11th Grade ELA

Power & Place — Grade 11

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.

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Essential Question
When the systems that shape a place are visible, what is our responsibility — and our risk — inside them?

📚 Recommended Anchor Texts

The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Disgrace
Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
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The Body the Poem Names

The lyric, the American citizen, and the poem that says "you" to the system

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1 RL.11-12.2 RL.11-12.3 RL.11-12.6 RI.11-12.6 W.11-12.1 W.11-12.3 SL.11-12.1
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