11 HONROS ENGLISH CURRICULUM
BUONO
Unit 1: War in America
Texts:
Concepts:
Weeks: 3
SR: Slaughterhouse Five (1)
The Things They Carried (2)
Whitman: Civil War poetry (1/3)
“Why Soldiers Won’t Talk” (1/3)
“The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” (1/3)
Absurdism
Surrealism
Effects of war on artists, soldiers
Patriotism/lack thereof
Modernism
Unit 2: The American Dream
Texts:
“Death of a Salesman”
The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath
Weeks:
Modern drama
Changing times, failure
Roaring 20’s
Modernism
The Great Depression
Unit 3: Americans on Society
Texts:
Emerson
Thoreau
Freakonomics
The Scarlet Letter
Weeks:
Romanticism
Transcendentalism
Industrial revolution
Criticism of society
the essay
Unit 4: Persuasion
Texts:
Weeks:
Unit 5: The American Identity
Texts:
Weeks:
Life on the Mississippi
Invisible Man
“The Outcasts of Poker Flat”
The Bluest Eye
Harlem Renaissance & Modern poetry
African American identity
discrimination
Regionalism
Local color
Unit: Focus on The Individual
Texts:
“Wandering”
Weeks:
narrative poetry
11 HONROS ENGLISH CURRICULUM
BUONO
Dress Your Kids in Corduroy and Denim
“Mirror” & “Self in 1958”
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Unit: Writing
Texts:
vignette
insecurity
Weeks: