English III Accelerated

Overview

I. Literature: McDougal Littell, The Language of Literature: American Literature

A. Unit One: Origins and Encounters 2000 B.C. – A.D. 1620

1. Part One – Native American Traditions: In Harmony with Nature

a. “The World on the Turtle’s Back” – Iroquois p.25

2. Part Two – Accounts of Exploration and Exploitation: First Encounters

a. from “La Relacion” – Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca p. 73

b. from Of Plymouth Plantation – William Bradford p. 81

c. from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano –Olaudah Equiano

B. Unit Two: From Colony to Country 1620-1800

1. Part One – The Puritan Tradition: Between Heaven and Hell

a. The Examination of Sarah Good – Salem Court Documents, 1692 p. 145

b. from “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” – Jonathon Edwards p. 153

2. Part Two: Revolutionary Period Writers: The Right to Be Free

a. “Speech in the Virginia Convention” – Patrick Henry p. 262

b. The Declaration of Independence – Thomas Jefferson p. 270

c. “What is an American?” – Michel-Guillaume Jean Crevecoeur p. 289

d. “Lecture to a Missionary” – Red Jacket p. 296

C. Unit Three: The Spirit of Individualism 1800-1855

1. Part One: Romanticism and Transcendentalism: Celebrations of the Self

a. “The Devil and Tom Walker” – Washington Irving p.349

b. from “Self-Reliance” – Ralph Waldo Emerson p. 363

c. from “Civil Disobedience” – Henry David Thoreau p. 377

d. from Walden – Henry David Thoreau p. 381

2. Part 2: American Gothic: The Dark Side of Individualism

a. “The Masque of the Red Death” – Edgar Allan Poe p. 454

b. “The Raven” – Edgar Allan Poe p. 466

c. “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” – Nathaniel Hawthorne p. 500

D. Unit Four: Conflict and Expansion 1850-1900

1. Part One: Slavery and the Civil War: A House Divided

  1. from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave – Frederick Douglass p. 562

b. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” – Ambrose Bierce p. 580

c. “A Mystery of Heroism” – Stephen Crane p. 593

d. “The Gettysburg Address” – Abraham Lincoln p. 605

2. Part Two: The Vanishing Frontier: Tricksters and Trailblazers

a. “The Indian and the Hundred Cows” – folk take retold by Jose Griego translated by Rudolfo G. Neihardt p. 639

b. “High Horse’s Courting” – folk tale told through John G. Neihardt p. 647

c. from The Autobiography of Mark Twain - Mark Twain p. 658

E. Unit Five: The Changing Face of America 1855-1925

1. Part One: A New Literature: Women’s Voices, Women’s Lives

a. “The Yellow Wallpaper” – Charlotte Perkins Gilman p. 765

2. Part Two: Illusion or Reality? The American Dream

a. “Winter Dreams” – F. Scott Fitzgerald p. 840

b. “America and I” – Anzia Yezierska p. 863

F. Unit Six: The Modern Age 1900-1940

1. Part One: The Harlem Renaissance: A New Cultural Identity

a. “How it Feels to be Colored Me” – Zora Neale Hurston p. 950

2. Part Two: Modernism: Alienation of the Individual

a. “The Death of the Hired Man” – Robert Frost p. 1007

b. “The End of Something” – Ernest Hemingway p. 1018

c. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” – T.S. Eliot p. 1025

d. “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” – Katherine Anne Porter p. 1035

e. “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” – Richard Wright p. 1045

G. Unit Seven: War Abroad and Conflict at Home 1940-Present

1. Part One: World War II: Remembering the Wars

a. “Armistice” – Bernanrd Malamud p. 1076

2. Postwar Society: Integration and Disintegration

a. from “Letter from Birmingham Jail” – Martin Luther King, Jr. p. 1136

b. “Teenage Wasteland” – Anne Tyler p. 1168

c. “Separating” – John Updike p. 1180

II. Writing Units

  1. Five-Paragraph Literary Analysis Essay in MLA format
  2. Three-Page Personal Memoir in MLA format
  3. Four-Page Documented Editorial in MLA format
  4. Poetry Writing Unit

E. Writing On-Demand: Editorial, Passage Analysis

III. Grammar Units

  1. Reviewing Parts of Speech
  2. Parts of the Sentence
  3. Using Phrases
  4. Using Verbs
  5. Subject-Verb Agreement
  6. Pronouns
  7. Using Modifiers
  8. Capitalization
  9. End Marks and Commas

IV. Novels/Dramas

  1. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850
  2. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925
  3. Death of a Salesman (video) – Arthur Miller 1949
  4. The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien 1990
  5. The Perfect Storm – Sebastian Junger 1997

V. Common Assessments 1-4 (ACT Preparation)

VI. Optional Assignment – Visual Display/Multimedia/Drama Project