Homework

Required Texts:

Literature Text: Wood, Laura, et al. Elements of Literature: Fifth Course. Austin: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2005.

Grammar Text: Fowler, H. Ramsey, et al. The Little, Brown Handbook. New York: Pearson, 2007.

Vocabulary Text: Reed, Daniel A. Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT: Vocabulary, Reading, and Writing Exercises for High Scores. Clayton: Prestwick House, 2004.

Required Materials:

1 large (1 ½” or 2”) three-ring binder 

Dividers- Vocabulary, Grammar, Notes, Handouts, Warm-ups (in this course, organization is a must.)

Loose-leaf paper

 Major Units of Study:

Literary Periods

 1. Encounters and Foundations

Bradstreet's "Upon the Burning of Our House"

Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

2. Neoclassicism

Paine

Franklin

3. American Romanticism

Bryant              Poe

Emerson           Hawthorne

Thoreau

4. American Masters & The Rise of Realism

Whitman          Crane

Dickinson          Chopin

Jacobs              Robinson

Lee

5. The Moderns 1914-1939

Williams           Cullen

Faulker             Hurston

Frost

6. Contemporaries

Barthelme        Plath

Bishop              Lee

Brooks              Alvarez

Wilbur

American Drama

            The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Novel Length Readings

            The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

            The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Composition

Writing Samples, Five-Paragraph Essays, Short Answer Responses, MLA Format Research Project, Formal Test Essays, Midterm and Final Examinations, In-class essays

Research

            Research Paper

 Vocabulary

            21 Units in Text (approximately 1 unit per two weeks)

 Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage

            Reinforcement and review of usage and mechanics; practice as needed to improve writing skills and      sentence development