Language Arts - 11th Grade

• Critical Reading: A Guide
  This is a guide to what you might look for in analyzing literature, particularly poetry and fiction.
• Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find": Who's the Real Misfit?
  In this lesson, students will explore these dichotomies - and challenge them - while closely reading and analyzing "Good Man is Hard to Find." In the course of studying this particular O'Connor short story, students will learn as well about the 1950s South, including the evolution of transportation in the U.S., fueled by the popularity of the family car and the development of the U.S. highway system; the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case that helped divide the "Old South" from the "New South"; and the literary genre known as the "Southern Gothic," or "Southern Grotesque."
• Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird: Profiles in Courage:
  This lesson plan asks students to read To Kill A Mockingbird carefully, with an eye for all instances and manifestations of courage, but particularly those of moral courage.
• Introduction to Modernist Poetry
  Modernist poetry often is difficult for students to analyze and understand. A primary reason students feel a bit disoriented when reading a modernist poem is that the speaker himself is uncertain about his or her own ontological bearings. The rise of cities; profound technological changes in transportation, architecture, and engineering; a rising population that engendered crowds and chaos in public spaces; and a growing sense of mass markets often made individuals feel less individual and more alienated, fragmented, and at a loss in their daily worlds. This lesson has three parts: 1) Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry 2) Thirteen Ways of Reading a Modernist Poem, 3)Navigating Modernism with J. Alfred Prufrock
• To Kill A Mockingbird and the Scottsboro Boys Trial: Profiles in Courage
  This lesson plan requires students to study select court transcripts and other primary source material from the second "Scottsboro Boys" trial of 1933, a continuation of the first trial in which two young white women wrongfully accused nine African-American youths of rape.
• World Myths & Legends in Art
  Students: View art by culture and by theme. Then under "Compare & Contrast" select two pieces of art compare, write about them and print out your essay!