Syllabus - Grade 11 Language Arts
Text - The Language of Literature - McDougal Littell
Introduction
The Case for Official English - persuasive paper and class discussion
Unit 1 In Harmony with Nature
Creation myths, theories, and explanations - discussion
World on a Turtle's Back - story
500 Nations Ancestors - video
Native American songs and poetry
Coyote Stories - tales, legends, fables
Deer Woman - elements of fiction and nonfiction - Trail of Tears video
My Father's Song - poetry - find other NA poems that symbolize their beliefs
La Relacion - point of view
Of Plymouth Plantation - primary and secondary sources of historical writing
Narrative of Olaudah Equiano - slavery
Blue Highways - internal and external conflict
Made out of Meat - science fiction
Unit 1 activities
Unit 2 From Colony to Country
Between Heaven and Hell - the Puritans
Anne Bradstreet - poetry and letters
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Miss Temptation - Vonnegut
Right to Be Free
Patrick Henry Speech at Virginia Convention - write speeches
Historical Letters of Adams and Occom
What Is an American - persuasive writing
Red Jacket Lecture - perspective
Stride Toward Freedom - MLK
Necessary to Protect Ourselves - Malcolm X
I Am Joaquin - Cesar Chavez - epic poetry
Suzie Wong Doesn't Live Here - Asian perspective
Unit 2 activities
Unit 3 The Spirit of Individualism
Psalm of Life
Devil and Tom Walker
Self Reliance
From Waldon - Thoreau
Poetry from Walt Whitman
Ending Poem
Gary Keillor - Prairie Home Companion and Lake Wobegon Days - Youtube Ice Fishing
Symbols
Dark Side
The Masque of the Red Death - Youtube video
The Raven - Listen
Dr Heidegger's Experiment
The Consolation of Nature
Unit 3 activities
Unit 4 Conflict and Expansion
A House Divided
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Stanzas on Freedom
Free Labor and Mary Chapin Carpenter - personification
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Ode to Billie Joe
The Clod - drama
Coming of Age in Mississippi
The Indian and the Hundred Cows
High Horse's Courting
I Will Fight No More Forever - video 500 Nations 8
A Wagner Matinee - Listen to Tannhauser Overture
Legend of Gregorio Cortez
Hate Crimes
Unit 4 activities
Unit 5 The Changing Face of America
Women's Voices, Women's Lives
My Letter to the World - Dickenson poetry
The Yellow Wallpaper
Story of an Hour
The American Dream
Poetry of Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Winter Dreams - Fitzgerald
America and I - a Russian perspective
Unit 5 activities
Unit 6 The Modern Age
A New Cultural Identity
Harlem Renaissance Poetry
How It Feels to Be Colored Me
Gwendolyn Brooks
Alienation of the Individual
Robert Frost Poetry
The End of Something - Hemmingway
Here We Are
The Man Who Was Almost a Man - Richard Wright - Black Boy
Drama - Thornton Wilder - The Long Christmas Dinner or Our Town
Homework
Unit 6 activities
Unit 7 Conflict at Home and Abroad
Remembering the Wars
Armistice
The River Remembers
Why Soldiers Won't Talk
Letter from Paradise
In Response to Executive Order 9066
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Ambush
Power and Protest
Wandering
Teenage Wasteland
Unit 7 activities