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Course Overview for Semester One:
Theme: Personal Identity

Unit One: Writing workshop
Duration:     2-3 Weeks
Content:    Writing process and short grammar review
        Group and individual work
        Peer editing and oral presentations
        Personal identity theme work
        Prose and poetry analysis information
        Introduce Independent Novel Study

Activities:    Autobiography project
        Class discussion
        Peer editing

Unit Two: Novel Study One
Duration:     Three weeks
Content:    House on Mango Street
Activities:    Reading of novel and related prose and poetry
        Group work
        Paper on Personal identity represented in the novel
        Written assignments that include assignments on literary devices
        Class discussions
        Challenge Project option

Unit Three: Novel Study Two
Duration:    Three-Four Weeks
Content:    Catcher in the Rye
Activities:    Reading of novel and related prose and poetry
        Group Work
        Literary Analysis Paper
        Challenge Project option

Unit Four: Novel Study Three
Duration:    Four weeks
Content:    Lord of the Flies
Activities:    Reading of novel and related prose and poetry
        Group work
Psychological look at identity
        Paper on identity
        Challenge Project option

Unit Five: Novel Study Four
Duration:     2-3 weeks
Content:     "Our Town"
Activities:    Reading of play and related prose and poetry
        Written scene of play and presentation
Group work
        Challenge Project option

Unit Six:    Independent Novel Study Presentations
Duration:    One week
Content:    Independent novel study project
Activities:    Reviewing Novel
        Paper
Peer Editing
        Presentation

Unit Seven: Review and Final Test/Essay
Content:    Personal Identity

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