English III Syllabus
Spring Semester
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Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion
The Age of Realism (A.D. 1850-1914)
“The Development of American English: Mark Twain and the
American Language,” “An Account of an Experience with
Discrimination by Sojourner Truth,” writing research to achieve
purpose
Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion
The Age of Realism (A.D. 1850-1914)
Readings from: Stephen Crane, Stephen Foster, George Cooper,
Fredrick Douglas, & spiritual hymns; compare and contrast
literary themes
Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion
The Age of Realism (A.D. 1850-1914)
Comparing literary works, the research paper, readings from:
Abraham Lincoln & Robert E. Lee
Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion
The Age of Realism (A.D. 1850-1914)
analyzing information, using context clues, readings from: Mary
Chestnut, Warren Lee Gross, Randolph McKim, Stonewall
Jackson, Rev. Henry M. Turner, & Sojourner Truth
Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion
The Age of Realism (A.D. 1850-1914)
critical readings – using context clues, critique of persuasive
arguments, the research paper, readings from: Mark Twain, Bret
Hart, Miriam Davis Colt, Chief Joseph, Jack London
Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion
The Age of Realism (A.D. 1850-1914)
the research paper, readings from: Kate Choin, Paul Lawrence
Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edgar Lee Masters, Willa
Cather
Disillusion, Definace, and Discontent
The Modern Age (1914-1946)
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“The Development of American English: Slang as it is Slung,”
Ambush, the writing process: revision, evaluate literary trends
Disillusion, Definace, and Discontent
The Modern Age (1914-1946)
research: multimedia presentations; readings from: T.S. Eliot,
Ezra Pound, Wm. Carols Williams, H.D., F. Scott Fitzgerald, John
Steinbeck
Disillusion, Definace, and Discontent
The Modern Age (1914-1946)
recognizing relationships, readings from: E.E. Cummings, W.H.
Auden, Thomas Wolfe, Wallace Stevens, Archibald MacLeish,
Marianne Moore
Disillusion, Definace, and Discontent
The Modern Age (1914-1946)
critical reading:sentence-completion, readings from: Ernest
Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Eudora Welty, Tim O’Brein, Carl
Sandburg, Katherine Anne Porter, William Faulkner, & Robert
Frost
Week 11: SPRING BREAK
Week 12: SPRING BREAK
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Disillusion, Definace, and Discontent
The Modern Age (1914-1946)
evaluating communication methods, readings from: James
Thurber, E.B. White, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes,
Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Arna Bontemps, & Jean Toomer
Prosperity and Protest
The Contemporary Period (1946-Present)
“The Development of American English: Brave New Words,” using
historical facts in fiction, “The Words of Arthur Miller on The
Crucible,” analyzing literary trends, workplace writing: the job
portfolio & résumé
Prosperity and Protest
The Contemporary Period (1946-Present)
determining the value of texts, “Twentieth Century Drama:
America on Stage,” The Crucible
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Prosperity and Protest
The Contemporary Period (1946-Present)
critical reading: punctuation, usage, and sentence structure;
readings from: Flannery O’Conner, Bernard Malamud, Eugenia
Collier, Tony Earley, Robert Penn Warren, Theodore Roethke,
William Stafford, William Wordsworth, Anne Tyler, N. Scott
Momaday, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joy Harjo, Alice Walker, Maxine
Hong Kingston, & Julia Alvarez
Prosperity and Protest
The Contemporary Period (1946-Present)
analyzing the impact of media on modern literature; readings
from: Martin Espada, Diana Chang, Simon J. Ortiz, Garrett
Hongo, William Safire, Ian Frazier, Carson McCullers, Anna
Quindlen, Sandra Cisneros, Rita Dove, & Amy Tan
Prosperity and Protest
The Contemporary Period (1946-Present)
readings from: Baldwin, Randall Jarrell, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne
Rich, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, John F. Kennedy,
Martrin Luther King Jr., Colleen McElroy, Louise Erdich, & Yusef
Komunyakaa