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ELA Grade 11, Unit 1

Grade 11, Unit 1 - Breaking Away

How does independence define the American spirit?

The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

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The Awakening by Kate Chopin
ISBN: 9780312062354
Publication Date: 1992-12-01
First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. This portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the senses

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eBook (multiple file formats) from Project Gutenberg
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller
ISBN: 9780142437339
Publication Date: 2003-03-25
A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community. Arthur Miller's classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts is based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminate the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence. Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's "witch-hunts" in the United States.

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The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne
ISBN: 9781512090567
Publication Date: 2015-05-07
Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Containing a number of religious and historic allusions, the book explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.

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Movie - Easy A

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
ISBN: 9780358062684
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
Jhumpa Lahiri brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations. Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world -- conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs.

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ELA Grade 11, Unit 2

Grade 11, Unit 2 - The Highway

How do journeys influence perspective?

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
ISBN: 9780385486804
Publication Date: 1997-01-20
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family gave away $25,000 in savings, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding--and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.

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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
ISBN: 9780061577079
Publication Date: 2008-06-10
This is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy.

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
ISBN: 9780520343641
Publication Date: 2021-09-21
Hilariously picaresque, epic in scope, alive with the poetry and vigor of the American people, Mark Twain's story about a young boy and his journey down the Mississippi was the first great novel to speak in a truly American voice. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are more serious undercurrents - of slavery, adult control and, above all, of Huck's struggle between his instinctive goodness and the corrupt values of society, which threaten his deep and enduring friendship with Jim.

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Walden by Henry David. Thoreau
ISBN: 9780451532169
Publication Date: 2012-07-03
in Walden, Henry David Thoreau reflects on life, politics, and society. In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Shedding the trivial ties that he felt bound much of humanity, Thoreau reaped from the land both physically and mentally, and pursued truth in the quiet of nature. In Walden, he explains how separating oneself from the world of men can truly awaken the sleeping self. Thoreau holds fast to the notion that you have not truly existed until you adopt such a lifestyle-and only then can you reenter society, as an enlightened being. Walden has inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature. More than a century and a half later, his message is more timely than ever.

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ELA Grade 11, Unit 3

Grade 11, Unit 3 - No Strangers Here

How does place shape the individual?

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Road by Cormac Mccarthy
ISBN: 9780307277923
Publication Date: 2009-09-28
In this searing, postapocalyptic novel a father and his son walk alone through the ravaged landscape of burned America. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food--and each other. The Road boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, each the other's world entire, are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
ISBN: 9780679732259
Publication Date: 1991-01-30
As I Lay Dying depicts the harrowing account of the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Narrated in turn by each of the family members, including Addie herself as well as others, the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos.

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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
ISBN: 9780072434224
Publication Date: 2000-06-01
One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorrow, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams, it is the story of fair-skinned, fiercely independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through three marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose. A true literary wonder, Hurston's masterwork remains as relevant and affecting today as when it was first published—perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature.

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ELA Grade 11, Unit 4

Grade 11, Unit 4 - Living the Dream

What does home mean to you?

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Fences by August Wilson
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
ISBN: 9780451183880
Publication Date: 1995-04-01
A Raisin in the Sun is an epic, eloquent work capturing not only the life and dreams of a Black family, but the Chicago--and the society--that surround and shape them. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun."

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Fences by August Wilson
ISBN: 9780735216686
Publication Date: 2016-12-06
Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less. This is a modern classic, a book that deals with the impossibly difficult themes of race in America, set during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s.

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Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 9780307455925
Publication Date: 2014-03-04
A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America--and the search for what it means to call a place home. Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be Black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. At once powerful and tender, Americanah is a remarkable novel.

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ELA Grade 11, Unit 5

Grade 11, Unit 5 - The Wars We Wage

What does it mean to win?

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Othello by William Shakespeare

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
ISBN: 9780670000326
Publication Date: 1958-01-03
Willy Loman has been a salesman for 34 years. At 60, he is cast aside, his usefulness now exhausted. With no future to dream about he must face the crushing disappointments of his past. He takes one final brave action, but is he heroic at last?, or a self-deluding fool?

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780743273565
Publication Date: 2004-09-30
The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, is the quintessential novel of the American Jazz Age. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, and of lavish parties on Long Island, is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

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Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
ISBN: 9780006546191
Publication Date: 1994-09-07
Set on and around a North Dakota reservation, 'Love Medicine' tells the story of the Lamartines and the Kashpaws - two extraordinary families whose fates are united and sustained in a harsh world by the strength and diversity of their love. We meet the sensual Lulu Lamartine, whose children have different fathers, but whose passionate tie to her first love, Nector Kashpaw, intensifies over the years; June Kashpaw, who froze to death in a snowstorm; and the philosophical Lipsha Morrissey, June's abandoned son, who makes a love medicine to keep his grandparents together.

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Othello by William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780743477550
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
In Othello, Shakespeare creates powerful drama from a marriage between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona that begins with elopement and mutual devotion and ends with jealous rage and death. Shakespeare builds many differences into his hero and heroine, including race, age, and cultural background. Yet most readers and audiences believe the couple's strong love would overcome these differences were it not for Iago, who sets out to destroy Othello. Iago's false insinuations about Desdemona's infidelity draw Othello into his schemes, and Desdemona is subjected to Othello's horrifying verbal and physical assaults.

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Movie - O (2001, updated version of Othello set in a high school)

ELA Grade 11, Unit 6

Grade 11, Unit 6 - With Malice Toward None

How can we attain justice for all?

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
ISBN: 9780140042399
Publication Date: 1976-09-30
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize–winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into haves and have-nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity.

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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
ISBN: 9780679732761
Publication Date: 1995-03-14
In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story from the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. He describes growing up in a Black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood," before retreating amid violence and confusion.

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
ISBN: 9780030853227
Publication Date: 1971-01-01
First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is an eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of American Indians during the second half of the nineteenth century. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown introduces readers to great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes, revealing in heartwrenching detail the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that methodically stripped them of freedom. A forceful narrative still discussed today as revelatory and controversial, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee permanently altered our understanding of how the American West came to be defined.

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Cumberland High School Library: Grade 11

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Librarian

Grade 11 ELA Cover Gallery

ELA Grade 11, Unit 1

Grade 11, Unit 1 - Breaking Away

How does independence define the American spirit?

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

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ELA Grade 11, Unit 2

Grade 11, Unit 2 - The Highway

How do journeys influence perspective?

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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ELA Grade 11, Unit 3

Grade 11, Unit 3 - No Strangers Here

How does place shape the individual?

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

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ELA Grade 11, Unit 4

Grade 11, Unit 4 - Living the Dream

What does home mean to you?

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Fences by August Wilson

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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ELA Grade 11, Unit 5

Grade 11, Unit 5 - The Wars We Wage

What does it mean to win?

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

Othello by William Shakespeare

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ELA Grade 11, Unit 6

Grade 11, Unit 6 - With Malice Toward None

How can we attain justice for all?

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

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