English III

English III is structured to give students a background in grammar and American or British literature, depending on the rotation. A review of grammar learned in freshmen and sophomore English is covered in this course with an emphasis on usage and application. The students will do a research paper (10-15 pages) with parenthetical citations, bibliographies, note cards, outlining, etc. The literature portion of the course centers around the poetry, prose, and historical background from the time America/England was settled to the present. The students will study the types of literature American men and women wrote and will learn how the author’s beliefs, ideas, styles, methods, and content of their written material was influenced by the time and area in which they lived.

Highlighted works in American literature may include The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, or My Antonia by Willa Cather.

Highlighted works in British literature include Beowulf; The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer; Othello by Shakespeare; “A Modest Proposal” and Gulliver’s Travels by Swift; A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens; other prose by Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Saki, etc.; and poetry by Blake, Keats, Shelly, Byron, Yeats, Eliot, etc.