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Topic Selection English IV Rivera / Roule
Standards • W.11-12.7 Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. • W.11-12.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research • W11-12: Production and Distribution of Writing – Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Bellringer/Quickwrite What is your passion? What are you passionate about? Why does it inspire you? (Write a solid paragraph)
Two friends work as migrant farmers in California, meeting new people and saving money to buy enough land to live on.
Two teenagers from rival families fall in love and do whatever it takes to be together.
The young girls of Salem, Massachusetts begin accusing various men and woman of witch-craft, particularly a girl, Abigail, who wished to steal a man she had an affair with away from his wife
A woman commits adultery in Colonial America and is shunned from her community along with her newborn daughter, forced to wear a scarlet letter “A” on her clothing.
An epic hero of ancient Denmark, with superhuman strength who fights many monsters.
A black man has trouble finding a job after college during the 1930’s in Harlem.
Animals take over a farm and become a communist society run by pigs.
The story of a boy’s survival during the Jewish Holocause of WW2. Covers the occupation, relocation, separation, and life in the Nazi concentration camps, before he is rescued.
The Story of murder suspect Steve Harmon’s time on trial and in prison as told in his perspective.
The story of two men during the 1892 Chicago World Fair. Daniel H. Burnham, the main architect Dr. H. H. Holmes, the serial killer
600 years in the future human life is controlled by a select few. A man is sent to live with savages from the un-industrialized society.
A planeload of British school boys are marooned on an island where they try to establish their own government.
Mr. Rivera’s Picks
Closing Quickwrite What is one text that we explored ththat you would like to know more about? Why? What is one text then you disliked / would never choose for your research paper? Why?