Students enrolled in English 3 Honors will be reading and analyzing a variety of classic American literature texts. Students will be responsible for keeping up with readings, participating in socratic seminars and class discussions, and turning in all homework assignments on the days they are due. An outline of some of the tentative units for this year are listed below. Keeping up with classwork is crucial and necessary. Remember to come to class prepared with everything you will need to succeed!
English 3 Honors 2016-2017 School Year
(Titles marked with *s indicate readings which are included in the Elements of Literature: Literature of the United States textbook.)
Unit 1: Future Planning
Unit 2: Early American/Native American Literature (Visions and Voyages, The Examined Life, and The American Dream)
Readings
Unit 3: Romanticism / Renaissance (The Transforming Imagination, The Life Worth Living, The Realms of Darkness, The Large Hearts of Heroes, and Tell It Slant)
Readings
-Winter Break-
Unit 4: Researching and Citing (MLA vs. APA)
Unit 5: Writing, Grammar, and ACT Prep
Unit 6: Realism/Post-War Period (Shackles and From Innocence to Experience)
Readings
Unit 7: The Moderns (Loss and Redemption, The Dream and the Reality, No Time for Heroes, Shadows of the Past, I, Too, Sing America, Make It New, and The Breaking of Charity) and Contemporary Literature (The Wages of War, Discoveries and Awakenings, From Generation to Generation, and The Created Self)
Readings from The Moderns
Readings from Contemporary Literature
English 3 Honors 2016-2017 School Year
(Titles marked with *s indicate readings which are included in the Elements of Literature: Literature of the United States textbook.)
Unit 1: Future Planning
- Resumes and Cover Letters
Unit 2: Early American/Native American Literature (Visions and Voyages, The Examined Life, and The American Dream)
Readings
- Native American Readings including myths such as "The Sky Tree"*, "The Earth Only"*, "The House Made of Dawn"*, and "Coyote Finishes His Work"* as well as Sherman Alexie: The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Olaudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano*
- Anne Bradstreet: "Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666"*
- Jonathan Edwards: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"*
- Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson: The Autobiography and The Autobiography: The Declaration of Independence*
- Arthur Miller: The Crucible
Unit 3: Romanticism / Renaissance (The Transforming Imagination, The Life Worth Living, The Realms of Darkness, The Large Hearts of Heroes, and Tell It Slant)
Readings
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls"* and "The Cross of Snow"*
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Nature"* and "Self-Reliance"*
- Henry David Thoreau: "Walden"*
- Edgar Allan Poe: "The Fall of the House of Usher"*, "The Raven"*, and "The Tell-Tale Heart"
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: "The Minister's Black Veil"*
-Winter Break-
Unit 4: Researching and Citing (MLA vs. APA)
- The Research Process
- Citing and Bibliography: MLA and APA Rules
- Research Paper
Unit 5: Writing, Grammar, and ACT Prep
- The Writing Process
- Avoiding Plagiarism with Proper Citations
- Grammar Review Exercises (Parts of Speech, Parts of Sentences)
- ACT Prep with Practice Tests
- Resume Writing with Letter of Reference
Unit 6: Realism/Post-War Period (Shackles and From Innocence to Experience)
Readings
- Frederick Douglass: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass*
- Kate Chopin: "A Pair of Silk Stockings"*
- Mark Twain: "Life on the Mississippi"* and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Ambrose Bierce: "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge"*
- Jack London: "To Build a Fire"* and The Call of the Wild
Unit 7: The Moderns (Loss and Redemption, The Dream and the Reality, No Time for Heroes, Shadows of the Past, I, Too, Sing America, Make It New, and The Breaking of Charity) and Contemporary Literature (The Wages of War, Discoveries and Awakenings, From Generation to Generation, and The Created Self)
Readings from The Moderns
- Robert Frost: "The Road Not Taken"
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: "Winter Dreams"* and The Great Gatsby
- T. S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"*
- Zora Neale Hurston: Dust Tracks on a Road*
- Langston Hughes: "The Weary Blues"* and "Harlem"*
- J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
Readings from Contemporary Literature
- Elizabeth Bishop: "The Fish"*
- Amy Tan: "Rules of the Game"*
- Sylvia Plath: "Mirror"* and "Mushrooms"*
- John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address