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Eleventh Grade Literature Semester A:
1. Literary Texts: American Roots, Bright Romanticism, and American Gothic
A. American Roots: From Native Traditions to the American Revolution
• Introduction to Early American Literature
• The Iroquois Creation Myth: "The World on Turtle's Back"
• Female Colonial Poetry
• Verb Tense, Verb Voice, and Verb Mood
• Writing Workshop: Narrative Writing
• Topic Test
B. Bright Romanticism: American Individualism
• Introduction to Bright Romanticism and American Individualism
• Fireside Poets
• Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
• Emily Dickinson's Poetry
• Topic Test
C. Dark Romanticism: American Gothic
• Introduction to Dark Romanticism: American Gothic
• Suspense and Horror: Gothic Writing across Time
• The Scarlet Letter, Part 1
• The Scarlet Letter, Part 2
• Symbols in Moby-Dick
• Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee"
• Dark Hauntings: “The Fall of the House of Usher”
• Writing Workshop: Exploring Argument
• Topic Test
2. Literary Texts: A Nation Dividing and Expanding - Civil War, Regionalism, and Realism;
Early Modernism
A. A Nation Dividing and Expanding: Civil War, Regionalism, and Realism
• Introduction to Literature of the Civil War, Regionalism, and Realism
• An Inner Story of the Civil War
• The Mississippi River Runaways
• Reality and Cynicism in Poetry
• Topic Test
B. Realist Novel Study: The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Introduction to Realistic Novel Study: The Awakening
• Realist Novel Study, Part 1
• Realist Novel Study, Part 2
• Realist Novel Study, Part 3
• Realist Novel Study, Part 4
• Realist Novel Study, Part 5
• Realist Novel Study, Part 6
• Realist Novel Study, Part 7
• Writing Workshop: Literary Analysis
• Topic Test
C. Make it New!: Early Modernism
• Introduction to Early Modern Literature
• Imagism: A New Order in Poetry
• Dramatic Monologue and Stream of Consciousness in Poetry
• Early Stream of Consciousness and Feminism in Fiction
• Meta Poetry: Poetry about Poetry
• Robert Frost’s Poetry
• Writing Workshop: Effective Professional Communication
• Topic Test
3. Informational Texts: American Roots, Bright Romanticism, and Early Modernism
A. American Roots: From Native Traditions to the American Revolution
• The Iroquois Constitution
• Jonathan Edwards’s "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
• Thomas Paine
• The Declaration of Independence
• Autobiography: from The Autobiography
• Autobiography11Post-Reading Lecture11Practice11Quiz11
• Nonfiction: from Poor Richard's Almanac
• Sentence Fluency
• Writing Workshop: Summary
• Topic Test
B. Bright Romanticism: American Individualism
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Henry David Thoreau - Walden
• Henry David Thoreau - "Civil Disobedience"
• Grammar: Punctuation - Apostrophes, Hyphens, Dashes, Parentheses, and
Brackets
• Grammar: Capitalization
• Choosing Vocabulary
• Informative Writing Workshop: Compare-Contrast Essay
• Topic Test
C. A Nation Dividing and Expanding: Civil War, Regionalism, and Realism
• Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 1
• Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 2
• Autobiography: from My Bondage and My Freedom
• Spirituals: Go Down, Moses and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
• American Indian Issues
• Topic Test
D. Early Modernism
• Reflecting on World War I
• Speaking and Listening: Evaluating a Speaker
• Pronoun Agreement and Reference
• Grammar: Punctuation - Commas, Semicolons, and Colons
• Research Workshop: Generating Research Questions and Evaluating Sources
• Topic Test
Eleventh Grade Literature Semester B:
1. Literary Texts: Modern Drama Study and Modernism; The Harlem Renaissance and The
Civil Rights Movement
A. Modern Drama Study
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Introduction to Modern Drama Study
Trifles: The Rise of Modern Feminism on the Stage, Part 1
Trifles: The Rise of Modern Feminism on the Stage, Part 2
Interpreting a Source Text: A Production of Trifles
The True Story behind Trifles
King Arthur’s Socks, Part 1
• King Arthur’s Socks, Part 2
• Topic Test
B. Victory and Despair: The Roaring Twenties, Modernism, and Postwar Outlooks
• Introduction to Late Modern and Postwar Literature
• Hemingway's World War I
• Fitzgerald and the Roaring Twenties
• Southern Gothic
• Topic Test
C. I, too, Am America: The Harlem Renaissance and The Civil Rights Movement
• Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movement
• Poetry of Langston Hughes
• Zora Neale Hurston’s Strong Voice
• Choosing Vocabulary
• Writing Workshop: Argumentative Essay
• Topic Test
2. Literary Texts: Cultural Rebellion; Heritage and Multicultural American Identities;
Globalization and the Information Age
A. Cultural Rebellion: Mid-Twentieth Century Voices
• Introduction to Literature of Rebellion in the Twentieth Century
• Individualism, Modern Capitalism, and Dystopian Visions
• Beat Poetry
• Beat Movement Spontaneous Prose
• Critiques of American Society in Science Fiction
• Topic Test
B. Heritage and Multicultural American Identities: Contemporary Voices
• Introduction to Heritage and Multicultural American Identities: Contemporary
Voices (1970–2000)
• Contemporary American Indian Voices
• Latin American Magic Realist Voices
• Latina Poetry as an Expression of Cultural Heritage
• Topic Test
C. Globalization and the Information Age: Postmodernism into the Twenty-First Century
• Introduction to Contemporary Literature of the Twenty-First Century
• The Poetry of Physics
• David Foster Wallace’s Postmodern Voices
• Using Resources and Reference Materials for Editing
• Writing Workshop: Visual Media Analysis
• Topic Test
3. Informational Texts: Modernism; The Harlem Renaissance and The Civil Rights
Movement
A. Victory and Despair: The Roaring Twenties, Modernism, and Postwar Outlooks
• Depression and Hard Times
• Japanese American Internment
• Remembering and Reflecting on the Holocaust
• Topic Test
B. I, too, Am America: The Harlem Renaissance and The Civil Rights Movement
• Richard Wright's Struggles With Racism
• James Baldwin's Take on the Effects of Prejudice
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Disobedience
• Nonrestrictive Elements and Parallel Structure
• Writing Workshop: Comparing Texts
• Topic Test
4. Informational Texts: Exploring Vietnam; Heritage and Multicultural American Identities;
Globalization and the Information Age
A. Cultural Rebellion: Mid-Twentieth Century Voices; Heritage and Multicultural
American Identities: Contemporary Voices
• Experiencing and Reliving Vietnam
• Vietnam Literary Journalism
• Exploring Cultural Identity through Language
• Asian American Voices
• Anticipating the Future through Texts: Visions
• Correct Modifiers and Concise Wording
• Choosing Language
• Grammar: Transitional Expressions
• Grammar: Commonly Confused Words
• Writing Workshop: Evaluating Sources That Support a Claim
• Topic Test
B. Globalization and the Information Age: Postmodernism into the Twenty-First Century
• A Look at the Fast-Food Industry by Eric Schlosser
• A Response to 9/11 by Jonathan Safran Foer
• A Nonfiction Account of Hurricane Katrina by Dave Eggers
• Ordering the Chaos of the Contemporary World: An Introduction to
Freakonomics
• Research Workshop: Writing an Argumentative Essay
• Research Workshop (cont.): Presenting Your Argumentative Essay
• Topic Test