In presenting an issue as essential to the future of our society as the New York City soda ban, the students in my English classes shall grapple with this issue in such a manner befitting the gravity of America's future. In this sense, my students will explore the literature of Bernard Malamud and Franz Kafka; particularly the novels The Fixer and The Castle, respectively. In these books the protagonists become embroiled in the slow yet certain machinations of darkening governments. Whether in Eastern Europe or here in the United States, students must confront the fragility of liberty. In this unit, students will be able to perform literary analysis, expository writing and persuasive writings.
When writing literary analysis, students will investigate literary devices such as foreshadowing, irony, symbolism and intertextuality. In writing expository and persuasive essays, students will investigate the merits of the science and economics behind the health care ban and inform as well as convince their peers of their opinions.
This unit will end in a summative interpretive dance.
I loved your utilization of the soda ban to fit your English class dynamic. My social studies concept for using the topic of the soda ban is similar to yours in the sense of examining the machinations of government - but I think you've taken it to an even more exciting level. And I didn't even mention the interpretive dance routine - which is just bloody brilliant. You win the internet.
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