Our Justice unit introduced us to critical thinking skills - we evaluated, analyzed, compared and contrasted, and synthesized the ideas we read about in a wide variety of literature.
You may want to explore and extend the themes we have discussed by reading the following:
Challenging
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Average
Driver's Ed by Caroline B. Cooney
Drummers of Jericho by Carolyn Meyer
Law and Order in the 20th Century by Amy Leibowitz
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tunes for Bears to Dance To by Robert Cormier
Easy
Holes by Louis Sachar
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildren D. Taylor
Poetry Unit
Read the story of James Earl Jones (the voice of Darth Vader) who overcame childhood muteness and stuttering through poetry:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1255955/James-Earl-Jones-My-stutter-bad-I-barely-spoke-years.html#ixzz2x5Xj3iSs
The following powerpoint presentation is a good review of the poetic devices we have learned about in class:
http://www.slideshare.net/clairmckinnon/introduction-to-poetry-ppt-2013-great
You may want to explore and extend the themes we have discussed by reading the following:
Challenging
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Average
Driver's Ed by Caroline B. Cooney
Drummers of Jericho by Carolyn Meyer
Law and Order in the 20th Century by Amy Leibowitz
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tunes for Bears to Dance To by Robert Cormier
Easy
Holes by Louis Sachar
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildren D. Taylor
Poetry Unit
Read the story of James Earl Jones (the voice of Darth Vader) who overcame childhood muteness and stuttering through poetry:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1255955/James-Earl-Jones-My-stutter-bad-I-barely-spoke-years.html#ixzz2x5Xj3iSs
The following powerpoint presentation is a good review of the poetic devices we have learned about in class:
http://www.slideshare.net/clairmckinnon/introduction-to-poetry-ppt-2013-great
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