1. Honors English III Course Overview

2. LITERATURE Reading and Analysis Periods of American Literature

3. Summer Reading August 11 – August 29 Catcher in the Rye Fair and Tender Ladies Fences

4. 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

5. Romanticism September 15 – October 9 Irving: one dimensional characters, tragedy Longfellow: sonnet, foot, iamb, scanning, quatrains, couplet Emerson: figure of speech, imagery Thoreau: archaisms, parable, paradox, rhetorical device Hawthorne: allegory, gothic story Poe: symbol, setting Melville: tone, allusion

6. American Masters October 14 – October 24 Whitman: catalog, parallel structure, speaker, tone, cadence, free verse Dickinson: personification, irony, slant rhyme, paradox, style, pun

7. Rise of Realism October 27 – December 12 Douglas Crane Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn London Chopin Cather

8. The Moderns January 7 – February 28 Eliot Williams Cummings Hemingway Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby Faulkner Steinbeck Porter Frost Hughes Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God Sandburg O’Connor

9. Contemporary Miller: The Crucible Williams: The Glass Menagerie O’Brien: The Things They Carried Carver Lahiri Alvarez Walker Plath Sexton Brooks

10. WRITING Formal and Informal Creative Analytical Timed

11. Skill Focuses in Writing Active Voice vs. Passive Voice Concision Varied Sentence Structures Word Choice Detail

12. VOCABULARY Literary Terms SAT/ACT Vocabulary

13. TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH MLA Style Library Resources Wikis and Podcasting