Unit+Overview

Film: Documentary: [] Television [] Speech: [] Non-fiction: [] []
 * Anchor Text: **// Night // by Elie Wiesel
 * Linking Texts: **
 * // Long Walk Home // directed by Richard Pearce
 * // Oprah and Elie Wiesel at //// Auschwitz //
 * “Cyberbullying: You Can’t Take it Back”
 * // Band of Brothers // Season 1, Episode 9: “Why We Fight” written by John Orloff
 * // Mad Men // (Clips from “Ladies Room,” “The Hobo Code,” “The Inheritance”
 * “I Have a Dream Speech” Martin Luther King
 * “ U.S. Calls Killings In Sudan Genocide”
 * “Two Little Boys”

·  “This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.”—Elie Wiesel ·  “Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life”—Elie Wiesel ·   “The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.”—Abraham Joshua Heschel ·  ** “ ** [|The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.] ”—Ralph W. Sockman ·  **“** The highest result of education is tolerance.”—Helen Keller ·     “Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.  ·    “I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.”   —   [|Thomas Jefferson]
 * Big Ideas: **
 * Historically, there has been a pattern of intolerance towards individuals that are different based on race, religion, sexual orientation, gender etc.
 * Literature illustrating these experiences can make these issues more relevant and personal to students.
 * Discussion and the study of intolerance are beneficial to students in understanding political/racial/ethnic/religious issues around the world.
 * Research is a skill that should be learned and can/should be used for higher learning.
 * Producing/composing/writing in different genres can provide students experience in writing that will be applicable to their future (college or not).
 * Essential Questions: **
 * How do historical events influence the production of texts?
 * How do events in history connect or repeat themselves?
 * How do people and/or nations learn from their mistakes and struggles?
 * Do we have a responsibility to ourselves, to others, to nations to be tolerant? Why or Why not?
 * How does power inform tolerance/intolerance?
 * How do individual’s differences inform relationships?
 * How do genre and purpose connect?
 * How do genre and audience connect?
 * Quotations: **
 * Themes: **
 * Intolerance/tolerance
 * Power struggles
 * Genocide
 * Diversity
 * Discrimination
 * Prejudice
 * Judgment
 * Activism
 * Literary Elements & Devices: **
 * Theme
 * Audience
 * Elements of speech/speaking skills.
 * Styles across genres.
 * Characteristics of Informal writing.
 * Cultural: **
 * Genocide
 * International relations
 * Race relations
 * Human rights
 * Genre Study: **
 * Memoir
 * Speech
 * Non-fiction
 * Viewer/reader response journal
 * Producing in multiple genres
 * F= A +P
 * Film
 * Documentary
 * Television