Unit 2 challenges students to discover what it means to be a warrior in their own lives by exploring the lives of individuals whose actions contributed to the championing of human rights for all. Students will understand that overwhelming obstacles, both personal and systematic, can occur in one’s life. Real-world warriors make the decision to face these obstacles head on and persevere through challenges in ways that have a lasting positive impact on themselves and others. Students will explore external and internal conflicts experienced as the real-world warriors persevere against overwhelming odds. By reading a variety of accounts of adolescent and adult real-world warriors who stood up for causes bigger than themselves, students will come to view themselves as individuals who can also champion a cause for the good of others and themselves.
Synopsis written by the District of Columbia Public Schools
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Warrior Self
Part I: I am Home
Warrior Self
Part II: The Stories of South Carolina Run LiKE Rivers
At the End of the Day
The Times
The Almost Friends
The Right Way to Speak
The Candy Lady
South Carolina at War
The Training
The Blanket
Miss Bell and the Marchers
How to Listen # 2
Hair Night
Family Names
American Dreams
The Fabric Store
Ghosts
The Leavers
The Beginning of the Leavers
As a child, I smelled the Air
Harvest Time
Grown Folk Stories
Tobacco
How to Listen # 3
Warrior Self
Part II continued: The Stories of South Carolina Run LiKE Rivers
My Mother Leaving Greenville
Halfway Home # 1
My Mother Look Back on Greenville
The Last Fireflies
Changes
Sterling High School, Greenville
Faith
The Stories Cora Tells
Hall Street
Soon
How I Learned the Days of the Week
Ribbons
What God Knows
Two Gods, Two Worlds
New Playmates
Down the Road
God's Promise
The Other Infinity
Sometimes No Words are Needed
The Letter
One Morning, Late Winter
New York Baby
Leaving Greenville
Roman
Warrior Self
Part III: Followed the Sky's Mirrowed Constellation to Freedom
New York City
Brookyn, New York
Herzl Street
The Johnny Pump
Genetics
Caroline But We Called
Her Aunt Kay, Some Memories
Moving Again
Composition Notebook
On Paper
Saturday Morning
First Grade
Another Kingdom Hall
Flag
Because We're Witnesses
Brooklyn Rain
Another Way
Gifted
Sometimes
Uncle Robert
Wishes
Believing
Off Key
Eve and the Snake
Warrior Self
Part III continued: Followed the Sky's Mirrowed Constellation to Freedom
Our Father Fading Away
Halfway Home # 2
The Paint Eater
Chemistry
Baby in the House
Going Home Again
Home Again to Hall Street
Mrs. Hughes's House
How to Listen # 4
Field Service
Sunday Afternoon on the Front Porch
Home Then Home Again
Warrior Self