Units

Romanticism
   Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
Transcendentalism
   Emerson "Nature" and "Self-Reliance"
   Thoreau "Walden, or Life into the Woods"
   Chemicals Collide

Realistic Period
   Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

Naturalist Period
   Jack London "To Build a Fire"

Modernist Period
   F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby --Lense Reading
      Marxist Reading
      Feminist Reading
      Psychoanalytic Reading
   Poetry or Modernist Period: Brief Guide to Modernist Poetry

The Harlem Renaissance 
   Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance (Include "America" by Claude McKay)
   Langston Hughes "Salvation" Text & "Thank you Ma'm" Text

WWII
   Art Spiegelman Maus
   John Hersey Hiroshima

Protest Movements
   Arthur Miller The Crucible
   Folk songs
   Cesar Chavez 

Beat Generation
   Kerouac, Ginsberg (Compare "America" to "Homework" by Ginsburg)

Postmodernism
   Tim O'Brien "How to Tell a True War Story"
   Movie: Planet of the Apes
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Pluralism & The Digital Age

​Graphic Novel: American Conflict
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