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Anyone have suggestions for an American Lit. course? I want good literature plus easy use in that it will have questions and assignments already for each. In other words - I don't want to plan this - I want good american lit. with a course already planned out! I have found with high school lit. if I don't have a ready made curriculum - then we don't get much done!
I have seen online life pac, lighting lit. I don't know much about those and also know there are others.
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Barb, I'm on my way out the door right now, but I can share with you what we'll be doing for AmLit (and history) this coming year. I'm still refining my plans, but I have a daily checklist up and running in at least draft form. It follows the scope and sequence of a standard AmLit textbook (we happen to have the Glencoe U.S. lit text, 2/3 of which is useless filler, but it does have a reasonably good selection of standard American literature that you'd find in any high-school course), but also includes primary-source readings and readings to count towards a government credit.
Back later with more, if you're interested.
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Barb - when my daughter did Grade 11 American Lit, I hosted a discussion group in my home weekly. I set up a blog with links and movies and online study guides. We used the Excellence in Literature American Lit as a spine. Let me know if you are interested - it is a private blog but I can send it to you, or probably make it public - I just have to check that there are no kids' names on.
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Marilyn, I would love to see your blog! If you are willing to share it...
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Marilyn, I'd love to see your blog, too!
Meanwhile, here's my booklist for the coming year, which includes American Lit.
I do have a daily checklist for a 30-week year planned out, at least in rough draft form. It includes everything, not just literature, and I'll probably go back and do some editing before I'm ready to commit to it totally for ourselves, but if anyone is interested, I'd be happy to email them a copy. It's set up so that my student can check off readings as he does them and show me his progress at the end of every day.
I've done three 10-week terms, with a week of writing across all the subjects in each 11th week (if that makes sense!), and three weeks of flex time throughout the year. I've been working on my younger kids' plans lately and can't remember exactly how I set up the rising 11th grader's, but that's the gist.
The lit course covers everything from Native American myths through the end of the 19th century. Novels include Willa Cather's Death Comes For the Archbishop (counts as history, too); Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter; Crane's The Red Badge of Courage; and Huckleberry Finn.
I plan to devote senior year to 20th century and contemporary literature and history.
Hope this is helpful.
Sally
eta: I was able to post my entire booklist/syllabus file here. This is purely reading, no other resources, and it does include readings for other subjects, not just literature.
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By the way, on my booklist, the American literature actually appears under "history." We'll also be reading H.E. Marshall's History of English Literature for Boys and Girls alongside our other reading, to cover what's happening in Brit Lit at the same time that Am Lit is developing.
So much of American literature, especially in the 17th and 18th centuries, is basically primary-source historical texts -- diaries, eyewitness accounts, and the like. There are Native American myths, and we do have poetry from the Puritan era, and then there are all the political writings of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods, but otherwise you don't get a whole lot of what we would think of as imaginative literature until America starts to settle into being a nation.
Anyway, I just put it *all* under the rubric of American history in my plans, but on our transcript I will include both American history and American literature for 11th grade.
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Marilyn I'd love to see your blog too!
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Here is the blog Journey Through American Literature
We had a discussion group in our house. I started it but my dd took over leading the discussions. They discussed and watched movies. My daughter did all the reading and writing assignments - I am not sure what the other kids did.
The blog stops end Jan - my daughter took over writing the plans for Feb until May. I think she emailed or google plus or facebooked them. Here is the list of all the books they covered - American Lit booklist
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