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Narrative Texts & Writing

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In the first unit, we will study, "Shaping, Developing, and Supporting Meaning by Understanding Ourselves".
Works include:   
  • The Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Volume One

    Occom, Samson.  “A Short Narrative of My Life”p. 402-409

    Equiano, Olaudah. from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself p. 414-426

    The Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Volume Two

    Momaday, N. Scott. from The Names: A Memoir p. 1523-1528

                                                                                                         Mamet, David.  “The Rake: A Few Scenes from My Childhood” p. 1539-1543

                                                                                                         Hooks, bell. from Bone Black: Memories of a Girlhood p. 1544-154

  •                                                                                                      Dillard, Annie. from "An American Childhood" p.1534-1539


Informative Texts with Informative Writing

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"Shaping, Developing, and Supporting Meaning by Understanding Others"

Works Include:
  • Edwards, Jonathan "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
  • Henry, Patrick "Speech to the Virgina Convention"
  • Paine, Thomas "Common Sense" & "The American Crisis Number One"
  • Thoreau, Henry David "Resistance to Civil Government"
  • Brown, John "John Brown's Last Speech"
  • Twain, Mark "The War Prayer"
  • DuBois, W.E.B. "The Souls of Black Folk"
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr. "I Have a Dream"
   
 


The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Level One)

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_"Shaping, Developing, and Supporting Meaning by Understanding our World"


The Crucible (Levels 2 & 3)

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"Shaping, Developing, and Supporting Meaning by Understanding Our World"


 Macbeth

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"Analyzing and Using Varied Crafts and Structures"


Short Story Analysis & Paper

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"Extending Ideas and Presenting Meaning"

Works Include:
Irving, Washington. “The Devil and Tom Walker”
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Minister’s Black Veil”
Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Melville, Herman. “Bartelby the Scrivener”
  • Chopin, Kate. “The Story of an Hour” and “At the ‘Cadian Ball”
  • Perkins, Charlotte Gilman. “The Yellow Wallpaper”
  • Crane, Stephen. “The Open Boat”Freeman,
  • Mary E. Wilkins. “A New England Nun”
  • Cather, Willa. “A Wagner Matinee”
  • Anderson, Sherwood. “Sophistication” and “Departure”
  • Faulkner, William. “Barn Burning”
  • Hemingway, Ernest. “Big Two-Hearted River” and “Soldier’s Home”
  • O’Connor, Flannery. “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
  • Jackson, Shirley. “What a Thought”
  • Ellison, Ralph. “The Invisible Man”
  • Updike, John. “A&P”
  • LeGuin, Ursula. “She Unnames Them”
  • O’Brien, Tim.  “The Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”
  • Vonnegut, Kurt. "Harrison Bergeron" 
  • Literary criticism from the reference set Short Stories for Students (LHS LMC)


The Great Gatsby & The American Dream

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"Connecting and Integrating Knowledge and Ideas"

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