The Verbose Insomniacs
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
English III Curriculum
The marking period one curriculum includes:
~Patrick Henry's "Speech in the Virginia Convention" and Benjamin Franklin's "Speech in the Convention"
~The Declaration of Independence and the American Crisis
~The Fireside Poets
The marking period two curriculum includes:
~Edgar Allan Poe, including "The Raven," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "A Dream Within A Dream"
~Transcendentalism, including
~Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature," "Self- Reliance," and "Concord Hymn"
~Henry David Thoreau's "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience"
The marking period three curriculum includes:
~A unit on Emily Dickinson poems
~A unit on Walt Whitman
~A unit on Mark Twain
~Farenheit 451
~Historical background of The Crucible
~The Crucible Act I
The marking period four curriculum includes:
~The Crucible Acts 2, 3, 4
~A unit on Robert Frost
~A unit on Langston Hughes
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A BRIEF INTRODUCTION:
WATCH THIS VIDEO FOR AN INTRO TO AMERICAN LIT!
On this website, we will explore American literature through our English III curriculum in order to answer this essential question: How does American literature reflect the evolution of American society?