Junior English...

...is all about American Literature. We will go all the way back to Native American story telling and the oral tradition, meet early settler and Puritans and some Salem witches. Later we learn about slave narratives and what it means to be ripped from your home to be enslaved in a far away world. We will take a look at revolutionary literature and the Declaration of Independence as one of the most artfully written American documents and experience that our human desires are universal.

No junior year is complete without F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece The Great Gatsby (one of Ms. Monk's favorite). Be prepare to dabble in some poetry, and reading and writings about current issues.

The overarching questions are: What does it mean to be American? How does literature reflect who we are as a nation? How can it help us to teach us about and celebrate our differences?

Students will research, present, think critically, evaluate sources for credibility and much more...