English 11
English 11 is an American literature survey course. This course will introduce students to the requirements of the student essay and offers the opportunity to write poetry, short stories and dramatic dialogues. English 11 covers literary terminology and several literary genres including poetry, short story, speeches, political documents, the essay, drama and the writing of the resume. Students will involve themselves in self-assessment as well as in teacher guided practice and assessment throughout the course. The central focus of the course is the reflection of the American character in pre-20th century literature. Students will also focus on how this literature is specific to the formation and reflection of American culture. The course includes forming generalizations about how a land and the experience in that land begin to form a particular genre of writing as well as a philosophical way of seeing events and creating meaning.
English 11 A
The literature in English 11 A includes selections from Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Phyllis Wheatley, Dr. Martin Luther King, Patrick Henry, Washington Irving, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathanial Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Ambrose Bierce, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglas, Brett Harte, Jack London, Larry McMurty, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Edgar Arlington Robinson and Edgar Lee Masters. We will also read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
English 11 B
The literature in English 11 B includes selections from American poets Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, W.H. Auden, e e cummings, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Martin Espada, Simon Ortiz, Dina Chang, and Garret Hongo. Anne Tyler, Bernard Malamud, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, E.B. White, William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Sherwood Anderson, and Thomas Wolfe are the authors of fiction included in the course. Finally, we will read Arthur Miller's The Crucible as the drama for this semester. Students will also read Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck as the novel for the course.
All courses are written to California Department of Education
standards and to national standards, as applicable.