HAZELWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT
English 3B (2nd Semester) Syllabus
Course Description
This is the second of the two required classes for all eleventh grade students in the
Hazelwood school District. Students will read and study drama, novels, short stories,
poetry, and non-fiction pertaining to American Literature. Activities will focus on
analysis and evaluation through writing, listening, speaking in discussions, tests,
projects, and other assignments leading to the achievement of the course performance
goals. The course will address both college and work-place readiness. Students will
choose one piece to be added to their district-wide writing portfolios.
Approved Course Materials and Resources
The Holt Elements of Literature (Fifth Course)
Holt Rinehart, and Winston 2003
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Student Edition
Teacher’s Edition
Reading Skills Strategies: Reaching Struggling Readers
Active Reader’s Practice Book
The Holt Reader: An interactive Work text
The Holt Reader: An interactive Work text Teacher’s Manual
Lesson Plans including Strategies for English-Language Learners
Graphic Organizers for Active Reading
Words to Own Worksheets
Formal Assessment
Spanish Resources
Test Prep Tool Kit
Visual Connections Videocassette Program
Audio CD Library
Great American Stories
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Supplementary Materials
1. Schumacher, Julie A. The Harlem Renaissance. Logan, IA: Perfection Learning
Corporation, 2001.
2. Kuehner, Karen. The Harlem Renaissance. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell, 2001.
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The following novel unit study guides from Teacher’s Discovery may be used with
the approved novels:
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
The Awakening
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The following novel unit study guides from HRW Library may be used with the
approved novels:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Raisin in the Sun
The Scarlet Letter
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The following Applied Practice Novel Units from the Applied Practice Corporation
may be used as enrichment materials:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
American Speeches
The Awakening
The Crucible
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
Non-Fiction Selections
The Scarlet Letter
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Supplementary Literature
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Raisin in the Sun
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
American Speeches
The Awakening
Bean Trees
Blue Highways
The Crucible
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
Having Our Say
The Scarlet Letter
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Way to Rainy Mountain
CD Resources
Audio CD Library Holt supplementary materials
Choices CD Rom (See Librarian or Guidance Department)
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Videos
A teacher should show no more than 6 hours of video per semester and only show
Board approved videos.
Native American Voices:
Smoke Signals
Puritanism
The Scarlet Letter
In Search of History: The Salem Witch Trials
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
The Salem Witches
Chocolat-(many current-day parallels to Scarlet Letter)
The Age of Enlightenment:
1776
The Speeches of Our Founding Fathers and The American Revolution
Romanticism:
Edgar Allan Poe (A&E)
Thoreau: Life and Times
Emily Dickinson
The New England Transcendentalist
The World of Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman and the Civil War
Field of Dreams (Will be used to help students understand transcendentalism)—Please
see Appendix B, pages 6-7.
Realism:
Mark Twain A&E)
Mark Twain (Ken Burns)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1984)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
American Tongues
Modernism:
The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath and the Depression: A Video Commentary
I Have a Dream
Zora is My Name
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Contemporary Literature:
A Raisin in the Sun
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Having Our Say
Sylvia Plath: The Growth of a Poet
Course Expectations
Writing
Research project
Journal writing
Essay and presentation
Literary Analysis
Reading
The Great Gatsby or Their Eyes Were Watching God or The Autobiography of Miss
Jane Pittman or The Grapes of Wrath or Having Our Say or Bean Trees
A Raisin in the Sun
Independent Choice novel
Short Stories
Poems
Essays
Sample Course Activities/Projects/Assessment
At the end of a unit, the students will use one performance method to demonstrate their
interpretation of a piece of literature.
Examples: create a sketch, write a song, create a power point presentation, make a
movie, or act out a scene
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Course Outline
Unit 1 Modernism, selections on pp. 1-26. Literary analysis essay, cultural analysis
essay, reading response.
Unit 2 Harlem Renaissance, Short stories, poems, and essays. Research and essay
on one of the authors of the Harlem Renaissance.
Unit 3 Contemporary Literature
A Raisin in the Sun, short stories, poems, essays. A critical essay and research project.
Unit 4
Most of the English teachers teach The Great Gatsby, but teachers have other choices
as listed in the curriculum for the shared text. Whichever novel is taught, this unit will
require a significant amount of time and will be taught wherever it best fits into the
semester.
Course Curriculum Map
The amount of hours listed under the units is a guideline to ensure that all course
objectives are taught.
Unit 1
Modernism, selections on pp. 1-26. Literary analysis essay, cultural analysis essay,
reading response.
3 weeks
Unit 2 Harlem Renaissance, Short stories, poems, and essays. Research and essay
on one of the authors of the Harlem Renaissance.
4 weeks
Unit 3 Contemporary Literature
A Raisin in the Sun, short stories, poems, essays. A critical essay and research project.
4 ½ weeks
Unit 4
Most of the English teachers teach The Great Gatsby, but teachers have other choices
as listed in the curriculum for the shared text. Whichever novel is taught, this unit will
require a significant amount of time and will be taught wherever it best fits into the
semester.
4 ½ weeks
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Lesson Protocol
High School English
Hazelwood Power Standard _________________Grade: ________________
#1: Anticipatory Set – introduction of lesson and objective
5%
#2: Modeled Activity
25%
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#3: Fiction and Non-fiction Reading and Writing
55%
(emphasis on reading strategies, vocabulary, writing, and analyzing)
Cooperative Student work or Independent Practice
#4: Sharing of product or new understandings
#5: Summarization of Lessons Learned
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Power Vocabulary
Attack ad hominem
Cohesion
Faulty mode of persuasion
Logical fallacy
Literary criticism
Memorandum
Modern Language Association
Nuance
Pastoral
Performance Review
Persona
Satire
Semicolon
Soliloquy
Stream of consciousness
Universal Theme
Warranty
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