I. Unit 1: Early American Writing 1600-1800
a. Native Americans
i. “The World on a Turtle’s Back” from the Iroquois
ii. “Coyote and the Buffalo” by Mourning Dove
iii. “The Way to Rainy Mountain” by N. Scott Momaday
b. The Early Settlers
i. From “The General History of Virginia” by John Smith
ii. From “Of Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford
iii. From “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards
iv. “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller
c. The Revolution
i. From “Speech in the Virginia Convention” by Patrick Henry
ii. From “The Declaration of Independence” by Thomas Jefferson
iii. From “The Crisis” by Thomas Paine
iv. From “The Autobiography” by Benjamin Franklin
II. Unit 2: American Romanticism 1800-1855
a. Beginning of Fiction
i. “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving
b. Transcendentalism
i. From “Self Reliance”, From “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
ii. From “Walden”, From “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau
c. Gothic
i. “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe
ii. “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
iii. “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
d. Novel
i. “The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Honors Summer Reading)
III. Unit 3: From Romanticism to Realism 1855-1870
a. Poetry
i. Selected poetry by Walt Whitman
ii. Selected poetry by Emily Dickinson
b. A Nation Divided
i. From “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” by Frederick Douglass
ii. “The Gettysburg Address / The Emancipation Proclamation” by Abraham Lincoln
iii. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
IV. Unit 4: Regionalism and Naturalism 1870-1910
a. Regionalism
i. “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain
b. Naturalism
i. “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane
ii. “The Law of Life” by Jack London
iii. “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin
iv. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
V. Unit 5: The Harlem Renaissance and Modernism
a. Harlem Renaissance
i. Selected poetry by Langston Hughes
ii. “How it Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston
b. Modernism
i. Selected poetry by Robert Frost
ii. “The Death of the Hired Man” by Robert Frost
iii. “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner
c. Novels
i. “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
ii. “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck
Mr. Clark Eng. 11 - Grade Weight
Category
Percentage
Unit Exams/Tests
40%
Writing (formal & informal)
30%
Projects
15%
Classwork/Homework
10%
Group/Partner Assignments
5%