This Semester 1 Book Bundle includes the core texts students will read during the first eight units of The Dissonance Project, an 8-week online literature and rhetoric program for high school students.
Each text in this bundle was chosen because it asks students to wrestle with contradiction, discomfort, and big human questions. Across the semester, students will explore censorship, propaganda, literacy, oppression, conformity, identity, gender, justice, family, belonging, and the power of language.
Rather than reading classics as dusty old books to “get through,” students will use these texts as tools for thinking critically about society, power, communication, and themselves.
The bundle contains the following:
Unit 1: Comfort vs. Thought - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Unit 2: Equality vs. Power - Animal Farm by George Orwell
Unit 3: Literacy vs. Oppression - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Unit 4: Tradition vs. Justice - “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut
Unit 5: Public Self vs. Private Self -The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Unit 6: Care vs. Control - “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Unit 7: Marriage vs. Selfhood - A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Unit 8: Home vs. Escape - The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
This Semester 1 Book Bundle includes the core texts students will read during the first eight units of The Dissonance Project, an 8-week online literature and rhetoric program for high school students.
Each text in this bundle was chosen because it asks students to wrestle with contradiction, discomfort, and big human questions. Across the semester, students will explore censorship, propaganda, literacy, oppression, conformity, identity, gender, justice, family, belonging, and the power of language.
Rather than reading classics as dusty old books to “get through,” students will use these texts as tools for thinking critically about society, power, communication, and themselves.
The bundle contains the following:
Unit 1: Comfort vs. Thought - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Unit 2: Equality vs. Power - Animal Farm by George Orwell
Unit 3: Literacy vs. Oppression - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
Unit 4: Tradition vs. Justice - “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut
Unit 5: Public Self vs. Private Self -The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Unit 6: Care vs. Control - “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Unit 7: Marriage vs. Selfhood - A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Unit 8: Home vs. Escape - The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros