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American Experiences 2021 Curriculum Final Delaware Valley Regional High School English II (2021-2022) American Experiences ABOUT THE CURRICULUM: The only texts in this course that are required to be covered are the ​ Declaration of Independence, Constitution or select Federalist Papers, The Bill of Rights and The Great ​ Gatsby and/or Of Mice and Men. It is required that a variety of voices representing diverse backgrounds ​ ​ ​ and perspectives are explored throughout the year, but the additional selections, approaches, and applications are up to the individual teacher. Pairing texts with contrasting perspectives is encouraged. Teachers should incorporate student interest and choice into the curriculum whenever possible, while still maintaining academic rigor. Course Description: This course explores the concept of the development and ideas behind the American ​ Dream since the pre-Colonial era, requiring students to analyze Native American influences, seminal U.S. documents, pivotal speeches, and major texts from throughout American history. Students will read, view, and listen to a multitude of texts including The Great Gatsby and/or Of Mice and Men and additional ​ ​ ​ ​ media such as poetry, short stories, plays, novels, films, documentaries, speeches, and podcasts. Students will view these texts through literary lenses as they develop their reading and writing skills. Selections will be added when appropriate by teachers and students to deepen the conversations of the development of American texts and literature. Writing: Narrative/creative writing Evidence-based paragraphs Analytical paragraphs This course requires the use of MLA Format. Each class will address a variety of synthesis and research writing. Discussion Boards Vocabulary: The individualized vocabulary program Membean will be utilized. Expectations for training are three (3) 15-minute sessions for a total of 45 minutes a unit. Independent Reading: Optional units that require students to select works of their own choice can be embedded into the American Literature curriculum. (1) Throughout the semester, students will be responsible for selecting a memoir that is at-or-above grade level to read and be prepared to use in an assignment at the end of the semester. Selections must be written by American authors. (2) Throughout the semester, students will be responsible for selecting a podcast to listen to and be prepared to use it in an assignment at the end of the semester. (3) Throughout the semester, students will be responsible for selecting a fictional text that is at-or-above grade level to read and be prepared to use in an assignment at the end of the semester. Selections must be written by American authors. THEMATIC UNITS: This Land is Your Land: The Creation of American Identity Required Texts: ● Document: Declaration of Independence (1776) ● Document: The Constitution (1789) OR Federalist Paper #1 OR #10 OR #51 ● Document: Bill of Rights (1791) Additional Selections (Choose): ● "Manifest Destiny" by Mike Kubic (2015) COMMONLIT ● "Excerpts from Thomas Jefferson's Writings on American Indians" COMMONLIT ● Excerpt from "Of Plymouth Plantation" - William Bradford (1620) ● Excerpt from "The General History of Virginia" John Smith (1624) ● Essay: "The Meaning of July 4th for the Slave" by Frederick Douglass (1852) ○ Essay: "What to an American is the Fourth of July" by Ibram X Kendi ● Poem: "Declaration" by Tracy K. Smith (2018) (A 1:06) ● "Bill of Rights" COMMONLIT ● Video: "Confronting Hard History" by Hasan Kwame Jeffries (TEDx 13:42) ● Document: “The Iroquois Constitution” ● Journal: "A Rhetorical Revolution: the antithesis of the First Amendment" by Eimi Priddis Yildirim ● Excerpt from "Letters from an American Farmer" by J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur (1782) ● Excerpts from "The Autobiography" by Benjamin Franklin (1791) ● Excerpts from "Poor Richard's Almanack" by Benjamin Franklin Song of Myself: Individuality, Conformity, and Society Selections (Choose): ● Novel: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson ​ ​ ○ Excerpts from Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson ​ ​ ● Novel: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ​ ​ ​ ● Play: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams ​ ​ ○ "A Concise Introduction to: Tennessee Williams" by Ed Madden from DT+ ○ "Fundamentals: History of Tennessee Williams" from DT+ ○ "Fundamentals: Aims of Tennessee Williams" from DT+ ○ "Fundamentals: Methods of Tennessee Williams" from DT+ ○ Film: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Dir. Elia Kazan ​ ​ ● Novel: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston ​ ​ ○ "Looking for Zora" by Alice Walker ○ Scholarly Essay: "Cognitive Construction of the Self in Hurston" by Patrick S. Bernard ○ Film: Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005), Dir. Darnell Martin ​ ​ ● Excerpt from My Bondage and My Freedom: "An Enslaved Caulker in the Baltimore Shipyards" ​ ​ from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855) ● Excerpts from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs ​ ​ ○ “Fugitive Slave Act of 1793” COMMONLIT ● Short Story: "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (A 39:16) ○ Article: “Go Rest, Young Man” by Anne Stiles ○ Article: “Go West, You Nervous Men” by Matthew Wills ○ Article: “From Nerves to Neuroses” from ScienceMuseum.org ○ Video: “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1983 Productions V 12:07) ● Short Story: "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin (A 7:50) ● Short Story: "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte ○ "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte ADAPTED (A 14:24) ● Short Story: “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne ● Poem: "America" by Claude McKay (1921) COMMONLIT ● Excerpt from Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson COMMONLIT ​ ​ ● Excerpt from Honky by Dalton Conley COMMONLIT ​ ​ ● "First Lady Barbara Bush's Commencement Address at Wellesley College" COMMONLIT ● Discussion Board: "Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges" Discussion Board Response (Juniors- to be removed after 20-21 school year) ● Poem: Excerpts from "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman ● Poem: "The Unknown Citizen" by W.H. Auden ● Poem: "anyone lived in a pretty how town" by e.e. Cummings ● Essay: “On Being a Cripple” by Nancy Mairs ● Excerpts from Laughing at My Nightmare by Shane Burcaw ​ ​ ● Video: “I Am Not Your Asian Stereotype” by Canwen Xu (9:38) ● Excerpts: Disability Visibility Edited by Alice Wong ​ ​ ● Excerpts: Tell Me Who You Are by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi ​ ​ ● Videos: Example: “Calling Your Crush” by Josh Sundquist (9:28) Power to the People: Revolutionaries and Rebels Selections (Choose): ● Graphic Novel: March: Book One by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin ​ ​ ● Graphic Novel: Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band by Christian Staebler, ​ ​ Sonia Paoloni, and Thibault Balahy (Forward by Frankie Vegas) ● Play: The Crucible by Arthur Miller ​ ​ ○ Film: The Crucible (1996), Dir. Nicholas Hytner ​ ​ ○ Video: "What is McCarthyism? And how did it happen?" (TEDEd 5:43) ○ Speech: "Patriotism is Not the Fear of Something" by Adlai Stevenson, 1952 (a response to McCarthy accusations) ○ Video: "McCarthyism: Anatomy of an Investigation" Lattimore Video on PBS (5:50) ○ Video: "What Really Happened During the Salem Witch Trials" by Brian A. Pavlac (TEDEd 5:30) ● “A Participant’s First-hand Account of the Boston Tea Party” by George Hewes COMMONLIT ● Video: “The story behind the Boston Tea Party” Ben Labaree TED-Ed (V 3:47) ● "The American Crisis, No. 1, 1776" by Thomas Paine ○ "The Sharpened Quill" A Historical Critique of Thomas Paine ○ "Thomas Paine: American Crisis Rhetorical Analysis" (V 4:11) ● "Thomas Jefferson on Shay's Rebellion" COMMONLIT (1787) ● Speech: "I Will Fight No More Forever" by Chief Joseph (1877) ● Excerpt: Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau ​ ​ ● Speech: “Speech on Woman Suffrage - June 17, 1911” by Jane Addams ● Speech: “Woman Wants Bread, Not the Ballot” by Susan B. Anthony ● Speech: “Woman's Right to the Ballot” by Amelia Bloomer ● Poem: "Rosa Parks" by Nikki Giovanni (V- Lecture 30:26) ● Video: "The Hidden Life of Rosa Parks" by Riché D. Richardson (TEDEd 4:59) ● Speech: "The Ballot or the Bullet" by Malcolm X (1964) (V 53:36) ● Essay: "This Is What An Antiracist America Would Look Like" by Ibram X Kendi ● Poem: "Afterimages" by Audre Lorde ● Excerpt from "Atlanta Compromise" Speech by Booker T. Washington & Excerpt from "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois COMMONLIT ● Video: “Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies” by Daryl Davis (TedX 18:52) ● Letter from Birmingham Jail (Excerpts) by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963) ○ Letter from Birmingham Jail - Inspiration Letter (to MLK) ● “We Shall Overcome Speech” by President Lyndon B. Johnson COMMONLIT ​ ​ ● “Protest Music is as American as Apple Pie” by Thomas Pool COMMONLIT ○ Song: “Fortunate Son” by Creedence Clearwater Revival ○ Song: “Blowin’ in the Wind” by Bob Dylan ○ Song: “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield ○ Song: “This Land Is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie ○ Song: “Born in the U.S.A.” by E Street Band ● Article: “Americans think social media can help build movements, but can also be a distraction” by Brooke Auxier and Colleen McClain (PEW Research Center) ● Article: “Activism in the Social Media Age” by Monica Anderson, Skye Toor, Lee Rainie, and Aaron Smith (PEW Research Center) ● Video: "How to Turn Protest Into Powerful Change" by Eric Liu (TEDEd 4:56) ● Letter: “Letter to Gas Company” by E.B. White This Land is My Land: The Evolution of American Identity Selections (Choose): ● Speech: "Emancipation Proclamation" by Abraham Lincoln (1863) (V/A) ● Speech: "Gettysburg Address" by Abraham Lincoln
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