11A English Class Outline

• Summer Reading Review: The Scarlet Letter and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Romanticism: Irving, Hawthorne, Bryant, Longfellow, Emerson, and Poe
• Realism: Whitman and Dickinson
• Drama: Inherit the Wind, Death of a Salesman, and Our Town
• African American Lit: A Lesson Before Dying, Raisin in the Sun, and The Bluest Eye, poetry: Brooks, Clifton, and Hughes
• Modernists: The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, and The Kite Runner
• Greek Drama: Antigone
• Independent Reads: Of Mice and Men and And Then There Were None
• 20 weekly vocabulary words
• ACT and AP prep
• Group discussions, student-led discussions, projects, presentations, and writing will be implemented throughout the course