Weeks 1 4 – Reading Selections / Anchor Texts Week 1- Sensitive Topics in the Classroom” from Teaching Mockingbird (informational text) “Discussing Talk About the N-word” from Teaching Tolerance (informational text) “Straight Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do” (short video clip) “How Rainbow Creation” from Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son (informational text) by Lori Duron “A We Tell Ourselves” from Honky (personal essay) by Dalton Conley “Stories Walking Boy” (personal essay) by Alan Jacobs “The Week 2- Extended Text: by Harper Lee (870L, fiction) Chapter 1-5 anchor text To Kill a Mockingbird Supplemental Text(s): Great Depression” from Surviving the Dust Bowl- The American Experience (informational text) by PBS “The of the South During the Depression” (photographical essay) by Walker Evans “Photographs Accounts of the Depression” from (primary source interviews) by Studs Terkel Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression “Firsthand (written excerpt) (interview audio clips) Week 3- Extended Text: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (870L, fiction) Chapter 6-9 anchor text Supplemental Text(s): Well Born” from New Civic Biology: Presented in Problems (informational text) by George William Hunter “Being the Setting of (mini documentary To Kill a Mockingbird” “Setting Birthday from Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr (primary source text) “The Week 4- Extended Text: by Harper Lee (870L, fiction) Chapter 10-11 anchor text To Kill a Mockingbird
Weeks 1 – 4 Reading Selections / Anchor Texts Week 1- “Discussing Sensitive Topics in the Classroom” from Teaching Mockingbird (informational text) “Straight Talk About the N-word” from Teaching Tolerance (informational text) “How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do” (short video clip) “A Rainbow Creation” from Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son (informational text) by Lori Duron “Stories We Tell Ourselves” from Honky (personal essay) by Dalton Conley “The Walking Boy” (personal essay) by Alan Jacobs Week 2- Extended Text: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (870L, fiction) Chapter 1-5 anchor text Supplemental Text(s): “The Great Depression” from Surviving the Dust Bowl- The American Experience (informational text) by PBS “Photographs of the South During the Depression” (photographical essay) by Walker Evans “Firsthand Accounts of the Depression” from Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (primary source interviews) by Studs Terkel (written excerpt) (interview audio clips) Week 3- Extended Text: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (870L, fiction) Chapter 6-9 anchor text Supplemental Text(s): “Being Well Born” from New Civic Biology: Presented in Problems (informational text) by George William Hunter “Setting the Setting of To Kill a Mockingbird” (mini documentary “The Birthday from Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr (primary source text) Week 4- Extended Text: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (870L, fiction) Chapter 10-11 anchor text
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