Prereading+Topics

=Short Story Unit Topics:= Author of Short Story: Biography, most important works, important themes/topics commonly treated by the author Topical:
 * //Cask Of Amontillado//
 * Carnaval
 * Catacombs
 * //Sound of Thunder//
 * Is time travel possible?
 * Technology innovations of the future: Good or bad?- Cloning
 * Technology innovations of the future: Good or bad?- Drones
 * Technology innovations of the future: Good or bad? - other topics?
 * //The Most Dangerous Game//
 * //If I Forget thee oh Earth// ( Pair with //Silent Spring//excerpt in text book?)
 * Cause/effect environmental issues: Exxon Valdez
 * Cause/effect environmental issues: BP Gulf
 * The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
 * Rules of the Game
 * What is "endgame" in chess?
 * Describe Chinatown immigrant culture
 * What is "endgame" in chess?
 * Describe Chinatown immigrant culture

=Long Way Gone=
 * Blood Diamonds
 * Civil War in Sierra Leone
 * RUF
 * Child Soldiers:Uganda
 * Child Soldiers: Phillipines
 * Child Soldiers: Colombia
 * Child Soldiers : Sri Lanka
 * Child Soldiers: ??
 * Hip hop music and social change
 * What is PTSD in children
 * PTSD and Rehabilitation
 * Who joins gangs and why do they join them
 * Emmanuel Jal: Somali ex Child Soldier now a hip hop artist
 * Genocide
 * KONY
 * Lord's Resistance Army


 * Kony
 * Lords Resistance
 * Musicicians working for social change