Links

Our year is divided into three major sections based on the three genres of writing we learn.

Unit 1: Voices of Power

Genre Focus: Rhetorical Analysis

Reading: speeches

Unit 2: Ethics and the Morality of Punishment

Genre Focus: Argument

Reading: moral philosophy, pre-20th century prose, prison articles and excerpts, novel 

Unit 3: Social Constructs and the Individual vs Society

Genre Focus: Synthesis

Reading: philosophy, nonfiction articles