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Why you’ll like this unit…. It’s our LAST NOVEL for the year!! You get to decide what you want to read!! You get to work in groups on discussion days!! You get to decide when you want to complete each role assignment!!. The House on Mango Street by: Sandra Cisneros. Realistic Fiction.
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Why you’ll like this unit… • It’s our LAST NOVEL for the year!! • You get to decide what you want to read!! • You get to work in groups on discussion days!! • You get to decide when you want to complete each role assignment!!
The House on Mango Streetby: Sandra Cisneros Realistic Fiction • About young girl who doesn’t want to belong only to her Latino neighborhood of harsh realities and harsh beauty. • Esperanza Cordero, a girl coming of age in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, uses poems and stories to express thoughts and emotions about her oppressive environment.
Lay That Trumpet in Our Handsby: Susan Carol McCarthy Historical Fiction • Takes place in the 1950’s in the town of Mayflower, Florida • In the spring of 1951, Reesa McMahon is awakened in the night to discover that her closest friend and mentor, nineteen-year-old Marvin Wiley, has been brutally killed by a member of the Ku Klux Klan. As violence erupts over the state, Reesa's family, along with rising-star attorney Thurgood Marshall and the FBI, join together in a daring battle for justice. Fiercely honest and quietly assured, Reesa's painful search to make sense of her town's soul-destroying bigotry offers an exhilarating resolution to one of the darkest, most disturbing hours this nation has ever seen.
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. A Separate Peaceby: John Knowles Historical Fiction
Fourteen-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their South Carolina peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, fleeing to the only place she can think of--Tiburon, South Carolina--determined to find out more about her dead mother. The Secret Life of Beesby: Sue Monk Kidd Historical Fiction
He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. In a future where there is no love, no science, and everyone is equal and of one entity, one man defies the group to be his own person. That is a serious offense. Written with all the power and conviction that made The Fountainhead a classic of American letters, Ayn Rand's Anthem is a hymn to man's independent spirit and to the highest word in the human language Anthemby: Ayn Rand Science Fiction
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Quick Summary • The House on Mango Street: poems and stories to express that express the main characters thoughts and emotions about her oppressive environment • Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands: Reesa and her family battle for justice against the prejudice men who killed her friend. • A Separate Peace: A tale of the evil that happens between two friends during World War II. • The Secret Life of Bees: Lily Owen flees her neglectful father with her nanny to find out more about what happened to her dead mother. • Anthem: In a future where there is no love, no science, and everyone is equal and of one entity, one man defies the group to be his own person.
Group Roles • Discussion Leader:responsible for leading the discussion by keeping the group on task, bringing insightful questions for the group to discuss, and to summarize the pages read that week. • Word Smith: responsible for choosing and sharing 6 new words from the pages read that week, completing the written assignment, and adding 1 of the 6 words to the word wall. • Line Lighter: responsible for selecting 5 key passages and sharing those passages with the group as well as explaining how they are examples of good writing or important to story. • Journaler:responsible for sketching important scenes from the pages read that week and explaining why those scenes were significant.
Thursday’s Assignments • Choose weekly roles for entire unit (4 roles/4 weeks). • Decide how many pages a week the entire group should read. Divide book into 4 weekly sessions. Remember -- ALL reading has to be done in class. • Create a movie poster of your book to display. Must have an original picture, the title and author, and an intriguing caption. (caption-two or three lines that make others want to “see the movie”)
