1. 11 th Grade IB Literature of the Americas Emily Gerrity

2. IHS Literature of the Americas, 2015-2016 Units Unit One: American Voices Poetry and nonfiction by diverse modern Americans Unit Two: New England Renaissance to Civil War Hawthorne and Poe (short stories) Thoreau and Emerson (essays) Dickinson and Whitman (poetry) Unit Three: Westward Expansion My Antonia by Willa Cather (novel)

3. IHS Literature of the Americas Unit Four: Post-Revolutionary Latin America Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Unit Five: The U.S. in the Early Twentieth Century The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Robert Frost (poetry) Unit Six: Civil Rights and the Voices that Led the Way Fences by August Wilson Harlem Renaissance and early Civil Rights movement (poetry, stories, nonfiction)

5. IHS Literature of the Americas Sample Writing Assignments Class Writing Informal paragraph/page-length assignments/ discussion questions Formal essay tests in response to IB prompts Formal passage analysis - timed Literary essays- Compare/Contrast model Portfolios—exploration of personal, creative, argumentative, & expository writing

6. IHS Literature of the Americas (LOTA) Sample Speaking Tasks Informal Class discussions (small group and whole class) Small-group presentations Formal IB individual oral presentation (All students) IB individual oral commentary (IB candidates only)

7. Contact Info  Gerrity_e@4j.lane.edu  Blog: IHS website: http://blogs.4j.lane.edu/g errity_e/ http://blogs.4j.lane.edu/g errity_e/  Reminder: IB Info Night 4j District Auditorium October 1 st 7:00pm