ELA+Grade+12+Module+A

= Chicopee Comprehensive High School =

‍ Module A - Social Roles, Personal Limits, and the Role of Government
Extended Text (choose 1)
 * //Brave New World// by Aldous Huxley book and study guides [|Available in the CCHS Library]
 * //The Handmaid's Tale// by Margaret Atwood eBook and Audio [|Available in the CCHS Library]

‍ Poetry (choose 2 or 3)

 * [|"Government"] by Carl Sanburg
 * [|"Unknown Citizen"] by W. H. Auden
 * [|"The Hollow Men"] by T. S. Eliot
 * [|"There Will Come Soft Rains"] by Sarah Teasdale (use with identically titled Ray Bradbury story below)
 * [|"Prologue"] from //The Canterbury Tales// by Geoffrey Chaucer (parallel Middle English and Modern English versions)
 * [|"Born in the USA"] by Bruce Springsteen (lyrics) [|Audio]
 * [|"Little Boxes"] by Malvina Reynolds (lyrics) [|Audio]

‍ Short Fiction (choose 1 or 2)

 * [|"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"] by Ursula LeGuin
 * [|"There Will Come Soft Rains"] by Ray Bradbury
 * Excerpts from //[|Utopia]// by Sir Thomas More
 * Excerpts from //[|A Modern Utopia]// by H. G. Wells

‍ Multimedia

 * Clip from Koyaanisqatsi
 * "The Grid" part 2 - scene to accompany Brave New Wolrd
 * "The Island" (film) [|Available in the CCHS library]
 * Political cartoons

‍ Historical Nonfiction (choose 1 or 2)

 * [|"The Right to One's Body"] by Margaret Sanger
 * "Liberty and Knowledge" by John Adams or [|"Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law"] or [|Alternate version]
 * [|"Preamble"] to the US Constitution [|SchoolHouse Rock video] (3 minutes)
 * [|"Bill of Rights"] from the US Constitution
 * [|"The Four Freedoms"] by Franklin Delano Roosevelt (includes audio, primary source, drafts, and more)
 * [|"A Demand to Limit Search and Seizure"] by James Otis
 * [|"A Modest Proposal"] by Jonathan Swift [|Audio]

‍ Contemporary Nonfiction (choose 1 or 2)

 * Excerpt from //The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks// by Rebecca Skloot [|Available in the CCHS library]
 * [[file:mrdanielasbsukmssci/Human GMO debate.pdf|"Designer Babies: The Pros and Cons of Genetic Engineering"]] by Yin Ren