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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?
To answer the fall semester's essential question, we'll explore the following texts as a whole class:
Selected works from the literary periods and movements identified here.
Independent Reading
The Crucible by Arthur Miller.
Book Groups (student choice):
The Natural by Malamud
The Fault in Our Stars by Green
To answer the spring semester's essential question, we'll explore the following texts as a whole class:
Selected works from the literary periods and movements identified here.
Independent Reading
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
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
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 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
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
Monster by Myers
The Things They Carried by O'Brien
42: The Jackie Robinson Story by Aaron Rosenberg