Semester 1 Literature Grade 11 Unit One Early American Writing The World on the Turtle s Back Myth 36 Page 45 Coyote and the Buffalo Folk Take 46 Page 53 The Way to Rainy Mountain Memoir 54 Page 63 La Relacion Report 72 Page 79 Page 81 The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Slave Narrative 82 Page 89 Page 91 Plymouth Plantation Chronicle 102 Page 111 To My Dear and Loving Husband Poem 114 Page 121 Upon the Burning of Our House Poem 118 Huswifery Poem 120 One Credit (1 st Credit)
1 st Half of Novel Pick one of the following novels for the student to complete associated assignments: Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying Wilder, Thornton Our Town Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching God Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms Poe, Edgar Allan Short Stories Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Sermon 122 Page 130 The Crucible Drama 134 Act One 138 Page 163 Act Two 164 Page 179 Act Three 199 Page 199 Act Four 200 Page 213 Page 215 s One Credit (2 nd Credit)
2 nd Half of Novel The Declaration of Independence Public Document 238 Page 245 Page 247 The Crisis Essay 248 Page 256 Letter to the Reverend Samson Occom / to John Adams Letter 260 Page 265 Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin / Poor Richard s Almanack Autobiography 266 Page 276 Unit Two American Romanticism The Devil and Tom Walker Short Story 318 Page 333 Page 335 Thanatopsis Poem 336 Page 340 One Credit (3 rd Credit)
A Psalm of Life/ The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls Poem 347 Page 347 Self Reliance/Nature Essay 369 Page 375 Page 377 Writing Option Walden / Civil Disobedience On Civil Disobedience Essay 378 Page 397 Page 399 Text Analysis 401 Fall of the House of Usher Short Story 410 Page 432 Page 434 The Masque of the Red Death Short Story 444 Page 453 Danse Macabre Essay 455 Page 458 Unit Three Questions of the Times I Hear America Singing From Song of Myself A Noiseless Patient Spider Beat! Beat! Drums! Ode to Walt Whitman Poem 530 Text Analysis Page 532 1-3 Page 537 1-3 After Reading Page 541 1-10 Text Analysis Page 545 1-2
One Credit (4 th Credit)
Poem 546 Text Analysis Page 550 1-3 Page 552 1-3 Page 556 Because I could not stop for Death Success is counted sweetest Much Madness is divinest Sense My life closed twice before its close The Soul selects her own Society I heard a Fly buzz When I died My life had Stood a Loaded Gun Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Slave Narrative Slave Narrative 558 Page 570 Page 571 572 Page 580 Page 581 The Gettysburg Address Speech 584 Page 590 The Emancipation Proclamation Proclamation 588 Page 591 Voices form the Civil War 592 Page 597 Page 597 One Credit (5 th Credit)
Unit 4 Regionalism and Naturalism The Autobiography of Mark Twain Autobiography 656 Page 671 The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Short Story 684 Page 691 Page 693 The Outcasts of Poker Flat Short Story 696 Page 709 Page 711 The Open Boat Short Story 734 Page 759 Page 761 The Law of Life Short Story 768 Page 777 The Story of an Hour Short Story 782 Page 788 Page 789 The Yellow Wallpaper Short Story 796 Page 815 Page 817 April Showers Short Story 820 Page 831 One Credit (6 th Credit)
Unit Five The Harlem Renaissance Harlem Poem 878 Page 880 Text Analysis 1-3 The Negro Speaks of rivers Poem 882 Page 883 I, Too Poem 883 Text Analysis 1-3 My City Poem 886 Page 891 If We Must Die Poem 890 Any Human To Another Poem 892 Page 897 Storm Ending Poem 895 A Black Man Talks of Reaping Poem 897 How It Feels to Be Colored Me Essay 900 Page 905 Page 907 Acquainted with the Night Poem 936 Page 942 Nothing Gold Can Stay Poem 940 Out, Out- Poem 941 The Death of the Hired Man Poem 943 Page 950 Page 951 Anyone lived in a pretty how town Poetry / Recuerdo Poem 960 Page 967 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Poem 968 Page 974 One Credit (7 th Credit)
Winter Dreams Short Story 976 Page 999 Page 1001 In Another Country Short Story 1008 Page 1015 Page 1017 Healing War s Wounds Magazine Article 1018 Page1022 The Grapes of Wrath Novel 1024 Page 1033 After Reading 1-6 The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Short Story 1034 Page 1045 Page 1047 A Rose for Emily Short Story 1064 Page 1075 Page 1077 The Life You Save May Be Your Own Short Story 1078 Page 1090 After Reading 1090 A New Kind of War News Dispatch 1094 Page 1102 Page 1103 One Credit (8 th Credit)
Unit Six Contemporary Literature Why Soldiers Won t Talk Essay 1170 Page 1176 Page 1177 Adam Short Story 1180 Page 1187 Survival in Auschwitz Memoir 1188 Page 1192 Ambush Short Story 1196 Page 1200 Letter from Birmingham Jail Letter 1202 Page 1215 Page 1217 Stride Toward Freedom Nonfiction 1218 Page 1228 Necessary to Protect Ourselves Interview 1224 Martin Luther King Jr.: He Showed Us the Way Essay 1230 Page 1233 After Reading 1-3 Coming of Age in Mississippi Autobiography 1240 Page 1248 After Reading Page 1249 One Credit (9 th Credit)
Mother Tongue Essay 1262 Page 1270 Page 1271 In Search of Our Mother s Gardens Essay 1278 Page 1285 Straw Into Gold Essay 1286 Page 1293 Life for My Child is Simple Poem 1296 Page 1299 Primer for Blacks Poem 1297 Adolescence III Poem 1300 Page 1305 Testimonial Poem 1304 The Man in The Moon Poem 1306 Page 1310 Forgetfulness Poem 1309 Assessment Practice The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Virtual Worlds You Deserve the Vacation of Your Dreams Assessment 1324 Pages 1332-1335 One Credit (10 th Credit)