Find the course syllabus here, along with other important information and documents.

Unit 1 will take a look at race and racism. Students will read and discuss texts exploring race with a focus on the Black Lives Matter Movement. Students will learn and apply close reading and note-taking strategies while practicing identifying main ideas, lenses, and perspectives in a text.

Unit 2 will explore logical arguments and fallacies.  Students will also learn how to evaluate sources (RAVEN) and use proper APA formatting.

You will go through this unit twice, once as a mock task and once as the real deal. You will complete the mock task with teacher feedback, which will be preparation for the real task 1 (without teacher feedback) that gets submitted to the College Board. For this task, you will be given both an individual grade for your Individual Research Report (IRR) and a group grade for the Team Multimedia Presentation (TMP).

You made it to task 2! You will continue to use and hone the skills you developed in task 1; however, instead of working with a team and focusing on one lens, now you will be working individually to research and analyze multiple lenses/perspectives in your own paper and presentation.

Find resources here to review and practice for the end of course (EOC) exam.

This literature unit is interdisciplinary with Brazilian social studies.

How does historical fiction capture the zeitgeist (spirit of the time) of the Brazilian dictatorship?

Main text: The Marble Army