Course+Syllabus

ENGLISH 11 & PRE-AP 11 COURSE OUTLINE

English 11 & Pre-AP English 11** ~Selections Not Included in Literature Book
 * __Course Outline__
 * Instructor: Mrs. Cynthia Eddy**
 * Elements of Literature: Fifth Course**
 * Pre-AP Additions


 * I. Collection 1 - Encounters and Foundations to 1800**

A. Background Information Time Line Political and Social Milestones Introduction to the Literary Period: The Puritan Influence B. Literary Works “The Sun Still Rises in the Same Sky: Native American Literature”-Joseph Bruchac “The Sky Tree” - Huron Traditional “The Earth Only” - Teton Sioux Traditional “Coyote Finishes His Work” - Nez Perce “The Legend of the Cedar Tree” - Native American Folklore “Here Follow Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666” - Anne Bradstreet from //The Autobiography// - Benjamin Franklin from //Poor Richard’s Almanack// - Benjamin Franklin ~“The Lottery” - Shirley Jackson ~*//The Scarlet Letter// - Nathaniel Hawthorne ~*“Young Goodman Brown” - Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * ~**//The Crucible// - Arthur Miller
 * from //A Narrative of the Captivity// - Mary Rowlandson
 * from //Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God// -Jonathan Edwards


 * II. Collection 2 - American Romanticism: 1800-1860**

A. Background Information Time Line Political and Social Milestones Introduction to the Literary Period: Romanticism B. Literary Works “The Devil and Tom Walker” - Washington Irving “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Cross of Snow” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from //Nature// - Ralph Waldo Emerson from //Self-Reliance// - Ralph Waldo Emerson “Dr. Heidegegger’s Experiment” - Nathaniel Hawthorne “The Raven” - Edgar Allan Poe “The Pit and the Pendulum” - Edgar Allan Poe ~*“The American Scholar” - Ralph Waldo Emerson ~*“The Divinity School Address” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * ~**//Ethan Frome// - Edith Wharton
 * ~**“The Black Cat” - Edgar Allan Poe
 * “Thanatopsis”
 * from //Walden, or Life in the Woods// - Henry David Thoreau
 * from “Resistance to Civil Government” - Henry David Thoreau
 * from “On Nonviolent Resistance” - Mohandas K. Gandhi
 * from “Letter from Birmingham City Jail” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * “The Minister’s Black Veil” - Nathaniel Hawthorne


 * III. Collection 3 - American Masters: Whitman and Dickinson**

A. Background Information Time Line Introduction to the Literary Period: Whitman and Dickinson B. Literary Works __Walt Whitman__ “I Hear America Singing” from //Song of Myself// #10, #33, #52 ~*“Aboard at a Ship’s Helm” __Emily Dickinson__ “The Soul selects her own Society” “If you were coming in the Fall” “Because I could not stop for Death” “I heard a Fly buzz--when I died” ~*“The Moon is distant from the sea”
 * “A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak”
 * “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant”
 * “Apparently with no surprise”
 * “Success is counted sweetest”
 * “Much madness is divinest Sense”


 * IV. Collection 4 - The Rise of Realism: Civil War to 1914**

A. Background Information Time Line Political and Society Milestones Introduction to the Literary Period: Realism, Naturalism, Impressionism B. Literary Works __Spirituals__ “Go Down, Moses” “Follow the Drinking Gourd” “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” “The Most Remarkable Woman of This Age” - Freeman’s Record “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” - Ambrose Bierce “Letter to His Son” - Robert E. Lee “Letter to Sarah Ballou” - Major Sullivan Ballou “The Gettysburg Address” - Abraham Lincoln “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” - Mark Twain “To Build a Fire” - Jack London “Richard Cory” - Edwin Arlington Robinson “Miniver Cheevy” - Edwin Arlington Robinson ~*//The Red Badge of Courage// - Stephen Crane ~*“The War Prayer” - Mark Twain
 * ~**“The Story of An Hour” - Kate Chopin
 * “A Mystery of Heroism” - Stephen Crane
 * “War Is Kind” - Stephen Crane
 * “The Lowest Animal” - Mark Twain
 * “A Pair of Silk Stockings” - Kate Chopin


 * V. Collection 5 - The Moderns: 1914-1939**

A. Background Information Time Line Political and Social Milestones Introduction to the Literary Period: Modernism B. Literary Works “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” - Ezra Pound “The Garden” - Ezra Pound “The Red Wheelbarrow” - William Carlos Williams “The Great Figure” - William Carlos Williams “This Is Just to Say” - William Carlos Williams “what if a much of a which of a wind” - E. E. Cummings “somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond” - E. E. Cummings “A Rose for Emily” - William Faulkner “Design” - Robert Frost “Nothing Gold Can Stay” - Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken” - Robert Frost “Mending Wall” - Robert Frost “Tableau” - Countee Cullen “Incident” - Countee Cullen “The Weary Blues” - Langston Hughes “Harlem” - Langston Hughes “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” - Langston Hughes
 * ~**//The Great Gatsby// - F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * ~**“Hills Like White Elephants” - Ernest Hemingway
 * ~**“Chrysanthemums” - John Steinbeck
 * ~**“The Catbird Seat” - James Thurber
 * ~**“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” - Flannery O’Connor
 * “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” - T. S. Eliot
 * “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” - Katherine Anne Porter
 * “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1950” - William Faulkner
 * “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954” - Ernest Hemingway
 * __The Harlem Renaissance__**
 * from //Dust Tracks on a Road// - Zora Neale Hurston


 * VI. Collection 6 - Contemporary Literature: 1939 to Present**

A. Background Information Time Line Political and Social Milestones Introduction to the Literary Period: Contemporary Literature B. Literary Works from //Black Boy,// “The Street” - Richard Wright “Mirror” - Sylvia Plath “Mushrooms” - Sylvia Plath “The Bells” - Anne Sexton “The Bean Eaters” - Gwendolyn Brooks ~“Suffer the Little Children” - Stephen King ~*“The Waking” - Theodore Roethke
 * ~**“My Papa’s Waltz” - Theodore Roethke
 * ~**“The Waltz” - Dorothy Parker
 * ~**//Maya Angelou// - Documentary and Several Poems
 * from “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” - Alice Walker
 * “Autobiographical Notes” - James Baldwin


 * ~*VII. Summer Reading**

Choose one classic novel and one contemporary novel. //*//Contemporary

//Moby Dick// - Herman Melville //Pudd’nhead Wilson// - Mark Twain //The Sun Also Rises -// Ernest Hemingway //My Antonia -// Willa Cather //The Grapes of Wrath// - John Steinbeck //As I Lay Dying// - William Faulkner //Tender Is the Night// - F. Scott Fitzgerald //*Life of Pi// - Yann Martell
 * //The Color Purple// - Alice Walker
 * //The Fountainhead// - Ayn Rand
 * //My Sister’s Keeper// - Jodi Picoult
 * //The Help// - Kathryn Stockett


 * VIII. Writing**

A. Essay Writing Persuasive Informative Descriptive Narrative Cause/Effect Compare/Contrast Process Analysis Critical Response Creative Writing Poetry Writing In-Class Timed Writings

B. Research Paper MLA Format

C. PSSA Preparation Reading/Writing/Test-Taking Strategies

D. Journal Writing

A. Quit Edits/PSSA Embedded Errors Paragraphs
 * IX. Grammar, Usage, Punctuation**

A. SAT Vocabulary Development B. Literary Terms/Techniques (100+ words)
 * X. Vocabulary**

~A. Sources: //Peterson’s, College Board, Kaplan//
 * XI. AP Exam Reading Preparation**