Grade 11 picks up where Grade 10 leaves off: once students have named the systems that shape a place, they examine what it costs — and what it makes possible — to act inside those systems. Through narratives spanning postcolonial India, post-apartheid South Africa, the Caribbean diaspora, and the contemporary American lyric, students wrestle with citizenship, complicity, repair, and the language of witness.
When the systems that shape a place are visible, what is our responsibility — and our risk — inside them?




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