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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