I, Me, You, We: Individuality Versus Conformity, Ela Lessons for Gifted and Advanced Learners in Grades 6-8 (Paperback)

Acknowledgements Introduction Pretest Pretest Rubric AN EXAMINATION OF IDENTITY: How Does Our Environment Shape Our Identity? Lesson 1 “Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed by Ray Bradbury Lesson 2 “All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury Lesson 3 “Day and Night by M. C. Escher AN EXAMINATION OF RISK: Against the Status Quo Lesson 4 “Letter to DAR” and “My Day” Column by Eleanor Roosevelt Lesson 5 Picasso’s Guitars and Plato’s Theory of Forms Lesson 6 “Much Madness is divinest Sense AN EXAMINATION OF SOCIAL CONFORMITY Lesson 7 The Mayflower Compact by William Bradford Lesson 8 “Alone by Maya Angelou Lesson 9 “Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut AN EXAMINATION OF NONCONFORMITY: A Force of Social Change Lesson 10 Excerpts From “Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson Lesson 11 Excerpts From “Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau Lesson 12 Final Reflection and Culminating Project Posttest Posttest Rubric References Appendix A: Instructions for Using the Models Appendix B: Blank Models and Guides Appendix C: Rubrics About the Authors Common Core State Standards Alignment