN Speech on Gender Equality”

Transcript: “Every kid needs a champion” by Rita Pierson

Video: “An Introduction to Greek Theatre” by National Theatre (YouTube)

Video: “An Introduction to Greek Tragedy” by National Theatre (YouTube)

Video: “How to lead in a crisis” by Amy Edmondson (TED)

Video: “Emma Watson's UN Speech on Gender Equality” by United Nations (YouTube)

Video: “Every kid needs a champion” by Rita Pierson (TED)

Video: “Antigone in Ferguson” by House Seats (PBS)

Visual: Antigone's Family Tree

Video: “Free Will” by Sam Harris (YouTube)

Book: Collected Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Book: The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende (Atria Books)

Book: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell (Vintage Contemporaries 2007 version)

Book: Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez (Vintage)   —  1210L

Book: Sun, Stone and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories by Octavio Paz (Fondo de Cultura Economica)

Short Story: “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortázar

Short Story: “The Book of Sand” by Jorge Luis Borges

Short Story: “The Rememberer” by Aimee Bender

Painting: Beach of Dangast with Flying Boat by Franz Radziwill (Google Arts & Culture)

Painting: American Gothic by Grant Wood (Art Institute Chicago)

Painting: Late Visitors to Pompeii by Carel Willink (museum noijmans van beuningen)

Painting: Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo (1940)

Painting: Nighthawks by Edward Hopper (Art Institute Chicago)

Painting: The Subway by George Tooker (Whitney Museum of American Art)

Podcast: “Someone to Watch Over Me: Act Three” (This American Life)

Podcast: “Revisionist History: Free Brian Williams” by Malcolm Gladwell (Pushkin)

Transcript: “Free Brian Williams” (Revisionist History)

Video: “Remembering the literary magic of Gabriel García Márquez” by PBS NewsHour (YouTube)

Video: “Author Isabel Allende on "The Wind Knows My Name"” by CBS Sunday Morning (YouTube)

Video: “Isabel Allende on the Difference Between Magic Realism and Fantasy” by The Queen's Reading Room (Vimeo)

Video: “Native American Boarding Schools: A Lost History” by KARE 11 (YouTube)

Video: “Kitty Genovese and the Bystander Effect” (PBS)

Book: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (Random House Trade Paperbacks)

Article: “Behind the Veil” by Lorraine Ali (The New York Times)

Essay: “On Censorship” by Salman Rushdie (The New Yorker)

Chart paper

Colored markers

Poem: “Rumi poetry (G10, U5, L19)” by Rumi

Video: “The Revolution that Led to the Iran We Know Today” by Wall Street Journal (YouTube)