English III Syllabus Map for 2002-2003

Fall, Winter and Spring Terms

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Weekly Goals	Text	Literary Skills	Writing Skills	Literary and Cultural History	Literary Influences	Interdisciplinary Connections
Week One	Introductions; Summer Reading Evaluations; Grammar and Usage unit	Nature of memoir writing.	Submit essay on Summer Reading Assignment; Grammar and Usage Test	Compare and contrast Wolff's characters and plot to Twain's Huck Finn.	Twain; Fitzgerald.	Self Made Man; American myth of individualism
Week Two	Shakespeare's Tempest	Click here for English III Drama terms. Elizabethan English characteristics.	Reading Quiz	Colonial Background	Greek Mythological allusions in Tempest	colonialism
Week Three	Shakespeare's Tempest	Click here for English III Drama terms. Elizabethan English characteristics.	Essay topics	Effects of colonialism on colonized voices: slave narratives, Native American texts: Chief Seattle's reply to American Government.	Greek Mythological allusions in Tempest	colonialism
Week Four	Colonial Selections; Early American Romanticism: Emerson and Poe.	Click here for Poe's classic definition of a short story.	Creative writing? Short Story?	American Romanticism Emerging	Emerson's American Scholar Essay; Bradstreet anticipating Dickinson, Sexton, Rich.	Varies according to text selection
Week Five	Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter	Narrative techniques in the novel.	Reading comprehension writing exercises.	American Romanticism	Elements and form of the English Novel	Anne Hutchinson
Week Six	Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter	Plot techniques in the novel.	Essay Topics:	New England Renaissance	Shakespeare's plot structure	Elements of Theocracy
Week Seven	Finish The Scarlet Letter; Shorter works of Melville or Hawthorne.	Further application of Poe's definition for short fiction.	Essay topic on Romanticism?	American Romanticism	Melville's appreciation of Shakespeare	Cultural legacy of the Salem Witch Trials
Week Eight	Thoreau's Civil Disobedience and Walden; Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman	Click here for English III Poetry Terms	Poetry Explication paragraphs	American Romanticism	Why did Emerson and Thoreau have such eclectic literary influences?	The cultural and social effects of Concord, MA, on nineteenth century America
Week Nine	Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman; Fireside Poets	Click here for English III Poetry Terms	Poetry Explication paragraphs	American Romanticism; American Realism	Emerson; King James Bible;Puritan habit of daily diary; Hymns.	The effects of the rail road and the Civil War
Week Ten	Fireside Poets; Stowe, Douglass	Click here for English III Poetry Terms	Poetry Explication paragraphs	American Romanticism; American Realism	Emerson; Thoreau.	Suffrage and Abolition movement
Week One	Huck Finn (I- XII) pp. 1354 - 1395	Realism and Satire		Click here for a full explanation of the various tenets of Realism, Naturalism and Nihilism.	Sophocles' Oedipus	Slavery
Week Two	Huck Finn (XIII-XXIII) pp. 1395-1442	Regionalism: Local Color, Colloquialism		Click here for a full explanation of the various tenets of Realism, Naturalism and Nihilism.	Shakespeare	Slavery
Week Three	Huck Finn (XXIV - XXXI) pp. 1442-1475 finish over break	Symbol, Theme		Click here for a full explanation of the various tenets of Realism, Naturalism and Nihilism.	Supply Virgil passage from Cather's My Antonia.	WTCU
Week Four	Huck Finn	Narrator, Structure of novel		Click here for a full explanation of the various tenets of Realism, Naturalism and Nihilism.	Evaluate Virgil passage from Cather's My Antonia.	Reconstruction; Jim Crow laws.
Week Five	A) Daisy Miller pp. 1556 - 1597 B) Yellow Wallpaper pp. 1735 - 1746	Ambiguity, Narrator and point of view		Click here for a full explanation of the various tenets of Realism, Naturalism and Nihilism.	Influence of English Novel on James; Compare his cultural identity (Anglophile) to T. S. Eliot.	A) Americans abroad; The Grand Tour. B) Women Suffrage movement.
Week Six	Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton or another significant female author of the period	Narrator and Satire		Click here for a full explanation of the various tenets of Realism, Naturalism and Nihilism.	Henry James	Women Suffrage movement.
Week Seven	Age of Innocence	Marriage and power		Click here for a full explanation of the various tenets of Realism, Naturalism and Nihilism.	Henry James; anticipates Fitzgerlad.	Social lifestyle of east coast wealth.
Week Eight	Age of Innocence	Society vs. Individual		Click here for a full explanation of the various tenets of Realism, Naturalism and Nihilism.	Henry James; anticipates Fitzgerlad.	Social lifestyle of east coast wealth.
Week Nine	Age of Innocence	Realism and Regionalism		Click here for a full explanation of the various tenets of Realism, Naturalism and Nihilism.	Henry James; anticipates Fitzgerlad.	Social lifestyle of east coast wealth.
Week Ten	Story of An Hour & Trifles (p. 1914 - 1925)	Point of view, Irony; click here for English III Drama Terms		Click here for a full explanation of the various tenets of Realism, Naturalism and Nihilism.	Provencetown players (experimental theater still there today). Legacy of Eugene O'Neill Nobel Prize winner).	Pockets of Bohemian culture in America: American Marxism; Red Scare.
Week One	A) Process Spring Break Novel: Cather's My Antonia; B) Read Miller or a significant Modern Playwright	A) Point of view; B) Click here for English III Drama terms	A) In class reading comprehension test with written response section on narrative technique; B) essay assignment.	Regionalism. Elements of Modernism: Jim Burden's fragmented NYC life.	Sarah Orne Jewett; Virgil's passage from preface.	Immigration trends (Midwest in particular); Drama selection will determine the link.
Week Two	Two Hemingway Short Stories	Hemingway's Code and Hero construction; prose style.		Modernism; Expatriate cultural.	Twain; James.	The cultural effects of World War I.
Week Three	Modern short stories; potential authors from Harpur's include: Roth, Tan, O'Brian, et al.			Click here for a full explanation of the tenets of Modernism.	Hemingway and Fitzgerald	Story selection will determine this link.
Week Four	Start Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, chapter 1-5.			Modernism	Henry James; Romanticism: Keats and Coolridge.	Jazz Age; birth of Hollywood.
Week Five	The Great Gatsby, chapter 5-8.			Modernism	Henry James; Romanticism: Keats and Coolridge.	Jazz Age; birth of Hollywood.
Week Six	Finish Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.			Modernism	Henry James; Romanticism: Keats and Coolridge.	Jazz Age; birth of Hollywood.
Week Seven	Click here for common poetry list. Click here for personal narrative goals.	Click here for English III Poetic terms.		Click here for a full explanation of the tenets of Modernism.	Periodically review Whitman and Dickinson to show their profound influence on Modern poetry.	Cubism and other movements within Modernism. Make connections with architecture, visual arts as well as modern music.
Week Eight	Poetry and Personal narrative continued.	click here for guidelines and a sample paragraph on poetry explication.		Modernism anticipating Post Modernism.	Trace influence of Colonial literature's diary and personal narrative.	Atomic age and its influence on Modern poetry. See Frost and Ginnsberg in particular.
Week Nine	Continue with personal narrative and poetry.		Produce a rough draft of a college essay.	Modernism anticipating Post Modernism.	Periodically review Whitman and Dickinson to show their profound influence on Modern poetry.	Discuss the popularity of Memoirs in our culture.
Week Ten	Review

English III Personal narrative essays: E. B. White, Alice Walker, and Langston Hughes.

English III Poems:

Harlem Renaissance List

Hughes: "I, Too," "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" "Theme for English B"

J. Toomer "Reapers"

C.Cullen: "Incident"

H. Johnson: "To a Negro"

Brown: "Ma Rainey"

Modernism:

Eliot "J. A. Prufrock" "Hollow Men"

Pound "Apparition at a Metro" "A Pact"

Cummings: "In Just"

W. C. Williams: "Red Wheelbarrow" "This is just to say"

W. Stevens: "Thirteen ways of looking"

Post WW II:

Plath, Sexton, Rich, Ginnsberg.

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