2005

"Starting Over" by Arn Chorn
(escaping war in Cambodia)

"Finding a Win-Win Solution" by Carolyn Kessler
(conflict resolution)

"The Army's Hard Sell" by Bob Herbert
(reinstating the draft)

"A Better Way to Save Youth" by Pius Kamau
(juvenile rehabilitation)

"The World House" by Martin Luther King, Jr.
(equality and civil rights)

2006

English Romanticism

"The Lost Boys" by Sara Corbett
(Sudanese refugees)

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
(surviving on minimum wage)

"Dust Changes America" by Margaret Bourke-White
(The Dust Bowl)

"Ferrying Dreamers" by Tomás Robles
(Mexican farm workers)

The Catcher in the Ryeby J.D. Salinger
(the right to fail)

2007

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Searching for the Fountain of Youth: The Desire to Stay Young

"So that Nobody Has to Go to School if they Don't Want to" by Roger Sipher

"What is Poverty" by Jo Goodwin Parker & The Pursuit of Happyness (module)

"What is Poverty" by Jo Goodwin Parker & The Pursuit of Happyness (essay by Goodwin Parker)

The Odyssey by Homer

Personalities: The Fuel of Life

The Signs of Advertising: Writing a Critique

2008

To Drill or Not to Drill?

Ferrying Dreamers

Should the Drinking Age be Lowered?

Lord of the Flies (Student Version) / Lord of the Flies (Teacher Version)

Dear Judge... Drug Addiction - Hobby or Habit?

"The Barrio" by Ernesto Galarza

The Conflicted Nature of Justice

Revenge

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Literacy Debate: Online R U Really Reading?

Saving the Arts: The True Cost of Budget Cuts

Coming Home

Internet - Should Schools be Wired?

Cheating: Who's to Blame and What to Do?

Freedom Poem (in zip format)

1984 (in zip format)

2005

The Progressive Era

Declaration of Independence

Rights of Detainees at Guantanamo Bay

2006

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
(surviving on minimum wage)

"Dust Changes America" by Margaret Bourke-White
(The Dust Bowl)

"The Glass Wall" by Carol Hymowitz
(gender inequality in the workplace)

2007

Factions Today: Principles of American Democracy

The Legacy of Little Rock

 

 

2008

To Drill or Not to Drill?

The Industrial Revolution

Man Today

Federalism, Where is the Power!!!???

Great Depression: Dust Bowl Migrant Module (in zip format)

 

 

2005

"Los Angeles against the Mountains" Control of Nature by John McPhee
(mudflows and natural disaster)

Limiting Human Population Growth

2006

Quadratic Formula

Mineralogy

Magnetism

DNA

2008

Heredity/Punnett Square

Cell Division & Reproduction

How does the Teenage Brain Work? (Student Version) / How does the Teenage Brain Work? (Teacher Version)

Adventure! The "Hands On" Approach to Science (in zip format)