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Unit 1 - Early America
1 Native America - The World on the Turtle’s Back - Reading
2
The World on the Turtle’s Back - Discussion
3
Cabeza de Vaca - from La Relacion - Vocabulary
4
de Vaca - from La Relacion - Reading
5
de Vaca - from La Relacion - Discussion
6
Equiano - from The Life of Olaudah Equiano - Vocabulary
7
Equiano - from The Life of Olaudah Equiano - Reading
8
Equiano - from The Life of Olaudah Equiano - Discussion
9
The Puritans - Historical Significance
10 Bradstreet - To My Dear and Loving Husband - Language
11 Bradstreet - To My Dear and Loving Husband - Reading
47 Whitman - from Song of Myself - Reading
48 Emily Dickinson - Because I could not stop for Death - Reading
49 Dickinson - Because I could not stop for Death - Personification
Unit 4 - American Romanticism (Gothic Literature)
50 American Romanticism - Gothic Literature
51 Washington Irving - The Devil and Tom Walker - Vocabulary
52 Irving - The Devil and Tom Walker - Reading
53 Irving - The Devil and Tom Walker - Foreshadowing
54 Irving - The Devil and Tom Walker - Discussion
55 Edgar Allan Poe - The Raven - Vocabulary
56 Poe - The Raven - Reading
57 Poe - The Raven - Narrative Poem, Rhyme Scheme
12 Bradstreet - Upon the Burning of our House - Reading
13 Bradstreet - Upon the Burning of our House - Inverted Syntax
58 Poe - The Raven - Sound Devices
59 Poe - The Raven - Discussion
14 Edwards - Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - Vocabulary
15 Edwards - Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - Reading
60 Poe - The Masque of the Red Death – Vocabulary
61 Poe - The Masque of the Red Death - Reading
16 Edwards - Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - Discussion
62 Poe - The Masque of the Red Death - Allegory, Symbolism
63 Poe - The Masque of the Red Death - Discussion
17 Combining Sentences - Introduction
18 Combining Sentences Using Appositives
19 Combining Sentences Using Coordinating Conjunctions
20 Combining Sentences Using Subordinate Conjunctions
Unit 2 - Genres of Writing
64 Nathaniel Hawthorne - Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment - Vocabulary
65 Hawthorne - Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment - Reading
66 Hawthorne - Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment - Symbolism, Allegory
67 Hawthorne - Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment - Discussion
22 Genres of Writing - Narrative
68 Herman Melville - from Moby Dick - Vocabulary
69 Melville - from Moby Dick - Reading
23 Genres of Writing - Descriptive
70 Melville - from Moby Dick - Discussion
24 Genres of Writing - Persuasive
71 Grammar Workshop - Misplaced Modifiers
21 Genres of Writing - Expository
Unit 3 - American Romanticism (The Transcendentalists)
25 American Romanticism - Historical Significance
26 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - A Psalm of Life - Reading
27 James Russell Lowell - The First Snowfall - Reading
72 Grammar Workshop - Dangling Modifiers
Unit 5 - Regionalism and Realism
73 Regional Literature - Realism
74 Mark Twain - from Life on the Mississippi - Vocabulary
29 Ralph Waldo Emerson - Writings - Vocabulary
75 Twain - from Life on the Mississippi - Reading
76 Twain - Celebrated Jumping Frog - Vocabulary
30 Emerson - from Self Reliance - Reading
31 Emerson - from Nature - Reading
77 Twain - Celebrated Jumping Frog - Reading
78 Twain - Celebrated Jumping Frog - Dialect
32 Emerson - from Self-Reliance, Nature - Aphorisms
33 Emerson - from Self-Reliance, Nature - Author Purpose, Ideals
79 Willa Cather - A Wagner Matinee - Vocabulary
80 Cather - A Wagner Matinee - Reading
34 Henry David Thoreau - from Walden - Vocabulary
35 Thoreau - from Walden - Reading
81 Cather - A Wagner Matinee - Regionalism, Point of View
82 Stephen Crane - The Open Boat - Vocabulary
36 Thoreau - from Walden - Aphorisms
37 Thoreau - from Walden - Discussion
83 Crane - The Open Boat - Reading
84 Crane - The Open Boat - Figures of Speech
38 Thoreau - Civil Disobedience - Vocabulary
39 Thoreau - Civil Disobedience - Reading
85 Jack London - To Build a Fire - Vocabulary
86 London - To Build a Fire - Reading
40 Thoreau - Civil Disobedience - Aphorisms
41 Thoreau - Civil Disobedience - Author Purpose, Ideals
87 London - To Build a Fire - Naturalism, Setting
88 Edith Wharton - April Showers - Vocabulary
42 King - from Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Vocabulary
43 King - from Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Reading
89 Wharton - April Showers - Reading
90 Wharton - April Showers - Realism, Theme
44 King - from Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Vocabulary
91 Kate Chopin - The Story of an Hour - Vocabulary
92 Chopin - The Story of an Hour - Reading
28 American Romanticism - Introduction to Aphorisms
45 Walt Whitman - Free Verse Poetry
46 Whitman - I Hear America Singing - Reading
93 Chopin - The Story of an Hour - Conflict
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Unit 6 - The Modernist Movement
94 The Modernist Movement - Background
95 Edgar Lee Masters - from Spoon River Anthology - Reading
96 Masters - from Spoon River Anthology - Discussion
97 Carl Sandburg - Chicago - Reading
98 Sandburg - Chicago - Discussion
99 Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken - Reading
100 Frost - The Road Not Taken - Discussion
101 Frost - Death of the Hired Man - Reading
108 Cummings - In Just - Discussion
109 Marianne Moore - Poetry - Reading
110 Moore - Poetry - Discussion
111 T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Vocabulary
112 Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Reading
113 Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Discussion
114 Grammar Workshop - Commas in Nonessential Elements
Unit 7 - Annotated Bibliography
115 Annotated Bibliography - Definition
102 Frost - Death of the Hired Man - Discussion
103 Ezra Pound - The River Merchant's Wife A Letter - Reading
116 Annotated Bibliography - Elements
104 Pound - The River Merchant's Wife A Letter - Discussion
105 Williams - A Widow's Lament in Springtime - Reading
118 Gathering Sources - Internet
106 Williams - A Widow's Lament in Springtime - Discussion
107 E.E. Cummings - In Just - Reading
120 Format - MLA Style
117 Choosing a Topic - Thesis Statement
119 Gathering Sources – Research Databases
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