Second Semester Plan English 9

The Odyssey Part II  Odysseus’ Return  Emphasis on Hero’s—What is a hero?  How is that different than a leader?  What is your Ithaca?--Project  Continue O Brother Where Art Thou?

Speak  Isolation and communication in High Schools  Exploration of social mores among teens  Gender inequality and the culture that feeds it  Finally, we will do our Personal Narratives!

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier  A Boy growing up in Sierra Leone amid a civil war  Themes  The physical and mental damages from war  What people are willing to do to survive  How does our current well-being impact our memory?

Romeo and Juliet  Archetype of the star-crossed lovers  Fate vs. chance  Our lives, at times, are dictated by a series of seemingly connected events that require their exact sequence and timing  A light amid a world of darkness

To Kill a Mockingbird  Moral Education  Can we actually Learn empathy?  What is it like to live among a society that promotes inequality  How do we still, to a certain degree, live in a society like this?  Moral Laws > Judicial Laws