Identity
Essential Questions
Essential Questions
What is identity?
How is identity developed?
What parts of your identity do you choose for yourself?
What parts of your identity are determined for you by others or by society?
How does identity affect our relationships?
Major Texts
Major Texts
Supplementary Texts
Supplementary Texts
POETRY:
POETRY:
Alexie, Sherman - "Facebook Sonnet"
Dunbar, Paul Laurence - "We Wear the Mask"
Frost, Robert - "The Road Not Taken"
Harjo, Joy - "Remember"
Hayes, Terrance - "American Sonnet for the New Year"
Shakespeare - "Sonnet 29"
SHORT STORIES:
SHORT STORIES:
Olsen, Tillie - "I Stand Here Ironing"
Vonnegut, Kurt - "Harrison Bergeron"
Walker, Alice - "Everyday Use"
NON FICTION:
NON FICTION:
Mukherjee, Bharati - "Two Ways to Belong in America"
SHORT FILM:
SHORT FILM:
"The Bear That Wasn't" (1967, Dir. Chuck Jones)