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 Course Details 

Course Overview
Literature Selections

 

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."

-Thoreau

Units include: 

  • The New Land

    • The Walum Olum by the Delaware

    • The Navajo Origin Legend by the Navajo

    • The Iroquois Constitution by the Iroquois

    • Journal of the First Voyage to America by Christopher Columbus

    • Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford

    • Selected poems by Anne Bradstreet

    • "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards

    • The Crucible by Arthur Miller

  • The Revolutionary Period 1750-1800

    • The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin

    • Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin

    • "The Declaration of Independence" by Thomas Jefferson

  • A Growing Nation 1800-1840

    • "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving

    • "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe

  • New England Renaissance 1840-1855

    • ​"Nature" and "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

    • Walden and "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau

    • The Scarlet Letter or "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

    • Informational Texts

  • Extended Research

  • Expository, Persuasive, and Narrative Writing

     

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Semester One

     Subject to Change

Semester Two

      Subject to Change

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Units include: 

  • Division, War, and Reconciliation 1855-1865

    • Selected Spirituals

    • My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

    • "Letter to His Son" by Robert E. Lee

    • "The Gettysburg Address" by Abraham Lincoln

    • "I Will Fight No More Forever" by Chief Joseph

  • Realism and The Frontier 1865-1915

    • Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

    • "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain

    • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (time permitting)

    • "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce

    • "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin

  • The Modern Age 1915-1946

    • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    • Selected Poems from Modernist and Harlem Renaissance Poets

  • Contemporary Writers 1946-Present

    • ​A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

    • "The Slump" by John Updike (time permitting)

    • "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker (time permitting)

  • ACT Prep

  • Expository, Persuasive, and Narrative Writing

     

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Quarterly Schedule

Homework

     AMERICAN LITERATURE

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