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Honors American Literature / Contemporary Composition is a literature-based course with emphasis on college-prep level analysis and essay composition. The course traces the history of American Literature, from the oral tradition of Native Americans and the nonfiction forms of the Puritans, through the major writers of the 20th century. Here's a brief outline of the course:
Divergent World Views --
Native American lore & poetry
Puritan sermons & poetry
Essay: comparison of two poems
Voices of the Revolution
Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine,
Benjamin Franklin, Phyllis
Wheatley, Michel Guillaume Jean
de Crevecoeur
Transcendentalists and Early Poets
Emerson, Thoreau, Bryant
Dickinson
Early 20th Century Writers
London, Cather, Anderson,
Faulkner, Fitzgerald
Authors and Works
Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville: excerpts from
Moby Dick
Mark Twain: The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
Walt Whitman: Song of Myself
W.E.B. DuBois: Song of the Smoke
Emily Dickinson: a variety of poems
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