English 3

Course Description:

English 3 introduces literary and informational texts reflecting a broad range of writing by American authors. The course is designed to prepare students for the rigor of the South Carolina State Standards for College and Career Readiness.

Annotated Book List for English 3 (descriptions from BarnesandNoble.com):

• Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby

The is the story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby, his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, and lavish parties on Long Island during the Jazz Age. It is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

• Miller, Arthur. The Crucible

This classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts is based on historical people and real events. This drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria.

• Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men

George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation as laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields. They hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence.

• Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This novel follows the life of Huckleberry Finn while questioning the Southern antebellum society and its attitudes on race.

• Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome

Set in a fictional snowy town, a visiting engineer tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man with a history of thwarted

dreams and desires. The accumulated longing of Frome ends in an ironic turn of events.