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"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you." -- Mortimer J. Adler
our approachThis course is designed to teach two skills: reading critically and writing well.
More specifically, students will...
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current unitThinking about assumptions, interpretations, and judgment.
How do we decide how to act in the social world, what to think, what information to call into question, what assumptions to run with? "Dear White People": a film about racial stereotypes previous units
This unit will consider Chaim Potok's The Chosen. We will take what we've learned about identifying theme and annotating text and apply these skills more independently. Please find the reading guides on the right.
Our past text was Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Our Town." The major goal for this unit was to identify theme. Theme can be expressed in three ways:
Some of the themes the students have identified so far in this text are:
Some of the ways we have explored theme:
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major assignmentsCurrent long-term assignments: Final TIQA paper, Personal Reflection Blog entry
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