Honors English III

Course Overview

LITERATURE

Reading and Analysis

Periods of American Literature

Summer Reading

August 11 – August 29

Catcher in the Rye

Fair and Tender Ladies

Fences

Foundations

September 2 – September 12

Folktales: archetype

Bradstreet: plain style, meter, rhyme, inversion, extended metaphor

Edwards: tone, imagery, metaphor, repetition

Franklin: aphorism, satire

Paine: logic, persuasion, counter claims

Romanticism

September 15 – October 9

Irving: one dimensional characters, tragedyLongfellow: sonnet, foot, iamb, scanning, quatrains, coupletEmerson: figure of speech, imageryThoreau: archaisms, parable, paradox, rhetorical deviceHawthorne: allegory, gothic storyPoe: symbol, settingMelville: tone, allusion

American Masters

October 14 – October 24

Whitman: catalog, parallel structure, speaker, tone, cadence, free verse

Dickinson: personification, irony, slant rhyme, paradox, style, pun

Rise of Realism

October 27 – December 12

DouglasCraneTwain: The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnLondonChopinCather

The Moderns

January 7 – February 28

EliotWilliamsCummingsHemingwayFitzgerald: The Great GatsbyFaulknerSteinbeckPorterFrostHughesHurston: Their Eyes Were Watching GodSandburgO’Connor

Contemporary

Miller: The CrucibleWilliams: The Glass MenagerieO’Brien: The Things They CarriedCarverLahiriAlvarezWalkerPlathSextonBrooks

WRITINGFormal and Informal

CreativeAnalytical

Timed

Skill Focuses in Writing

Active Voice vs. Passive Voice

Concision

Varied Sentence Structures

Word Choice

Detail

VOCABULARY

Literary Terms

SAT/ACT Vocabulary

TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH

MLA Style

Library Resources

Wikis and Podcasting