Williston-Elko High School English 3 Curriculum Guide and Course Outline
This English 3 class is designed to improve and polish students' ability to read a variety of texts, plan and write for a wide
variety of purposes and audiences, apply standard English rules and usage, speak effectively and listen responsively, and
develop and apply critical thinking skills. Students in this course will examine American literature to determine and
analyze common themes among literary selection. They will read a multitude of literature from each literary period while
studying the changing cultural beliefs and values in American history and literature. Advanced reading, speaking,
listening and writing skills will continue to be developed and refined. Students will be expected to produce several
analytical and argumentative papers and make formal and informal presentations to the class. In addition to the above
listed objectives which are a key component of the Common Core 11-12 ELA Standards, special attention will be given to
ensure the students’ success on college-entry tests such as SAT and ACT.
Textbooks for this class:
Allen, Janet, and Arthur N. Applebee, eds. McDougal Littell Literature: American Literature. Boston: McDougal Littell,
2009.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner, 1925.
Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. New York: Vintage, 1958.
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: Warner Books, 1960.
Shostak, Jerome. Sadlier: Vocabulary Workshop: Enriched Edition Level F. New York City: Sadlier, 2012.
Unit I (4 weeks)
Vocabulary
Selected Works
Assessments
Standards
Early American & Revolutionary Literature: 1600-1800
Units 1—3 Level F Sadlier’s Vocabulary Workshop Enriched Edition, 2012
Note: All works are from the literature text book unless stated otherwise.
“The World on the Turtle’s Back” Iroquois
“Coyote and The Buffalo” Okanogan
“The Way to Rainy Mountain” N. Scott Momaday
“Interesting Narrative of the Life” Olaudah Equaino
“The General History of Virginia” John Smith
“Of Plymouth Plantation” William Bradford
Selected Poetry from Ann Bradstreet and Edward Taylor
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Jonathon Edwards
Letters from Abigail Adams and Phyllis Wheatley
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
“Speech to the Virginia Convention” Patrick Henry
“The Declaration of Independence” Thomas Jefferson
From Poor Richard’s Almanac by Benjamin Franklin
Vocabulary: Formative: Daily Homework and Review; Summative: Weekly Unit Tests
Literature: Formative: Daily Reading Comprehension Quizzes; Timed analytical essays; Summative:
Culminating Unit Test, Comparison Essay
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Unit 2 (4 weeks)
Vocabulary
Selected Works
Assessments
Standards
Unit 3 (2 weeks)
Vocabulary
Selected Works
Assessments
Standards
Unit 4 (2 weeks)
American Romanticism: 1800-1855
Units 4-6 Level F Sadlier’s Vocabulary Workshop Enriched Edition, 2012
Note: All works are from the literature text book unless stated otherwise.
“The Devil and Tom Walker” Washington Irving
Selected Fireside Poems William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Self-Reliance” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nature” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Walden” Henry David Thoreau
“Civil Disobedience” Henry David Thoreau
“The Fall on the House of Usher” Edgar Allan Poe
“The Masque of the Red Death” Edgar Allan Poe
“The Raven” Edgar Allan Poe
Vocabulary: Formative: Daily Homework and Review; Summative: Weekly Unit Tests
Literature: Formative: Daily Reading Comprehension Quizzes; Timed analytical essays; Summative:
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American Realism: 1855-1870
Units 7-8 Level F Sadlier’s Vocabulary Workshop Enriched Edition, 2012
Note: All works are from the literature text book unless stated otherwise.
Selected Poetry by Walt Whitman
Selected Poetry by Emily Dickinson
“Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” Frederick Douglass
“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” Harriet Jacobs
“The Gettysburg Address” Abraham Lincoln
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Ambrose Bierce
Vocabulary: Formative: Daily Homework and Review; Summative: Weekly Unit Tests
Literature: Formative: Daily Reading Comprehension Quizzes; Timed analytical essays; Dream
Sequence Narrative; Summative: Culminating Unit Test,
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American Regionalism: 1870-1910
Vocabulary
Selected Works
Assessments
Standards
Unit 5 (3 weeks)
Vocabulary
Selected Works
Assessments
Standards
Unit6 (3 weeks)
Units 9-10 Level F Sadlier’s Vocabulary Workshop Enriched Edition, 2012
Note: All works are from the literature text book unless stated otherwise.
“The Autobiography of Mark Twain” Mark Twain
“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” Mark Twain
“The Outcasts of Poker Flat” Bret Harte
“A Wagner Matinee” Willa Cather
“The Law of Life” Jack London
“The Story of an Hour” Kate Chopin
“The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Vocabulary: Formative: Daily Homework and Review; Summative: Weekly Unit Tests
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The Harlem Renaissance & American Modernism: 1910-1940
Units 11-13 Level F Sadlier’s Vocabulary Workshop Enriched Edition, 2012
Note: All works are from the literature text book unless stated otherwise.
Selected Poetry by Langston Hughes
“My City” James Weldon Johnson
“If We Must Die” Claude McKay
“A Black Man Talks of Reaping” Arna Bontemps
“How it Feels to be Colored Me” Zora Neale Hurston
“Thoughts on the African-American Novel” Toni Morrison
“Richard Cory” & “Miniver Cheevy” Edwin Arlington Robinson
“Lucinda Matlock” Edgar Lee Masters
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” & “The Death of the Hired Man” Robert Frost
“This is Just to Say” & “Spring and All” William Carlos William
“anyone lived in a pretty how town” E.E. Cummings
“A Rose for Emily” William Faulkner
“The Life You Save May Be Your Own” Flannery O’Connor
“A New Kind of War” Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vocabulary: Formative: Daily Homework and Review; Summative: Weekly Unit Tests
Literature: Formative: Daily Reading Comprehension Quizzes; Timed analytical essays; Summative:
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American Contemporary Literature: 1940-Present
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Standards
Units 14-15 Level F Sadlier’s Vocabulary Workshop Enriched Edition, 2012
Note: All works are from the literature text book unless stated otherwise.
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
“Why Soldiers Won’t Talk” John Steinbeck
“The Death of Ball Turrett Gunner” Randall Jarrell
“Ambush” Tim O’Brien
“Survival in Aushwitz” Primo Levi
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” Martin Luther King
“Ballad of Birmingham” Dudley Randall
“Necessary to Protect Ourselves” Malcom X
“Coming of Age in Mississippi” Anne Moody
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Vocabulary: Formative: Daily Homework and Review; Summative: Weekly Unit Tests
Literature: Formative: Daily Reading Comprehension Quizzes; Timed analytical essays; Summative:
Culminating Unit Test, Final Analytical Essay on self-selected topic
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