Attention English 10 Students:
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Here you will find all of the essential questions and extra tidbits for each and every one of our units. Feel free to peruse and use them at your leisure.
Here you will find all of the essential questions and extra tidbits for each and every one of our units. Feel free to peruse and use them at your leisure.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Essential Questions:
- What is evil, and what is a person's responsibility to protect innocence from evil?
- Why do bad things happen to good people?
- Who are the "mockingbirds" in history and our lives? What happens to them?
Links:
- Read about the Jim Crow Laws that were really used in various states.
- The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: An interactive website based on the PBS mini-series. Listen to first hand accounts, read stories, and explore history via an interactive timeline.
- Remembering Jim Crow: An American Radio Works presentation about life under Jim Crow Laws. Listen to first hand accounts, read stories, and explore history through audio and video files.
- Explore images and artifacts from the Smithsonian's Jim Crow exhibit.
- A short overview of Harper Lee's life.
- Monroeville, Alabama has never forgotten its favorite daughter, Harper Lee. The town where Lee grew up and where her father, Amasa Coleman Lee, practiced law has worked doggedly over the years to honor Mockingbird's legacy. The courthouse that inspired Lee's description of the Maycomb courthouse is now a museum. Performances of the play version of To Kill A Mockingbird are staged there each spring.
- Rare footage of Harper Lee at a recent awards event—if you listen hard, you can hear her speak.
"A Jury of Her Peers"
Essential Questions:
- To what extent do or should a suspect’s circumstances and motives excuse the commission of a crime?
- What are the limits of sympathy and understanding when it comes to enforcing the law?
- When, if ever, may one be excused for taking the law into one’s own hands?
- When, if ever, is it permissible to withhold evidence?
- What are the obligations of sworn jurors—or any other citizen—to the enforcement of the law?
Extras:
- Read all about the Hossack case that inspired Glaspell to write the short story.
- Click the file below for a copy of Glaspell's famous short story in its entirety...
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Poetry Out Loud
Essential Questions:
- What makes a "good" poem?
- Are there universal themes in literature that are of interest to all cultures and societies?
- How does our reading of literature help us to construct and understanding of reality?
- How do authors use the resource of language to impact their readers or audiences?
Links:
Julius Caesar
Essential Questions:
- What is honor?
- Under what circumstances is it honorable to commit a crime?
- What is the power of rhetoric?
Links:
- Shakespeare Videos: A bunch of short videos about the life and times of William Shakespeare.
- Video Sparknotes: A 10 minute video summary of the plot.
- No Fear Shakespeare: The old stuff and the new stuff, side by side for easy reading.
- BBC's Animated Tales: An animated, abridged version of the play.
- Marlon Brando as Antony: A young Marlon Brando, one of the greatest actors of all time, delivers Antony's speech, one of the greatest in all of literature.
- John Wilkes Booth's Diary: Check out excerpts from John Wilkes Booth's diary, where the infamous assassin paints himself as an American hero and compares himself to Brutus after shooting President Abraham Lincoln.
- Julius Caesar Bio: Want to know more about the historical figure Julius Caesar? Check out PBS's Caesar biography.
Attachments:
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The Catcher in the Rye
Essential Questions:
Links:
- Beyond the Page: A great resource for allusions in the book along with some other cool extras.
Fahrenheit 451
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Antigone
Essential Questions:
Links:
- The National Theater's video introduction to Ancient Greece and the play.