English Ten Syllabus

 Independent Reading - All students are expected to read one independent book per quarter and complete one project as assigned by quarter.  The fourth quarter project will be the exam day story fair project.

First Semester

An American Story - August - early September

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, related essays, movie version

Problem Solution Letter - late September

Foundations in American Thought -October

The Crucible by Arthur Miller, puritans, McCarthyism,  movie," Young Goodman Brown," Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Naturalism

Americans at War - November 

The Things The Carried by Tim O'Brien, "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," scrapbook project, Vietnam poetry, Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

An American Author - December

Stories of Earnest Hemingway  - "Hills Like White Elephants," "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "A Clean Well Lighted Place"

Author Dinner Party Research Project

Latino Collaborative unit with Mrs. Burkland - January

The Southern Writer - January

"Where are You Going? Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates and related fairy tales, Bob Dylan music, and magazine articles

"Everyday Use" and "Roselily" by Alice Walker

"A Goodman is Hard to Find" by  Flannery O'Connor

The literary analysis paper - early February

Defining a Sense of Place in America - February - early March

A House on Mango Street by Sandra Ciseneros, personal vignette assignment, related poetry

The American Dream - March

A Raisin in the Sun, related poetry

American Dystopia - April

Fahrenheit 451, related poetry, media analysis activities

Shakespeare in America - May

Othello, character dissection paper, character masks

The Book Fair Project