English 10 Honors - American Literature Assignments

 Course Objective:  Students will experience plays, novels, short stories, poems and non-fiction pieces.  By responding to these texts in different ways, students will gain a better understanding of critical thinking, literary analysis and the connections of literature to their own world.

 

Grading policies  - Covered in Welcome Letter for each class

 

Unit 1

The American Dream

"Poverty, Not an Education Crisis in the US"

"How the American Dream Works"

"Of Plymouth Plantation"

"General History of Virginia"

"Damned Human Race"

"I Hear America Singing"

"I too"

"To Walt Whitman"

 

Unit 2

Search for Self

"How it feels to be Colored Me"

"The Yellow Wallpaper"

"Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'"

"Everyday Use"