Grade+10,+Unit+6

== = = =UNIT 6: CHALLENGES AND SUCCESSES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: CONTEMPORARY 1945-PRESENT= = = =ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Does twentieth-century American literature represent a fulfillment of America’s promise, as discussed in Unit Four?= = = =LITERARY TEXTS--= =ANTHOLOGIES:= = = =DRAMA:= = = =CREATIVE NONFICTION:= = = =NOVELS:= > = Sherman Alexie = = = =POETRY:= = = =SHORT STORIES:= = = =INFORMATIONAL TEXTS--= =AUTOBIOGRAPHIES:= = = =BIOGRAPHIES:= = = =ESSAYS:= = = =NONFICTION:= = = =SPEECHES:= = = =ART, MUSIC AND MEDIA--= =ARCHITECTURE:= = = =ART:= = = =MEDIA:= = = =MUSIC:= = = =ADDITIONAL RESOURCES--= = = =FUNDAMENTALS--= =WRITING:= = = =GRAMMAR AND USAGE:= = = =MECHANICS:= = = =TERMINOLOGY:= = =
 * =//United States in Literature//=
 * = //All My Sons// by Arthur Miller =
 * = //A Streetcar Named Desire// by Tennessee Williams (EA) =
 * = //Death of a Salesman// by Arthur Miller (E) =
 * = //The Crucible// by Arthur Miller (core) (Summer Reading) =
 * = //Into the Wild// by Jon Krakauer =
 * =//A Member of the Wedding// by Carson McCullers=
 * = //The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian// by =
 * =//All the Pretty Horses// by Cormac McCarthy=
 * = //April Morning// by Howard Fast =
 * =//Baseball Fever// by Johanna Hurwitz=
 * = //The Catcher in the Rye// by J. D. Salinger =
 * = //Cat's Cradle// by Kurt Vonnegut =
 * =//Chocolate Wars// by Robert Cormier=
 * = //Fahrenheit 451// by Ray Bradbury =
 * = //Invisible Man// by Ralph Ellison =
 * = //Joy Luck Club// by Amy Tan (EA) =
 * = //Life in the Fat Lane// by Cherie Bennett =
 * =//Love Medicine// by Louise Erdrich (EA)=
 * = //Monster// by Walter Dean Meyers =
 * = //Native Son// by Richard Wright =
 * = //One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest// by Ken Kesey =
 * = //The Road// by Cormac McCarthy =
 * = //Seize the Day// by Saul Bellow =
 * = //Slaughterhouse-Five// by Kurt Vonnegut =
 * = //Song of Solomon// byToni Morrison (EA) =
 * = //Speak// by Laurie Halse Anderson =
 * =//Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes// by Chris Crutcher=
 * = //The Killer Angels// by Michael Shaara =
 * = //Their Eyes Were Watching God// by Zora Neale Hurston (E) =
 * = //To Kill a Mockingbird// by Harper Lee (core) =
 * = "Advice to a Prophet" by Richard Wilbur =
 * = "America" by Allen Ginsberg =
 * ="Days of 1964" by James Merrill=
 * ="Happiness" by Raymond Carver=
 * ="The Current" by Raymond Carver=
 * = "July in Washington" by Robert Lowell =
 * ="Love Calls Us to the Things of This World" by Richard Wilbur=
 * = "Memories of West Street and Lepke" by Robert Lowell =
 * ="My Friends" by W.S. Merwin=
 * = "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop (EA) =
 * = "Sestina" by Elizabeth Bishop (E) =
 * = "Skunk Hour" by Robert Lowell =
 * = "The Black Swan" by James Merrill =
 * = "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop (EA) =
 * = "the octopus" by James Merrill =
 * = "The Tarter Swept" by August Kleinzahler =
 * = "The Visitor" by Carolyn Forche =
 * = "Tulips" by Sylvia Plath =
 * = "A&P" by John Updike=
 * ="A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor=
 * = "A Small, Good Thing" by Raymond Carver=
 * ="Flying Home" by Ralph Ellison=
 * =//Night Shift// (short story collection) by Stephen King=
 * = "Petrified Man" by Eudora Welty=
 * = "Almos' a Man" by Richard Wright (EA) =
 * = "The Swimmer" by John Cheever=
 * = "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" by Joyce Carol Oates=
 * = //Black Boy// by Richard Wright =
 * = //The Autobiography of Malcolm X//: as told to Alex Haley (excerpts) =
 * =//Patton: A Biography// by Alan Axelrod (excerpts)=
 * ="Seeing" or other essays from //Pilgrim at Tinker Creek// by Annie Dilliard=
 * = "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (16 April, 1963) by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. =
 * = "On Being an American" (1922) by H. L. Mencken =
 * ="Remembering Richard Wright" by Ralph Ellison=
 * ="The Content of His Character" by Shelby Steele=
 * = //The American Language,// 4th Edition by H. L. Mencken =
 * = //The Feminine Mystique Chapter One, Chapter Two// by Betty Friedan =
 * = "Address to the Broadcasting Industry" (delivered 9 May, 1961 to the members of the National Association of Broadcasters) by Newton Minow =
 * = "Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate" (delivered 12 June, 1987, West Berlin) by Ronald Reagan =
 * = "'Ask Not...' Inaugural Address" (20 January, 1961) by John F. Kennedy =
 * =//Farnsworth House,// Plano, Illinois (1951)=
 * =//Seagram Building//, New York City, New York (1957)=
 * =Barnett Newman, //Concord// (1949)=
 * =David Smith, //Pillar of Sundays// (1945)=
 * =Franz Kline, //Untitled// (1957)=
 * =Jackson Pollock, //Number 28// (1950)=
 * =Louise Bourgeois, //Red Fragmented Figure// (1953)=
 * =Mark di Suvero, //Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore)// (1967)=
 * =Mark Rothko, //Untitled// (1964)=
 * =Robert Motherwell, //Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 70// (1961)=
 * =Willem de Kooning, //Excavation// (1950)=
 * =Documentaries as found on //DiscoveryEducation//.com, //A&E//, and //History Channel//=
 * =Elia Kazan, dir., //A Streetcar Named Desire// (1951)=
 * =Glenn Jordan, dir., //A Streetcar Named Desire// (1955)=
 * =//Omnibus: A Streetcar Named Desire// (television episode, 1955)=
 * ="Blowin’ in the Wind" by Bob Dylan=
 * ="This Land is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie=
 * ="Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" by Pete Seeger=
 * ="Every Punctuation Mark Matters: A Mini lesson on Semicolons" (ReadWriteThink)=
 * ="Exploring A Streetcar Named Desire" (ArtsEdge, The Kennedy Center)=
 * =Flannery O’Connor’s "A Good Man is Hard to Find": "Who’s the Real Misfit?" (National Endowment for the Humanities)=
 * ="The influence of WWII on American Literature" essay planning worksheet.=
 * =Comparison essay: "Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison's political visions of America"=
 * =Nothing new this unit.=
 * =Nothing new this unit.=
 * =The Beat Generation=
 * =Minimalism=
 * =Nonlinear narratives=
 * =Parody=
 * =Pastiche=
 * =Postmodernism=

=RETURN to 7-12 ELA Curriculum=

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