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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	Understanding genre(s); frame story; limited perspective of narrator.	Submit essay and other writing projects on Summer Reading Assignment(s); Grammar and Usage Test	How does Cather fit into the American canon?	Twain, regionalism; James & Fitzgerald, narrator's perspective; strong female characters.	Immigration; city versus rural life; American myth of individualism.
Week Two	Early American literature; New Republic Writers: Winthrop, Edwards, Bradstreet. Forming an Identity.	Reviewing genre; critical reading skills required for junior year English at Suffield. Reading Quizzes!	Expectation for junior year writing standards and paragraph development delineated.	Colonial Background; Age of Reason, preference for form, order and symmetry in intellectual endeavors.	Future influences on Hawthorne, Twain, future female authors writing in a patriarchal system, et al.	Colonialism; City on hill; Puritan paradox; American identity; sense of place; religion in Amer. culture.
Week Three	New Republic continued: Crevecoeur, Wheatly and Franklin. Forming an Identity.	Non fiction; click here for English III poetry terms.	Essay topics; paragraph assignments; comprehension quizzes and possible test.	Effects of colonialism on colonized voices: slave narratives, Native American texts: Chief Seattle's reply to American Government.	Consideration of future connections to other voices that haunt subvert the canon.	Colonialism; City on hill; Puritan paradox; American identity; sense of place; religion in Amer. culture.
Week Four	Transcendentalism; early American Romanticism: Emerson, Fuller and Poe. Begin The Scarlet Letter.Emphasis on the individual.	Click here for Poe's classic definition of a short story.	Creative writing; Short Story elements.	American Romanticism Emerging	Emerson's American Scholar Essay; Bradstreet anticipating Dickinson, Sexton, Rich.	Varies according to text selection; the cultural and social effects of Concord, MA, on nineteenth century America.
Week Five	Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Emphasis on the individual.	Narrative techniques in the novel.	Reading comprehension writing exercises.	American Romanticism	Elements and form of the English Novel	Anne Hutchinson; cultural history of religion in American intellectual history.
Week Six	Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Emphasis on the individual.	Plot techniques in the novel.	Essay Topics:	New England Renaissance	Shakespeare's plot structure in the novel.	Elements of Theocracy
Week Seven	Finish The Scarlet Letter; Shorter works of Melville or Hawthorne. Fireside poets (straw dogs to Dickinson and Whitman).	Further application of Poe's definition for short fiction.Introduce English III poetry terms.	Essay topic on Romanticism.	American Romanticism Emphasis on the individual.	Melville's appreciation of Shakespeare.	Cultural legacy of the Salem Witch Trials.
Week Eight	Thoreau's Civil Disobedience and Walden; Stowe, Douglass, Chesnutt; premeditations on Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman.	Click here for English III Poetry Terms	Poetry Explication paragraphs	American Romanticism Emphasis on the individual.	Why did Emerson and Thoreau have such eclectic literary influences?	Amherst as a American Studies nineteenth century text.
Week Nine	Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman.	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 on American cultural history.
Week Ten	Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman.	Click here for English III Poetry Terms. Slave narrative tradition.	Poetry Explication paragraphs	American Romanticism; American Realism	Emerson; Thoreau. Slave narrative tradition in Twain's work.	Suffrage and Abolition movement; have students provide other links from their US History studies.
Week One	Huck Finn (I- XII) pp. 1354 - 1395	Realism and Satire	Reading Quizzes. Parragraphs assigned; notes and outlines and other brainstorming exercises.	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	Reading Quizzes. Parragraphs assigned; notes and outlines being prepared for longer writing project.	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	Complete rough drafts of topic. Typed rough drafts are edited by peers who have specific editing goals.	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 Fitzgerald.	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 Fitzgerald.	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 Fitzgerald.	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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