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FALL SEMESTER
Unit 1: Literary Analysis
- Texts:
- Thomas Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- Ernest Cline's Ready Player One
- Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
- Skills:
- Analyzing literature for theme, characterization, and structure
- Creating a strong thesis
- Supporting a thesis in writing with textual evidence and analysis
- Assessments:
- Summer Assignment
- Literary Analysis Essay
Unit 2: Foundational Texts & Synthesis
- Texts:
- "The Myth of Echo & Narcissus"
- "The Myth of Orpheus & Eurydice"
- Excerpts from Homer's The Odyssey
- Selected poems, paintings, essays, and novel excerpts that draw on foundational texts
- Skills:
- Close reading & analysis of literature for word choice, tone, and message
- Creating a thesis that makes an argument synthesizing multiple sources
- Supporting a thesis in writing by using evidence from multiple sources, using transitions between sources,
- Assessments:
- Practice Outlines 1 & 2
- Synthesis Essay
Unit 3: Narrative & Writing Techniques
- Texts:
- "The Myth of Pygmalion & Galatea"
- John Updike's "Pygmalion"
- John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men"
- Excerpts from Dante Alighieri's Inferno
- Assessments:
- Fan Fiction
- End-of-Semester Portfolio
SPRING SEMESTER:
Unit 4: Informational Texts & Research
- Texts:
- Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
- Excerpts from Jean Beaudrillard's America
- Selected speeches, letters, and Supreme Court opinions
- Selected contemporary articles
- Assessments:
- Group Led-Discussions ("Firemen Discussions")
- Annotated Bibliography
- Research Paper Proposal
- Research Paper
Unit 5: Literature & Explication
- Texts:
- William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
- Selected sonnets from William Shakespeare's Sonnets
- Student-selected choice novel
- Assessments:
- Explication Essay
- Choice Book Presentation
Unit 6: Satire & This I Believe
- Texts:
- Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn
- Editorials and articles from Twain's time
- This I Believe essays
- Assessments:
- Satire Analysis
- This I Believe Essay
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