Gifted and Talented Language Arts: The Year at a Glance

Our conceptual theme for the year is "Change"

Unit I: Justice and Utopia

• The Tempest by William Shakespeare

  

Unit II: Cultural Revolution

• The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers
• Harlem Renaissance (Hughes, DuBois, West, Ellington)
• Civil Rights Materials

Unit III: Global Impact, Individual Responsibility

• Various books, poems and plays on The Holocaust

Unit IV: Comedy and Humor

• Trickster Tales
• History of Literary Comedy
• parody/spoof/satire
• The Clouds by Aristophanes
• Various short stories (Twain, Harris, Hawthorne)

Unit V: Research Project & Independent Study

My philosophy of Gifted and Talented Education is not to pile more work on the student but to provide enrichment through challenging and indepth study.

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."

                                                       ...Henri Bergson