Unit Overview While previous units focused heavily on the power of creators over the audience through literature, text, and diction, the final unit of the year instead shifts its focus towards the visual. Cinematic terms,[…]
Category: Language and Literatures
The Unbearable Complications of Beliving
Summary In the “This I Believe” Unit, students are encouraged to explore a core, central belief of their life, reflecting from experiences and contemplation on how that came to be and how they have affected[…]
Heart Attack Inducing Misunderstandings
Misunderstandings Misunderstandings can be quite tough – whether if it’s a mistake made by you or someone else, more often than not it results in an inconvenience in life to various extents. These things truly[…]
The Ends and the Means
Justified? As the saying goes, ‘the ends justify the means’, essentially stating that when what comes out of the results is good enough so as to justify and perhaps even balance out the things done[…]
The Poetry Collection Complexion Reflection
In this unit, the class delved into the art and craft of poetry in which we read Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X and analyzed the structure, expression and style poetry can take up. This learning[…]
The Show Must Go On
Unit Overview This unit saw the reading of Arthur Miller’s book The Crucible, a story that depicts the events of the Salem Witch Trials in the presentation of a play format. The class did several[…]
Fear: Mankind’s Most Powerful Weapon
Introduction In Arthur Miller’s book, The Crucible, puritans live under a culture of fear, rigorous rules, and supposed righteousness. Every violation leads to punishments, and as a result, unscrupulous people twist the rules of law[…]
The Hypocrisy of Parris & Authority
DANFORTH: Do you deny it, Mr. Parris? PARRIS: I do not, sire, but I never saw any of them naked. (Miller, 98) That was an excerpt in which Reverend Parris of the town Salem lies[…]
Moral Sacrifices, Principle Compromises
Right or Wrong? Justified or Not? “No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise” (Moore, 289). That was a direct quote from Alan Moore’s 1987 book Watchmen, said by a character who, in[…]
Trust, Communication, and the Hong Kong Protests
Unit Summary In this unit, our Language and Literature class delved into multiple aspects of public and persuasive speaking. From speechwriting to rhetorical devices and breathing techniques, everything we’ve learned about and practiced ultimately culminated[…]