American Literature HONORS

Course Description:  American Literature and Composition is a required course that includes an End of Course Assessment through the State of Georgia. This course consists of various literary genres and writers from diverse backgrounds presented chronologically from the 1500s to the modern day. Topics in American literature include foundational writings from Early American authors, Revolutionary and Civil War era writers, Transcendentalism, Romanticism, Modernism, and poetry selections. Throughout the course, students are given opportunities to improve their reading and analytical analysis. The study also includes expository writing (thesis support), narrative descriptive, and argumentative writing. Students will utilize the Modern Language Association formatting in types of formal writing.

Instructional Objectives –

This course is designed to help students become critical readers and listeners, independent thinkers, competent writers, fluent users of language, and articulate speakers. Students will develop vocabulary and grammar in context. Students will work independently and collaboratively in small and large groups to complete these objectives.

Materials:

Course Textbooks and Reading Options: Mirrors and Windows Connecting with Literature Level V, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Textbook  11th 

A Raisin in the Sun, The Great Gatsby, and Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, various short fiction and non-fiction sections, as well as poetry.

Supplemental: Georgia American Literature EOC Study Guide

*See attached Syllabus for detailed information.