English III

Semester 1

~The Colonial Period (~1620 to ~1765)

• Sermons:

  • "Sinners at the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards

~The Romantic Period (~1820 to ~1865)

• Prose:

  • Washington Irving's: "Rip Van Winkle"

  • Edgar Allan Poe's gothic stories: "The Black Cat," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "Hop-Frog," and/or "The Cask of Amontillado."  His famed poem, "The Raven."

    • Allegory: "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe

• Essays:

  • Transcendentalism:

    • Henry David Thoreau's Transcendentalist Essays: "Civil Disobedience" & Walden; or, Life in the Woods

    • Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays: "Self Reliance" and "Nature."

    • "Dokkōdō" or "The Path of Aloneness" by Miyamoto Musashi

  • Sojourner Truth's Speech: "Ain't I a Woman?"

  • Chief Joseph's "I Will Fight No More Forever"

• Poetry:

  • Emily Dickinson

  • Walt Whitman

~The Realistic Period (~1865 to ~1915)

• Prose:

  • Jack London's: "In a Far Country" and "To Build a Fire."

  • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and his satire: "Cannibalism in the Cars."

  • Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman's "The Revolt of Mother."

  • Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper."

  • Sarah Orne Jewett's "The White Heron"

• Poetry:

  • Stephen Crane

  • Amy Lowell

  • Carl Sandburg

~The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck

~Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

~The Pearl by John Steinbeck

~The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

~Into the Wild by John Krakauer

~Sherman Alexie's Novels

Semester 2

~The Early Modern Period (~1914 to ~1945)

• Prose:

  • "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway

  • "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway

  • "The Sculptor's Funeral" by Willa Cather

  • "A Visit of Charity" by Eudora Welty

  • "The Greatest Man in the World" by James Thurber

  • "Miriam" by Truman Capote

  • "Everything That Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O'Connor 

  • "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor

  • "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

• Poetry:

  • Robert Frost

  • Edna St. Vincent Milay

  • ee cummings

  • Langston Hughes

~Science Fiction:

• Prose:

  • "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Kurt Vonnegut

  • "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury

  • "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury

  • "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov 

~Contemporary Period (~1945 to Present)

• Prose:

  • "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats

  • "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan

  • "This is What it Means to Say 'Phoenix, Arizona'" by Sherman Alexie

  • "The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor" by Sherman Alexie

  • "English as a Second Language" by Lucy Honig

  • "Roselily" by Alice Walker 

  • "The Night in Question" by Tobias Wolff

  • "Snares" by Louise Erdrich

  • "I Am a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy" by Louise Erdrich

  • "Roy Spivey" by Miranda July

Drama:

• Our Town by Thornton Wilder

• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Old Time Radio Drama:

• Mind Webs

Musical Theatre:

• Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

• Into the Woods

Literature Circles