Sample Units

English Language Arts B10 Sample Unit:
Equality--Pain and Pride

Resources

Although specific language resources and literary selections are identified for particular activities, alternate resources can be used to achieve the unit objectives. The bibliography suggests additional resources that could be considered 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).

Nonfiction

• "An Open Letter to All Parents of Young People" (Martel)
• "Young Offenders Act, Pros and Cons" (Martin)
• "The Death Penalty: Should Canada Bring It Back?" (Coddington and Parrott)
• "Day Work" (Comer)
• "Who Cares" (Green)
• "So What Are you, Anyway" (Hill)
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Frank)
• "Steve's Story" (Truscott as told to Trent)
• "What's the Verdict?" (LeValliant & Theroux, Issues Series: Justice, McGraw-Hill)

Short Stories

• "After You, My Dear Alphonse" (Jackson)
• "The Good Samaritan" (Luke)
• "Panache" (Kinsella)
• "Hunky" (Garner)
• "The Hockey Game" (Fine Day)

Poems

• "The Six Blind Men" (Saxe)
• "Indian Children Speak" (Bell)
• "The Old Man's Lazy" (Blue Cloud)
• "Night School" (Margaret)
• "Jamie" (Brewster)
• "He Sits Down on the Floor of a School for the Retarded" (Nowlan)
• "First They Came" (Niemoller)

Plays

• A Storm in Summer (Serling)

Novels (partial or full classroom sets)

• Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
• Shabanu (Fisher Staples)
• Nightjohn (Paulsen)
• The Wave (Rhue)

Film/Video

• Schindler's List (Spielberg)
• Schindler: The Documentary (Films for the Humanities and Sciences)
• Mirror, Mirror: An Advertiser's Scrapbook (Media and Society 1 - Advertising and Consumerism, National Film Board of Canada)

Other Useful Resources

• Audio cassettes, newspaper and magazine articles, radio and television clips, posters, and advertisements (print, radio, and television)
• "Young and In Love with Their Wheels" (Callwood)
• "Boyfriend's Drinking, Driving Causing Problems" (Van Buren, Leader-Post, April 28, 1995)
• "Bad Drivers Meet Accident Victims" (Ferguson)
• "Clothe Thine Enemy in Pink" (Canadian Churchman, The Writers Voice 1)
• "Nova Scotia Pushes Ahead with Graduated Licensing" (The Globe and Mail, 1994)
• Language handbooks, dictionaries, and thesaurus