Marking Period 1

  • Module 1 - Resilience in the Great Depression

    Essential Question - How can enduring tremendous hardship contribute to personal transformation?

    Focus Question 1 - What makes Bud a survivor?

    Focus Question 2 - What hardships did people endure during the Great Depression?

    Focus Question 3 - How is Bud transformed by his journey?

    Focus Question 4 - What sustained people's spirits during the Great Depression?

    Focus Question 5 - How does hardship alter the character's perspectives in Out of the Dust?

    Focus Question 6 - What makes the characters in Out of the Dust survivors?

    Focus Question 7 - How can enduring tremendous hardship contribute to personal transformation?

Marking Period 2

  • Module 2: A Hero’s Journey

    Essential Question - What is the significance and power of the hero's journey?

    Focus Question 1 - How does Ramayana: Divine Loophole exhibit the genre expectations of the monomyth?

    Focus Question 2 - How does The Odyssey exhibit the genre expectations of the monomyth?

    Focus Question 3 - How do translations of The Odyssey and Ramayana expand our understanding of these texts?

    Focus Question 4 - How does the monomyth genre persist in and influence the stories we tell?

Marking Period 3

  • Module 3: Narrating the Unknown

    Essential Question - How did the social and environmental factors in the unknown world of Jamestown shape its development and decline?

    Focus Question 1 - How do the settlers respond to the challenges of their journey to the unknown?

    Focus Question 2 - Who has the greatest impact on Samuel’s development during his time in Jamestown?

    Focus Question 3 - How do the settlers’ and the Powhatans’ responses to the challenges of Jamestown impact its development and decline?

    Focus Question 4 - How does the art and science of observation contribute to a more complete narrative of Jamestown’s development and decline?

    Focus Question 5 - How did the social and environmental factors in the unknown world of Jamestown shape its development and decline?

Marking Period 4

  • Module 4 - Courage in Crisis

    Essential Question - How can the challenges of a hostile environment inspire heroism?

    Focus Question 1 - How do Shackleton and his crew respond to the hostile environment of Antarctica?

    Focus Question 2 - How does Armstrong’s portrayal of Shackleton and his crew develop the concept of heroism?

    Focus Question 3 - How do Malala and her community respond to the hostile environment in Pakistan?

    Focus Question 4 - How does Yousafzai’s and McCormick’s portrayal of Malala develop the concept of heroism?

    Focus Question 5 - How can the challenges of a hostile environment inspire heroism?

    Focus Question 6 - How do Malala and her community respond to the hostile environment in Pakistan?

    Focus Question 7 - How can the challenges of a hostile environment inspire heroism?