English 10 -American Literature 2009-2010
Theme: The American Dream
Novels & Plays
A Separate Peace
To Kill a Mockingbird
“The Crucible”/ McCarthyism and the Red Scare
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”
Fall Semester
DIDLS: Diction, Imagery, Details, Language, Syntax
“Shame”, “Symphony”, Wicked
Literary Elements
Elements of Short Story
Plot Line
The Puritans:
-Anne Bradstreet
-Jonathan Edwards
-Patrick Henry
-Benjamin Franklin/ Robert Fulghum/ “This I Believe”
Archetypes: “The Princess Bride”
American Romantic/ Renaissance: Romanticism, Five “I’s “of Romanticism, New
American Hero,
-Washington Irving, “Devil and Tom Walker”
-American Gothic: Edgar Allen Poe, “Fall of the House of Usher”; Stephen
King, “The Body”
-Three Influential Women (Elizabeth Peabody, Margaret Fuller, Emma
Willard)
-Transcendentalism: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau,
Into the Wild
Poetry: TPCASTT (Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude/ Tone, Shift, Title,
Theme); “Fireside Poets”
Contemporary Poets: Dr. Seuss, Shel Silverstein, Maya Angelou, Billy Collins
Classic Poets: Robert Frost, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier,
James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman,
Emily Dickinson, William Cullen Bryant
Spring Semester
Modernism: Disillusionment with the “American Dream”; Psychoanalysis; Stream
Of Consiousness; Marxism
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Winter Dreams”
-Eudora Welty, “A Worn Path”
-Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants”
-John Steinbeck
-William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”
-Katherine Anne Porter, “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”
Stream of Consciousness excerpts from: Marya Hornbacher,
Madness, Chuck Palaahniuk, Fight Club , James Frey, Million
Little Pieces
The Harlem Renaissance: The New Negro Movement; The Harmon Foundation
-James W. Johnson, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen; various
poems
-Alice Walker, “Flowers” and excerpts from The Color Purple
-Zora Neale Hurston, “Sweat”
-Toni Morrison, “Recitatif”
The 1950/1960’s Counter Culture: The Beatniks and the Hippies
-Jack Kerouac, excerpts from On the Road
-Allen Ginsberg, excerpt from Part I “Howl”
-Poets (William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, William Carlos Williams)
-Ken Keesey, excerpts from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
-The Women (Sylvia Plath, Joan Didion, Betty Friedan, Anne Sexton); excerpts from The Bell Jar and The Feminine Mystique, as well as various
poems