Welcome to 9H - Introduction to Genres

 

Class documents, links, and texts can be found below.

 

General Info:

1. Class Syllabus

2. Parent Information Google Form

3. Essay Rubric

 

MP1: What is Childhood?

1. Where the Wild Things Are - Sendak

2. The House on Mango St. - Cisneros [Novel]

   1. Reading Guide​

3. Childhood Project [WS]

4. Synthesis Essay - Trigger Warning / Safe Space [WS]

5. "Once More to the Lake" - White

6. Magical Realism - Genre Information

7. Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Rushdie

   1. Selected Children's Books

   2. Haroun Reading Guide [WS]

8. Intro Paragraph Structure Notes [WS]

9. XREF #1 - Essay [WS]

   1. XREF Essay - Example Process and Analysis

10. "Notes of a Native Son" - Baldwin

    1. Reading Guide [WS]

11. Spirited Away [Film] - Miyazaki 

 

MP2: Understanding / Evaluating the Future of Technology

1. The Circle - Eggers / Brave New World / 1984

   1. Reading Guide Instructions [WS]

2. Synthesis Essay #2 - Technology [WS]

3. Off the Grid Living [Article]

4. 2001: A Space Odessey [Film]  - Kubrick

   1. Visual Literacy​

5. MP2 - XREF [WS]

6. Utopia [Abridged] - Moore

7. Koyonasquatsi [Film] - 

8. Cat's Cradle [Novel] - Vonnegut

   1. Reading Guide [WS]​

9. Dr. Strange Love [Film] - Kubrick

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MP3: Gender, Religion, and Identity

1. "Only Daughter" [Essay]- Cisneros

2. "Women are People, Too" - Friedan

3. "The Yellow Wallpaper" [Short Story] - Gilman

4. "The American Boy" [Essay] - Roosevelt

5. Synthesis Essay #3 [PDF]

6. The Stranger - Camus

7. Construct Visual Project - [PDF]

8. MP3 - XREF #3 [WS]

9. Go Tell it on The Mountain [Novel] -  Baldwin

   1. Reading Guide [PDF]

   2.  Jesus Camp - Film​

   3. "Dying of Thirst" - Kendrick Lamar

10. Boyhood [Film]

 

MP4: Culture, Race, and Perception​

1. Intro to Argument Essays [WS]

2. Zoo Man and the Sign - Fuller

3. MP4 - XREF #4 [ WS]

4. Romeo and Juliet [Play] - Shakespeare

   1. Reading Guide

   2. Romeo and Juliet [Film] - Zeffirelli

   3. Romeo + Juliet [Film] - Luhrman

   4. Project