Sample Units

English Language Arts A10 Sample Unit:
The Unknown--Hopes and Fears

Resources

Although specific language resources and literary selections are identified for particular activities, alternate resources and activities can be used to achieve the unit objectives. The bibliography lists a range of resources that could be used for this unit.

The following resources have been selected for this unit. Complete bibliographic information is included for resources that are not in the English language arts bibliography (e.g., newspaper articles).

Short Stories

• "The Tell-Tale Heart" (Poe)
• "The Open Window" (Saki)
• "The Third Floor Flat" (Christie)
• "By the Waters of Babylon" (Benét)
• "After the Sirens" (Hood)
• "The Veldt" (Bradbury)

Nonfiction

• "What If People Lived as Long as Trees?" (Cetron and O'Toole)
• "Artificial Intelligence" (Fjermedal)
• "Crime and Puzzlement: 24 Solve-Them-Yourself Picture Mysteries" (Treat)
• Five-minute Mysteries: Thirty-seven Challenging Cases of Murders and Mayhem for you to Solve (Weber)
• Ghost Stories of Saskatchewan (Christensen)
• "The Great Detectives" (The Royal Bank of Canada Monthly Letter, November, 1979)

Poems

• "The Legend of the Qu'Appelle Valley" (Johnson)
• "The Lady of Shalott" (Tennyson)
• "The Raven" (Poe)
• "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (Coleridge)
• "The Ghost that Jim Saw" (Harte)

Plays

• The Monkey's Paw (Parker)
• Dracula (Deane and Balderston)
• Phantom of the Opera (Kopit)
• The Veldt (Bradbury)

Novels (partial classroom sets of one novel from each of the following groups)

• A Morbid Taste for Bones (Peters), Murder On the Orient Express (Christie)
• Locked in Time (Duncan), Blood Red Ochre (Major)
• Ender's Game (Card)
• Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), The Chrysalids (Wyndham)
• Intersellar Pig (Sleator)

Film/Video

• The Veldt (Barr Films)
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Lady of Shalott (Films for the Humanities and Science Inc.)

Language Resources

• The Writer's Voice 1 and 2 (Methuen)
• Bridges 4 (Prentice-Hall)
• Writers Inc:A Canadian Writer's Reference A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning (Write Source); (Nelson); The Communications Handbook (Nelson) or a similar language handbook
• Dictionaries and Thesauri

Other Useful Resources

• Audio cassettes, newspaper and magazine articles related to the theme
• "The Future Appears - Now" (Leader-Post, April 15, 1995)
• "Moosomin Massacre" (Leader-Post, June 11, 1994)

• The Visit (CD) (McKennitt)
• The War of the Worlds (print and recording)