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American Literature Syllabus
Honors—Spring 2012
Stephanie Heintz Wood
Nine Weeks One
Jan 24 Introductions, Summer reading review, expectations
25 Summer Reading TEST
26 Baseline assessment (essay), Literature in America, pre-1800s notes,
27 Native American writing, Puritans, Mayflower compact, Anne Bradstreet
30 Edwards and “Sinners in the Hands. . .” and “Salem Village”
31 “Sinners” visual due, The Crucible and vocabulary
Feb 1 The Crucible
2 The Crucible—assign essay
3 The Crucible, Vocabulary sentences due
6 The Crucible and activity for essay
7 Crucible video
8 Age of Reason and Benjamin Franklin
9 Peer editing and SAT vocabulary list 1
10 Character analysis due, Test Review, SAT sentences
13 TEST 1
14 Romanticism notes, SAT quiz, and Stanton
15 Irving and Longfellow (half day)
16 Transcendentalism and Emerson
17 Emerson and Thoreau
20 Thoreau (with Ghandi and King)
21 Anti-transcendentalism and Hawthorne “The Birthmark”
22 The Scarlet Letter
23 The Scarlet Letter
24 The Scarlet Letter, SAT vocabulary list 2
27 TEACHER WORKDAY
28 The Scarlet Letter,
29 The Scarlet Letter, SAT sentences due, critical journal assignment
Mar. 1 The Scarlet Letter
2 The Scarlet Letter, SAT quiz 2
5 Edgar Allan Poe
6 The Scarlet Letter and Poe
7 The Scarlet Letter and Poe,
8 Review and essay day, SAT vocab.
9 ROMANTICISM AND The Scarlet Letter TEST
12 Whitman and “Song of Myself”—workday on song
13 Whitman and critical journal due
14 SAT quiz list 2 (half day)
15 “Song of Myself” due—your song
16 TEACHER WORKDAY
19 Dickinson and Catch up day
20 American Realism and Sojourner Truth
21 Spirituals and Follow the Drinking Gourd
22 Douglass and Jacobs, SAT vocabulary list 3
23 Assign Ellen Foster, reading day
26 Twain and “The War Prayer,” SAT sentences due
27 Twain and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
28 Finish Huck Finn video
29 SAT quiz 3, Ellen Foster
30 TEACHER WORKDAY
Coming up for Nine Weeks Two: Realism continued, Modernism, and Research paper. Novels and plays include: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a re-read of Gatsby, Inherit the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, and more.