American Experience

Throughout each semester, students will provide evidence of reading which is ongoing and continuous. This will be reflected in authentic, original, and thoughtful reader's responses which will be recorded in each student's OneNote digital notebook. This is also a significant component of the capstone for each semester - the semester portfolio.

To create this evidence, students will engage in independent and book-group reading. For this reading, students may choose to read novels, biographies, memoirs, graphic novels, non-fiction texts, or plays- all by American authors.

Whole-class texts will also provide students with opportunities to develop evidence of reading which is ongoing and continuous.

Fall Semester Whole-Class Texts:

• Selected works from the following periods/movements: Colonialism, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, Harlem Renaissance, 20th Century Contemporary and 21st Century Contemporary.

• The Crucible by Arthur Miller.

Spring Semester Whole-Class Texts:

• Selected works from the following periods/movements: Colonialism, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, Harlem Renaissance, 20th Century Contemporary and 21st Century Contemporary.

• 42: The Jackie Robinson Story by Aaron Rosenberg.