To wrap up the unit on identity, we will be reading The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger. Published in 1951, this story features typical, poignant, and sometimes crude episodes from protagonist Holden Caufield’s searching journey to New York City.

We will be reading three short stories that all have to do with the topic of identity.

Who are you? Do you Know? This unit is designed to find the answers to these questions (well, maybe).

Literary elements are the parts, or components of a story. Literary elements make those parts better.

A Raisin in the Sun was first produced in 1959 and anticipates many of the issues which were to divide American culture during the decade of the 1960s.

The central idea behind A Raisin in Sun is the American Dream. What is it? Where did it come from? How do you obtain it?

The term originated with a traveling show in which a white man imitated stereotypes of African Americans. Later, that name was used in society. For instance, special railroad car on trains were for blacks only and were called “Jim Crow Cars.” This became the standard term for laws and acts designed to promote segregation and [...]

Our unit on the American Dream begins with an exploration of the Harlem Renaissance. Harlem Renaissance (HR) is the name given to the period from the end of World War I and through the middle of the 1930s Depression…