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At the conclusion of this course students will be able to:

• Demonstrate comprehension of important American history documents and literary works by selecting and applying effective reading strategies.

• Identify and utilize different sentence types, paragraph types, and parts of an essay in required writing assignments.

• Decipher and define new vocabulary using a variety of techniques (etymologies, word part analysis, etymologies, content specific vocabulary, Greek and Latin roots, and analogies).

• Define and identify major genres within literature and their respective literary terms and characteristics.

• Evaluate author intent and reader interpretation through discussion of style and tone, word choice, author perspective, and proposed audience.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the literary, historical, and cultural context of various literary movements and periods in American history and recognize the unique characteristics of each.

• Recognize the contributions of important American writers and poets from various periods of American literature, as well as how their personal histories affected their writings.

• Differentiate between primary and secondary sources, and between paraphrasing and summarizing.

• Demonstrate an understanding of selected readings and writing studies by constructing journal responses and essays which utilize each step of the writing process. • Compare and contrast various works of poetry through close readings.

• Identify parts of speech and verb tenses as well as other grammatical structures including pronoun and antecedent agreement.

• Analyze a poem through the use of various techniques, recognizing how poetic elements achieve specific rhetorical and aesthetic purposes.

• Identify strategies for critiquing the arguments in public documents.

• Identify the purpose, structure, and language used in a variety of business documents, and select effectives methods for reading, creating, and completing such documents.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the development of an American novel, focusing on the relevance of setting and the narrator’s and author’s perspectives. • Demonstrate an understanding of literary criticism.

• Recognize the use of a portfolio in setting goals and improving one's study habits.

• Recognize the contributions of important American writers and poets from modern American literature, as well as how their personal histories affected their writings.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the literary and historical context of modern American literature and its movements by identifying its stylistic, thematic, and technical qualities as well as common characteristics of the literature.

• Define vocabulary specific to the literary and poetic elements of modern American literature and its genres.

• Demonstrate comprehension of modern American literary works by selecting and applying effective reading strategies.

• Identify the stylistic elements and social impact associated with specific American writers.

• Decipher and define new vocabulary as well as technical terms using a variety of techniques (Anglo-Saxon roots, connotation and denotation, affixes).

• Demonstrate an understanding of selected readings and writing studies by constructing journal responses and other writing tasks which utilize effective elements of writing.

• Analyze works of literature (both fiction and non-fiction) by identifying and defining literary elements such as figurative language, rhetorical devices, theme, bias, and dialect found within the work.

• Define literary canon and recognize how works are canonized.

• Define the research essay in the scope of its associated forms as well as its stages.

• Perform the stages of the research process by writing a research question, locating, evaluating, and interpreting credible sources of information, and writing an outline for a research essay.

• Recognize copyright laws by demonstrating an understanding of proper citations of quotes and paraphrases which adhere to MLA standards.

• Identify effective listening strategies.

American Literature A

UNIT 1: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Lesson 1: Increasing Tension

Lesson 2: Declaring Independence

Lesson 3: Setting Up a Nation

Lesson 4: Wrap-Up: The American Revolution

UNIT 2: ROMANTICISM AND TRANSCENDENTALISM

Lesson 1: Whitman and Dickinson

Lesson 2: "The Raven"

Lesson 3: Emerson and Thoreau

Lesson 4: Wrap-Up: Romanticism and Transcendentalism

UNIT 3: THE AMERICAN NARRATIVE

Lesson 1: Humor and Subjectivity

Lesson 2: Formality in Personal Narratives

Lesson 3: Diaries and Journals

Lesson 4: Wrap-Up: The American Narrative

UNIT 4: MODERNISM AND THE AMERICAN DREAM

Lesson 1: The Rise of Modernism

Lesson 2: The Great Gatsby, Part I

Lesson 3: The Great Gatsby, Part II

Lesson 4: Wrap-Up: Modernism and The American Dream

UNIT 5: SEMESTER WRAP-UP

Lesson 1: Wrap Up

American Literature B

UNIT 6: MODERNISM AND LANGUAGE

Lesson 1: Steinbeck and the Depression

Lesson 2: The Modernist Poets

Lesson 3: Experimenting with Language

Lesson 4: Wrap-Up: Modernism and Language

UNIT 7: REDEFINING HOME

Lesson 1: A Raisin in the Sun, Part I

Lesson 2: A Raisin in the Sun, Part II

Lesson 3: The Reaction to Change

Lesson 4: Wrap-Up: Redefining Home

UNIT 8: FRACTURED IDENTITIES

Lesson 1: Vietnam

Lesson 2: Divided Loyalties

Lesson 3: Culture Clash

Lesson 4: Wrap-Up: Fractured Identities

UNIT 9: THE INFLUENCE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Lesson 1: Humans and the Environment

Lesson 2: Humans and Media

Lesson 3: Humans and Machines

Lesson 4: Wrap-Up: The Influence of Science and Technology

UNIT 10: SEMESTER WRAP-UP Lesson 1: Wrap-Up