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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. ) These responses are an essential component of every summative assessment - providing evidence of the authenticity and originality of your work.
Fall Semester Essential Question:
Spring Semester Essential Question:
What is the American Dream?
Fall Semester Whole-Class Texts:
Selected works from the literary periods and movements identified here and in our syllabus.
The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
Spring Semester Whole-Class Texts:
Selected works from the literary periods and movements identified here and in our syllabus.
Independent Reading
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Independent reading titles may be selected from our classroom library, our school library, or from home. The titles listed below, from our curriculum library, are also available.
American Romanticism
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Walking by Henry David Thoreau
American Realism
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
American Modernism
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
American Contemporary- 21st Century
Ellen Foster by Gibbons
The Fault in Our Stars by Green
October Sky by Hickam
The Things They Carried by O'Brien