Week One
A) Process Spring Break Reading:FencesB) Read Miller or a significant Modern Playwright
A) Point of view; B) Review English II Drama terms
A) In class reading comprehension test with written response section on narrative technique; B) essay assignment.
Regionalism. Elements ofModernism: Jim Burden's fragmented NYC life.
Sarah Orne Jewett; Virgil's passage from preface.
Immigration trends (Midwest in particular); Drama selection will determine the link.
Week Two
Two Hemingway Short Stories
Hemingway's Code and Hero construction; prose style.
Modernism; Expatriate cultural.
Twain; James.
The cultural effects of World War I.
Week Three
Modern short stories; potential authors from Harpur's include: Roth, Tan, O'Brian, et al.
Click here for a full explanation of the tenets of Modernism.
Hemingway and Fitzgerald
Story selection will determine this link.
Week Four
Start Fitzgerald'sThe Great Gatsby, chapter 1-5.
Modernism
Henry James; Romanticism: Keats and Coolridge.
Jazz Age; birth of Hollywood.
Week Five
The Great Gatsby, chapter 5-8.
Modernism
Henry James; Romanticism: Keats and Coolridge.
Jazz Age; birth of Hollywood.
Week Six
Finish Fitzgerald'sThe Great Gatsby.
Modernism
Henry James; Romanticism: Keats and Coolridge.
Jazz Age; birth of Hollywood.
Week Seven
Click here for common poetry list. Click here for personal narrative goals.
Click here for English III Poetic terms.
Modernism
Periodically review Whitman and Dickinson to show their profound influence on Modern poetry.
Cubism and other movements within Modernism. Make connections with architecture, visual arts as well as modern music.
Week Eight
Poetry and Personal narrative continued.
click here for guidelines and a sample paragraph on poetry explication.
Modernism
Trace influence of Colonial literature's diary and personal narrative.
Atomic age and its influence on Modern poetry. See Frost and Ginnsberg in particular.
Week Nine
Continue with personal narrative and poetry.
Produce a rough draft of a college essay.
Modernismanticipating Post Modernism.
Periodically review Whitman and Dickinson to show their profound influence on Modern poetry.
Discuss the popularity of Memoirs in our culture.
Week Ten
Review
English III Personal narrative essays: E. B. White, Alice Walker, and Langston Hughes.
English III Poems:
Harlem Renaissance List
Hughes: "I, Too," "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" "Theme for English B"
J. Toomer "Reapers"
C.Cullen: "Incident"
H. Johnson: "To a Negro"
Brown: "Ma Rainey"
Modernism:
Eliot "J. A. Prufrock" "Hollow Men"
Pound "Apparition at a Metro" "A Pact"
Cummings: "In Just"
W. C. Williams: "Red Wheelbarrow" "This is just to say"
W. Stevens: "Thirteen ways of looking"
Post WW II:
Plath, Sexton, Rich, Ginnsberg, MayaAngelou, C. Forche, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mark Doty, Galway Kinnell, Mary Oliver, Jane Hirshfield, Robert Hayden.
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