English III American Literature
Course of Study

Puritanism (2 weeks)
o Poetry
 Upon the Burning of Our House by Bradstreet
 An Hymn to the Evening by Wheatley
o Cherokee myths
o Mary Rowlandson & Equiano
o Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Edwards
o Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne
o The Minister’s Black Veil by Hawthorne
o Video: The Crucible (2)
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Revolutionary (2 weeks)
o Poetry
 The Indian Burying Ground by Frenau
o Benjamin Franklin autobiography
o Poor Richard’s Almanack by Franklin
o The Crisis by Paine
o Speech to the Virginia Convention by Henry
o Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Abigail Adams
o Video: Lewis and Clark (1)
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Romanticism (4 weeks)
o Poetry
 The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls, The Cross of Snow by
Longfellow
 Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Dickinson
 O Captain, My Captain, I Hear America Singing, Song of
Myself 10, 33 by Whitman
 Annabel Lee, The Bells by Poe
o The Devil and Tom Walker by Irving
o Dr. Heideggar’s Experiment by Hawthorne
o Walden, Life in the Woods by Thoreau
o Self Reliance by Emerson
o The Black Cat by Poe
o Video: Trail of Tears, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1)
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Realism (4 weeks)
o Poetry
 Miniver Cheevy, Richard Cory by Robinson
o An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Bierce
o To Build A Fire by London
o The Yellow Wallpaper by Chopin
o A Wagner Matinee by Cather
o The Lowest Animal by Twain
o Narrative by Douglas/Incidents by Jacobs
o Video: The Civil War by Ken Burns(1), Letter to Sarah Ballou
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Modernism/Contemporary (3 weeks)
o Poetry
 The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Evening, Reluctance by Frost
 The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Hughes
 Incident by Cullen
o A Worn Path by Welty
o A Rose for Emily by Faulkner
o The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by Thurber
o A Good Man is Hard to Find by O’ Connor
o The Children’s Story by Clavell
o The Man in the Well by Sher
o Harrison Bergeron by Vonnegutt
o The Veldt by Bradbury
o World War II literature
o Video: The Help (2)
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Possible Novel Selections
o The Giver
o The Traveler’s Gift
o The Last Lecture
o Tuesday’s with Morrie
o The Great Gatsby
o Grisham