English 11

Unit 1: Identity and Self-Discovery

• Introduction

• Introduction to Identity and Self-Discovery

• Nonfiction and the Human Experience as Central Theme

• Author’s Use of Theme to Develop Characters

• Writing Workshop: Comparison and Contrast

Unit 2: The American Dream

• Introduction

•  Introduction to the American Dream

• The American Dream in Nonfiction

• The American Dream in Fiction

• Writing Workshop: Comparison and Contrast Paragraphs

Unit 3: Social Class and Opportunity

• Introduction

• Introduction to Social Class and Opportunity

•  Author’s Point of View in Nonfiction

• Point of View and Plot in Fiction

•  Researching Authors and Their Time Periods

Unit 4: Freedom and Independence

• Introduction

• Introduction to Freedom and Independence

• Civil Disobedience and Its Relationship to Freedom and Independence

•  Irony, Foreshadowing, and Symbolism in “A Story of An Hour”

• Freedom and Independence in Poetry

Unit 5: Justice and Revenge

• Introduction

• Introduction to Justice and Revenge

• Fact and Opinion in Nonfiction

• Justice, Fairness, and Conflict in “A Rose for Emily”

•  Justice, Revenge, and Setting in “The Cask of Amontillado”

Unit 6: Culture and Personal Experience

• Introduction

• Introduction to Culture and Personal Experience

• Culture and Personal Experience in “Traffic Misdirector”

• Langston Hughes on Culture and Personal Experience

• Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds”

Unit 7:  Friendship & Loyalty

• Introduction

• Introduction to Friendship and Loyalty

•  Loyalty in Nonfiction Writing

• Character in "A Retrieved Reformation"

• Friendship in “The Last Leaf”

Unit 8: Love and Relationships

• Introduction

• What Is Love?

• Grief’s Relationship to Love

• Inner Conflict and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

• Love in “The Gift of the Magi”

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

• Introduction and Pre-Reading

• Reading and Post-Reading

• Pre-Writing and Rough Draft

• Writing Workshop 

Unit 4: The Harlem Renaissance

• Introduction

• Langston Hughes

• Poets Jean Toomer and Claude McKay

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Word Changes

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

• Sight and Sound in Media Messages

Unit 7: Using Sources in Critical Reading and Writing

•  Introduction

• Pre-Reading and Reading

• Pre-Writing

• Rough Draft

• Writing Workshop

Unit 8: A Look at Shakespeare

• Introduction

• Insults Shakespeare Style

• King Lear and Punctuation

• To Snooze or Not to Snooze...Soliloquies

• Shakespeare and Antithesis