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  • Scripps Ranch High School
  • San Diego, CA
  • More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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People have always been concerned with self-image, not only with how others see them but how they see themselves. Adolescence, the formative years, is an especially crucial time for weighing what is important and what is not. Fortunately, reading literature is a powerful vehicle we can use to "experience" how other people live, thus expanding the ways we see ourselves and how we can choose to live our lives. Adding Lucy Grealy's memoir Autobiography of a Face to the reading list will broaden the scope of the course curriculum by including much-needed female writers/voices and texts in the nonfiction genre. In this unit we will supplement this memoir with other genres such as poetry, fiction, and film to explore the complex nature of self-image. Through journaling, literary analysis, and Socratic Seminars, students will have opportunities to express themselves in writing, exercise critical thinking skills, and engage in meaningful discussions with peers.

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People have always been concerned with self-image, not only with how others see them but how they see themselves. Adolescence, the formative years, is an especially crucial time for weighing what is important and what is not. Fortunately, reading literature is a powerful vehicle we can use to "experience" how other people live, thus expanding the ways we see ourselves and how we can choose to live our lives. Adding Lucy Grealy's memoir Autobiography of a Face to the reading list will broaden the scope of the course curriculum by including much-needed female writers/voices and texts in the nonfiction genre. In this unit we will supplement this memoir with other genres such as poetry, fiction, and film to explore the complex nature of self-image. Through journaling, literary analysis, and Socratic Seminars, students will have opportunities to express themselves in writing, exercise critical thinking skills, and engage in meaningful discussions with peers.

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