CURRICULUM CATALOG. English III (01003) WA

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1 CURRICULUM CATALOG English III (01003) WA

2 Table of Contents ENGLISH III (01003) WA COURSE OVERVIEW... 1 UNIT 1: INTERSECTION IN THE NEW WORLD... 1 UNIT 2: BECOMING A NATION... 2 UNIT 3: AMERICAN ROMANTICISM... 2 UNIT 4: SEMESTER EXAM... 4 UNIT 5: REGIONAL VOICES... 4 UNIT 6: MODERNISM IN AMERICA... 5 UNIT 7: POST WORLD WAR II... 5 UNIT 8: SEMESTER EXAM... 5 UNIT 9: FINAL EXAM... 6 i

3 English III (01003) WA Course Overview English III is a survey of American literature and literary culture from its inception through the twentieth century. Students will explore the major literary forms, themes, authors, and periods of American Literature. They will understand how this literature represents the experiences of people native to America, those who immigrated to America, and those who were brought to America against their will. Emphasis is placed on a rhetorical analysis of the literature to determine how authors achieve a particular purpose or effect. Through focused readings, composition, speaking and listening activities, vocabulary study and research, students will continue to build the literacy skills they need to meet the challenges of high school and beyond. To become critical consumers of text, students will be exposed to increasingly more complex texts to which they apply those skills. In English language arts, that critical content is both rigorous and relevant and includes high-quality contemporary works as well as the classics of literature. In English language arts, that content includes classic myths and stories from around the world, America s founding documents, foundational American literature, and Shakespeare. Students will be enriched as they expand their skills and confidence in English language arts through a comprehensive study. Goals for this course include: Sharpen reading skills: summary, analysis, evaluation, and interpretation. Identify explicit and implicit meaning in early American works of historical and/or literary significance and in later works about this time period, including where the text leaves matters uncertain. Analyze a text from multiple perspectives (historical, literary, psychological, religious). Analyze and evaluate different presentations and interpretations of the same text. Analyze literary elements: narrative/poetic/dramatic structure, point of view, style, theme, purpose. Analyze language: figurative language, imagery, tone, persuasiveness, connotation, nuance, power, beauty. Analyze informational texts: central ideas, interaction of ideas, summarizing, point of view, purpose. Analyze arguments: rhetoric, claim development, structure, purpose. Sharpen writing skills: o explanatory: responding to literature; comparing/contrasting; synthesizing information; developing and supporting a thesis; using appropriate and varied transitions between ideas; using precise, domainspecific language; and o argumentative: making and supporting a claim; using valid reasoning; sequencing ideas; adapting to purpose, audience, and task; using precise, domain-specific language; using the writing process. Conduct research: web searches, challenging usage and vocabulary. Participate in speaking and listening activities: analysis of oral and written speeches, collaboration with peers. Strengthen language skills: conventions, knowledge, vocabulary acquisition and use. Unit 1: Intersection in the New World 1. Course Overview 15. Quiz 3 2. Of Plymouth Plantation: Puritan Literature 16. The Crucible: Character Analysis 3. A Key into the Language of America: Analysis 17. The Crucible: Historical Context 4. "To My Dear and Loving Husband" and "A Letter to Her Husband": Poetic Theme 18. "The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial": Antislavery Argument 5. Quiz "On Being Brought from Africa to America" and "To 6. The Narrative of Captivity and the Restoration of Mrs. His Excellency General Washington": Poetic Structure Mary Rowlandson: Literary Perspective 20. Literary Criticism: Henry Louis Gates Jr. 7. "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America": 21. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God": Diction, 1

4 Franklin's Satire Imagery, Style 8. Quiz Project: Argumentative Essay - "Sinners in the Hands 9. The Crucible: Hysteria and Propaganda of an Angry God" 10. The Crucible: Setting - Act I 23. Using References to Understand Archaic Language 11. The Crucible: Characterization - Act II 24. Quiz The Crucible: Themes - Act III 25. Special Project* 13. The Crucible: Symbolism - Act IV 26. Test 14, The Crucible: Truth in Fiction 27. Alternate Test* Unit 2: Becoming a Nation 1. Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, and "The 12. "What is an American?": Primary and Literary Sources Indian Burying Ground": American Identity 13. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah 2. "The Way to Wealth": Franklin's Style and Rhetoric Equiano: Literary Nonfiction 3. Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention: 14. Federalist No. 10: Reasoning and Rhetoric Rhetoric 15. Quiz 3 4. The American Crisis: Rhetoric and Tone 16. Preamble and Bill of Rights: Purpose and Structure 5. Project: Persuasive Essay 17. "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Revolutionary Tea": 6. Quiz 1 Technical and Connotative Meaning 7. Declaration of Independence: Central Ideas and Word 18. Project: Research Paper: Significance of Early Meanings American Writings 8. Declaration of Sentiments: Rhetoric and Inference 19. Sentence Structures in Archaic Writing 9. Compare and Contrast: The Declaration of Independence 20. Quiz 4 and the Declaration of Sentiments 21. Special Project* 10. Quiz Test 11. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom: Annotation and Meaning 23. Alternate Test* Unit 3: American Romanticism 1. Reference Materials: Vocabulary Journal 2. "Rip Van Winkle": Theme and Language "Young Goodman Brown": American Gothicism and Symbolism Uncle Tom's Cabin: Tone and Romanticism - Chapters Uncle Tom's Cabin: Figurative Language - Chapters Project: Analytic Essay - "Young Goodman Brown" 21. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Theme and Characterization 5. "The Black Cat": Inferences from the Text Chapters Quiz Uncle Tom's Cabin: Denotation and Connotation 7. "Self-Reliance": Transcendentalism Chapters Summer on the Lakes: Themes 23. Quiz 4 9. "Song of Myself": Free Verse 24. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Theme and Central Ideas 10. "Belle of Amherst": Structure and Meaning Chapters Quiz Uncle Tom's Cabin: Tracing Theme - Chapters To William Lloyd Garrison: Inference and Historical Context Chapters Uncle Tom's Cabin: Making Inferences and Predictions 13. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Tone and 27. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Themes - Chapters

5 Point of View 28. "Ain't I a Woman?": Abolitionists and Romanticism 14. "Civil Disobedience": Rhetoric and Structure 29. "The Two Offers": Inferring and Ellipses 15. "John Brown" Speech: Interpretation 30. Project: Close Reading and Recorded Presentation 16. Quiz Quiz Uncle Tom's Cabin: Stowe's Context 32. Special Project* 18. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Characterization Through Dialogue 33. Test Chapters Alternate Test* 3

6 Unit 4: Semester Exam ( 1. Exam 2. Alternate Exam* Unit 5: Regional Voices 1. "House Divided": Lincoln's Rhetorical Devices 19. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Figures of 2. "O Captain! My Captain!": Poetic Structures and Devices Speech and Context - Chapters "Influence of Lincoln": Supporting a Thesis 20. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Explicit and 4. Project: Expository Essay - "A House Divided," "O Captain! Implicit Meaning - Chapters O Captain!," "Influence of Lincoln" 21. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Resolution 5. Quiz 1 Chapters The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Realism in America The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Theme and Character Chapter 1 Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Tone and Character Project: Persuasive Essay: "Defining Freedom as Found in the Theme(s) of The Adventures of Quiz 3 Chapters The Essay: Understanding Format and Rhetoric The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Dialogue and Dialect 25. "A White Heron": Narration and Figures of Speech to Characterize - Chapters "The Revolt of Mother": Local Color and Dialogue The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Setting and Word 27. Quiz 4 Choice - Chapters "The Yellow Wallpaper": Analyzing Symbolism The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Satire and Theme Chapters Project: Discussion - "Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper" 12. Quiz Project: Argumentative Essay: American Women 13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Theme - Chapters 14- Writers "Tennessee's Partner": Narrative Point of View and 14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Using Sources to Local Color Understand Text - Chapters Project: Literary Circle: Discussion of Edith Wharton's 15. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Realism vs. Idealism 16. Ethan Frome Chapters Quiz 5 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Humor and Irony Chapters Test 34. Special Project* 17. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Theme of Moral 36. Alternate Test* 18. Awakening - Chapters The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Vernacular and Tone Chapters

7 Unit 6: Modernism in America 1. "Aunt Imogen": Theme and Structure 20. Project: Web Quest: The Life and Art of Zora Neale 2. "A Servant to Servants": Structure and Technique Hurston 3. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": Form, Imagery, 21. Quiz 3 and Theme 22. Their Eyes Were Watching God: Figurative Language 4. Sara Teasdale: Lyric Poetry 23. Their Eyes Were Watching God: Setting 5. "Grass": Realism and War 24. Their Eyes Were Watching God: Literary Elements 6. Project: Analyzing Themes of Loss and Isolation in 25. Their Eyes Were Watching God: Themes Modernist Poetry 26. Their Eyes Were Watching God: Language and 7. Quiz 1 Imagery 8. Modernism in the 1920s 27. Project: Essay: Searching for Love and Self in Their 9. "Hills Like White Elephants": Analysis Eyes Were Watching God 10. Project: Narrative Essay 28. "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me What 11. Project: Revision of a Student Piece Is?": Language Structure 12. Our Town: Universality in Literature 29. Project: Essay with Textual Evidence - Slide Show 13. Our Town: Inference - Act I Presentation 14. Our Town: Set and Characters - Act II 30. Quiz Our Town: Set, Tone, Theme - Act III 31. Project: Web Quest: The Life and Art of Zora Neale 16. Quiz 2 Hurston 17. Project: Our Town: Presenting an Argument 32. Special Project* 18. "Arrangement in Black and White": Satire and Writer 33. Test Purpose 34. Alternate Test* 19. "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain": Harlem Unit 7: Post World War II 1. The Literary Scene in Post World War II America 12. Quiz 2 2. "The Petrified Man": Southern Gothic and Language 13. Message and Media 3. "A Good Man is Hard to Find": Drawing Inferences and 14. "Attack the Water": Archetypes and Structure Word Meaning 15. "The Problem that Has No Name": Women and 4. John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address: Analysis Cultural Context 5. Quiz "Mirror": Analysis 6. "For the Union Dead": Poetic Devices 17. Project: "The Quilt of a Country": Slideshow 7. "The Man Who Was Almost a Man": Literary Elements Presentation 8. "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll": Meaning of 18. Project: College and Career Research and Presentation Lyrics 19. Writing Conventions: American Standard English 9. "Over S.E. Asia": Theme of War 20. Quiz "Poem": Interpretation 21. Special Project* 11. "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie": Analyzing Satire as a Tool of 22. Test Criticism 23. Alternate Test* Unit 8: Semester Exam 1. Exam 2. Alternate Exam* 5

8 Unit 9: Final Exam 1. Exam 2. Alternate Exam* (*) Indicates alternative assignment 6