Syllabus: Honors Language Arts 3
Unit 1: Welcome and Summer Reading
Unit 1: Welcome and Summer Reading
To Kill a Mockingbird, The Hate U Give
Unit 2: Early American Literature, Choice Novels, Small Group Work
Unit 2: Early American Literature, Choice Novels, Small Group Work
Short works from the Literature book: Native American Folktales, First Person Narratives, Puritan literature
Choice novels to be announced
Novel Project, details to follow
Unit 3: Drama: The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Unit 3: Drama: The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Recognizing bias and propaganda techniques
Unit 4: The Transcendentalists and American Romanticism
Unit 4: The Transcendentalists and American Romanticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and more!
Unit 5: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Unit 5: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
This unit will occur simultaneously with several others. It's a long novel.
Lots of reading and discussion!
Unit 6: The Research Paper (much more on this later, but don't be afraid)
Unit 6: The Research Paper (much more on this later, but don't be afraid)
The MLA format
Proper citation
Choosing and narrowing topics
Unit 7: Modernism and Beyond
Unit 7: Modernism and Beyond
Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and more!
Unit 8: Macbeth
Unit 8: Macbeth
Get ready for some Shakespeare!
Unit 9: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Unit 9: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Yes, including the Leonardo DiCaprio movie.