LAN1100: English 11

05/01/2023 to 04/30/2024 • Modified 06/08/2023

Course Description

This year-long course will equip students to become more mature writers who are able to clearly and properly express themselves through academic and creative writing. Students will dig far beyond the surface meaning of a text and see the purpose, creativity, and significance of various types of literature. The literary focus is on numerous periods of American Literature in poetry, short stories, personal diaries, nonfiction essays, a novel, and drama. Students will develop a persuasive research paper. Students are guided with biblical truths to develop the skills necessary to honor God through excellence in the written and spoken word.

Prerequisite

English 10

Schedule

Module 1: Class and Theme Introduction: What is an American?

Week 1: Theme and Writing Introductions
Week 2: Rhetoric

Module 2: What Is an American? Moralistic (and Judgmental)

Week 3: The Puritans and Early Americans
Week 4: Anne Bradstreet & the Value of Possessions
Week 5: Essay Writing and Early American Themes
Week 6: Theme Conclusion and Timed Writing

Module 3: What Is an American? Revolutionary (and Rebellious)

Week 7: Benjamin Franklin and Patrick Henry
Week 8: Thomas Paine and Chief Cornplanter
Week 9: Theme Conclusion, Timed Writing, and Quarter Exam

Module 4: Argumentation Research Paper

Week 10: Research and Thesis Statement
Week 11: Argumentation Research Paper

Module 5: What Is an American? Self-Reliant (& Arrogant)

Week 12: Irving, Poe, and Emerson
Week 13: Transcendentalism
Week 14: Dickinson, Whitman, and Douglass
Week 15: Theme Conclusion and Timed Writing

Module 6: What Is an American? Confident (& Disillusioned)

Week 16: Memoirs and Short Stories
Week 17: Short Stories
Week 18: Theme Conclusion, Timed Writing, and Quarter Exam

Module 7: What Is an American? Socially Caring (& Socially Insensitive)

Week 19: Theme Introduction and To Kill a Mockingbird
Week 20: To Kill a Mockingbird, continued
Week 21: To Kill a Mockingbird, continued
Week 22: Project, Test, and Theme Expansion
Week 23: Theme Conclusion and Timed Writing

Module 8: What Is an American? Realistic (and Fantastical)

Week 24: Theme Introduction and American Drama
Week 25: Science Fiction and Fantasy
Week 26: Non-Fiction Essays
Week 27: Theme Conclusion, Timed Writing and Quarter Exam

Module 9: What Is an American? Global (and Individualistic)

Week 28: Theme Introduction and Global American Writings
Week 29: Global American Writing, continued
Week 30: Enchanted Air
Week 31: Enchanted Air, continued
Week 32: Enchanted Air, continued
Week 33: Theme Conclusion and Timed Writing

Module 10: Christian Writers and Literature and Conclusion

Week 34: What is an American? Christian Writers and Christian Literature
Week 35: Christian Writers and Christian Literature, continued
Week 36: Theme Conclusion and Quarter Exam