PAS American Literature Honors 2012-2013 Home: Due Monday, October 29, 2012

Thursday, October 25, 2012

The midterm will consist of:

Two texts with accompanying reading comprehension, vocabulary, and PRS questions
All vocabulary and PRS from the quarter
A short answer comparing the depiction of Puritans in The Scarlet Letter, The Crucible, and "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
A short answer on Dark Romanticism.

Week	Story	Novel
1	Setting up
2	Jonathan Edwards: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Camp)	The Scarlet Letter
3
4	Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence
5	Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence
6	Edgar Allen Poe: The Raven (Double 10^th Day)
7	Edgar Allen Poe: The Raven (Double 10^th Day)
8	Arthur Miller: The Crucible
9	Arthur Miller: The Crucible	SL Project
10	Midterm
11	F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams	The Great Gatsby
12	F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
13	Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self-Reliance
14	Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self-Reliance
15	Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
16	Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
17	Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography
Winter Break
18		Gatsby Project
19	Final
20	Mark Twain: Life on the Mississippi	To Kill a Mockingbird
21	Langston Hughes: The Negro Speaks of Rivers
22	William Faulkner: A Rose for Emily
Chinese New Year
23	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
24	Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
25	Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address
26	Arna Bontemps: A Black Man Talks of Reaping
27	Langston Hughes: Harlem
Spring Break
28	Midterm
29	Amy Tan: Rules of the Game	Independent Novel
30	Amy Tan: Rules of the Game
31	Own Choice
32	Own Choice
33	Own Choice
34		Start Project Presentations
35		Start Project Presentations
36	Final