Honors English III Reading Syllabus – The American Experience – Mrs. Evans
UNIT #1 – Beginnings – 1750
Part 1 – Meeting of Cultures
p. 22 from The Navajo Origin Legend
p. 24 from The Iroquois Constitution
Part 2 – Focus on Literary Forms: Narrative Accounts
p. 72 from The General History of Virginia by John Smith
p. 76 from Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford
p. 92 from The Right Stuff by Thomas Wolfe
Part 3 – The Puritan Influence
p. 100 To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet
p. 102 Huswifery by Edward Taylor
p. 108 From Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards
***UNIT TEST on Beginnings – 1750
DRAMA UNIT
Drama – The Crucible
p. 1233 – Act
p. 1267 – Act
p. 1291 – Act
p. 1319 – Act
by Arthur Miller
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***WRITING ASSESSMENT – THEME
***Differentiated Instruction Assignment – Student Choice – Exit Project
Drama – Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Individual Paperback distributed to each student
***LITERATURE CIRCLES – DISCUSSION
***WRITING ASSESSMENT – Compare/Contrast Paper – The Crucible and
Death of a Salesman
UNIT #2 – A Nation is Born (1750-1800)
Part 1 – Voices of Freedom
p. 140 from The Autobiography by Ben Franklin
p. 146 from Poor Richard’s Almanac by Ben Franklin
p. 156 from The Declaration of Independence
p. 160 from The Crisis, Number 1 by Thomas Paine
Part 2 – Focus on Literary Forms: Speeches
p. 186 Speech in the Virginia Convention by Patrick Henry
p. 196 Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy
Part 3 – Defining an American
p. 208 from Letters From an American Farmer by Jean de Crevecoeur
p. 214 from Roots by Alex Haley
***UNIT TEST on A Nation is Born (1750-1800)
UNIT #3 – A Growing Nation (1800-1870)
Part 1 – Fireside and Campfire
p. 242 The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving
p. 260 The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
p. 267 Thanantopsis by William Cullen Bryant
p. 270 Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes
p. 272 The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell
Part 2 – Shadows of the Imagination
p. 308 The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
p. 326 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
p. 336 The Minister’s Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter (summer)
p. 354 from Moby Dick by Herman Melville
***UNIT TEST on Parts 1 and 2 of A Nation is Growing (1800-1870)
Part 3 – The Human Spirit and the Natural World
p. 388 from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
p. 391 from Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
p. 402 from Walden by Henry David Thoreau
p. 412 from Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Part 4 – Focus on Literary Forms: Poetry
p. 420 Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
p. 425 My life closed twice before its close by Emily Dickinson
p. 425 The soul selects her own Society by Emily Dickinson
p. 434 from Preface to Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
p. 436 from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
p. 442 I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
***UNIT TEST on Parts 3 and 4 of A Nation is Growing (1800-1870)
UNIT #4 – Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion (1850-1914)
Part 1 – A Nation Divided
p. 476 An Episode of War by Stephen Crane
p. 508 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
p. 522 The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
Part 3 – Forging New Frontiers
p. 564 from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
p. 569 The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark
Twain
p. 580 The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte
Part 4 – Living in a Changing World
p. 660 We Wear the Mask by Paul Lawrence Dunbar
p. 688 Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson
p. 676 A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather
***UNIT TEST on Division, Reconciliation, and Expansion (1850-1914)
UNIT #5 – Disillusion, Defiance, and Discontent (1914-1946)
Summer Reading
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
UNIT #6 – Prosperity and Protest (1946-Present)
***THE KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hosseini – Literature Circles
Summer Reading
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Semester Reading
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Julius Caesar