Unit 1: Pre-Colonial Period

• Introduction to Early American Literature
• Travel Narratives and Cabeza De Vaca
• Point of View
• Native American Literature
• Creation Myths
• Comparing Literature and Analyzing Perspective
• POV SOAPStone
• Rhetorical Appeals
• Look What you Did SOAPStone
• Citations

Unit 2: Colonial Period

• Puritan Times
• The Crucible Introduction
• Puritan Life
• The Crucible, Background
• The Crucible, Political Background
• The Crucible Acts 1-4
• Slavery in the US
• Slave Narratives
• Up From Slavery
• Dunbar Introduction
• We Wear Analysis
• WEB DuBois and EA Robinson

Unit 3: Revolutionary Period

• Democracy in America
• Declaration of Independence Introduction and Background
• DeTocqueville Introduction and Democracy in America
• Second Inaugural

Unit 4: Romanticism and Transcendentalism

• America's Literary Traditions
• Romanticism Introduction and My Bondage Analysis
• Dickinson Introduction and Hope Frigate Analysis
• Simile vs. Metaphor
• Transcendentalism and Where I Lived Analysis
• Civil Disobedience

Unit 5: Realism

• America Sings and Sighs
• Whitman Introduction and I Hear American
• Owl Creek Bridge
• Realism Introduction
• Theme and Irony
• Modern Day Connections
• Modern Day Media
• Evaluating Credibility

Unit 6: Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance

• Moving to Modernism
• Modernism Introduction
• Analysis Red Wheelbarrow
• EE Cummings and Anyone Lived Analysis
• TS Eliot and Prufrock Analysis
• Research Paper Topic Choice
• The Harlem Renaissance
• Historical Background and Jazz Age
• Harlem Renaissance and F Scott Fitzgerald
• The Great Gatsby Chapters 1-7
• Symbolism
• The Great Gatsby Chapters 1-7
• Black Box Scandal
• Foils and Gatsby

Unit 7: Postmodernism

• War of the World
• Postmodernism and WWII
• Ball Turret and Gunner
• Call to Action and Executive Order 9066
• First Hand Accounts
• Post-Modernism and the Memory Play
• The Glass Menagerie Scenes 1-7

Unit 8: Post-Modernism and the Contemporary American

• Contemporary America
• Beat Generation and Howl
• Bush 9/11 Speech