Junior Syllabus
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1 “Being Young in America” JUNIOR ENGLISH – AMERICAN LITERATURE (and one Shakespeare play) M. Elieff – 2014/15 (this is a strong idea, however subject to change) The Style Analysis Essay This is a timed in-class essay that allows you to show a close analysis on an excerpt from literature. It will also train you in the timed write - something that is important to know, both for college & the SAT. This essay will include: Thesis statements that identify tone and attitude of a selected excerpt. Analyzing the author’s use of diction, figurative language, and literary devices. Analyzing the author’s use of detail and imagery Analyzing the author’s intent with organization, narrative structure, and form Literary Devices: a comprehensive list of approx. 75+ literary devices to aid in analyzing literature. These will be used throughout the year with a test in June (learn them!) Julius Caeasar’s Macbeth Other Essays and Forms of Writing Literary Analysis Comparison Expository Poetry Short Story Personal Reminiscence SAT Prep A brief look at word analysis, prefixes, roots, timed essay responses, and verbal testing strategy. First 2 Weeks in September V Adolescence: identity vs. identity diffusion The Rhetoric ODE: Imitations of Immortality Inaugral Address Youth Love After Love Another Feitelberg Against the War Digital Killed the Analog Star No Experience Necessary Erik Erikson Aristotle William Worsdsworth Maya Angelou Pablo Neruda Derek Walcott Deirdre Sullivan Allison Firor Janan Cargile excerpt excerpt poem poem poem poem essay essay essay Native American Literature Erikson’s Visit w/ Olglala Dakota Our Image of Ourselves Capitalism & American Indians Shouldn’t Indians Feelings Count for Something The Impact of the White Man on Indians American Indian Sure, You Can Aske Me… Slow Dancing with Skeletons Love, Hunger, Money Defending Walt Whitman Indian Education Nanook of the North What You Pawn I Will Redeem Touch the Earth Black Robe Incident at Oglala Dr. Boeree Simon J. Ortiz Russell Means Wiley A. Hall Alvin M. Josephy Fritz Scholder Diane Burns Sherman Alexie Sherman Alexie Sherman Alexie Sherman Alexie Robert Flaherty Sherman Alexie T.C. McLuhan Brian Moore Michael Apted excerpt/story essay speech article essay copy (oil on canvas) poem excerpt short story poem exerpt film short story non-fiction film excerpt (30 min.) documentary 2 Rabbit Proof Fence Phillip Noyce film Puritan Literature and The American Enlightenment – 1800-1820 Diary of an Early American Boy Eric Sloane The Scarlett Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne We Aren’t Superstitious Stephen Vincent Benet Poor Richard’s Almanac Benjamin Franklin Salem Witch Trials McDougall-Little Salem Witch Trials Instructor Early Colonial America Instructor Polyanna (fire & brimstone) Disney non-fiction excerpt (3-4 chapts.) short story excerpt anthology lecture lecture film excerpt Transcendentalism 1830-1850 The Senses American Beauty Transcendentalism Each and All The Snow Storm The Rhodora Walden (excerpts) Into the Wild The Summer Rain The Inward Morning The Moon Smoke End of the Road Rat Race Let Wonder Fill Your Heart High School Grades Losing Value Transcendentalism The Path to Puget Paradise (Pt. Townsend) Ed Instructor Sam Mendes Instructor Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson Emerson Henry David Thoreau John Krakauer Henry David Thoreau Thoreau Thoreau Thoreau seattletimes.com Newsweek Diane Ackerman Peter Hong Jorge Luis Borges William Dietrich NBC lecture film excerpt/10 min. lecture poem poem poem non-fiction non-fiction poem poem poem poem article article article article essay article episode montage Mark Twain Mark Twain John Locke Instructor Mark Twain Nightline Equiano editorial fiction essay excerpt lecture novel excerpt video excerpt Mark Twain Garland Jeffries Steven Spielberg non-fiction poem film excerpt (10 min.) Stephen Crane Stephen Crane Walt Whitman Instructor “ “ “ Kevin Jarre poem poetry poem lecture “ “ “ film Pre-Civil War 1850’s War Prayer Suicide Note Of Civil Government Notes on Slavery The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Is Huck Finn Racist? From Africa to the New World A True Story – Repeated Word for Word as I Know It Don’t Call Me Buckwheat Amistad The Civil War /Post Civil War - 1860 – 1880 War is Kind Crane Poetry – Various Selections Song of Myself Realism Naturalism Impressionism Romanticism Glory 3 Uncle Tom’s Cabin The Gettysburg Address Harriet Beecher Stowe Abraham Lincoln excerpt speech The Industrial Revolution- Early 1900’s (the importance of community amidst societal change) – Roaring 20’s Our Town Thornton Wilder play Our Town Directed by James Naughton film (of the play) What’ Eating Gilbert Grape Lasse Hallstrom film Everyman anonymous play Growing Pains (episode montage) unknown 1980’s sitcom The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald novel World War II – 1940’s/Post WWII The Pious Ones The Last Days Maus Swing Kids (a recommendation, but will not watch) Catcher in the Rye National Geographic James Moll Art Spiegelman Thomas Carter J.D. Salinger article Documentary excerpt, graphic novel film novel Harlem Renaissance - 1950’s – The Beat Generation… Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Rebel Without a Cause Nicholas Ray The Term William Carlos Williams Incident Countee Cullen I Had Been Hungry Emily Dickinson The Beehive Jean Toomer One Way Ticket Langston Hughes Mother to Son Langston Hughes Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too Jim Hall Times they Are A’Changin’ Bob Dylan Pleasantville Gary Ross McCarthyism Instructor Time is Your Ally Erik Lacitis “Keeping Up With the Joneses” Instructor I Am Born Charles Dickens The Beat Generation Instructor Berkeley In The 60’s (?) Mark Kitchell How To Meditate Jack Kerouac Buddha Kerouac Pan as the Son of Penelope Joanne Kyger The Maze Kyger Song for Baby-O Unborn Diane DiPrima For the Dead Lecturer DiPrima The Blue Angel Allen Ginsberg The Green Automobile Ginsberg Blues Note Bob Kauffman Abomunist Manifesto Kauffman Milton By Firelight Gary Snyder Hay for the Horses Snyder MLK Jr. and Malcolm X Instructor Speeches of Malcolm X Malcolm X novel film poem poem poem poem poem poem poem song film Notes article lecture excerpt D. Copperfield Lecture documentary poem poem poem poem poem poem poem poem poem poem poem poem lecture film archives Contemporary Fiction The Bean Trees fiction Barbara Kingsolver 4 Short Story Writing and/or Short Story Unit – If Time! Pawnshop Madison Smart Bell Possum Charles Baxter Bells Josephine Humphries Character Sketch Student Generated Plot “ Attention to Detail “ Description, Imagery “ Dialogue “ Setting “ Point of View “ Conflict Development “ Reading Groups, Peer Revisions “ short story short story short story
