Units of Study and Essential Questions
Unit One: What is America?
This unit focuses on the origins of "America" beginning with Native American Oral Traditions and ending with the first encounters (Columbus). It looks at the colonial nature of society, discrimination, honor, traditions, and the concepts of power.
This begins the class theme of the contradictory nature of American history, literature, and tradition.
This unit focuses on the origins of "America" beginning with Native American Oral Traditions and ending with the first encounters (Columbus). It looks at the colonial nature of society, discrimination, honor, traditions, and the concepts of power.
This begins the class theme of the contradictory nature of American history, literature, and tradition.
Unit Two: Conflict in American Literature
Unit Three: Resistance and Revolution in American Literature
Unit Four: Self and Community
Unit Five: Coming of Age in American Literature