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UNIT 2 Outsiders and Outcasts The idea of social isolation is a common thread throughout literature. Is it because being alone is just a natural part of life? Discuss It What can happen to great thinkers when their ideas are critical of others? Write your response before sharing your ideas. © Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All rights reserved. or its affiliates. Inc., Education, © Pearson Socrates SCAN FOR 126 MULTIMEDIA UNIT 2 UNIT INTRODUCTION ESSENTIAL QUESTION: LAUNCH TEXT ARGUMENT MODEL Isn’t Everyone a Little Do people need to belong? Bit Weird? WHOLE-CLASS SMALL-GROUP INDEPENDENT LEARNING LEARNING LEARNING ANCHOR TEXT: SHORT STORY SHORT STORY MYTH The Metamorphosis The Doll’s House The Orphan Boy and Franz Kafka, Katherine Mansfield the Elk Dog translated by Blackfoot, Ian Johnston retold by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz MEDIA: VIDEO POETRY COLLECTION MEMOIR Franz Kafka and Sonnet, With Bird By Any Other Name Metamorphosis Sherman Alexie from Gifts of Passage BBC Santha Rama Rau Elliptical Harryette Mullen Fences NEWSPAPER ARTICLE Pat Mora Outsider’s Art Is Saluted at Columbia, ARGUMENT Then Lost Anew Revenge of the Geeks Vivian Yee Alexandra Robbins MEDIA: RADIO BROADCAST Fleeing to Dismal Swamp, Slaves and LECTURE Outcasts Found Encountering the Freedom Other: The Challenge Sandy Hausman for the 21st Century Ryszard Kapuscinski PERFORMANCE TASK PERFORMANCE TASK PERFORMANCE-Based Assessment PRep WritinG FoCus: SpEAKinG AnD ListEninG FoCus: Review Evidence for Write an Argument Deliver a Multimedia Presentation an Argument © Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All rights reserved. or its affiliates. Inc., Education, © Pearson PERFORMANCE-BASED ASSESSMENT Argument: Essay and Oral Presentation PROMPT: Is the experience of being an outsider universal? 127 UNIT 2 INTRODUCTION Unit Goals Throughout this unit, you will deepen your perspective of outsiders and outcasts by reading, writing, speaking, presenting, and listening. These goals will help you succeed on the Unit Performance-Based Assessment. Rate how well you meet these goals right now. You will revisit your ratings later when you reflect on your growth during this unit. 1 2 3 4 5 SCALE NOT AT ALL NOT VERY SOMEWHAT VERY EXTREMELY WELL WELL WELL WELL WELL READING GOALS 1 2 3 4 5 • Evaluate written arguments by analyzing how authors state and support their claims. • Expand your knowledge and use of academic and concept vocabulary. WRITING AND RESEARCH GOALS 1 2 3 4 5 • Write an argumentative essay in which you effectively incorporate the key elements of an argument. • Conduct research projects of various lengths to explore a topic and clarify meaning. LANGUAGE GOAL 1 2 3 4 5 • Correctly use phrases and clauses to convey meaning and add variety and interest to your writing and presentations. SPEAKING AND LISTENING GOALS 1 2 3 4 5 STANDARDS L.9–10.6 Acquire and use • Collaborate with your team to build on accurately general academic the ideas of others, develop consensus, and domain-specific words and and communicate. phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at © Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All rights reserved. or its affiliates. Inc., Education, © Pearson the college and career readiness • Integrate audio, visuals, and text in level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge presentations. when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. SCAN FOR 128 UNIT 2 • Outsiders and Outcasts MULTIMEDIA ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Do people need to belong? Academic Vocabulary: Argument Academic terms appear in all subjects and can help you read, write, and discuss with more precision. Here are five academic words that will be useful FOLLOW THROUGH to you in this unit as you analyze and write arguments. Study the words in this chart, and mark them or their Complete the chart. forms wherever they appear 1. Review each word, its base, and the mentor sentences. in the unit. 2. Use the information and your own knowledge to predict the meaning of each word. 3. For each word, list at least two related words. 4. Refer to a dictionary or other resources if needed. WORD MENTOR SENTENCES PREDICT MEANING RELATED WORDS contradict 1. Your sister will probably be contradiction; unhappy if you continue to contradictory ROOT: contradict her. -dict- 2. The two sources that I used for “speak”; “talk” my research paper contradict one another on some important points. negate 1. The one time you lie may negate all the times you tell ROOT: the truth. -neg- 2. Getting a bad grade on the “no”; “not” final exam will negate all the hard work I put into this class. objection 1. My only objection to the plan is that some of the steps seem ROOT: vague and should be more -ject- precise. “throw” 2. When you have an objection to a proposal, explain your concerns in polite terms. verify 1. Maria will verify the information before we include ROOT: it in the presentation. -ver- 2. I checked the band’s tour “truth” schedule to verify that the concert is this weekend. advocate 1. I’m voting for her because she has always been an advocate © Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All rights reserved. or its affiliates. Inc., Education, © Pearson ROOT: for causes that are important -voc- to me. “voice”; “call out” 2. I would advocate that we study tonight so that we can go to the movies tomorrow. Unit Introduction 129 UNIT 2 INTRODUCTION LAUNCH TEXT | ARGUMENT MODEL Isn’t Everyone This selection is an example of an argumentative text, a type of a Little Bit writing in which an author states and defends a position on a topic. This is the type of writing you will Weird? develop in the Performance-Based Assessment at the end of the unit. As you read, look at the way the writer builds a case. What is the writer’s position and how is it supported? 1 veryone is a little bit weird. That’s not a bad thing. It just happens NOTES Eto be true. 2 The common definition of the adjective weird is “unusual or strange.” The connotation, or implied meaning, of the term is that there is something wrong with a person who is described in this way. While many people might feel the connotation is accurate, I would argue that it’s wrong for two reasons. First, the most gifted, successful people are often eccentric. Second, some traits we now think of as being weird were once highly regarded and not weird at all. 3 Consider Benjamin Franklin. One of the framers of the United States Constitution, Franklin (1706–1790) was a leading author, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, activist, and businessperson. He invented the lightning rod, bifocal glasses, and the Franklin stove. His discoveries regarding electricity are important to the history of physics. His public push for colonial solidarity was vital to the formation of the Union. He became wealthy as the writer and publisher of Poor Richard’s Almanack. 4 There’s nothing weird in that list of accomplishments. Brilliant would better describe Franklin, and yet the man some call “the first American” had certain ways about him you might consider odd. He once pranked a competing publisher by astrologically predicting when the man’s life would end. He created his own alphabet, All rights reserved. or its affiliates. Inc., Education, © Pearson dispensing with the letters c, j, q, w, x, and y, and adding others he made up to stand in for common sounds. He is said to have favored “air baths,” often writing his essays and letters while sitting in a cold room with nothing on. SCAN FOR 130 UNIT 2 • Outsiders and Outcasts MULTIMEDIA ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Do people need to belong? 5 Some aspects of Franklin’s life that people today might see as weird would have been viewed as unremarkable during his lifetime. NOTES Take, for example, his appearance. In famous portraits, he wears ruffled shirts, breeches, and tight stockings pulled up to the knee. He wore his hair long well into old age. Today’s viewers of those portraits might think him odd, but those were common fashions of his era. Likewise, consider Franklin’s education. He quit school at age ten and was apprenticed as a printer at age twelve—a career move that today would be considered both weird and illegal. 6 Perhaps Franklin’s oddness actually sparked his genius. He saw things in ways that challenged what other people accepted as fact. Additionally, he had the courage to communicate his insights, act on them, and turn them into achievements. It may have been Franklin’s weirdness that made him great. 7 Some might argue that weird people are just plain weird. By most people’s standards, an undressed man sitting in a cold room writing with a quill pen is undoubtedly strange. But that view of human nature is too narrow. It doesn’t recognize the important idea that many of those who see things differently turn out to be the most creative and ingenious among us. 8 Everyone has eccentricities—slightly odd, perhaps unique ways of thinking or behaving. These might be the first traits you notice in someone, or the last. Being a little bit weird may be one of the things that actually connects us, and makes us uniquely human. 9 Ben Franklin wrote, “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” It takes wisdom to look past what seems weird in people—what makes them different—to find the offbeat humanity that unites us all. WORD NETWORK FOR OUTSIDERS AND OUTCASTS Vocabulary A Word Network is a collection of words related to a topic. As you read the selections in this unit, identify offbeat interesting words related to the idea of the outsider and add them to your Word Network.

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