Junior Year Curriculum
-Course expectations (the homework assignment is on the last page)
Together, we will focus on exploring the following essential questions:
Our curriculum will include:
A survey of American literary periods to provide context and background for the year
Summer reading: The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Transcendentalism, featuring Emerson and Thoreau
Their Eyes Were Watching God , Zora Neale Hurston
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
Poetry
Sadlier-Oxford vocabulary, level F
Grammar reinforcement
Writing: personal narrative, essay, poetry explication, and more
*Above all, I hope you will learn to think on a deeper level this year.
Together, we will focus on exploring the following essential questions:
- How do the fundamental values of American culture shape the individual?
- How do social and political issues impact the literary landscape?
- What is the American Dream?
- Why and how do Americans come into conflict with their society?
- How is American literature uniquely American?
- How do one’s relationships with society (family, community, country) affect one’s actions and decisions?
- How do we reconcile the differences between our sense of identity and what American society tells us about whom or what we should be?
Our curriculum will include:
A survey of American literary periods to provide context and background for the year
Summer reading: The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Transcendentalism, featuring Emerson and Thoreau
Their Eyes Were Watching God , Zora Neale Hurston
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
Poetry
Sadlier-Oxford vocabulary, level F
Grammar reinforcement
Writing: personal narrative, essay, poetry explication, and more
*Above all, I hope you will learn to think on a deeper level this year.