10th
Big Idea
Essential Questions
Students will need
to know
Students will be
able to
Novels/Nonfiction
Books
Q1
Morality and Choices
How does our
environment affect moral
choices? (survival)
Huckleberry Finn by
Mark Twain
The Red Badge of
Courage by Stephen
Crane
Q2
Q3
How does power
transform culture and
character?
How do I respond to
improper use of power?
Are there inherent moral
truths?
What power do I have as
an individual to make a
positive change?
Animal Farm by George
Orwell
Lord of the Flies by
Golding
The Simpsons
“T
All Quiet on the Western
Front by Erich M.
Remarque
The Count of Monte
Cristo by Alexandre
Dumas
As a team we will choose
one novel.
Q4
World Literature?
Ethics/Philosophy
(Buddhism, Hinduism
Islam, Judaism,
Ten Commandments –
The Golden Rule?)
Book of Job (Bible)
“The Brothers
Karazamov” by
Dostoevsky
“A Modest Proposal” by
Jonathon Swift
“Civil Disobedience” by
Thoreau
Their Eyes Were
Watching God by Zora
Neale Hurston
U.S. Constitution
Essay (NF)
“The Christmas Truce”
Nonfiction
“Insuffiency of Honesty”
Stephen L. Carter
“The Prince” by Niccolo
Machiavelli (Excerpts)
The Theory of Moral
Sentiments by Adam
Smith
Aristotle’s
Nicomachean Ethics
Essay by:
Jay Cross
Vannevar Bush
Stephen Covey
Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi
“Self-Reliance” by Ralph
Waldo Emerson
“The Case for Torture” by
Michael Levin
“Executions are too costly
morally”
“On Compassion” by
Barbara Lazear Ascher
Drama
Twelve Angry Men
Macbeth
“Homeless” by Anna
Quindlen
Everyman
(Allegory)
(Each man equal)
Poem
“On Wiesel’s Night”
Thomas Thornton
Searching for poetry…..
Searching for poetry…..
“Diameter of the
Auden – “The Unknown
Citizen”
Bomb” Yehuda Amichai
“After the Deluge” Wole
Soyinka
“The End and the
Beginning” Wislawa
Szymborska
“On Wiesel’s Night”
Thomas Thornton
“In Flanders Field” John
McCrae
Short Story
“We Real Cool”
Gwendolyn Brooks
“And of Clay are we
created” by Isabel
Allende
Aesop’s Fables (start
quarter with these)
“To Build a Fire” by Jack
London
“The World Was Silent”
by Elie Wiesel
“
Speaking &
Listening
Writing
Informal Writing of
various lengths and
Informal Writing of
various lengths and
Informal Writing of
various lengths and
Biographical research
based upon essential
question – also, written
Informal Writing of
various lengths and
purposes
purposes
Narrative: Morality
tale/fable/folk tale
Synthesis based upon the
essential question
purposes
purposes
Comparison of the moral
ideas from the various
religions: Buddhism, Ten
Commandments, etc.
Biographical research
based upon essential
question
Personal Philosophy
Needed
"A book can be moral if it raises moral questions even if it doesn't provide moral answers." That's the view of Marilyn Edelstein,
associate professor of English at Santa Clara University