English 11
English 11 is a survey course of major American writers and their contributions to our literary heritage. In this class you will explore various texts and genres while examining themes prevalent in American literature.
Summer Reading
Orson Scott Card and Veronica Roth
- Summer reading guide
- Opening discussion
- Study questions and discussion questions for Divergent
- Study questions and discussion questions for Ender's Game
Unit 1: Pre-Revolutionary Literature
Native American Oral Tradition
Puritan Historical Background
Anne Bradstreet
Edward Taylor
Age of Reason
Jonathan Edwards
Ben Franklin
Thomas Paine
Phyllis Wheatley
Thomas Jefferson
Puritan Historical Background
Anne Bradstreet
Edward Taylor
Age of Reason
Jonathan Edwards
Ben Franklin
Thomas Paine
Phyllis Wheatley
Thomas Jefferson
Unit 2: America Finds a Voice
William Apes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allen Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
- "Civil Disobedience" Group Work
- "Letter from Birmingham Jail" Annotations
- Sherman Alexie's "On The Amtrak from Boston to New York City"
- Scarlet Letter Introductory Activity Directions
- Scarlet Letter Audiobook
- Puritanism vs. Transcendentalism
- "The Custom House"
- Scarlet Letter Ch. 1-2 Cornell Notes
- "Think Like A Puritan" Activity
- Scarlet Letter CSQT Example
- Scarlet Letter Ch. 3-4 HaikuDeck
- Scarlet Letter Ch. 5-6 Prezi
- Scarlet Letter Ch. 7-8 HaikuDeck
- Scarlet Letter Ch. 9-10 HaikuDeck
- Scarlet Letter Quotes Ch. 1-10
- Scarlet Letter Ch. 11 Prezi
- Scarlet Letter Ch. 12-13 SpicyNode
- Scarlet Letter Ch. 14-15 HaikuDeck
- Scarlet Letter Ch. 16 Prezi
- Scarlet Letter Ch. 17-18 HaikuDeck
- Scarlet Letter Ch. 19-20 SpicyNode
- Scarlet Letter Ch. 1-20 NearPod
- Scarlet Letter Ch. 21-24 HaikuDeck
- Approaches to The Scarlet Letter Essay
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allen Poe
Unit 3: Realism, Regionalism, and Naturalism
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Kate Chopin
Willa Cather
Jack London
Mark Twain
W.E.B. DuBois
Edith Wharton
Kate Chopin
Willa Cather
Jack London
Mark Twain
- Life on the Mississippi (we will read a short excerpt)
- Audiobook
- Kemble's illustrations
- Huck Finn Ch. 1-7 HaikuDeck
- Chapter One notes started - 1st hour
- Chapter One notes started - 2nd hour
- Chapter One notes started - 4th hour
- Huck Finn Ch. 8-11 Prezi
- Huck Finn Ch. 12-14 Prezi
- Huck Finn Ch. 15-16 Prezi
- Huck Finn Ch. 17-18 Prezi
- Huck Finn Episodes 1-3 Big Questions
- "On the Damned Human Race"
- Huck Finn Ch. 19-21 Prezi
- Huck Finn Ch. 22-24 Prezi
- Huck Finn Ch. 25-27 SpicyNode
- Huck Finn Ch. 28-29 SpicyNode
- Huck Finn Ch. 30-31 Prezi
- Huck Finn Ch. 32-34 PowerPoint
- Huck Finn Ch. 35-38 SpicyNode
- Huck Finn Ch. 39-43 Prezi
W.E.B. DuBois
Edith Wharton
- Ethan Frome background
- Ethan Frome note guide
- Ethan Frome Ch. 1-3 PowerPoint
- Ethan Frome Ch. 4 Group Work
- Ethan Frome Ch. 5 Discussion
- Ethan Frome Ch. 6-8 PowerPoint
- Ethan Frome Ch. 9-epilogue Prezi
- Ethan Frome Review Guide
Unit 4: Literature After The Great War
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Countee Cullen
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flannery O'Connor
Zora Neale Hurston
Countee Cullen
F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Nietzsche's "Parable of the Madman"
- Nietzsche Prezi
- Existentialism Overview
- Gatsby Map
- The Great Gatsby Chapter One Prezi
- The Great Gatsby Chapter Two NearPod
- The Great Gatsby Chapter Three Group Questions
- The Great Gatsby Chapter Four - Six NearPod
- The Great Gatsby Chapter Seven
- The Great Gatsby Chapter Eight
- Gatsby Research (see below)
- "Herstory and Daisy Buchanan"
- "The Gospel of Gatsby
- "Boats Against the Current: Mortality and the Myth of Renewal in The Great Gatsby"
- "Only Her Hairdresser"
- "Owl Eyes in Gatsby"
- "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and Discussion Guide
- "Hills Like White Elephants"
- "The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
Flannery O'Connor
Unit 5: Literature During and After The Civil Rights Movement
James Baldwin
Richard Wright
Ralph Ellison
Arthur Miller
J. D. Salinger
Richard Wright
Ralph Ellison
Arthur Miller
J. D. Salinger
- Salinger biography
- Walking in Holden's footsteps
- The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 1-4 Prezi
- Your Baseball Mitt CFA
- The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 5-8 Group Qs
- The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 9-12 Group Qs
- The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 13-17 Prezi
- The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 18-22 Prezi
- The Catcher in the Rye Ch. 23-26 Presentation
- The Catcher in the Rye Summative Assessment