ENGLISH III HONORS
UNITS OF STUDY FOR READING LITERATURE AND INFORMATIONAL TEXT
SPRING 2013
COLONIAL PERIOD: (1-19 introductory material)
RL
RI
27-29, Bradstreet, “Upon the Burning…”
30: #6, 7
20-25, Native American Oral traditions
26: WRITING
31-33, de la Cruz, “World, in hounding me…”
34: WRITING
50-59, Equiano,“from The Interesting…”
63: #8, 10
REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD:
65-71, Franklin, “from The Autobio…”
75: #7
73-74, Franklin, “from Poor Richard…”
75: #1, 2
78-83, Henry, “Speech to the Virginia…”
83: #8, 9
95-103, Jefferson, “Declaration…”
104: #6
ROMANTICISM: (133-149 introductory material)
165-168, Bryant, “Thanatopsis”
179-186, Emerson, “from Nature…” and
169: #5, 6, 7
“from Self-Reliance”
170-174, Longfellow, “The Tide Rises…” and “The Cross
of Snow”
177: #5, 7; 178: WRITING
188: WRITING
189-204, Thoreau, “from Walden”
206: #5, 7
225-236, Hawthorne, “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”
237: #5, 7
219-222, Gandhi/King readings
223: #2, sans Thoreau
273-278, Poe, “The Raven”
279: #6
WHITMAN/DICKINSON: (299-305 introductory material)
307-311, Whitman, “I Hear America…”
312: #4, sans Quickwrite notes
335-337, Dickinson, “The soul selects…”
344, Dickinson, “Apparently with no surprise”
350, Dickinson, “Much madness…”
341: #7
346: #7
353: #3
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REALISM: (377-395 introductory material)
422-430, Bierce, “An Occurrence…”
431: WRITING
479-492, London, “To Build a Fire”
495: #6, 7
397-403, Douglass, “from Narrative…”
404: #6, 8
468-475, Twain, “The Lowest Animal”
Gould, “A Time of Gifts”
476: WRITING
MODERNISM: (557-573 introductory material)
591-593, Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow”
597-599, Moore and MacLeish, “Poetry” and “Ars Poetica”
600: LISTENING AND SPEAKING
608-617, Hemingway, “Soldier’s Home”
619: #8, 9
684-693, Welty, “A Worn Path”
694: #9, 10
HARLEM RENAISSANCE: (741-743 introductory material; also 753, 756-7)
744, 747, Cullen, “Incident”
748: #3, sans Quickwrite notes
749, 759, Hughes, “The Negro Speaks…”
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE: (791-809 introductory material; 810-863 special section on WWII—opt.)
864-874, O’Brien, “Speaking of Courage”
875: WRITING (choose one)
876-882, Barthelme, “Game”
885: #10, 11
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INDEPENDENT READING AND STUDY:
(Choose one—short stories)
(Choose two--nonfiction)
Alvarez, “Daughter of Invention” 897-909
Wright, “from Black Boy” 967-980
Marquez, “The Handsomest Drowned…” 911-917
Kingston, “The Girl…” 984-993
Tan, “Rules of the Game” 919-929
Momaday, “from The Way…” 996-1003
Lahiri, “When Mr. Pirzada…” 932-946
Walker, “from In Search …” 1006-1012
Baldwin,“Autobiographical...”1014-1021
(Choose one--poetry)
Bishop, “The Fish” 1042-1045
Plath, “Mirror” 1049-1050
Cisneros, “Straw Into…” 1023-1029