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English 3A Syllabus The American Experience Gottfried Key: *=take thorough notes T= see teacher for materials O=access information online Literature of Early Americas: Beginnings to 1750 Week 1 _____ p.6-13, Read introduction and take notes (*) _____ p.16-20, The Earth on Turtle’s Back-CR 1,2,3,5 _____ p.21-25, When Grizzlies Walked Upright-CR 2,3 _____ Writing Prompt #1 _____ p.26-28, The Iroquois Constitution/United States Constitution (T) _____ p.56-57, Defining Narrative Accounts (*) _____ p.58-62, Journal of the First Voyage to America (Columbus) -CR 2,3,5 _____ p.70-75, The General History of Virginia Activity (T) _____ Writing Prompt #2 Writing Prompt: 1. Practically all civilizations seek to explain natural phenomena and their origins through myths or stories. Today we still seek to find explanations to the mysteries of nature. Why do you think we as humans are constantly seeking explanations beyond our control? What do these explanations that we find offer to society? Explain your opinion and support with examples. 2. Write an autobiographical narrative about an important moment or special relationship in your own life. (p.112) Week 2 _____ The Puritans (O) (*) _____ Understanding the Puritan Plain Style (T) _____ p.76-83, Of Plymouth Plantation (Bradford) (T) _____ Poetry of Anne Bradstreet (T) _____ p.101, Sermon (*) _____ p.100-106, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Edwards) (T) _____ Hell Fire, Damnation, and American Advertising (T) _____ Writing: In a well-organized essay, explain the Puritan belief system and how that belief system informs the writings of Williams Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, and Jonathan Edwards. (T) _____ Unit 1 Test Early National Literature: 1750-1800 Week 3 _____ p.130-137, Read introduction and take notes (*) _____ p.141, Literary Analysis (*) _____ p.148-150, Poor Richard’s Almanack (Franklin)-CR 4,5,6,7 _____ Project: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (O)(T) English 3A Syllabus The American Experience Gottfried Key: *=take thorough notes T= see teacher for materials O=access information online Week 4 _____ p.169, Literary Analysis & Reading Strategy (*) _____ p.170-173, The Declaration of Independence (T) _____ p.174-176, The Crisis: Number 1 (Paine) (T) _____ p.198-199, Defining Speeches (*) _____ p.203-206, Speech in the Virginia Convention (Henry) (T) _____ Writing: Write and perform a speech persuading readers/viewers to accept your viewpoint on an issue and to take action on that issue. _____ “On Being Brought from African (Wheatley) (T) _____ Unit 2 Test 19th Century Literature: 1800-1870 Week 5 _____ p.246-253, Read introduction and take notes (*) _____ p.258-268, “The Devil and Tom Walker” (T) _____ Fireside Poets Explication Activity (T) _____ p.311, Literary Analysis (*) _____ Edgar Allan Poe Scavenger Hunt (T) _____ The Interactive Raven with activity packet (O) (T) _____ Listening Activity: Nathaniel Hawthorne (*) _____ p.340-352, “The Minister’s Black Veil”- CR 2,3,4,5,6 (T) _____ Benchmark Test 3 (T) Week 6 _____ p.384-385, 389, Transcendentalism (*) _____ p.390-392, Nature (T) _____ p.393-394, Self-Reliance (Emerson) (T) _____ Writing #1 (choose 1) _____ p.402-415, Walden (Thoreau) (T) _____ Writing: My Own Walden (T) _____ Video: Dead Poets Society (T) Writing Prompts: _____ Option A: Emerson’s main idea in Self-Reliance is that people should be true to themselves. Describe a situation in which you feel you were “true to yourself,” whether or not your friends and/or family were supportive. _____ Option B: Emerson says that “to be great is to be misunderstood.” Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Explain. English 3A Syllabus The American Experience Key: *=take thorough notes T= see teacher for materials O=access information online Week 7 _____ p.422-423, Defining Poetry (*) _____ Poetry Terms and Devices (T) _____ Poetic Devices and Shakespeare (T) _____ Listening Activity: Emily Dickinson (*) _____ Emily Dickinson Who? project (O)(T) _____ “Of Walt Whitman, who could hear America Singing” (T) _____ Washington Post article (T) _____ “When Lilacs Last in the Courtyard Bloom’d” (Whitman) (T) _____ p. 442-445, “Song of Myself”-CR 1,2,6 _____ p.448, “I Hear American Singing” (Whitman) CR 3,4,5 _____ Writing- I Hear America Singing- The Remix (T) The Age of Realism: 1850-1914 Week 8 _____ p.474-481, Read introduction and take notes (*) _____ p.485, Realism and Naturalism (*) _____ p.486-490, An Episode of War (Crane)-CR 2,3,6 _____ p.496, Spirituals (*)(T) _____ p.507-512, My Bondage and My Freedom (Douglass) (T) _____ Speeches of Abraham Lincoln (T) _____ Video: Modern Presidential Speech (T) Week 9 _____ Listening Activity: Mark Twain (*) _____ p.581-586, The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (T) _____ p.620-635, “To Build a Fire” (T) _____ p.651, Rhyme (*) _____ p.654, “We Wear the Mask” (Dunbar)-CR 4,5,6 _____ p.662, “Richard Cory” (Robinson)-CR 1,4,5,6 _____ Unit Test _____ EXAM (Two class periods/25% of final grade) Gottfried