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This class investigates changing and controversial social and moral issues in 21st century. Students examine the prevailing social and moral standards in selected novels, poems, short stories, non-fiction and films / documentaries. Some of the literature we read and documentaries we view in class contain mature content (violence and sexuality) due to the nature of the issues being studied. The units of study include minority studies, mental illness, poverty, war, sexism, abuse, homophobia, homelessness and ethnocentricity.

Some of the questions we will explore are:
1) What are issues found in contemporary literature and society?
2) How does the culture of power affect the individual? groups?
3)How does society affect literature and how does literature affect society?

1) The Hamden High School Library Databases:

Click on the above link to find articles / documents through several search engines.


2) Here is a video of 11-year old Jonathan McCoy Speaking Out about ending the use of the N-word

Shihan's Flashy Words (a spoken word artist featured on Def Jam)

Margaret Atwood (writer of Oryx and Crake, A Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace)

Gustav Klimt (painter)

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Hamden High School
Lisa Stamidis