narrative

What does the word tolerance suggest? When building a world without borders, the language we use could serve to build relationships or raze them. In this module, students will read from a critical perspective to understand how authors use language to shape tone and meaning. These insights will...

In this assignment, students are challenged to push themselves beyond their personal limits in an area of their choosing.  As background, students will read Christopher MacDougall’s Born to Run, which documents the incredible human feats performed by ultramarathon runners.  Students...

Students will create a multi-genre text that expresses their perspective on a theme of inequity they have studied through the unit. Teachers may help guide student choice in the multi-genre pieces that come together to form the whole. Students will have their choice of the various genres: poetry...

In this task, each student will conduct research to develop narrative text as background for four primary sources to set the historical context: Pericles’ Funeral Oration, the Gettysburg Address, John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, and Bill Clinton’s Turning Ideas into Action. Students will...

For this task, each student plays the role of an intern at a public radio station who has been asked to write a story for one of their podcast shows. This could be someone else’s story (students would interview them and then write the story) or a personal story. The story could be humorous or...