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The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
-Tayari Jones
TEXTS
Short Stories by Richard Wright, John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Ernest Hemingway, George Saunders, and more
Poetry by Anne Bradstreet, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and more
Contemporary Prose Poetry and Flash Fiction
The Poet X
The Crucible
My Antonia
The Great Gatsby
Catcher in the Rye or Monkeys
1-4 Outside Texts of Your Choice for Sophomore Synthesis
WRITING
Short Stories
Vignettes
Poems
Personal Narratives
Thesis Statements
Topic Sentences
Quotation Integration
Introductions and Conclusions
Analysis and Inference
Grammar and Style Exercises
Peer Editing
Workshops
Sophomore Synthesis
COLLABORATIONS
Research Projects
Oral Presentations
Literary Analysis in Pairs and Small Groups
Partnered Story-Writing
Teacherless Discussions
Role-Playing/Literary Performances
Creative Writing Competitions for Prizes
This year in English 10ACP, we will journey through the wild landscape of American literature, meeting our country's most beloved and maligned characters. We will experience alongside them the turbulence of a nation always in creation. We will consider what makes American literature specifically "American" and strive to articulate how we fit into -- or how we resist -- this identity. We will fight to claim our own territory, lose our innocence, and learn to write ourselves into being.
So embrace the ride, work hard, make art and make demands. And have a blast.
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers. -Carson McCullers
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