English III
1st Six Weeks
Introduction to American Literature (1500-1800)
Word Scramble/discussion
The Scarlet Letter- Nathanial Hawthorne
Grammar Pretest
Overview of American Literature- Timeline
Sacred Earth and The Power of Storytelling
How the World Was Made - Cherokee
Of Plymouth Plantation- William Bradford
A Narrative of the Captivity of Mary Rowlandson- Mary Rowlandson
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God- Jonathan Edwards
Young Goodman Brown- Nathanial Hawthorn
Autobiography- Ben Franklin
The Rhetoric of Revolution
Speech to the Second Congress- Patrick Henry
Declaration of Independence- Thomas Jefferson
Assessment
2 writing assignments- Narrative and Rhetorical Analysis
2nd Six weeks
American Romanticism (1800-1860)
Individualism and Nature
Self-Reliance- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fireside Poets
Civil Disobedience- Henry David Thoreau
Eve of Historic Dandi March- Mohandas Gandhi
Long Walk to Freedom- Nelson Mandela
Comparing Literature- Writing Assignment
The Dark Side of Romanticism
American Short Stories
The Devil and Tom Walker- Washington Irving
Tell-Tale Heart, Maelstom, Decided Loss- Edgar Allen Poe
Moby Dick- Herman Melville
Assessment and 1 writing assignment
The Civil War Era (1850-1880)
Resistance to Slavery
My Bondage… Fredrick Douglass
And Ain’t I a Woman- Sojourner Truth
The Civil War and Nation Divided
An Occurrence at Owl Creek- Ambrose Bierce
The Gettysburg Address- Abraham Lincoln
A Poetic Revolution
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Assessment and 1 Writing Assignment
3rd Six Weeks
Regionalism and Realism (1880-1910)
Two Views of the River- Mark Twain
Story of an Hour- Kate Chopin
Regret- Kate Chopin
The Awakening- Novel- Kate Chopin
A Dark Brown Dog- Stephen Crane
The Skylight Room- O. Henry
Assessment and 1 Writing Assignment
Beginning of the Modern Age (1910-1930)
Literary History
PoetryThe Love Song…- T.S. Elliot
Robert Frost
EE Cummings
Another Country- Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby- Novel- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Harlem Renaissance
Dust Tracks on a Road- Zora Neale Hurston
Poetry and Prose- Langston Hughes
Assessment and 1 writing assignment
4th Six Weeks
Research
From Depression to Cold War (1930-1960)
The New Regionalism and the City
Breakfast- John Steinbeck
The Life You Save- Flannery O’Conner
A Worn Path- Eudora Welty
The United States and the World
Was Message to Congress- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
All Rivers Run to the Sea- Eli Wiesel
Assessment
5th Six Weeks
Drama
The Crucible- Arthur Miller
The Study of Theatre
Grammar
Assessment over The Crucible
Writing Assignment: Writing A Review
6th Six Weeks
Introduction to the 21st Century
An Era of Protest
Stride Toward Freedom- MLK
A Tribute- Alice Walker
A Hard Rain’s A Gonna Fall- Bob Dylan
Courage- Anne Sexton
Nature and Technology
Sylvia Plath- poetry
Extending and Remaking Traditions
Thoughts..-Toni Morrison
Introduction to Slam Poetry