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Fall Semester

Unit 1 (Weeks 1-8):


Encounters and Foundation to 1800 (The native, slave and explorer
perspectives)

William Bradfords from Of Plymouth Plantation p. 81-87


Anne Bradstreets To My Dear and Loving Husband
from The Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano
Critical Analysis packet
Jonathan Edwards Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
The Crucible
Literature Circle - group choice of current young adult lit.

Unit 2 (Weeks 9-19 *Christmas Break weeks 17-18):


(Mid 1700s) The Revolutionary & (1800-1855) Romantic periods
(Into the Wild, essays, and persuasive speeches)

John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government


Thomas Paines The American Crisis
Advertising techniques/persuasive speeches
Into the Wild
Emersons Self Reliance & Nature
Thoreaus Resistance to to Civil Government & Walden
Poe
Longfellow
Dickinson
The Spanish Inquisition (Monty Python)
Paul Laurence Dunbar We Wear the Mask

Spring Semester
Weeks 1-8 (Week 9 Spring Break)

Unit 3: (1850-1900) Rise of Realism - Mark Twain (The Adventures of


Huckleberry Finn, satire)
ISP Research Paper
Huckleberry Finn
theme/motif assignment
Mark Twain
Red Badge of Courage
Maya Angelou

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The World of Jack London


Weeks 10-14

Unit 4: (1855-1925) Womens Voices & The American Dream


Continue ISP (oral presentations)
Womens issues, suffragist
Dickinson: Influence of p.746
Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper p.765
Chopin: The Story of an Hour p.783
Reading for Information p.782
The Great Gatsby: Establishing the Historical Context with Primary
Sources
Poetry by: Sandburg, Masters, Robinson, Dunbar, Sapia, Nye, and
Cervantes
Weeks 14-17

Unit 5: (1900-1940) The Modern Period: Harlem Renaissance & Modernism


Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Harlem poetry
Raymond Chandlers The Big Sleep
Robert Frost
Hemingway: The End of Something
T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrick
Wright The Man Who Was ALmost a Man
Plath Mirror
Sexton Self in 1958
Weeks 18-20

Unit 6: (1940-Present) The Contemporary Period


J.D. Salingers Catcher in the Rye
John Steinbeck Why Soldiers Wont Talk
Amy Tan Mother Tongue
Anne Tyler Teenage Wasteland

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