2018-19 CURRICULUM CATALOG
Table of Contents COURSE OVERVIEW... 1 UNIT 1: INTERSECTION IN THE NEW WORLD... 2 UNIT 2: BECOMING A NATION... 2 UNIT 3: AMERICAN ROMANTICISM... 3 UNIT 4: SEMESTER EXAM... 3 UNIT 5: REGIONAL VOICES... 4 UNIT 6: MODERNISM IN AMERICA... 5 UNIT 7: POST-WORLD WAR II... 5 UNIT 8: SEMESTER EXAM... 6 UNIT 9: FINAL EXAM... 6 2018 Glynlyon, Inc. i
Course Overview is a survey of American Literature and literary culture from its inception through the twentieth century. 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. That critical content is both rigorous and relevant and includes high-quality contemporary works as well as the classics of literature, in addition to classic myths and stories from around the world, America s founding documents, foundational American literature, and Shakespeare. Unit 1: Intersection in a New World: Students will examine the earliest American literature, which will highlight the intersection, and resulting conflicts, of Native American, European, and African American cultures; students will analyze and understand the use of rhetoric, archaic language, satire, and poetic devices, and will complete projects requiring skills such as academic research and the construction of arguments. Unit 2: Becoming a Nation: Students will focus on the historic and literary significance of documents relating to the establishment of the new government in America, comparing and contrasting tone and point of view in foundational documents, and using what they learn about the qualities of an effective argument to create one of their own. Unit 3: American Romanticism: Students will examine and compare works from American romantic literature, transcendentalism, and the sub-genre of slave narrative; skills that will be addressed will include the analysis of literary elements such as tone, point of view, figurative language, rhetoric, and structure, as well as students will participate in academic discussions; and write analytical and argumentative essays based on literature. Unit 5: Regional Voices: Students will explore American literature that addresses the issues of racism, slavery, inequality, and displacement, learning the ways in which authors utilize characters, language, and theme to express the challenges facing America in this period; speaking and listening skills will be developed through a presentation project. Unit 6: Modernism in America: Students will be introduced to the characteristics that define literature as modern and analyze those characteristics in poetry, fiction, and drama; students will be expected to utilize skills that involve writing literary analysis essays, reviewing and revising their written work, conducting structured academic research, and constructing oral and visual presentations. Unit 7: Post-World War II: Students will examine the literature that followed the Second World War and takes students up to what is known as the postmodern period in literature, interpreting cultural context, dissecting the form and structure of poetry and literature, conducting organized research, and utilizing speaking and listening skills through varied presentations. Students will also analyze the ways in which the media presents information and its effect on public opinion, in addition to creating their own media messaging. 2018 Glynlyon, Inc. 1
Unit 1: INTERSECTION IN THE NEW WORLD 1. Course Overview 14. "The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial": Antislavery 2. Early American Literature: Themes Argument 3. Of Plymouth Plantation: Puritan Literature 15. Quiz 2 4. A Key into the Language of America: Analysis 16. "On Being Brought from Africa to America" and "To His 5. "To My Dear and Loving Husband" and "A Letter to Her Excellency General Washington": Poetic Structure Husband": Poetic Theme 17. Literary Criticism: Henry Louis Gates Jr. 6. "The Prologue" and "Verses upon the Burning of the 18. Project: Comparative Analysis Essay with Research House": Poetic Devices 19. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God": Diction, Imagery, 7. Quiz 1 Style 8. "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet": Structure and Meaning 20. Project: Argumentative Essay - "Sinners in the Hands of 9. Project: Anne Bradstreet Biography an Angry God" 10. The Narrative of Captivity and the Restoration of Mrs. 21. Verbals: Gerunds Mary Rowlandson: Literary Perspective 22. Verbals: Infinitives 11. Academic English 23. Quiz 3 12. Active and Passive Voice 24. Special Project* 13. Project: Compare and Contrast Essay on Puritans 25. Test 26. Alternate Test* Unit 2: BECOMING A NATION 1. Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, and "The 13. "The Wild Honeysuckle" and "The Indian Burying Indian Burying Ground": American Identity Ground": Figurative Language 2. "The Way to Wealth": Franklin's Style and Rhetoric 14. Quiz 3 3. Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention: 15. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Rhetoric Literary Nonfiction 4. The American Crisis: Rhetoric and Tone 16. Project: Compare and Contrast Essay: Equiano and 5. Project: Persuasive Essay Bradford* 6. Quiz 1 17. Federalist No. 10: Reasoning and Rhetoric 7. Declaration of Independence: Central Ideas and Word 18. Preamble and Bill of Rights: Purpose and Structure Meanings 19. Project: Research Paper: Significance of Early American 8. Declaration of Sentiments: Rhetoric and Inference Writings 9. Compare and Contrast: The Declaration of Independence 20. Sequence in Procedural Texts and the Declaration of Sentiments 21. Quiz 4 10. Quiz 2 22. Special Project* 11. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom: Annotation and 23. Test Meaning 24. Alternate Test* 12. "What is an American?": Primary and Literary Sources 2018 Glynlyon, Inc. 2
Unit 3: AMERICAN ROMANTICISM 1. Romanticism 18. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Tone and Romanticism - Chapters 6-2. "Rip Van Winkle": Theme and Language 10 3. "Young Goodman Brown": American Gothicism and 19. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Figurative Language - Chapters 11-15 Symbolism 20. Quiz 3 4. "The Black Cat": Inferences from the Text 21. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Theme and Characterization - 5. Project: Analytic Essay: "Rip Van Winkle," "Young Chapters 16-20 Goodman Brown," and "The Black Cat"* 22. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Denotation and Connotation - 6. "Self-Reliance": Transcendentalism Chapters 21-25 7. Quiz 1 23. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Theme and Central Ideas - Chapters 8. Summer on the Lakes: Themes 26-30 9. "Song of Myself": Free Verse 24. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Tracing Theme - Chapters 31-35 10. "Belle of Amherst": Structure and Meaning 25. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Making Inferences and Predictions - 11. To William Lloyd Garrison: Inference and Historical Chapters 36-40 Context 26. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Themes - Chapters 41-45 12. Quiz 2 27. "Ain't I a Woman?": Abolitionists and Romanticism 13. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: Tone and Point 28. "The Two Offers": Inferring and Ellipses of View 29. Project: Explanatory Essay - African American Women* 14. "Civil Disobedience": Rhetoric and Structure 30. Project: Close Reading and Recorded Presentation 15. "John Brown" Speech: Interpretation 31. Quiz 4 16. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Stowe's Context 32. Special Project* 17. Uncle Tom's Cabin: Characterization Through Dialogue - 33. Test Chapters 1-5 34. Alternate Test* Unit 4: SEMESTER EXAM 1. Semester Exam 2. Alternate Semester Exam* 2018 Glynlyon, Inc. 3
Unit 5: REGIONAL VOICES 1. Historical Context and Universal Theme 19. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Theme of Moral 2. "House Divided": Lincoln's Rhetorical Devices Awakening - Chapters 26-28 3. "O Captain! My Captain!": Poetic Structures and Devices 20. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Vernacular and 4. "Influence of Lincoln": Supporting a Thesis Tone - Chapters 29-31 5. Clauses 21. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Figures of Speech 6. Project: Expository Essay - "A House Divided," "O Captain! and Context - Chapters 32-35 O Captain!," "Influence of Lincoln" 22. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Explicit and Implicit 7. Quiz 1 Meaning - Chapters 36-39 8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Realism in America 23. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Resolution - 9. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Theme and Character Chapters 40-43 - Chapter 1 24 Project: Persuasive Essay: "Defining Freedom as Found in 10. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Tone and Character - the Theme(s) of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" Chapters 2-3 25. "Désirée's Baby": Themes 11. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Dialogue and Dialect 26. Quiz 3 to Characterize - Chapters 4-5 27. The Essay: Understanding Format and Rhetoric 12. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Setting and Word 28. "A White Heron": Narration and Figures of Speech Choice - Chapters 6-9 29. "The Revolt of Mother": Local Color and Dialogue 13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Satire and Theme - 30. "The Yellow Wallpaper": Analyzing Symbolism Chapters 10-13 31. Project: Discussion - "Why I Wrote The Yellow 14. Quiz 2 Wallpaper" 15. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Theme - Chapters 14-32. Project: Argumentative Essay: American Women Writers 16 33. Project: Literary Circle: Discussion of Edith Wharton's 16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Using Sources to Ethan Frome Understand Text - Chapters 17-19 34. Quiz 4 17. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Realism vs. Idealism - 35. Special Project* Chapters 20-22 36. Test 18. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Humor and Irony - 37. Alternate Test* Chapters 23-25 2018 Glynlyon, Inc. 4
Unit 6: MODERNISM IN AMERICA 1. An Introduction to Modernism in America 25. The Crucible: Character Analysis 2. "Aunt Imogen": Theme and Structure 26. The Crucible: Historical Context 3. "A Servant to Servants": Structure and Technique 27. Project: Argument Essay - John Proctor* 4. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": Form, Imagery, and 28. Quiz 3 Theme 29. "Arrangement in Black and White": Satire and Writer 5. Sara Teasdale: Lyric Poetry Purpose 6. "Grass": Realism and War 30. "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain": Harlem 7. Project: Analyzing Themes of Loss and Isolation in Renaissance Modernist Poetry 31. Project: Web Quest: The Life and Art of Zora Neale 8. Quiz 1 Hurston 9. Modernism in the 1920s 32. Quiz 4 10. "Hills Like White Elephants": Analysis 33. Their Eyes Were Watching God: Figurative Language 11. Project: Literary Analysis of "Hills Like White Elephants." 34. Their Eyes Were Watching God: Setting 12. Project: Narrative Essay 35. Their Eyes Were Watching God: Literary Elements 13. Our Town: Universality in Literature 36. Their Eyes Were Watching God: Themes 14. Our Town: Inference - Act I 37. Their Eyes Were Watching God: Language and Imagery 15. Our Town: Set and Characters - Act II 38. Project: Essay: Searching for Love and Self in Their Eyes 16. Our Town: Set, Tone, Theme - Act III Were Watching God 17. Project: Our Town: Presenting an Argument 39. "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me What Is?": 18. Quiz 2 Language Structure 19. The Crucible: Hysteria and Propaganda 40. Project: Essay with Textual Evidence - Slide Show 20. The Crucible: Setting - Act I Presentation 21. The Crucible: Characterization - Act II 41. Quiz 5 22. The Crucible: Themes - Act III 42. Special Project* 23. The Crucible: Symbolism - Act IV 43. Test 24. The Crucible: Truth in Fiction 44. Alternate Test* Unit 7: POST-WORLD WAR II 1. The Literary Scene in Post World War II America 15. Create Media Messages 2. "The Petrified Man": Southern Gothic and Language 16. Evaluate the Motive of Media 3. "A Good Man is Hard to Find": Drawing Inferences and 17. Project: Synthesize Multiple Streams of Information Word Meaning 18. Workplace Documents 4. Quiz 1 19. Project: College and Career Research and Presentation 5. John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address: Analysis 20. Quiz 3 6. "The Man Who Was Almost a Man": Literary Elements 21. "Attack the Water": Archetypes and Structure 7. "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll": Meaning of Lyrics 22. "Sestina": Analyzing Form and Meaning 8. "Over S.E. Asia": Theme of War 23. "The Problem that Has No Name": Women and Cultural 9. "Poem": Interpretation Context 10. Quiz 2 24. "Mirror": Analysis 11. "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie": Analyzing Satire as a Tool of 25. Project: "The Quilt of a Country": Slideshow Presentation Criticism 26. Quiz 4 12. Message and Media 27. Special Project* 13. Compare Visual Messages 28. Test 14. Media's Influence on Public Opinion 29. Alternate Test* 2018 Glynlyon, Inc. 5
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. 6