Language Arts Unit - Ender's Game
Dive into the sci-fi classic Ender’s Game through our three-week homeschool highschool curriculum. Students will discuss Ender Wiggin’s leadership style and the ethical dilemmas he faces with peers. They’ll bring pivotal scenes to life with illustrations and design book covers that reflect the story’s themes. As they delve deeper into the geopolitical backdrop of the novel, they’ll study historical alliances like NATO and enhance their creative writing skills by crafting flashbacks or first-person narratives that expand on the characters.
Key Features:
- Creative and Artistic Projects: Students will design a new book cover for Ender’s Game that reflects its key themes, and they bring their favorite scenes to life with graphic novel-style illustrations.
- Critical Thinking and Strategic Analysis: By analyzing Ender’s leadership style students engage in discussions about ethical dilemmas, like the morality of preemptive strikes.
- Interdisciplinary Connections: Students research historical alliances like NATO and the Warsaw Pact to understand the geopolitical backdrop of Ender’s Game and map Ender’s transformation through key moments in his journey.
- Creative Writing and Character Exploration: Students write flashbacks or first-person narratives to explore Ender’s internal conflicts and motivations.
This interdisciplinary curriculum gives students the opportunity to craft unique book covers, analyze the moral challenges of leadership, debate real-world parallels, and dive into character backstories through writing. From exploring global alliances to creatively reimagining pivotal moments in the story, students will gain skills that extend far beyond the page and into their own lives.
This unit makes up three weeks of a complete year-long high school age English curriculum. Use all ten units for a complete Language Arts ninth grade homeschool curriculum.
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