The document outlines the pacing guide for an English 11 course over two semesters. The fall semester covers two units: the first focuses on early American literature from encounters through 1800, including works by William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, and Olaudah Equiano. The second unit examines the Revolutionary and Romantic periods from the mid-1700s to 1855, incorporating works like Into the Wild. The spring semester also contains six units: the third analyzes Realism through Mark Twain; the fourth examines women's voices and the American Dream through authors like Emily Dickinson and Kate Chopin; the fifth explores the Harlem Renaissance and Modernism; and the sixth covers the Contemporary period through present day.
The document outlines the pacing guide for an English 11 course over two semesters. The fall semester covers two units: the first focuses on early American literature from encounters through 1800, including works by William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, and Olaudah Equiano. The second unit examines the Revolutionary and Romantic periods from the mid-1700s to 1855, incorporating works like Into the Wild. The spring semester also contains six units: the third analyzes Realism through Mark Twain; the fourth examines women's voices and the American Dream through authors like Emily Dickinson and Kate Chopin; the fifth explores the Harlem Renaissance and Modernism; and the sixth covers the Contemporary period through present day.
The document outlines the pacing guide for an English 11 course over two semesters. The fall semester covers two units: the first focuses on early American literature from encounters through 1800, including works by William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, and Olaudah Equiano. The second unit examines the Revolutionary and Romantic periods from the mid-1700s to 1855, incorporating works like Into the Wild. The spring semester also contains six units: the third analyzes Realism through Mark Twain; the fourth examines women's voices and the American Dream through authors like Emily Dickinson and Kate Chopin; the fifth explores the Harlem Renaissance and Modernism; and the sixth covers the Contemporary period through present day.
The document outlines the pacing guide for an English 11 course over two semesters. The fall semester covers two units: the first focuses on early American literature from encounters through 1800, including works by William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, and Olaudah Equiano. The second unit examines the Revolutionary and Romantic periods from the mid-1700s to 1855, incorporating works like Into the Wild. The spring semester also contains six units: the third analyzes Realism through Mark Twain; the fourth examines women's voices and the American Dream through authors like Emily Dickinson and Kate Chopin; the fifth explores the Harlem Renaissance and Modernism; and the sixth covers the Contemporary period through present day.
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
English 11 Pacing Guide - Anderson VHS
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