CP English 11

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 Essential Question:

How do writers create truth through fiction?

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.

The Crucible by Arthur Miller.

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.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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 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