Unit Materials for 8th Grade English

Book: All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely   —  HL770L

Article: “The History and Present-Day Power of White Privilege” by Cory Collins, adapted by Fishtank Staff

Book: Flying Lessons & Other Stories by Ellen Oh (Crown Books for Young Readers, 2017)

Transcript: “How to Raise a Black Son in America (Transcript)” by Clint Smith (TED Talk)

Video: “A Conversation about Growing Up Black” by The New York Times (YouTube)

Video: “How to Raise a Black Son in America” by Clint Smith (TED Talk)

Website: Right to Peaceful Assembly: United States (Library of Congress)

Website: The Constitution of the United States

Book: Night by Elie Wiesel (Hill and Wang, 2006)   —  590L

Play: The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett (Snowballpublishing)

Book: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Bantam Dell, 1994)

Speech: “The Perils of Indifference” by Elie Wiesel (American Rhetoric)

Video: “The Path to Nazi Genocide” by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Book: Joseph Stalin (A Wicked History) by Sean McCollum (Franklin Watts, 2010)   —  970L

Book: Animal Farm by George Orwell (Signet Classics, 1996)   —  1170L

Article: “Communism” by National Geographic Education

Article: “What Is Capitalism?” by Sarwat Jahan and Ahmed Saber Mahmud (Through end of "Pillars of Capitalism") (IMF)

Excerpt: The Stalin Era by Anna Louise Strong

Article: “Propaganda is Everywhere”

Article: “Types of Propaganda”

Article: “11 Red Flags of Gaslighting in a Relationship” by Stephanie A. Sarkis (Psychology Today)

Movie: Animal Farm

Book: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon, 1st edition, 2004)

Article: “The Stolen Revolution: Iranian Women of 1979” (CBC Radio)

Video: “Majede Najar: Why I wear a hijab” by TEDTalentSearch (YouTube)

Article: “Why do Muslim women wear a hijab?” by Caitlin Killian (The Conversation)

Article: “Under cover of darkness: Why World Hijab Day is an insult to girls like me” by Soutiam Goodarzi (The Spectator)

Video: “Rick Steves' Iran” by Rick Steves' Europe (YouTube)

Article: “Iran Travel Journal” by Rick Steves

Book: An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power by Al Gore (Rodale Books, 2017)

Speech: “Greta Thunberg challenging The World Economic Forum in Davos - January 22 2019” (YouTube)   —  700-800L

Speech: “Transcript: Greta Thunberg's Speech At The U.N. Climate Action Summit” by NPR Staff (NPR)

Article: “The Science of Climate Change Explained” by Julia Rosen (New York Times)

Article: “The Marshall Islands Are Disappearing” by Coral Davenport (New York Times)   —  1400-1500L

Article: “Statement and Poem” by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner

Article: “As Rising Heat Bakes US Cities, The Poor Often Feel It Most” by Meg Anderson and Sean McMinn (NPR)   —  1200-1300L

Article: “Notes from a Bottle” by James Stevenson (The New Yorker)

Short Story: “World After Water” by Abby Geni

Article: “Exxon Knew about Climate Change almost 40 years ago” by Shannon Hall (Scientific American)   —  1400-1500L

Article: “What the new report on climate change expects from you” by Eliza Mackintosh (CNN)   —  1400-1500L

Article: “Focusing on how individuals can stop climate change is very convenient for corporations” by Morten Fibieger Byskov (Fast Company)   —  1200-1300L

Article: “Fishermen Sue Big Oil for Its Role in Climate Change” by Alastair Bland (NPR)   —  1500-1600L

Article: “Gen Z on How to Save the World: Young Climate Activists Speak Out” (The Guardian)

Article: “Young Climate Activists and the Battle to Avert Catastrophe” by Ruairi Casey (Aljazeera)