English III

Course Length

2 Semesters

This junior-year English course invites students to delve into American literature, from early American Indian voices through thoughtful contemporary works. Students will engage in literary analysis and inferential evaluation of great texts, the centerpieces of this course. While critically reading fiction, poetry, drama, and expository nonfiction, students master comprehension and literary-analysis strategies.

Interwoven in the lessons across two semesters are tasks that encourage students to strengthen their oral language skills and produce creative, coherent writing. Students will read a range of short but complex texts, including works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Martin Luther King, Jr., F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sandra Cisneros, Amy Tan, and Dave Eggers.

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Overview of Concepts

• Unit 1: American Roots: From Native Traditions to the American Revolution
• Unit 2: Bright Romanticism: American Individualism
• Unit 3: Dark Romanticism: American Gothic
• Unit 4: A Nation Divided and Expanding: Civil War, Regionalism, and Realism
• Unit 5: Realist Novel Study: The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Unit 6: “Make It New”: Early Modernism
• Unit 7: Modern Drama Study
• Unit 8: Victory and Despair: The Roaring Twenties, Modernism, and Postwar Outlooks
• Unit 9: “I, too, Am America”: The Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movement
• Unit 10: Cultural Rebellion: Mid Twentieth-Century Voices
• Unit 11: Heritage and Multicultural American Identities: Contemporary Voices
• Unit 12: Globalization and the Information Age: Postmodernism into the Twenty-First Century