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    • Unit 1: The Art of Character and Concrete Detail
      • Character Boards
      • D&D Student Version
      • Childlike
      • Desperate Measures: A Dating Profile
      • Dear Future Roommate
      • The Teacher’s Bathroom
      • One-of-Fifty
      • A Food’s Person
      • PDA: Too Much Tongue, Nowhere to Run
      • That’s Cliché!
      • Things They Carry
    • Unit 2: Poetry, Precision, and the Weight of Words
      • Contrasting Poems
      • Persona Poems
      • Epistolary Poem
      • Oppositional Poems
      • The Worst Poem Ever Written (On Purpose!)
      • Haiku
      • Erasure Poetry
      • Found Poem
      • Nursery Rhymes
      • Framing the Moment
      • The Ghazal
      • Beyond the First Letters
      • The Golden Shovel
      • Concrete Poetry
    • Unit 3: The Architecture of Story—Narrative Beginnings, Middles, and Ends
      • Crossing and Returning
      • Becoming Mr. Rogers
      • A Sizzling Day Dream
      • Misleading Expectations
      • A Fable
      • Along in the Silence
      • Guilty as Fiction (Part 1 of 2)
      • The Last Line
      • Hero’s Journey Letters
      • I’m Not A Furry!
    • Unit 4: Infusing the Self—Blurring Art and Identity
      • A Letter from the Underground
      • Where I'm From
      • Do This, Do That
      • A Christmas Story
      • Hear Me Out…
      • Class 101
      • Never Abbreviate ‘Assignment’
      • A Story in Five Objects
      • Parallel Universe Me
      • An Apology (or Lack of One)
      • What I Leave Behind
      • A Letter to the Person Who Will Inhabit My Body
      • The Last Day of the World
      • Myths About Me
    • Unit 5: Poetry Revisited—Form, Flow, and Challenge
      • Building a House
      • The Pantoum
      • Time For A Sonnet
      • Rapping Paper
      • The First Snowfall
      • Journey into the Grotesque
      • The Sestina
      • Falling Apart
      • Poem Backwards is Meop, and That’s Kind of Neat
      • Seasonal Oppression
      • Seeds to Sow
      • Call a Priest!
      • A Yellow Smell
      • It's Just a Translation, Right?
      • Oh No... Is This Interpretive Dance?
    • Unit 6: Drama, Screenwriting, and Visualized Narratives
      • Writing a Screenplay 101
      • Writing Dialogue
      • A Date Gone Wrong
      • Love Is an Open Door?
      • Guilty as Fiction (Part 2 of 2)
      • Not-So-Super-Guy
      • Moody, Broody, Detective Scooby
      • What Topia? Dystopia.
      • Writing a Bluey Episode
      • Louder Than Words
      • Worst. Casting. Ever.
      • Supervillain TED Talk
      • I'd Buy That!
      • ChronoScript
      • Behind the Curtain
    • Unit 7: Experimental Writing—Dream Logic, New Languages, and Breaking the R
      • The Story That Won’t End (or Won’t Begin)
      • The Worst Short Story Ever Written (On Purpose!)
      • This Sentence Knows It Will End
      • Yes, No, Maybe, So
      • The Story That Eats Itself
      • Synesthesia Script
      • You? No You. No, You!
      • What are you Tolkien about?
      • Dreamlike
      • Play Time
      • Day Jah Vu
    • Unit 8: Open Capstone and Publication—A Final Creative Offering
  • English 9 Ethnic Studies
    • Overarching Unit Guide
    • Unit 1: Identity and Community Building
    • Unit 2: Intersectionality
      • In Their Shoes
    • Unit 3: Oppression, Expression, and Stereotyping
    • Unit 4: Resilience and Resistance
    • Unit 5: Cultural Ownership and Storytelling
    • Unit 6: Book Groups
  • ELD
    • ELPAC Prep
    • Describe a Picture
    • Write About an Experience
    • Write about Academic Information
    • Justify an Opinion
    • Sequence
    • Cause and Effect
    • Compare and Contrast
    • Problem, Solution
    • Definition and Classification
    • Conclusions and Connections
  • Honors 12 & Concurrent Enrollment
    • Course Outline
    • Course Writing Expectations
    • Syllabus
    • Academic Integrity
    • Unit 1: Reflecting on Roots
    • Unit 2: Journeys of Reflection
    • Unit 3: The Dark and the Sublime
    • Unit 4: Witches, Kings, and Deconstruction Things
    • Unit 5: Hidden in the Shadows
    • Unit 6: When Mathematicians English
    • Unit 7: Socrates was Obnoxious, and We Can Too
    • Unit 8: Paying the Toul
    • Unit 9: Couples Therapy for Debaters
    • Unit 10: Echoes from the Albatross
    • Lenses and Critical Approaches
      • Psychology
        • Intro to Critical Theory: Psychology, the Mind, and Consciousness
        • Freud and Consciousness
        • Alfred Adler and the Self Ideal
        • Lacan
        • Carl Jung
        • B. F. Skinner
        • Viktor Frankl
      • Linguistics
        • Linguistic Structuralism
        • Semiotics
        • Derrida and Deconstruction
        • Ferdinand de Saussure
        • Charles Sanders Peirce
        • Noam Chomsky
        • Leonard Bloomfield
        • Roman Jakobson
        • Edward Sapir
        • Roland Barthes
        • Umberto Eco
      • Other
        • Women's Perspective in Literature
        • Black and African American Perspectives
        • Narrative Structuralism
        • Post-colonialism
        • "New" Criticism
      • Western Philosophy
        • Plato and Socrates
      • Eastern Philosophy
        • Ram Dass
      • Literary Figures
    • Literary Works
      • 1984
      • Art (Visual)
      • Belovéd
      • Bless Me, Ultima
      • The Book Thief
      • Catcher in the Rye
      • Crime and Punishment
      • Emma
      • Flight
      • Frankenstein
      • Hamlet
      • Heart of Darkness
      • Holocaust Literature
      • Horror and The Uncanny
      • The Idiot
      • Indian Horse
      • The Inferno
      • Lolita
      • Macbeth
      • Misc Poetry
      • Night
      • Notes from a Dead House
      • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
      • Paradise Lost
      • Pride and Prejudice
      • Romeo and Juliet
      • The Stranger
    • Writing Support
      • Mind Maps
      • Free Writing
      • Cubing
      • How, Why, So: A Guide to Interpretive Analysis
      • Strong, Academic Titles
    • Literary Elements
      • Theme (Ideas)
      • Character
      • Setting and Context
      • Symbolism
      • Point of View
      • Freytag's Pyramid (Traditional Structure)
      • Campbell's Monomyth (Hero's Journey)
  • James Joyce
    • Dubliners
      • Dubliners: Childhood
      • Dubliners: Adolescence
      • Dubliners: Maturity
      • Dubliners: Public Life
      • Dubliners: The Dead
    • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    • Ulysses
      • The Telemachaid
        • Telemachus
        • Nestor
        • Proteus
      • The Odyssey
        • Calypso
        • Lotus Eaters
        • Hades
        • Aeolus
        • Lestrygonians
        • Scylla and Charybdis
        • The Wandering Rocks
        • Sirens
        • Cyclops
        • Nausicaa
        • Oxen of the Sun
        • Circe
      • The Nostos
        • Eumaeus
        • Ithaca
        • Penelope
      • Ulysses Seen
    • Finnegans Wake
  • Kinch's Gate: A Buddhist Journal
    • Favorite Meditation Techniques
    • Soto Zen and Plum Village Buddhist Practice
    • Meditation and Malas
    • Fasting and Dieting for Spirituality
    • Historical Sense and a Search for a Teacher
    • Confessions of a Bad Buddhist
    • The Dharma
    • There is No Tree
    • Many Words Make Much Good Meaning Problems
    • On the Afterlife
    • No Goals: The Goal
    • Literature is the Dharma
    • There is No Such Thing as Teaching
    • Personal Buddhist Reading List
  • Creative
    • V.elka: A Graphic Novel Idea
    • An Unfriendly Chivo
    • A Door
    • Shorter Works (Haikus, Tankas, and More)
    • A Gilded Life: Reflections after 20 Days in Mariupol
  • Rants and Editorials
    • The Great Grading Hoax: Why English and Numbers Don't Mix
  • Family Recipes
    • Brisket
    • Honey Lime Chicken
    • Smoked Brats
    • Beef Chuck Short Ribs
    • Smoked Pork Belly Burnt Ends
    • Chile Colorado
    • Chile Verde
    • Borscht (Ukrainian)
    • Olivier Salad (Салат Оливье)
    • Kotleti
    • Pea Soup
    • Ukrainian Piroshki with Cabbage
    • Maple Syrup Scones
    • Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • Essays and Academic Work
    • Waterlover, Griefcarrier, Meansoaker
    • Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
    • The Patriarchal Gyre
    • And They Worshipped Her
    • Austen’s Inferno
    • Finding Reality
    • Shattering Citadels
    • A Wave of Meaning
    • Intro to Feminism
  • Literary Explorations
    • Macbeth's Christian Dagger
    • A Kingly Lesson - Macbeth, Malcolm, and that One Scene You Skimmed Through
  • Literary Odysseys
    • Ulysses - A YouTube Odyssey
    • Part 1: "I'm Going to Prison!"
  • AP Specific Resources
  • Artificial Intelligence
    • AI, Data, and Privacy
    • How AI and LLMs Work
    • List of AI Tools
    • Setting Guardrails
    • Diversifying Instruction using AI
    • Engagement Activities with AI
    • World-Building and Role-Playing with AI
    • Academia and AI
    • Grading Using AI
    • Prompting AI
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Mostly Illiterate

Unit 1: The Art of Character and Concrete Detail

Unit 2: Poetry, Precision, and the Weight of Words

Unit 3: The Architecture of Story—Narrative Beginnings, Middles, and Ends

Unit 4: Infusing the Self—Blurring Art and Identity

Unit 5: Poetry Revisited—Form, Flow, and Challenge

Unit 6: Drama, Screenwriting, and Visualized Narratives

Unit 7: Experimental Writing—Dream Logic, New Languages, and Breaking the Rules

Unit 8: Open Capstone and Publication—A Final Creative Offering

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