Lillian Sims Pisgah High School 2014-2015 ***NOT FINAL!**
Unit 1: Youve Got to Hide Your Love Away : The 19 th Century & the American Individual 4 weeks (January) o The Scarlet Letter 1850 (Hawthorne) Excerpts from Emerson & Thoreau TBA Unit 2: I Got a Name : Finding Identity within a Patriarchal Majority 4 weeks (February) o Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937 (Hurston) Harlem Renaissance selections Hatred From Langston Hughes From W.E.B. Dubois Sojourner Truths Aint I A Woman Excerpts from Othello o Comparison to The Awakening (indep. reading) o From Virginia Woolf: Shakespeares Sister o Story of an Hour
Unit 3: Dont Let the Sun Go Down on Me: The 20 th Century; Writing for Society 4 weeks (Mar.-Apr.) o The Crucible 1953 (Miller) TBA
Unit 4: Whats Love Got to Do with It?: The Romantic Heart in a Dollar World 4 weeks (April-May) o The Great Gatsby 1925 (Fitzgerald) How Beastly the Bourgeoisie Is (D.H.Lawrence) The World is too Much with Us (Wordsworth) Selections from Emily Dickinson Comparison to The Old Man and the Sea (indep. reading)
*Independent reading: The Old Man and the Sea 1952 (Hemingway) & The Awakening 1899 (Chopin)