Fall 2021

Units:

• Early American Literature

  • The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Mary Rowlandson's narrative

  • Anne Bradstreet poetry

  • "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" - Jonathan Edwards

  • excerpts from The Crucible - Arthur Miller

• Revolutionary War

  • Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography

  • "Speech to the Virginia Convention" - Patrick Henry

  • Thomas Paine - "The Crisis" and "Common Sense"

• American Romanticism/Dark Romanticism

  • William Cullen Bryant

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • Edgar Allan Poe - "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Raven"

  • Herman Melville- excerpts from Moby-Dick

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne - "The Minister's Black Veil"

• American Renaissance/Transcendentalism

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson - "Nature" and "Self-Reliance"

  • Henry David Thoreau - Walden and "Civil Disobedience"

• American Poetry (19th Century)

  • Walt Whitman - "Song of Myself"

  • Emily Dickinson

Spring 2022

Units:

• Civil War era literature

  • Frederick Douglass - "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?"

• Research Essay

  • Upton Sinclair - The Jungle excerpts

  • Writing skills

  • Divided thesis statement

• Women Writers

  • Kate Chopin - "The Story of an Hour," "A Pair of Silk Stockings," and The Awakening excerpts

  • Susan Glaspell - "A Jury of Her Peers"

  • Edna St. Vincent Millay - various poetry including "Renascence"

  • Jamaica Kincaid - "Girl" (creative nonfiction)

  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman - "The Yellow Wallpaper"

• Harlem Renaissance

  • Langston Hughes - various poetry and "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"

  • Claude McKay

  • Countee Cullen

  • Georgia Douglas Johnson

  • James Weldon Johnson

• Twentieth Century American Drama

  • Lorraine Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun

• Contemporary American Literature

  • Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451

Please refer to our Google Classroom for all homework assignments.