Syllabus 1: Sept. 9 – Oct. 2, 2009

The Story of My Life  Helen Keller

Young Goodman Brown  Nathaniel Hawthorne

Rip Van Winkle  Washington Irving

Vocabulary Groups 1, 2, 3

Syllabus 2: Oct. 5 – Nov. 6, 2009

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne

Vocabulary Groups 4, 5, 6

Syllabus 3: Nov. 9 – Dec. 4, 2009

Paul Revere’s Ride  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Old Ironsides Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Vocabulary Groups 7, 8, 9

Syllabus 6: Mar. 8 – Apr. 9, 2010

The Red Badge of Courage  Stephen Crane

RED BADGE AUDIO LINK

Civil War Poetry by Dickinson, Melville, Whitman

Syllabus 4: Dec. 7, 2009 – Jan. 29, 2010

More Abolitionist Works: Stowe, Whittier, Whitman

A Christmas Memory  Truman Capote

To Kill a Mockingbird  Harper Lee

Vocabulary Groups 10, 11, 12

Syllabus 5: Feb. 1 – Mar. 5, 2010

The Transcendentalists: Emerson and Thoreau

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  Mark Twain

HUCK FINN AUDIO LINK

Vocabulary Groups 13, 14, 15

Syllabus 7: Apr. 12 – May 21, 2010

The Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln

Ain’t I a Woman?  Sojourner Truth

The Red Pony  John Steinbeck

O Pioneers!  Willa Cather

Vocabulary Groups 16, 17, 18

How to Format Your Assignments        Course Description        California Language Arts Standards    

 
 

Syllabus 8: May 24 – June 18, 2010

White Fang  Jack London

The Road Not Taken  Robert Frost