Unit Materials for 12th Grade English

Play: Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Video: “Act 1, Scene 1 (Royal Shakespeare Company)”

Article: “Dear Men: It’s You, Too” by Roxane Gay (New York Times)

Video: “Act 3, Scene 1 (Hamlet, 1996)”

Video: “Act 3, Scene 1 (Almeida Theater, 2017)”

Video: “Act 3, Scene 1 (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2016)”

Short Story: “Gertrude Talks Back” by Margaret Atwood

Poem: “How I Didn't Get Myself to a Nunnery” by Suzanne Lummis

Podcast: “Act V” (This American Life)

Book: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Video: “The ChatGPT Revolution” (CBS Reports)

Essay: “Excerpts from Chapters 4 and 5 of Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley

Article: “Could AI help cure 'downward spiral' of human loneliness?” (The Guardian)

Article: “How COVID taught America about inequity in education” by Clea Simon (The Harvard Gazette)

Podcast: “If By Chance We Meet Again” by Ira Glass (This American Life)

Poem: “(First Trimester)” by Craig Santos Perez (Poetry Foundation)

Poem: “From 'understory'” by Craig Santos Perez (Poetry Foundation)

Book: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Vintage Books, 1980.)

Video: “An Introduction to Ralph Ellison” (PBS Learning Media)

Video: “Luke Cage” (Netflix)

Video: “Louis Armstrong - (What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue - New York, 22.07. 1929”

Video: “Invisible Man: The Hero's Journey” (PBS Learning Media)

Article: “The Hero’s Journey” by Joseph Campbell

Article: “Booker T. Washington” (Thirteen)

Video: “Jazz: A Metaphor for America” (PBS Learning Media)

Poem: “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Book: 12 Million Black Voices by Richard Wright (Basic Books 2002)

Article: “Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr.”

Video: “Backwater Blues” by Bessie Smith

Lyrics: Backwater Blues

Article: “The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA)” by britannica.com

Primary Source: Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World

Letter: “Primary Sources: Writing to the U.S. Attorney-General -- "Garvey Must Go"”

Play: A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

Video: “The Victorians: Home Sweet Home” (BBC)

Article: “Gender Roles in the 19th Century” by Kathryn Hughes (British Library)

Article: “Victorian Sexualities” by Holly Furneaux (British Library)

Article: “Henrik Ibsen Biography” by Biography.com Editors (A&E Television Networks)

Book: Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England by Judith Flanders (W.W. Norton, reprint edition, 2005)

Book: Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen

Book: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008)   —  840L

Article: “Teaching The God of Small Things in Wisconsin: A Guide for Educators”

Article: “Invitation to World Literature: The God of Small Things”

Poem: “Lochinvar” by Sir Walter Scott

Article: “How to Analyze Your Dreams in 7 Steps” by Elana Miller, MD (HuffPost)

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

Speech: “The Whiskey Speech” by Judge Noah Sweat

Speech: “Purple is the Noblest Shroud” by Empress Theodora

Speech: “A More Perfect Union” by Barack Obama

Speech: “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” by Patrick Henry

Speech: “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat” by Winston Churchill

Speech: “Pearl Harbor Speech” by Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Speech: “Ain't I a Woman?” by Sojourner Truth

Speech: “Why Sit Ye Here and Die?” by Maria Stewart

Book: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Scribner, 2004)

Article: “"The Great Gatsby": Thirty-Six Years After” by A.E. Dyson (JSTOR)

Article: “8 Ways 'The Great Gatsby' Captured the Roaring Twenties - And Its Dark Side” by Sarah Pruitt (History.com)

Article: “Gatsby's Green Light Beckons a New Set of Strivers” by Sara Rimer (New York Times)

Movie: The Great Gatsby by Baz Luhrmann, 2013