Syllabus/Schedule

SYLLABUS: AMERICAN LITERATURE

CONTACT INFORMATIONCatherine Kuhn
785.309.3558catherine.kuhn@usd305.com
Room 115

TEXTS AND READINGS (provided)
Miller, Arthur. The Crucible
Myers, Walter Dean. Fallen Angels
Knowles, John. A Separate Peace
Fitzgerald. F. Scott. The Great Gatsby
Textbook
Writing handbook

OTHER MATERIALS
For this course you will need the following
__3” 3 ring binder
__1 1-subject notebook for journaling
__1 notebook for taking notes
__your brain
__pens
__1 folder
Students must have these materials by the second day of class and you will be given 10 points. If you forget, you lose the points.

COURSE DESCRIPTION/OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with a survey of American literature ranging from Native American myths of origin to contemporary novelists and poets like Sandra Cisneros and ee cummings. Along the way we will cover Romanticism, the American Rennaissance, Realism, Post Modernism, and a range of other topics. The students will also be prepared for the Kansas State Assessment.

COURSE SCHEDULE
Aug 14/15 Syllabus, Introduction to American Literature
Textbook Scavenger Hunt
Aug 16/17 “Anthologies & American Literature” discussion, begin Sherman Alexie and Native American myths
Aug 20 Finish myths, Start Early American Writings Unit
Aug 21/22 Early American Writings: Focus on Puritan Poetry and Prose
Aug 23/24 Puritan Poetry, In Class Poetry Analysis Due
Aug 27 Internet Witch Hunt
Aug 28/29 Intro to Crucible
Aug 30/31 Crucible Act I
Sep 3 No School Labor Day
Sep 4/5 Crucible Act I
Sep 6/7 Crucible Act II
Sep Crucible Act II
Sep11/12 Crucible Act III, Quiz over I & II
Sep 13/14 Finish Crucible Act IV, Monty Python Clip
Sep 17 Research Paper Topic Due, Finish Play/Review for Test
Sep 18/19 Crucible Exam
Sep 20/21 Review MLA, research in library, 5 note cards due at the end of the period
Sep 24 Research in library, 20 note cards due at the end of the period
Sep 25/26 Research in library, outline of paper due at end of period
Sep 27/28 Lab for First Draft; first draft due at end of period
Oct 1 Peer Edit First Draft
Oct 2/3 Research Paper Due Poor Richard’s Almanack/African Proverbs Aphorisms exercise
Oct 4/5 Focus on Literary Forms: Persuasive Speeches in Early American History
Oct 8 Speeches Due
Oct 9/10 Speeches Due, Introduction to the American Renaissance, The Gothic Novel, Hawthorne & Poe (1830-Civil War)
Oct 11/12 No school
Oct 15 Speeches Due, American Renaissance: Romanticism, Thoreau, Emerson, and Washington Irving
Oct 16/17 Diagnostic Test
Oct 18/19 American Renaissance: Emily Dickinson
Oct 22 Quiz Over Renaissance, The Rise of Realism: Spirituals, Sam Clemens activity
Oct 23/24 Civil War Literature Online Exercise (Harp Week)
Oct 25 Parent Teacher Conferences
Oct 26 No School
Oct 29 Realism: regionalism, Kate Chopin, George Washington Cable, Chesnutt
Oct 30/31 Halloween
Nov 1/2 Realism: Industrialization & Serialized Literature, Frank Reade & Deadwood Dick
Nov 5 Modernism: Satire, Virginia Woolf
Nov 6/7 Modernism: Poetry, cummings, Eliot, Williams, Pound, Stevens
Nov 8/9 Modernism: Poetry, The Harlem Rennaissance, Bessie Smith, Gershwin, Hughes, in class writing
Nov 12 Literary Devices writing assignment due. Figurative Language Scavenger Hunt
Nov 13/14 Modernism: Humor, Thurber
Station One: Book Reports
Station Two: Story Mapping
Station Three: Plot Elements
Station Four: Word Choice
Nov 15/16 Quiz on Modernism Introduction to Gatsby
Nov 19/20 Gatsby
Nov 21-23 Thanksgiving Break
Nov 26 Gatsby
Nov 27/28 Gatsby
Nov 29/30 Gatsby, Quiz
Dec 3 Gatsby
Dec 4/5 Watch Gatsby
Dec 6/7 Watch Gatsby
Dec 10 Gatsby Test
Dec 11/12 Early 20th Century Short Stories: Hemingway, Stein
Dec 13/14 Early 20th Century Short Stories: Flannery O’Connor, Oral Exams
Dec 17/18 Oral Exams, Review for Finals Dec 19/20 FINALS!!! Happy Holidays