1 Summer 1 Early Writing: Native Oral Tradition/ Early Exploration/ Puritanism/ Revolutionperiod Persuasion The Things They Carried (O Brien) RL Creation Stories RL; Trickster Tales RL; excerpt fr/ Of Plymouth Plantation (T) (Bradford) RI; excerpt fr/ The General History of Virginia (T) (Smith) RI; The Crucible (Miller) RL; analyze film clips fr/ The Crucible; The Declaration of Independence (T) (Jefferson) RI; The Federalist No. 10 (T) (Madison) RI; Speech in the Virginia Convention (Henry) RI; analyze Patrick Henry: Voice of Liberty video (T); 3.5 3.2 3.5 R R R R R RL.8 Persuasive Essay W.1 group discussion ; Deliver Persuasive Speech; Read The Crucible aloud; Analyze film clips fr/ The Crucible S S S S S S S S
1 Romanticism/ Gothic 2 Realism/ Civil War The Devil and Tom Walker (Irving) RL; The Fireside Poets RL; excerpts from Self-Reliance and Nature (T) (Emerson) and Walden (T) (Thoreau) RL; The Masque of the Red Death (Poe) RL; The Minister s Black Veil (T) (Hawthorne) RL; excerpt fr/ Misery (King) RL Selected poetry fr/ Dickinson and Whitman RL; What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (T) (Douglass) RI; analyze The 54 th Massachusetts video (T); An Episode of War (Crane) RL; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Bierce) RL 3.7 3.3 R R R R R R R R College Common Application Essay Emulate Whitman s poetry 1.7 W.3 ; Listen to dramatic of Poe s work S S S S S Record self one of the Fireside poems; Construct a visual image of the Gothic genre
2 Regionalism/ Naturalism 3 An Emerging Social Conscience: Early Feminism/ Class Consciousnes s/ Food Treatment The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain) RL; The Open Boat (Crane) RL; The Law of Life (T) (London) RL; analyze film adaptations of Huck Finn The Lowest Animal (T) (Twain) RI; Declaration of Sentiments (T) (Cady Stanton) RI; The Story of an Hour (T) (Chopin) RL; The Yellow Wallpaper (T) (Perkins Gilman) RL; excerpt fr/ The Jungle (T) (Sinclair) RL; excerpt fr/ Fast 3.1 3.2 3.7 R R R R R R R Biographical Narrative Essay W.3 W.8 ; Read Huck Finn aloud ; Present Research practice 2.5 S S S S S S S S Construct slideshow illustrating current global issue
3 Modernism: Renaissance/ WWI/ Jazz Age/ Great Depression/ The New Poetry 4 Contemp. Literature: Short Stories/ Protest Literature/ Modern Warfare Food Nation (T) (Schlosser) RI; The Yuckiest Food in the Amazon (T) (Roach) RI Selected poems fr/ Renaissance (T) RL; How it Feels to Be Colored Me (T) (Hurston) RI; In Another Country (Hemingway) RL; The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) RL; The Harvest Gypsies (Steinbeck) RI; selected poems fr/ New Poetry RL Why Soldiers Won t Talk (Steinbeck) RI; A Rose for Emily, (Faulkner) RL; Beat literature; Letter from Birmingham Jail (MLK) RI; Necessary to Protect Ourselves 2.7 2.7 R R R R R R R R Literary Analysis Essay; Compose summaries of primary text 1.5 1.8 S S S S S S Create Renaissance Anthology Bring in Protest Song fr/ the 1960s
4 Research Paper (Malcolm X) RI; excerpt fr/ The Things They Carried (O Brien); Mother Tongue (T) (Tan) RL; After the Denim (Carver) RL; I Pledge Allegiance to the Bag (Sedaris) RI; excerpt fr/ Redeployment (Klay) RL Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko; assorted expository writing such as news articles, primary sources, and informational documents 3.1 3.3 R R R R Research Paper 1.5 W.1 W.8 S S S