Honors 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?

Fall Semester Whole-Class Texts:

Selected works from the literary periods and movements identified here.
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.
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Each semester, Independent/book-group reading must include at least one of the texts listed below before other texts (from our classroom library, school library, or from home) are read.