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- Unit 1 – Defining Identity: Dyamonde Daniel and My Name is María Isabel
- Unit 2 – Rediscovering Thanksgiving: Fact vs. Fiction
- Unit 3 – Passing Down Wisdom: Indigeneous, Hispanic and African American Traditional Stories
- Unit 4 – Understanding the Animal Kingdom
- Unit 5 – Embracing Difference: The Hundred Dresses and Garvey’s Choice
- Alt Unit 2 – Honoring Indigenous Peoples
- Unit 1 – Finding Fortune: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
- Unit 2 – Preparing for the Worst: Natural Disasters
- Unit 3 – Interpreting Perspectives: Greek Myths
- Unit 4 – Believing in Yourself: The Wild Book
- Unit 5 – Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
- Alt Unit 1 – Taking a Stand: Shiloh
- Unit 1 – Building Community: Seedfolks
- Unit 2 – Exploring Human Rights: The Breadwinner
- Unit 3 – Protecting the Earth: Plastic Pollution
- Unit 4 – Young Heroes: Children of the Civil Rights Movement
- Unit 5 – Friendship Across Boundaries: Return to Sender
- Alt Unit 1 – A Single Shard
- Alt Unit 2 – Solimar: The Sword of the Monarchs
- Alt Unit 4 – Exploring Mars: Spirit and Opportunity
- Unit 1 – Me, Myself, and I: Examining Personal Identity in Short Texts
- Unit 2 – You Laugh But It’s True: Humor and Institutional Racism in Born a Crime
- Unit 3 – Power, Justice, and Culpability: Of Mice and Men and The Central Park Five
- Unit 4 – ¡Viva Las Mariposas! Voice and Agency in In the Time of the Butterflies
- Unit 5 – Gender and Power in Taming of the Shrew
- Alt Unit 5 – Romeo and Juliet
- Unit 1 – “If This Goes On…” Technology, Truth, and Happiness in Fahrenheit 451
- Unit 2 – Flowers of Freedom: Voice, Defiance, and Coming of Age in Purple Hibiscus
- Unit 3 – “I was born to join in love, not hate—that is my nature.”: Civil Disobedience in Antigone
- Unit 4 – Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: Magical Realism in Latin American Literature
- Unit 5 – Reading as Resistance: Reading Lolita in Tehran
- Unit 2 – The Dream that Recedes Before Us: The Past and The American Dream in The Great Gatsby
- Unit 3 – To the Horizon and Back: Janie’s Search for Identity in Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Unit 4 – Illuminating Illusions: Truth and Fantasy in A Streetcar Named Desire
- Unit 5 – Weaving a Counternarrative: The Urban Native Identity in There There
- Unit 1 – “To Be or Not To Be” and other Questions: Making Meaning of Life and Hamlet
- Unit 2 – Klara and the Sun: Heart, Hope and Humanity in the Age of AI
- Unit 3 – Beyond the Boundaries: Intersectionality, Nonconformity, and Female Friendship in Sula
- Unit 4 – Crossing Borders: Migration, Identity, and Belonging in Exit West
- Unit 5 – Tragicomic Truths: Exploring Identity, Family, and Grief in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home