Ms. Barreira’s American Literature 2016 Academic Year

The Daily grind Magniloquent Mondays Text &Technology Tuesdays Workshop Wednesdays R.A.F.T. ing Thursdays Free Reading Fridays

Grades 80% of your grade comes from me Summative assessment grade every 9 weeks in: Reading: Goal of 500 pages Writing: 1 essay Literature: 1 multiple-choice test Formative assessment grades for assignments in these areas every week including routine writing and reading assignments, quizzes, Reading Day, and class participation in discussions. 20% of your grade comes from the EOCT

What is American literature? Simply put, the voice of Americans and the American experience through their writing. American literature is also organized into different periods and movements. You will learn the characteristics of each period’s literature and the authors who represent these periods. Writers may not intend to make a statement about America, but they often do. We will identify themes of these American voices and analyze how they affected America in their time.

American literature Native Americans & Puritans Revolutionary Period Romanticism & Transcendentalism Civil War Period Regionalism & Realism Naturalism Modernism Harlem Renaissance Post-Modernism What would YOU call 21st Century Lit?

American writer project You will randomly select an American writer for a project due this year (first half due in December, second half due in May). You will have to read a short bio, at least two works by this writer, and two critiques. You will create and present a hypermedia project: a visual presentation with links to appropriate websites and easily accessible information about your American writer. More info to come!

Writing test prep Writers Workshops – Wednesdays Dead Words: very, many, really, a lot, thing, stuff. (You can use anything, everything, nothing.) Essay Writing Strategies & Practice Introductions: Hooks and Thesis Conclusions Editing Strategies Sentence errors Style & SPAM

Native Americans Background p.10-13 Myth: How the World Was Made p.20 Myth: The Sky Tree p.34 Nonfiction: Dekanawida from The Iroquois Constitution p.47 Non-Fiction: La Relacion p.58 Cabeza de Vaca

puritanism Background p.14-15 Nonfiction: from Of Plymouth Plantation p.62 William Bradford Diary: from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson p.80 Mary Rowlandson Sermon: from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God p.95 Jonathan Edwards

Revolutionary war period Background p.16-18, Nonfiction: from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin p.104 Nonfiction: from Poor Richard’s Almanack p.110 Benjamin Franklin Declaration of Independence p.122 (web) Thomas Jefferson Biography: Phillis Wheatley p.139

romanticism Background p.178-186 Intro to the Short Story p.238-9 Fiction: The Black Cat (web) Edgar Allan Poe Fiction: The Devil & Tom Walker p.240 Washington Irving Fiction: The Minister’s Black Veil p.278 Poems by the Fireside Poets (web) Poem: I Hear America Singing p.408 Whitman Walt Whitman Poem: I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died p.445 Emily Dickinson

transcendentalism Poem: Nature p.188 Essay: from Self-Reliance p.194 Ralph Waldo Emerson Essay: from Self-Reliance p.194 Essay: from Civil Disobedience p.212 Henry David Thoreau Non-Fiction: Walden

Civil war Memoir: from My Bondage and My Freedom p.328 Frederick Douglass (1/5) Spiritual: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot p.337 Spiritual: Go Down Moses p.338 Spiritual: Follow the Drinking Gourd p.339 (1/12) Memoir: And Ain’t I a Woman? p.345 Sojourner Truth (1/20) Diary: from Mary Chesnut’s Civil War p.357 Mary Chesnut (1/26) Letter: Letters to His Family p.363 Robert E. Lee (2/2) Movie: Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge p.367 Ambrose Bierce (2/2)

realism

regionalism

naturalism

modernism

Harlem renaissance

Post-modernism

21st-century literature What would you call it? Characteristics of hypermedia Non-linear based literature Wikis and blogs