Narrative Texts & Writing

In the first unit, we will study, "Shaping, Developing, and Supporting Meaning by Understanding Ourselves".
Works include:
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

"Shaping, Developing, and Supporting Meaning by Understanding Others"
Works Include:
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)

_"Shaping, Developing, and Supporting Meaning by Understanding our World"
The Crucible (Levels 2 & 3)

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

"Analyzing and Using Varied Crafts and Structures"
Short Story Analysis & Paper

"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”
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

"Connecting and Integrating Knowledge and Ideas"