English+11+At+A+Glance

 **__Orientation __** 2 Days  Orientation includes an overview of syllabus, content, writing expectations, 6 traits, etc.  **__Unit 1: Pre-Revolutionary Literature __** 16 Days  Unit 1 includes an overview of Native American Literature and the Puritan influence (historical context, plays, essays, poetry with options including historical myths and novels).    Suggested authors include Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Thomas Paine, Cotton Mather, Pope Stoddard, Edward Taylor, Patrick Henry, Phillip Freneau  Suggested Texts include //Half-Way Covenant, Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography, The Coyote Stories, Letter to John Adams, Equiano// <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unit 2: America Finds a Voice __** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(The American Romantics, Gothics and Transcendentalists) ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">29 Days <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unit 2 includes an overview of the American Romantics/Gothics and their influence on the philosophy of Transcendentalism, as well as recognition of Emerson as the founding father of what is now considered “American Literature” <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(historical context, essays, poetry with optional texts). <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Suggested authors include Washington Irving, Margaret Fuller, Herman Melville, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Cullen Bryant, James Russell Lowell, James Fenimore Cooper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Philip Freneau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Suggested texts include //The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, The Last of the Mohicans, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Walden, Leaves of Grass, The Devil and Tom Walker, The Yellow Wallpaper.// <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(Reading/Writing) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unit 3 Realism, Regionalism and Naturalism __** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(39 days) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unit 3 includes an overview of the three movements of the 20th century that built the foundation for Modern American Literature – special emphasis will be placed on westward expansion, the American Civil War, Industrialization, the beginning of the black voice in America along with the Cult of True Womanhood, and the influence/impact each had on American literature (historical context, novels, essays, poetry with optional texts). <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Suggested authors include Willa Cather, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Susan Glaspell, Edgar Lee Masters, Frederick Douglas, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ellen Watkins Harper, Sara Piatt, Sarah Orne Jewett. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Suggested texts include //Jury of Her Peers, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Daisy Miller, Ethan Frome, Spoon River Anthology, Gettysburg Address, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Atlanta Address, selected chapters from Souls of Black Folks, My Antonia// *suggested short stories of Willa Cather: //A Wagner Matinee, On the Divide, Paul’s Case, Old Mrs. Harris, A Sculpture’s Funeral.// <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(Reading/Writing/Research) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unit 4 Literature after the Great War __** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">43 Days <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unit 4 includes an overview of literature written during the Modern Age in America with special emphasis on literature of the Great War, Lost Generation Authors, the Harlem Renaissance, Black literature from the 1950’s, the Southern Gothic Movement and Depression era literature (historical context, novels, essays, poetry with optional texts). <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Suggested authors include John Steinbeck, Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Flannery O’Connor, James Thurber, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, and T.S. Elliot <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Suggested texts include //Winter Dreams, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Soldier’s Home, Cat in the Rain, Snows of Kilimanjaro, A Clean Well Lighted, Hills Like White Elephants, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Short Happy Life of Frances McCumber, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, A Worn Path, The Red Pony, Sweat, The Life You Save May Be Your Own.// <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(Reading/Writing) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unit 5: Literature That Began and __** **__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Came after the Civil Right’s Movement __** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">45 Days <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Unit 5 includes an overview of literature written during the Contemporary Age of literature that was written to affect change and which reflects current American culture, with special emphasis on political literature, the beat poets and current issues (historical context, novels, essays, poetry with optional texts). <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Suggested authors include Arthur MillerJames Baldwin, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Joyce Carol Oats, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Sylvia Plath, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, N. Scott Momaday, Tim O’Brien, Anne Sexton, Amy Tan, Toni Morison, Maya Angelou, Julia Alvarez and Nikki Giovanni. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Suggested texts include //The Crucible Sonny’s Blues, Battle Royal, The Man Who Was Almost a Man, The Bluest Eye, Letter From Birmingham Jail, Dandelion Wine, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Straw Into Gold, The Secret Life of Bees, Harrison Bergeron, Daughter of Invention, Speaking of Courage, The Way to Rainy Mountain (//excerpt//), Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?// <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(Speaking) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt;">YEAR-AT-A-GLANCE **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1st Quarter **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Required authors: Jonathan Edwards, Thomas Jefferson **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Required texts: //Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God// and //The Declaration of Independence// **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(as a literary document)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">1st into 2nd Quarter **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Required authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Required texts: //Self Reliance, Civil Disobedience//, short story by Poe left to the discretion of the teacher, short story by Hawthorne left to the discretion of the teacher, selection of Dickinson poetry left to the discretion of the teacher, and selection of Whitman poetry left to the discretion of the teacher. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Approximately Weeks 7/8 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Common Summative Assessment #1: //Self Reliance// **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">2nd Quarter **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Required authors: Mark Twain **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Required texts: //The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn// **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Approximately Weeks 16/17 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Common Summative Assessment #2: //The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn// **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3rd Quarter **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Required authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemmingway, Langston Hughes **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Required texts: //The Great Gatsby//, a short story by Hemmingway left to the discretion of the teacher, a short story or selection of poems by Langston Hughes left to the discretion of the teacher, a short story by Faulkner left to the discretion of the teacher. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Approximately Week 28/29 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Common Summative Assessment #3: //The Great Gatsby// **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Required Authors: J.D. Salinger **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Required Texts: //The// //Catcher in the Rye// **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Approximately Week 32/33 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Common Summative Assessment #4: //The Catcher in the Rye// **

Approximately 4-5 weeks sometime during the school year ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">(Research) <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Allow time for research in media center <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Research process includes topic exploration, controlling purpose, research questions, thesis statement, source cards, note cards, outline, MLA works cited, and MLA parenthetical documentation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Common Summative Assessment #5: Research Paper **