Curriculum Texts

Common texts in various media serve as the foundation for considering the guiding questions of each unit. These texts provide models—albeit imperfect, tentative, and provisional ones—of the ways authors and artists have grappled with these crucial issues. Students deepen their own understanding of these themes by responding to them in a variety of ways over the course of the semester.

The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros	Ray a film by Taylor Hackford
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare	Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Whale Rider a film by Niki Caro	Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Crash a film by Paul Haggis	Persepolis a graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi