Subject 1Growing Up and Learning
Unit 1
Schools and school life in the US, the UK, and China
Personal stories about Chinese education
Education in literature: a short story and a poem about a teacher
Special education: life of ADHD students
Unit 2
Understanding different views on education
Educational liberalism
School reforms in the US
Unit 3
Growing into manhood
Cultural influences on education
Subject 2 Family Matters
Unit 4
Happy families
Family relationships
Unit 5
Understanding different positions on family and family life
Reading academic articles
Unit 6
Omnigamy
Why Parents Worry
The characteristics of the Good Family
Subject 3 Learning Literature
Unit 7
Whitman and his poem
Poems
Classic and modern poems
Poems for fun
Unit 8
Understanding different views on the role of literatun in our lives
Elements of short stories
Reading short stories
Unit 9
Reading the short story
Practicing plot analysis
Appreciating a story in an essay
Subject 4 Houses, Cities,and Culture
Unit 10
Understanding houses in human life
Appreciating the short story
Reading neighborhoods and human relationships
Unit 11
Understanding different positions
Modern American residentialt architecture
Critiquing architecture
Unit 12
New York: A city of things unnoticed
Describing facts in literary and journalistic genre
Ayn Rand: Top of the world in New York