Unit III: Imperialism
Texts: Poetry & Short stories

Chapter in Text: 27
Enduring Understanding:
  • Diplomacy is driven by national self interest and has domestic and global consequences.

Essential Questions:
  1. How is power gained, used, justified?
  2. How do authors use rhetoric and literary devices to influence readers?
  3. How does personal experience affect perspective?

Poems

He Who Has Lost All, David Diop
The White Man's Burden, Rudyard Kipling

Short Stories

Gentlemen of the Jungle, Jomo Kenyatta

Political Cartoons

Unit Resources