English III Scope and Sequence
Essential
Question (s)
1st Quarter
2nd Quarter
3rd Quarter
4th Quarter
How does America’s origins
impact its culture?
What is the American Dream,
and to what extent is it
achievable for all Americans?
How has the American Dream
changed over time?
How do Americans create an
identity in an increasingly
complex society?
How does a literary
movement respond to the
culture of its time?
What themes and ideas
transcend culture?
Are independence and dependence
separable or inseparable?
How do authors use the resources of
language to impact an audience?
How is our understanding of
culture and society
constructed through and by
language?
What are the responsibilities and
consequences of being a “world
superpower”?
Topics (s)
Religious Foundations.
The cult of the American Dream.
The pitfalls of class ascendancy.
The rise of American Psychosis.
American Romanticism turns
Gothic.
Questions of race and creative
expression.
When societal pressure turns to mob
mentality.
A nation under fire.
“Sinners in the Hands of an
Angry God” by Johnathan
Edwards
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott
Fitzgerald
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine
Hansbery
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
“A Rose for Emily” by William
Faulkner
“Everything That Rises Must
Converge” by Flannery O’Connor
“Hills like White Elephants” by
Ernest Hemingway
“A Good Man is Hard to Find” by
Flannery O’Connor
Selected Langston Hughes
poetry
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Reading
“Young Goodman Brown”
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The Fall of the House of
Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Presidential Speeches
“The Things They Carried” by
Tim O’Brien
Selected Blues songs
Good Night, and Good Luck directed
by George Clooney
Engaging Story
Interpretive Research Essay
Script
Synthesis DBQ Essay
Persuasive Essay
Blues Poem
Personal Essay
Rhetorical Analysis
“Occurrence at Owl Creek
Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
“The Story of an Hour” by
Kate Chopin
“The Outcasts of Poker
Flats” by Bret Harte
“The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow” by Washington
Irving
Writing
Argumentative Essay
Outside
Reading
“Young Goodman Brown”
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The Fall of the House of
Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott
Fitzgerald
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
“The Things They Carried” by
Tim O’Brien