American Lit. B Syllabus:

The emphasis in American Literature is on persuasion and summarizing skills.  The final course grade will be calculated using the following assessments: differentiated writing assignments, an on-going time-line, unit tests, a comprehensive portfolio, and a final exam.

Unit Four*:  Anti-Transcendentalism and the Civil War

· Hawthorne The Minister's Black Veil      

· Douglass My Bondage and My Freedom      

· Bierce An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge    

· Lincoln The Gettysburg Address and/or Second Inaugural Address  

· Primary Sources: (Comparing literary works of diaries, journals, letters,

  and nonfiction accounts by Mary Chesnut, Warren Lee Goss, Randolph

McKim, Stonewall Jackson, Rev. Henry M. Turner, and Sojourner Truth)    

Unit Five:  Realism, Naturalism, and Regionalism

• Twain Life on the Mississippi and The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
• Harte The Outcasts of Poker Flat
• Colt Heading West
• Chief Joseph I Will Fight No More Forever
• Chopin The Story of an Hour
• London To Build a Fire
• Dunbar Douglass and We Wear the Mask
• Masters Lucinda Matlock and Richard Bone
• Robinson Luke Havergal and Richard Cory

Unit Six:  Modernism

•   Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
• The poetry of e.e.cummings       "Old Age Sticks" and "Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town"
•   Imagist poets 

o   William Carlos Williams 

o Ezra Pound 

o H. D.   

· Short stories: 

o   Hemingway "In Another Country" 

o   Sherwood Anderson "The Corn Planting" 

o   Eudora Welty "A Worn Path"

"The Turtle" from The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 

· Novel:  Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck  

· Poetry of Robert Frost 

o   "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

o  "Mending Wall" 

o   "Out, Out - " and  "Birches"  

  *Units one, two, and three are covered in American Lit. A.