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ENGLISH III
* What is the relationship between writing (informational text/literature) and place?
* How does the writing (informational text/literatre) of a particular place adn time shape or reflect society?
* What makes American writing American?
ENGLISH III ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
UNIT 1
Unit 1 Resources:
Literature:
N. Scott Momaday - "How the World was Made"
Jonathan Edwards - "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Anne Bradstreet - "Upon the Burning of Our House"; "To My Dear Loving Husband"
Ben Franklin - Poor Richard's Almanack
Informational:
Stanley Milgram - The Perils of Obedience Adolf Eichmann testimony
Arthur Miller - "Why I Wrote The Crucible"
Kenneth Turan - "Hysteria Resides at the Heart of The Crucible"
Edward R. Murrow - "Wires and Lights in a Box"
Patrick Henry - "Speech to the 2nd Virginia Convention"
The Declaration of Independence
TIME - "How They Choose Those Words"
* Current event articles found at izzit.org and other sources
READING OPTIONS:
UNIT 2
READING OPTIONS:
Literature:
Edgar Allan Poe - "The Pit and the Pendulum"
Nathaniel Hawthorne - "The Minister's Black Veil"
Edgar Lee Masters - selected poems
Edwin Arlington Robinson - selected poems
Walt Whitman -selected poems
Paul Laurence Dunbar - selected poems
Emily DIckinson - selected poems
Ambrose Bierce - "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
Mark Twain - "The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg"
Kate Chopin - "The Story of an Hour"
Jack London - " To Build a Fire"
* other resources available from commonlit.org
Informational:
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; Civil Disobedience
Mahatma Gandhi - " On the Eve of the HIstoric Dandi March"
Nelson Mandala - "Long Walk to Freedom"
Martin Luther King Jr. - "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
Ralph Emerson - "Nature" ; "Self-Reliance"
Lincoln - The Gettysburg Address; Second Inaugural Address
Robert E. Lee - A Letter to His Family
Douglass - My Bondange and My Freedom
Unit 2 Resources:
Ralph Waldo Emerson Biograohy
Walt Whitman Poetry
Edgar Lee Masters - Academy of American Poets
Unit 3
READING OPTIONS:
Literature:
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
F. Scott FItzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Ernest Hemingway - In Another Country
William Faulkner - A Rose for Emily
Flannery O'Conner - "The Life You Save May Be Your Own"
Informational:
Franklin D. Roosevelt - "War Message to Congress"
Proposal for the View Nam Memorial
William Faulkner - "Address Upon Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature"
Maya Lin - "Proposal for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial"
Rachel Carson - "Silent Spring"
TIME - "The Torchbearer"
Unit 3 Resources:
Informational:
Franklin D. Roosevelt - "War Message to Congress"
Proposal for the Vietnam Memorial
William Faulkner - "Address Upon Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature"