American Experience
Reading American Literature
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 a separate Google Doc for each book you read. (Keep this Google Doc in your course folder. ) This is also a significant component of the semester-end assessment/capstone for each semester - the semester portfolio & symposium.
Fall Semester Whole-Class Texts:
Selected works from literary periods and movements identified here.
42: The Jackie Robinson Story by Aaron Rosenberg.
Spring Semester Whole-Class Texts:
Selected works from the literary periods and movements identified here.
The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
Each semester, independent/book-group reading may be selected from our classroom library, our school library, or from home. The titles listed below, from our in-class curriculum library, are also available.
American Romanticism
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Walking by Henry David Thoreau
American Realism
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Adventures of Huckleberry FInn by Mark Twain
American Naturalism
My Antonia by Willa Cather
American Modernism
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
American Contemporary- 20th Century
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman
The Natural by Bernard Malamud
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
American Contemporary- 21st Century
Tears of a Tiger by Draper
Ellen Foster by Gibbons
The Fault in Our Stars by Green
Out of the Dust by Hesse
October Sky by Hickam
The Rookie by Morris
Monster by Myers
The Things They Carried by O'Brien
Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem by Schanzer