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Unit Plan Presentation. Kathryn Pitchford and Sabrina Watt Engl 3391, Spring 2011. Canonical Text: The Grapes of Wrath. Young Adult Text: Out of the Dust. Why pair the two?. Essential Questions. What is surviving? Living?
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Unit Plan Presentation Kathryn Pitchford and Sabrina Watt Engl 3391, Spring 2011
Essential Questions • What is surviving? Living? • How are friendships formed and developed? How is friendship exemplified? • What does it mean to have hope? • What happens when technology replaces people? • What is the American Dream? • What does it mean to be an adult? A leader? • Are there times when negative actions are justifiable?
Trials, Tribulations, and Trauma in a Troubling Time • Lesson Plans • #1- Leaving Misery for the “Promised Land” • #2- The Advertising Agency: Entrepreneurs or Heartless Wretches? • #3- The End of a Journey • Assessments • The Grapes of Wrath Final Exam • Essay- Politics in the West • Project- Journal Writing Assignment