2018-19 CURRICULUM CATALOG
Table of Contents 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... 2 UNIT 5: REGIONAL VOICES... 3 UNIT 6: MODERNISM IN AMERICA... 4 UNIT 7: POST-WORLD WAR II... 4 UNIT 8: SEMESTER EXAM... 5 UNIT 9: FINAL EXAM... 5 2018 Glynlyon, Inc. i
English III (01003) NY 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. Unit 1: Intersection In The New World 1. Course Overview 11. "On Being Brought from Africa to America" and 2. Of Plymouth Plantation: Puritan Literature "To His Excellency General Washington": Poetic 3. A Key into the Language of America: Analysis Structure 4. "To My Dear and Loving Husband" and "A Letter to 12. Quiz 2 Her Husband": Poetic Theme 13. Literary Criticism: Henry Louis Gates Jr. 5. "The Prologue" and "Verses upon the Burning of 14. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God": Diction, the House": Poetic Devices Imagery, Style 6. Project: Anne Bradstreet Biography 15. Project: Argumentative Essay - "Sinners in the 7. Quiz 1 Hands of an Angry God" 8. The Narrative of Captivity and the Restoration of 16. Using References to Understand Archaic Mrs. Mary Rowlandson: Literary Perspective Language 9. "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North 17. Quiz 3 America": Franklin's Satire 18. Special Project* 10. "The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial": Antislavery 19. Test Argument 2018 Glynlyon, Inc. 1
Unit 2: Becoming A Nation 1. Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, and 12. "What is an American?": Primary and Literary "The Indian Burying Ground": American Identity Sources 2. "The Way to Wealth": Franklin's Style and Rhetoric 13. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah 3. Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention: Equiano: Literary Nonfiction Rhetoric 14. Quiz 3 4. The American Crisis: Rhetoric and Tone 15. Federalist No. 10: Reasoning and Rhetoric 5. Project: Persuasive Essay 16. Preamble and Bill of Rights: Purpose and 6. Quiz 1 Structure 7. Declaration of Independence: Central Ideas and 17. "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Revolutionary Word Meanings Tea": Technical and Connotative Meaning 8. Declaration of Sentiments: Rhetoric and Inference 18. Project: Research Paper: Significance of Early 9. Compare and Contrast: The Declaration of American Writings Independence and the Declaration of Sentiments 19. Sentence Structures in Archaic Writing 10. Quiz 2 20. Quiz 4 11. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom: Annotation 21. Special Project* and Meaning 22. Test 23. Alternate Test* Unit 3: American Romanticism 1. Reference Materials: Vocabulary Journal 19. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Tone and Romanticism - 2. "Rip Van Winkle": Theme and Language Chapters 6-10 3. "Young Goodman Brown": American Gothicism 20. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Figurative Language - and Symbolism Chapters 11-15 4. Project: Analytic Essay - "Young Goodman Brown" 21. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Theme and Characterization - 5. "The Black Cat": Inferences from the Text Chapters 16-20 6. Quiz 1 22. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Denotation and Connotation - 7. "Self-Reliance": Transcendentalism Chapters 21-25 8. Summer on the Lakes: Themes 23. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Theme and Central Ideas - 9. "Song of Myself": Free Verse Chapters 26-30 10. "Belle of Amherst": Structure and Meaning 24. Quiz 4 11. Quiz 2 25. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Tracing Theme - Chapters 12. To William Lloyd Garrison: Inference and Historical 31-35 Context 26. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Making Inferences and 13. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Tone Predictions - Chapters 36-40 and Point of View 27. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Themes - Chapters 41-45 14. 28. "Ain't I a Woman?": Abolitionists and "Civil Disobedience": Rhetoric and Structure Romanticism 15. "John Brown" Speech: Interpretation 29. "The Two Offers": Inferring and Ellipses 16. Quiz 3 30. Project: Close Reading and Recorded Presentation 17. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Stowe's Context 31. Quiz 5 18. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Characterization Through 32. Special Project* Dialogue Chapters 1-5 33. Test 34. Alternate Test* Unit 4: Semester Exam 1. Semester Exam 2. Alternate Semester Exam* 2018 Glynlyon, Inc. 2
Unit 5: Regional Voices 1. House Divided: Lincoln's Rhetorical Devices 18. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Vernacular and 2. "O Captain! My Captain!": Poetic Structures and Tone - Chapters 29-31 Devices 19. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Figures of 3. "Influence of Lincoln": Supporting a Thesis Speech and Context - Chapters 32-35 4. Project: Expository Essay - "A House Divided," "O 20. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Explicit and Captain! O Captain!," "Influence of Lincoln" Implicit Meaning - Chapters 36-39 5. Quiz 1 21. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Resolution - 6. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Realism in Chapters 40-43 America 22. Project: Persuasive Essay: "Defining Freedom as 7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Theme and Found in the Theme(s) of The Adventures of Character - Chapter 1 Huckleberry Finn" 8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Tone and 23. Quiz 3 Character - Chapters 2-3 24. The Essay: Understanding Format and Rhetoric 9. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Dialogue and 25. A White Heron": Narration and Figures of Dialect to Characterize - Chapters 4-5 Speech 10. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Setting and 26. "The Revolt of Mother": Local Color and Dialogue Word Choice - Chapters 6-9 27. Quiz 4 11. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Satire and 28. "The Yellow Wallpaper": Analyzing Symbolism Theme - Chapters 10-13 29. Project: Discussion - "Why I Wrote The Yellow 12. Quiz 2 Wallpaper" 13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Theme - 30. Project: Argumentative Essay: American Women Chapters 14-16 Writers 14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Using Sources 31. "Tennessee's Partner": Narrative Point of View and to Understand Text - Chapters 17-19 Local Color 15. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Realism vs. 32. Project: Literary Circle: Discussion of Edith Idealism - Chapters 20-22 Wharton's Ethan Frome 16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Humor and 33. Quiz 5 Irony - Chapters 23-25 34. Special Project* 17.. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Theme of 35. Test Moral Awakening - Chapters 26-28 36. Alternate Test* 2018 Glynlyon, Inc. 3
Unit 6: Modernism In America 1. Aunt Imogen: Theme and Structure 25. The Crucible: Historical Context 2. "A Servant to Servants": Structure and Technique 26. Quiz 4 3. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": Form, 27. "Arrangement in Black and White": Satire and Imagery, and Theme Writer Purpose 4. "Grass": Realism and War 28. "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain": 5. Project: Analyzing Themes of Loss and Isolation in Harlem Renaissance Modernist Poetry 29. Project: Web Quest: The Life and Art of Zora 6. Quiz 1 Neale Hurston 7. Modernism in the 1920s 30. Quiz 5 8. "Hills Like White Elephants": Analysis 31. Their Eyes Were Watching God: Figurative 9. Project: Narrative Essay Language 10. Project: Revision of a Student Piece 32. Their Eyes Were Watching God: Setting 11. Quiz 2 33. Their Eyes Were Watching God: Literary Elements 12. Our Town: Universality in Literature 34. Their Eyes Were Watching God: Language and 13. Our Town: Inference - Act I Imagery 14. Our Town: Set and Characters - Act II 35. Project: Essay: Searching for Love and Self in Their 15. Our Town: Set, Tone, Theme - Act III Eyes Were Watching God 16. Project: Our Town: Presenting an Argument 36. "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me 17. Quiz 3 What Is?": Language Structure 18. The Crucible: Hysteria and Propaganda 37. Project: Essay with Textual Evidence - Slide Show 19. The Crucible: Setting - Act I Presentation 20. The Crucible: Characterization - Act II 38. Quiz 6 21. The Crucible: Themes - Act III 39. Special Project* 22. The Crucible: Symbolism - Act IV 40. Test 23. The Crucible: Truth in Fiction 41. Alternate Test* 24. The Crucible: Character Analysis Unit 7: Post-World War II 1. The Petrified Man: Southern Gothic and Language 11. "Sestina": Analyzing Form and Meaning 2. "A Good Man is Hard to Find": Drawing Inferences 12. "The Problem that Has No Name": Women and and Word Meaning Cultural Context 3. John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address: Analysis 13. "Mirror": Analysis 4. "The Man Who Was Almost a Man": Literary 14. Project: "The Quilt of a Country": Slideshow Elements Presentation 5. Quiz 1 15. Project: College and Career Research and 6. "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll": Meaning Presentation of Lyrics 16. Writing Conventions: American Standard English 7. "Over S.E. Asia": Theme of War 17. Quiz 3 8. "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie": Analyzing Satire as a Tool 18. Special Project* of Criticism 19. Test 9. "Attack the Water": Archetypes and Structure 20. Alternate Test* 10. Quiz 2 2018 Glynlyon, Inc. 4
Unit 8: Semester Exam 1. Semester Exam 2. Alternate Semester Exam* Unit 9: Final Exam 1. Final Exam 2. Alternate Final Exam * (*) Indicates alternative assignment 2018 Glynlyon, Inc. 5