Course: Eng 3_______________ 2nd_______Nine Weeks
Unit: American Romanticism 1800- 1860s,
Instructional Guide
Estimated Time: 9 wks.
American Masters
 CLE (Writing and Grammar): CLE 3003.1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 3003.2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1. 3.2, 3,3, 3.4, 5.1, 5.2,
5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6
 CLE (Literature connections) 3003.1.4, 2.2., 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4., 4.2, 4.5, 5.1, 5.2., 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1,
8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5
 CLE (Media) 3003.7.1, 7.2
 Essential Questions: How does the philosophy of Romanticism differ in its world view from that of the Age of
Reason? How are the decisions arrived at through reason different from decisions based on intuition? Does an
individual have the right or the responsibility to violate a law he or she considers unjust? Is man initially good or evil?
Prerequisite Skills: Foundations to 1800s
Unit Vocabulary: admonishing, integrate, perennial, blithe, occult, pertinent, encumbrance, impervious,
temporal, superficial, effete, incessantly, derision, tumultuous, ethereal
Checks for
Understanding
State
Performance
Indicators
 3003.1.1, 1.2, 1.3
1.4
 3003.2.2, 2.11,
2.12, 2.14
 3003.3.1, 3.3, 3.4
 3003.4.1, 4.2, 4.5*
 3003.5.3, 5.4, 5.6
 3003.6.1, 6.2, 6.3
 3003.7.1, 7.2, 7.3,
7.4, 7.5, 7.6
 3003.8.1, 8.2, 8.8,
8.12, 8.13, 8.14,
8.15, 8.16, 8.17,
8.18
3003.1.1, 1.2,
1.3, 1.4, 1.9, 1.11
3003.2.1, 2.2,
2.4, 2.6,
3003.3.1, 3.2,
3.3, 3.11, 3.12
3003.4.1,
4.2,4.3, 4.6
3003.5.1, 5.3,
5.4, 5.5,
3003.6.1, 6.3,
6.4
3003.7.1, 7.2,
7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6
3003.8.1, 8.2,
8.3, 8.5, 8.6,
Assessments
.
 TLW
continue
studying
grammar and
vocabulary
concepts as
they apply to
the study of
persuasive
writing and
literature.
 Persuasive
writing
techniques
and concepts
Connections
Instructional Resources

Thoreau at Walden video
www.npr.org/programs/mornin
g/.../Walden
www.thoreau.eserver.org/pond
pics

Walden Lake Scene
http://www.photographytips.co
m.au/walden-pond-thoreaupoet-photos/

Martin Luther King’s “I Have a
Dream Speech”
www.americandream.com

The Scarlet Letter by
Nathaniel Hawthorne*
 Billy Budd* by Herman
Melville
 (*=honors students might read
ahead The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn by Mark
Twain)
 American Romanticism 18001860s by Gary Q. Arpin
(162)
 Nature (205) and SelfReliance (208) by Ralph
Waldo Emerson
 Walden (215) and Resistance
8.7, 8.10, 8.12,
8.13, 8.14, 8.16
of logic will
to Civil Government (235) by
continue to be
Henry David Thoreau
explored
 On Non-Violent Resistance by
through TCAP
Mohandas Gandhi (243)
writing
 Letter from a Birmingham
practice,
Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.
responses to
(245)
literature and
 Informational texts discussing
presentations.
variant theories of Poe’s
 Active
death (search internet) CLE
listening and
3003.4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.5, CLE
speaking skills
3003.6.1
will be
assessed
Suggested Romantic Poetry:
through the
 “Thanatopsis” (190) and
presentation
 “To a Waterfowl” by
of literary
William Cullen Bryant
period based
 “The Tide Rises, the Tide
projects.
Falls” (195), “The Cross
 Students
of Snow” (197) “A Psalm
will
of Life” , “Nature”, “The
participate in
Sound of the Sea” by
a Benchmark
Henry Wadsworth
TCAP
Longfellow
assessment in
 and “The Midnight Ride
November
of Paul Revere” by Henry
 Students
Wadsworth Longfellow
will be
 “Maudmueller” by James
assessed on
Whitcomb Riley
knowledge of
 The Raven (297) by Edgar
early
Allan Poe
American
 “The Vision of Sir
Romanticism,
Launfel” by James Russell
and The
Lowell
American
 “The Maldvale Shark” by
Masters.
Herman Melville
 TLW read
literary
criticism of a
major work,
or short
fiction and
defend or
refute author’s
viewpoint.
 *TLW
create a script
where four
characters
who represent
differing sides
of
Romanticism
meet at a
dinner party
(i.e. any
celebrity who
represents a
Longfellow,
Thoreau,
Melville, and
Poe)
 TLW
create an artist
signed record
company who
promotes an
artist who
represents a
specific type
of
Romanticism

“Brahma” by Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Dark Romantic Short Stories:
 Dr. Heidegger’s
Experiment (251), The
Minister’s Black Veil
(262), The Birthmark,
Rappacini’s Daughter,
and Young Goodman
Brown by Nathaniel
Hawthorne
 The Pit and the Pendulum
(279), The Fall of the
House of Usher (311),and
The Black Cat by Edgar
Allen Poe
 The Lightning-Rod Man
by Herman Melville
Suggested Plays :

The Night Thoreau Spent
in Jail by Jerome
Lawrence and Robert E.
Lee
Suggested Other Texts (American
Masters) Unit 3:

American Masters:
Whitman and Dickinson
essay by Gary Q. Arpin
(356)


Walt Whitman:
include poems in
literature text as well
as outside sources
(364-377)
Emily Dickinson:
include poems in
literature text as well
as outside sources
(391-405)
Non-Print Media Connections:

Emigrants Crossing the
Plains by Albert Bierstadt
(163). CLE 3003.7.1, 7.2

Aural, Visual and Written
Images and Sound
Techniques and Designs
Reds starring Warren Beatty
A&E Biography Video of
Salem Witch Trials and
Joseph McCarthy CLE
3003.7.3




The Fall of the House of
Usher and
The Pit and the Pendulum
directed by Roger Corman
 “The Raven” episode from
The Simpsons television
series. CLE 3003.7.3
Course: ____________________
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Unit:
CLE:
Prerequisite Skills:
Instructional Guide
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Unit Vocabulary:
Checks for
Understanding
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State
Performance
Indicators
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Assessments
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Instructional Resources
Connections