Identity and Belonging in a Changing World — Grade 11
In this unit, students examine how identity is shaped, challenged, and remade when people move across borders, languages, communities, and expectations. Through contemporary and canonical voices, Grade 11 readers ask what belonging costs, who gets to define a self, and how literature makes room for identities in motion.
How do we make a self and a sense of belonging in a world that keeps changing?
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Lessons
The Place We Inherit
How a community teaches us who we are — and how we decide what to carry forward
The City We Name
How a young narrator claims identity when a city is being renamed around her
The Story We Tell
How competing accounts of an event shape identity, belonging, and responsibility
The House We Make
How a young writer turns inherited rooms, languages, and expectations into a belonging of her own
Standards Alignment
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