This year will center around American Literature and preparing students for the Regents and AP English entrance exams.
Units and materials will be arranged chronologically to align as best is possible with 11th grade American History.
Major works include but are not limited to:
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
poetry by Emily Dickinson
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
"Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau
poetry by Walt Whitman
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
poetry by T.S. Eliot
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Independent reading book of choice (The Bell Jar, Walden, The Jungle, Sula, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
Visit Mr. Artist's Google Classroom for downloadable files.
Click here for assignments and due dates
Visit the following link for practice AP-style multiple choice and free-response questions:
http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-english-literature-and-composition-course-description.pdf