High School Literature

Description

Literature / Grades 9-12 / Period 4 / SD / 1-2-3 T

First Trimester: High School Literature: Literature of the Reformation Era

Students will read, discuss, analyze and write about classic  literature of or concerning the Reformation Era.  Emphasis will be placed on the cultural setting of the time, major figures, analysis of elements of literature and literary devices. There will be a variety of responsive writing assignments. Grading will be based on participation in class discussion, completing study guides and responsive writing, as well as a final trimester test and oral presentation. The reading list will include:

• Selections from the King James Version of the Bible, Paradise Lost (Milton), Here I Stand, a Life of Martin Luther, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
• Utopia, Thomas More
• Pilgrim’s Progress, Bunyan
• Huguenot Garden, Jones

Please purchase the hyperlinked texts, other selections will be available online.

Class size: 12
Class time: 12:30 – 1:20 p.m.
Class level: 9th-12th
Taught by:  Susan Daniels
Materials fee: none
Materials needed:  textbooks, spiral notebook, pocket folder, loose-leaf lined paper, pen or pencil, internet access
Class code:  SD 4

Second Trimester: High School Literature: Literature of the Colonial Era

Students will read, discuss, analyze and write about journals, histories, poetry, and sermons of the 17th and early 18th centuries in the American British colonies. There will be  responsive writing assignments. Grading will be based on participation in class discussion, completing study guides and responsive writing, as well as a final trimester test and oral presentation. The reading list will include:

• Selections from William Bradford’s Plymouth Plantation,  Mourt’s Relation, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson,  the poetry of Anne Bradstreet, essays and sermons by Roger Williams and Jonathan Edwards. Readings will be available on the internet or provided by the instructor.

Third Trimester
High School Literature: Literature of the Revolutionary Period

Students will read, discuss, analyze and write about men, literature, and events of the period. There will be several writing assignments, both creative and expository. Grading will be based on participation in class discussion, completing study guides and responsive writing, as well as a final trimester test or oral presentation.

Literature will include:

• Selections from Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Phillis Wheatley, and Charles Dickens Tale of Two Cities

Please purchase the hyperlinked text; the other texts will be available on the internet