American Literature II (EN 2233):

Men and Women in the New World

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)

Final Exam May __, 2015