1. Ms. Barreira’s American Literature
2016 Academic Year

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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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?

6. 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!

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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)

14. realism

15. regionalism

16. naturalism

17. modernism

18. Harlem renaissance

19. Post-modernism

20. 21st-century literature
What would you call it?
Characteristics of hypermedia
Non-linear based literature
Wikis and blogs