Description
(Aug 22-Dec 12) (no classes Nov 21)
½ credit course with option to be a full credit if taking the additional Contemporary Literature Course in Spring 2019
The purpose of this course is to provide students, using texts of high complexity, integrated language arts American literature study in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language, in preparation for college and career readiness. (CPALMS)
Students will read selections from the following authors as a foundation for analysis and personal reflection. Activities completed while studying these texts will include:
- Exploring the social, and political contexts in which these pieces were written
- Students will conduct research regarding these contexts, strengthening academic writing skills
- Identifying and understanding rhetorical devices employed to create an impact, appeal to readers, and effectively deliver a message
- Students will write their own creative pieces learning to use different writing methods and styles in their own work
Student choice, project-based learning, and structured peer collaboration (often through the use of Kagan strategies) will be frequently implemented to increase engagement, deepen learning, and strengthen communication and leadership skills.
Fall Semester – Early American Literature
- America’s Beginnings: A Study of Native American Origin Myths
- Puritan Literature:
- Poetry: Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Civil War Writers:
- Frederick Douglass
- Poetry: William Cullen Bryant, Emily Dickinson
- Transcendentalists: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau
- Mark Twain
