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Unit 1
What strikes fear into the heart?
Authors: Neil Gaiman, Richard Preston, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Diana Tixier Herald
Unit 2
Are all people truly equal?
Authors: Kurt Vonnegut, Cesar Chavez, Harper Lee, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Unit 3
How do American Indians experience life in the United States?
Authors: Sherman Alexie, TobyMac & Michael Tait, Andrew Jackson, Dee Brown, Judson Elliott Walker
Unit 4
When you see injustice, do you stand by— or stand up?
Authors: Elie Wiesel, Martin Niemöller, Joseph R. McCarthy, Margaret Chase Smith, Rudyard Kipling
GRADE 9
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Unit 1
Is the journey more important than the destination?
Authors: Will Durant, Ibn Battuta, Sir Richard Burton, Homer, Jules Verne, Michael Palin
Unit 2
What makes a great teacher?
Authors: Frank McCourt, E.R. Braithwaite,
Mitch Albom, Morrie Schwartz, Benjamin Franklin, John Locke, Caroline Bird
Unit 3
What are the costs of scientific innovation?
Authors: John Hersey, Michael Pollan,
Rebecca Skloot, George W. Bush, Barack Obama
Unit 4
Can a simple idea bring about great change?
Authors: Lyndon B. Johnson, E.B. White, Niccolò Machiavelli, Chinua Achebe, Rabindranath Tagore, William Bulter Yates
GRADE 10
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Unit 1
What are the impacts of war?
Authors: James Haskins, Charles Frazier, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln
Unit 2
How has the role of women changed over time?
Authors: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Maya Angelou, Betty Friedan, F. Scott Fitzgerland
Unit 3
Is the land of opportunity simply the land of opportunists?
Authors: John Steinbeck, H.G. Wells, Toni Morrison, Franklin Roosevelt
Unit 4
How do we protect freedom in the modern world?
Authors: Ray Bradbury, George Orwell,
John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Tim O’Brien
GRADE 11
11
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Unit 1
What forces shape who you are and who you are becoming?
Authors: T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, Nicholas Carr, Jim Taylor, Jeannette Wells, Katherine Boo
Unit 2
Does physical appearance matter?
Authors: Mary Shelley, Sharon Harvey Rosenberg, Katie Makkai, Hilary Mantel, Elna Baker
Unit 3
What is fair punishment for crime?
Authors: William Golding, William Shakespeare, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes
Unit 4
What role does government play in personal freedom?
Authors: Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee,
Henry David Thoreau, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Paine
GRADE 12
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