Over time, more resources and lessons from the 2023-2024 school year will be posted and available.
Unit 4 Short Fiction – Learning Objectives
- Explain the function of contrasting characters.
- Describe how textual details reveal nuances and complexities in characters’ relationships with one another.
- Identify and describe how plot orders events in a narrative.
Stories & Diagrams
- Everyday Use by Alice Walker
- Bloodchild by Octavia Butler
Unit 5 Poetry – Paradise Lost
Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
-John Milton
- Explain the function of structure in a text
- Explain the function of specific words and phrases in a text
- Identify and describe what specific textual details reveal about a character, that character’s perspective, and that character’s motives
Choice Novel 2024
In a well written essay, explain how your chosen text fits into American Literature in no less than 800 words.
Analyze literary elements and techniques used by the author that develop the work’s central themes and characters. Use specific textual evidence. Use this evidence to create a compelling and unique position on how the author and text portray America, and how it operates as deep literature.
Unit 6 – The Great Gatsby
His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald