Curriculum+Overview

**Required Texts and the Related Essential Questions ** · //The Watsons Go To Birmingham – 1963 // by Christopher Paul Curtis (summer reading) · //Lupita Manana //by Patricia Beatty · //Belle Prater’s Boy // by Ruth White · //Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World //by Jenifer Armstrong · //Walk Two Moons //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">by Sharon Creech ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Good Night, Mr. Tom //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> by Michelle Magoriam ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Four choice novels throughout the year ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> by Gary D. Schmidt (summer reading) ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Banner in the Sky //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">by James Ramsey Ullman ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The Pearl //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> by John Steinbeck ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">A Midsummer Night’s Dream //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">by William Shakespeare ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The Folk Keeper //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">by Franny Billingsley ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The Call of the Wild //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> by Jack London ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Biographical novel of choice ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The Giver //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> by Lois Lowry (summer reading) ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Lord of the Flies //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> by William Golding ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">To Kill a Mockingbird //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> by Harper Lee ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Romeo and Juliet //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> by William Shakespeare ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Tale of Two Cities //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">by Charles Dickens ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">At least five novels of student choice throughout the year ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Genre #1: Short Stories o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">I Am One of You Forever //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">by Fred Chappell (summer reading) and various short stories ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Genre #2: Drama o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">“Trifles” by Susan Glaspell, //The Importance of Being Earnest// by Oscar Wilde, and //Antigone// by Sophocles ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Genre #3: Poetry o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Various poems ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Genre #4: Autobiographies o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Various short autobiographies and //Night// by Elie Wiesel ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Genre #5: Legend o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Various urban legends ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Genre #6: Novels o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Frankenstein //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">by Mary Shelley ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Genre #7: Student Choice of Genre ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The Time Machine //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">by H.G. Wells (summer reading) ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The Canterbury Tales //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">by Geoffrey Chaucer ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Beowulf //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">translated by Seamus Heaney ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Student choice of a British work related to the class themes of class, hero, and love ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Twelfth Night //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">and //Macbeth// by William Shakespeare ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Various poems by Romantic poets ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">“A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Regeneration //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> by Pat Barker and various poems by WWI poets ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Wuthering Heights //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">by Emily Bronte ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">by Mark Twain ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The Road //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">by Cormac McCarthy ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Excerpts from various Puritan writers ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Excerpts from various Age of Reason writers ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The Scarlet Letter //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">by Nathaniel Hawthorne ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Excerpts from various Transcendental writers and //The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail// by Lawrence and Lee ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Excerpts from various Realism writers ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">A Farewell to Arms //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">by Ernest Hemingway ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The Great Gatsby //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">by F. Scott Fitzgerald ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Glass Menagerie //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">by Tennessee Williams ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Maus I //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">and //Maus II// by Art Spiegelman ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Student choice of a modern American work ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">East of Eden //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">by John Steinbeck ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Theme #1: Utopias and Dystopias o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Candide //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">by Voltaire (summer reading), //Brave New World// by Aldous Huxley, and a choice novel ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Theme #2: The Search for Self o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Excerpts from the //Bhagavad Gita, Koran, Torah, Bible,// and Confucius; //Siddhartha// by Hermann Hesse; //The Alchemist// by Paulo Coelho; and a choice novel ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Theme #3: Who’s the Hero? o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Othello //<span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">by William Shakespeare, //Gilgamesh//, //Oedipus Rex// by Sophocles, and a choice novel ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Theme #4: Cultural Identity and Isolation o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, //Things Fall Apart// by Chinua Achebe, and a choice novel
 * <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Fredericksburg Academy Middle and Upper School English Curriculum: **
 * <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Sixth Grade: Personal **
 * <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">How does our reading apply to our personal lives? **
 * <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Seventh Grade: Perception **
 * <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">How can we understand others’ points of view and use this understanding to avoid judging others? **
 * <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Eighth Grade: Societal **
 * <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">How are we affected by and how do we affect society? **
 * <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Introduction to Genres **
 * <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Garamond","serif";">What do we learn from the "masters" about how to write well? **
 * <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Garamond","serif";">How can you use these tools to make your own writing "masterful"? **
 * <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">British Literature **
 * <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Garamond","serif";">How can the written word change society? **
 * <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Semester 1: What is the British literary tradition? **
 * <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Semester 2: How do these works challenge the tradition? **
 * <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">American Literature **
 * <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Garamond","serif";">Who am I as an American? **
 * <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">How do the literature and an understanding of its chronology and themes show how we as a people came to be who we are today? **
 * <span style="font-family: "Garamond","serif";">AP English Literature and Composition (based in world literature) **
 * <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Why must we think? **
 * <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Garamond","serif"; font-size: 11pt;">How can reading literature, studying authors, and examining other cultures help us become world citizens who think? **