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English III is a required, 18 week class, typically taken junior year. It focuses on American Literature, persuasive writing, and ACT test preparation in English, reading, and writing. We cover a wide range of authors throughout America's past. 1st Nine Weeks Schedule:
The Crucible - 10 days Literature: Jonathan Edwards Speech, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Samuel Sewell's Diary "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller Writing: Journal writing from characters' perspectives Journal writing over themes of unit Journal writing dealing with causes and effects ACT Work: Pre-test assessment & activities
Romanticism & Transcendentalism - 8 days Literature: "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne Discussion of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe "The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe View "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe "Self Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau Excerpt from Walden by Henry David Thoureau "Ain't I a Woman" by Sojourner Truth Writing: Edgar Allan Poe Paper Transcendentalism journals ACT Work: Sentence Structure (clauses, phrases, modifiers, run-ons, comma splices) Fragments Misplaced Modifiers Shifts in Construction Grammar and Usage Nouns Pronouns
A Changing Nation (Civil War & Rights) & Persuasive Writing - 8 days Literature: "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman "What is Grass" by Walt Whitman "There was a Child Went Forth" by Walt Whitman "Shiloh" by Herman Melville "The Portent" by Herman Melville Discussion and movie clips from Moby Dick by Herman Melville "This is My Letter to the World" by Emily Dickinson "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain Discussion of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Writing: Journals about realism and idealism "40 Hour Week" and "I Hear America Singing" comparison Journal Anti-transcendentalism essay Persuasive Writing Unit ACT Work: Persuasive writing
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - 15 days Literature: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - by Mark Twain Writing: Theme journals Position Paper Vernacular writing exercises ACT Work: Grammar and Usage Verbs Verb Tense Tense Shift Subject-Verb Agreement Parallel Form Adjectives and Adverbs Comparative and Superlative Adjectives and Adverbs Idioms
2nd Nine Weeks Schedule: To Kill A Mockingbird - 13 days Literature: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Writing: "Strange Fruit" Journal Atticus' Appeal Essay "Lawyer Clark Blues" Journal ACT Work: Punctuation Commas Semicolons & Colons Parentheses Apostrophes Periods, Question Marks, & Exclamation Points Quotation Marks
The Great Gatsby & Research- 15 days Literature: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Writing: 1920's research/speech presentations Journals on themes of moral decay, materialism, the American Dream from The Great Gatsby Video/Text juxtaposition essay Research: Review: Note taking techniques, Outlines, Plagiarism, & Paraphrasing Internal citations and works cited page Writing a research paper
Modern Authors - 5 days Literature: "Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald "In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost "Birches" by Robert Frost "Lord Byron's Love Letter" by Tennessee Williams "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner Writing: "Winter Dreams"/The Great Gatsby Essay Robert Frost imitation poetry "Grey Street" Journal ACT Work: Rhetorical Skills Strategy Organization Style
Of Mice and Men - 6 days Literature: Of Mice and Men Writing: Friendship Journal Logs American Dream essay ACT Work: How to develop and write an ACT essay
20th Century Authors - 5 days Literature: "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath "Salvador Late or Early" by Sandra Cisneros "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan "Gary Keillor" by Garrison Keillor "Village" by Estela Portillo Trambley Writing: Stream of Consciousness writing Hyperbole essay Village essay ACT Work: Vocabulary and Context Clues Reading Efficiently Items and Answer Choices Steps for Taking the ACT Reading
*Please note that the schedule is subject to change due to the daily progression of the class. |
