Syllabus: Honors Language Arts 3

Unit 1: Welcome and Summer Reading

• To Kill a Mockingbird, The Hate U Give

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

• Recognizing bias and propaganda techniques

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 

• 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)

• The MLA format

• Proper citation

• Choosing and narrowing topics

Unit 7: Modernism and Beyond

• Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and more!

Unit 8: Macbeth

• Get ready for some Shakespeare!

Unit 9: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Yes, including the Leonardo DiCaprio movie.