ArchivedCommonCoreOverviewsSpring2011

Unit 1: Texts of America - Introduction to Course Themes and Skills //Writing Assessment: how is America is defined through texts//

Unit 2: Analysis and Interpretation Unit - American Political Documents

Unit 3: Nonfiction - Foundational American Philosophy Documents (Transcendentalism)

Unit 4: Author Study - Poetry - Walt Whitman

Unit 5:Narrative/Fiction Unit - American Gothic

Unit 5B: Optional Honors - Extended Narrative/Fiction Read (The Scarlet Letter)

Unit 6:Narrative/Fiction Unit - Literary Realism and Naturalism (juxtapose to unit 5 for theme comparison purposes)

Unit 7: American Novel - Extended Narrative - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Built as extension to Narrative 5 and 6 units)

Unit 8: American Rhetoric (Persuasion) Coming Soon //Writing Assessment: Persuasion/Argumentative Writing//

Unit 9: American Drama - The Crucible

Unit 10: Research - American Authors //Writing Assessment: Informative/Literary Research Writing//