English 11

Unit 1: Native American and Colonial Literature

• Introduction

• Native American Writers and Colonial Literature

• William Bradford and Of Plymouth Plantation

• Puritan Writers

• Puritan Sermons

Unit 2: Early America and the Salem Witch Trials

• Introduction

• The Witches of Salem

• The Crucible Act I

• The Crucible Act II: Character Motivation

• The Crucible Act III: Truth on Trial

• The Crucible Act IV: Reactions to Evil

Unit 3: Exploring Comparative Elements

• Introduction

• Review: Exploring Comparative Elements

Unit 4: Informed Opinions through Causal Chains

• Introduction

• Review: Informed Opinions through Causal Chains

Unit 5: Rhetoric and Rationalism

• Introduction

• Patrick Henry and Rhetoric

• Thomas Jefferson and Parallelism

• Benjamin Franklin and Aphorisms

• Thomas Paine and Rhetoric

Unit 6: Romanticism

• Introduction

• Washington Irving: Satire and Symbolism

• Edgar Allan Poe: Gothic Romanticism

• Writing a Narrative - Poe Style

• Fireside Poets

• Nathaniel Hawthorne: Parable

Unit 7: Transcendentalism

• Introduction

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Henry David Thoreau

• Thoreau and Walden

• Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

• Put That on the List: Writing a Catalog Poem

Unit 8: Realism and Regionalism

• Introduction

• Realism: Ambrose Bierce

• Kate Chopin

• Mark Twain

• Stephen Crane

• Jack London

Unit 1: American Literature of the Civil War Era

• Introduction

• Primary Sources of the Civil War

• Summarizing Primary Sources

• Chief Joseph and Emotional Appeals

• Memoir and Mark Twain

Unit 2: Identity

• Introduction

• Ansel Adams

• Moving West

• Digging Deeper with Close Reading

• Continue Reading

• Art of Argument and Writing

Unit 3: Applied Critical Analysis

• Introduction

• Review: Applied Critical Analysis

Unit 4: The Harlem Renaissance

• Introduction

• Langston Hughes

• Poets Jean Toomer and Claude McKay

• Zora Neale Hurston

Unit 5: Modern and Postmodern Poetry

• Introduction

• Carl Sandburg

• William Carlos Williams

• e.e. cummings

• Robert Frost

• Confessional Poets

Unit 6: Modern and Postmodern Short Stories

• Introduction

• William Faulkner

• Modern and Postmodern Authors

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Unit 7: Using Sources in Critical Reading and Writing

• Introduction

• Review: Using Sources in Critical Reading and Writing

Unit 8: A Look at Shakespeare

• Introduction

• Insults Shakespeare Style

• King Lear and Punctuation

• To Snooze or Not to Snooze...Soliloquies

• Shakespeare and Antithesis