Miss Beller's Classroom
English 1/2
English 3/4
First Semester Texts
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In this text we will discover the hardships of being an adolescent and a young woman. We will analyze the positive and negative consequences of choices.
Freedom Writers Diary
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In this text we will learn how relationships with school, society, family, and friends make up our view on life and how we can come together as a community to make a change with problems in society.
The First Part Last
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In this text we will take a different perspective on teenage pregnancy and analyze how our actions have positve and negative consequences. We will study our main character, Bobby, through this lens.
Kindred
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In this text we will meet Dana who finds her self shuttled between her California home in 1976 to a pre-Civil War Maryland plantation. We will analyze relationships between societies in history and how these relationships still impact us today.
The Pact
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In this text we will discuss the power of having dreams and how people in our daily lives can be heroes. We will meet three characters that promised to change their lives for the better.
The Secret Life of Bees
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​This coming-of age-story gives us an insight into American culture and also addresses the difficulty of loss and betrayal.