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