American Literature/English 11 Course Outline
Quarter
1
Reading
Unit 1: The Puritan Era
The Crucible, Miller
 Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God,
Edwards
 Why I Wrote The Crucible, Miller
 Upon the Burning of Our House,
Bradstreet
Unit 2: The Enlightenment Era
 From The Autobiography, Franklin
 From A Declaration by the
Representatives of the US, in General
Congress Assembled, Jefferson
Unit 3: The Romantic Era
The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne
 ***The Devil and Tom Walker, Irving
 Nature/Self-Reliance, Emerson
 The Raven, Poe
Reading Subgenre (Per Unit)
Drama
Sermon
Article
Poem
4-6 Analyses in response to literature
1 Response to Literature project: The
Crucible
Autobiography
Explanation/Proposal
Novel
Short Story
Opinion Essay
Poem
2
Unit 4: The Realist Era
 ***Intro To Realism, Josh Rahn
 The Yellow Wallpaper, Gilman/The
Story of an Hour, Chopin
Writing (Whole Quarter)
Description/Nonfiction
Short Story
4-6 Analyses in response to literature
1 Response to Literature Analysis Paper:
The Scarlet Letter
Unit 5: Research Paper
Currently published Scholarly Article
 A Modest Proposal, Swift
Informational Essay
Proposal
4-6 Analyses focusing on
informing/informational texts
1 Research Paper
3
Unit 6: The Modernist Era
The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
 ***The Decade that Roared, Holt
 Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Eliot
Novel
Information
Poem
Unit 7: The Post-Modernist Era
Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
 Death of a Salesman, Miller
 The Crucible [revisited excerpts], Miller
Novel
Drama
Drama
4-6 Analyses focusing on argument
4
1 Argumentative Presentation
Unit 8: Independent Reading
Collection of Literary Criticism
 Student’s choice text of contemporary
literature
Arguments/Interviews/Essays (in
collection)
Novel OR Nonfiction
Text-based
Questions/Answers
Analyze Content
Reading and Writing in All Units
Study and Apply
Text Complexity
Grammar
A.5.g
CCSS-RI/RL2-9
CCSS-SL2-3
A.3
A.6.a
A.4
A.2.c
A.6.c
A.5
A.2.e
A.6.d
A.6
CCSS-R/RL1
Study and Apply
Vocabulary
Speak and Listen
CCSS-RI/RL10
CCSS-L1-3, SL6
CCSS-L4-6
CCSS-SL1-4, 6
A.1.c
B.2
A.8
D.1
D.2
D.2
E.a
D.1
D.2
Jennifer Benton & Robin Quinn
2014-2015