Short StoryWhat makes a short story? Are they quality stories if they don't cover as much time/space as novels?
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Dystopian
What is a "utopia"? What is a "dystopia"? How can we learn about our own society through these fictional stories? We will read a variety of dystopian novels in order to explore these questions.
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ShakespeareShakespeare totally understood middle/high school drama when he wrote his plays Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo and Juliet.
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MemoirThe Other Side of the Sky and other memoir texts will provide narrative non-fiction texts for us to read and analyze in preparation for writing our own personal narratives.
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PoetryThroughout the year, we will read and analyze poems as well as learn various poetry styles and techniques.
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