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11th grade American Literature Honors

Last updated:  June 1, 2011

Class procedures

Course outline: 

Schedule:

Quarter 1:

Unit 1:  Native American and early colonial writings

Unit 2:  Revolutionary period literature: Writing for the public
Unit 3:  Writings of a New Nation

Quarter 2:

Unit 3:  Continued

             Transcendentalism
Unit 4:  Anti-Transcendentalism:  The Scarlet Letter, excerpts from Moby Dick

Unit 5:  Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman  

MID-TERM FACTS

Quarter 3:   

We will undertake the process of writing a research paper.  Research paper, grammar, vocabulary and reading assignments will be alternated throughout the quarter.  Check schedule for due dates.

Unit 6:  Non-fiction of the Civil War Period

Unit 7:  Regionalism and realism in American writings

Unit 8:  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Unit 9:  Later realism, naturalism and modernist expressions

Quarter 4: (Click for schedule/homework/links)

Unit 9 continued:  Later realism, naturalism and modernist expressions

Unit 10:  The Great Gatsby