Introductory Notes: For every textbook reading, be sure to take notes in your daybook of author information (found at the end of each reading) and ALL vocabulary definitions. All Q/A should be done on a separate sheet of notebook paper to be kept in your notebook until turned in on your current benchmark test. These Q/A will serve as your notes during tests and will count 30% of your test grade.
Unit One: Origins and Encounters up to 1620
p. 18-22 Timeline and Native American Traditions; daybook notes
William Bradford: Chronicle "Of Plymouth Plantation" p. 81
Olaudah Equiano: Slave Narrative
"The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano" p. 93
*Native American, Explorers, and Colonists/Puritans Research and Presentations
Unit Two: From Colony to Country 1620-1800
p. 132-136 Timeline and Puritan Beliefs; daybook notes
Anne Bradstreet: "To My Dear and Loving Husband" and "Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666"
Poetry p. 138-143
Jonathan Edwards:"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Sermon: p. 152-160
In-class reading of Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible; p. 163-245 in four acts Q/A 1-5 on each act
(Honors) Outside reading and project on N. Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
Patrick Henry: "Speech in the Virginia Convention" Speech p.262
Thomas Jefferson: "The Declaration of Independence" Document p. 270
Benjamin Franklin: from "Poor Richard's Almanack" Aphorisms p. 292
Martin Luther King, Jr. from "Stride Towards Freedom" Nonfiction p. 300
*Puritan People Power Point Project
Films: Learning Channel Film on H.D. Thoreau & The Dead Poets Society
Unit Three: The Spirit of Individualism 1800-1855
p. 339-342 Timeline and Romanticism and Transcendentalism; daybook notes
Washington Irving: "The Devil and Tom Walker" Short Story p. 349
Ralph Waldo Emerson: from "Self-Reliance" Essay p. 363
Henry David Thoreau: from "Civil Disobedience" Essay p. 369
From Walden Essay p. 377
Walt Whitman: Poetry Collage Project: "I Hear America Singing" p. 396; "I Sit and Look Out" & "Song of Myself"
Garrison Keillor: "Gary Keillor" Short Story p. 424
Edgar Allan Poe: "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Raven" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" Short Story p. 473
William Faulkner: "A Rose for Emily" Short Story p. 516
*Transcendental Author Research and Presentations
Unit Four: Conflict and Expansion 1850-1900
p. 556-560 Timeline and A House Divided: Slavery and Civil War; daybook notes
Frederick Douglass: from "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" Slave Narrative p. 562
Ambrose Bierce: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" Short Story p. 580
Abraham Lincoln: "The Gettysburg Address" Speech and memorization, p. 605
Mark Twain:"Autobiography" p. 658 & "Life on the Mississippi" Memoir p. 669
& "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" Short Story p. 679
*Outside novel reading/discussions: Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain
Unit Five: The Changing Face of America 1855-1925
p. 740-744 Timeline and Women?s Voices and Lives; daybook notes
Emily Dickenson: Group Presentations of selected poems: p. 746-762
Kate Chopin: "The Story of an Hour" Short Story: p. 783
Carl Sandburg: "Chicago" Poetry p. 824
Edwin Arlington Robinson: "Richard Cory" and "Miniver Cheevy" Poetry p. 830
Unit Six: The Modern Age 1900-1940
p. 914-918 Timeline and The Harlem Renaissance and Modernism; daybook notes
Langston Hughes: "I, Too," "Harlem," and "The Weary Blues" Poetry pp. 924-927
Zora Neal Hurston: "How It Feels To Be Colored" Essay: p. 950
Toni Morrison: "Thoughts on the African-American Novel" Essay: 973
Robert Frost: "Mending Wall" and "Out, out" Poetry: p. 1002 and p. 1004
T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Poetry: p. 1025
Richard Wright: "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" Short Story: p. 1045
*Film/outside Novel reading: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby or
*Film/outside Novel reading: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston
Unit Seven: War Abroad and Conflict at Home 1940-Present
p. 1070-1074 Timeline and Remembering the Wars and Integration and Disintegration
John Steinbeck: "Why Soldiers Won't Talk" Essay p. 1088
*Novel: Of Mice and Men
Martin Luther King, Jr.: from "Letter from Birmingham Jail" Letter p. 1136
*Novel reading: Dan Brown The DaVinci Code
Extra Credit Readings: with Q/A 1-5 (One point)
Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Dr. Heidigger's Experiment" p. 500
Flannery O'Connor: "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" p. 528
Anne Tyler: "Teenage Wasteland" p. 1168
F. Scott Fitzgerald: "Winter Dreams" p. 840
Extra Credit Films: Two-Page Film Review (Synopsis and Critique) (Two Points)
J.F Cooper's Last of the Mohicans
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden or The Pearl