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Materials needed:  a one subject notebook.

 

 Week 1:

History of American literature

Notes, vocabulary

Colonial writings

 Week 2:

continuation of Colonial literature

compare/contrast assignment

Week 3:

Puritan poetry

Sermons, speeches, and pamphlets

Week 4:

finish unit on Colonial Literature

Review for  exam

Exam

Week 5:

Begin the Romantic Period of American Literature

Background notes on the period

Background notes on Washington Irving

Vocabulary list for stories

Read " The Devil and Tom Walker"

Week 6:

extra credit Irving crossword puzzle

continue Romantic Period with the reading of "The Legend of Sleppy Hollow

Irving Test

Week 7:

Romantic Period Poetry

Study Island in preparation for Keystone exam

Week 8:

Edgar Allan Poe

Short stories and poem

Study Island or Keystone Exam prep

Week 9:

Continue with Poe

 Week 10:

Transcendental writers (Thoreau and Emerson)

Week 11: 

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Young Goodman Brown"

Week 12: 

Read and discus "The Minister's Black Veil" and "Dr. Heidegger's Experiement"

Prepare for a Hawthorne exam

Week 13:

Finish Hawthorne stories and prep for Hawthorne exam

Use Quizlet to study

Week 14:

Hawthorne exam

Begin Research Paper  Process*subject to change due to Keystone Exams

Week 15:

Persuasive paper process handout and library time to research

Week 16:

Persuasive paper process --avoid plagiarism ...MLA documentation

Library time to research with topic handout due

Week 17:

"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry and "Christmas Bells"  by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Week 18:

Herman Melville notes, vocab.  Story and poetry

Week 19:

Emily Dickinson notes, vocab., poetry

Walt Whitman notes, vocab. poetry

Prep for Keystone exam

Week 20:

Ambrose Bierce background notes, vocab. stories

Test

 Week 21:

Twain notes and background

Read story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog"

Quiz

 

 

Week 22:

Work on rough draft for research paper* subject to change due to Keystone Exams

 

 

Week 23:

work on final draft of research paper*

Week  24:

Research paper due*

 

Week 25:

Realism 

Stephen Cran notes and vocab.

Read "An Episode of War"

Week 26:

E.A.Robinson poetry

Week 27:

 

Sherwood Anderson works

Week 28:

William Faulkner's works

Shirley Jackson

Week 29:

Hemingway's work "Soldier's Home"

 

Week 30:

Tennessee William's The Glass Menagerie

notes and vocab.

Read Act 1

Week 31:

Act 2 of The Glass Menagerie

Week 32:

continue with and finish play

test on play

 

Week 33:

Sci-fiction works by Ray Bradbury

Laptops for Quizlet Review

Week 34:

Sci-fi detective story "The Singing Bell" by Isaac Asimov

Contemporary story "Teenage Diseases"

Review for final using laptops and quizlet

Week 35:

Contemporary writers and poets

Week 36:

Review for final

Week 37:

Final exam