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Junior American Literature and Composition

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	Unit 1: Anatomy of an American Voice


	Unit 2: American Voices and Their Audiences


	Unit 3: Comedy or Controversy?


	Unit 4: The Rhetoric of Drama


	Unit 5: The Personal Voice


	Unit 6: Stage and Screen


	Unit 7: Summer Reading

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Length/Credit: 1 year (Robinswood Only- One Semester) 1.0 credit

Prerequisite: None

Location: Bellevue, Interlake, Newport, Robinswood, Sammamish

Unit Descriptions

	Unit 1: Anatomy of an American Voice


	Activity 1 Gatsby Summer Quiz \| Activity 2 Socratic Seminar \| Activity 3 Style Analysis Diction \| Activity 4 Style Analysis Imagery \| Activity 5 Style Analysis Syntax \| Activity 6 Style Analysis Tone \| Activity 7 Small Group Practice \| Activity 8 Style Analysis Write \| Activity 9 Style Analysis Debrief \| Assessment 1 Summer Reading Quiz \| Assessment 2 Style Analysis Essay

	Unit 3: Comedy or Controversy?


	Activity 1 Introduction to Satire \| Activity 2 Maintaining the Crime Supply \| Activity 3 A Modest Proposal \| Activity 4 Modest Proposal II \| Activity 5 Satire vs Parody \| Activity 6 Introduction to Twain \| Activity 7 Context and Content \| Activity 8 Huck Finn Ch1-4 \| Activity 9 What is the Onion \| Activity 10 Huck Finn Ch 5-7 \| Activity 11 Huck Finn Ch 8-10 \| Activity 12 The Onion Practice 1 \| Activity 13 Huck Finn Ch 11-13 \| Activity 14 The Onion Practice 2 \| Activity 15 Huck Finn Ch 21-24 \| Activity 16 Huck Finn Ch 17-18 \| Activity 17 Introduction to Onion Assessment \| Activity 18 Huck Finn Ch 19-20 \| Activity 19 The Onion Article Selection \| Activity 20 Huck Finn Ch 21-24 \| Activity 21 Huck Finn Ch 25-27 \| Activity 22 Satire Analysis Peer Review \| Activity 23 Huck Finn Ch 28-29 \| Activity 24 Original Satire Rubric \| Activity 25 Huck Finn Ch 30-32 \| Activity 26 Huck Finn Ch 33-35 \| Activity 27 Original Satire Peer Review \| Activity 28 Huck Ch 36-37 \| Activity 29 Final Edit \| Activity 30 Huck Finn Ch 38-40 \| Activity 31 Huck Ch 41 \| Activity 32 Satire on Racism \| Assessment 1 Analyze Modern Satire \| Assessment 2 Original Satire \| More ...

	Unit 5: The Personal Voice


	Activity 1 Introduction \| Activity 2 Interrupted Reading \| Activity 3 Tableaus \| Activity 4 Socratic Seminar True War Story \| Activity 5 Introduce Assessment 2 \| Activity 6 In-Class-Write \| Activity 7 In-Class_Write Debrief \| Activity 8 Journal Groups 2 \| Activity 9 College Essay Prewriting \| Activity 10 Writing the College Essay \| Activity 11 Socratic Seminar \| Activity 12 Peer Review \| Activity 13 Revising for Word Choice and Voice \| Activity 14 Mock Board \| Assessment 1 In-Class-Write \| Assessment 2 Imitation and Analysis \| Assessment 3 College Essay

	Unit 7: Summer Reading


	Activity 1 Brave New World Introduction \| Activity 2 Group work Days \| Activity 3 Quality of Life Presentations

	Unit 4: The Rhetoric of Drama


	Activity 1 Introduction to Puritanism \| Activity 2 Characters and Casting \| Activity 3 Opening Scene \| Activity 4 Enemies and Allies \| Activity 5 Hale's Arrival \| Activity 6 Considering Motivation \| Activity 7 Cause and Effect \| Activity 8 The Poppet Incident \| Activity 9 Making Predictions \| Activity 10 Fallacies and Logic \| Activity 11 Methods of Interrogation \| Activity 12 Passing Judgment \| Activity 13 Tell Me Why \| Activity 14 Ironies of the Play \| Activity 15 McCarthyism \| Activity 16 Why I Wrote The Crucible \| Activity 17 Synthesis McCarthyism Interest Groups \| Activity 18 Contemporary Connections \| Activity 19 Introduce Rogerian Argument \| Activity 20 Considering Audience \| Activity 21 Structure and Organization \| Activity 22 Unpack Assessment \| Activity 23 Peer Revision Workshop \| Activity 24 Final Revision and Editing \| Assessment 1 \| More ...

	Unit 6: Stage and Screen


	Activity 1 Introduction to Fences \| Activity 2 Advice Activity Assessment One \| Activity 3 Thematic Discussion \| Activity 4 Death of a Salesman and Preview Socratic Seminar \| Activity 5 Film \| Activity 6 Socratic Seminar \| Activity 7 Film and Wilson Quote \| Activity 8 In-Class Discussion Wilson Quote \| Activity 9 Performance Commentary \| Activity 10 Script Annotation \| Activity 11 Rehearsal Day 1 \| Activity 12 Rehearsal Day 2 \| Activity 13 Rehearsal Day 3 \| Activity 14 Rehearsal Day 4 \| Activity 15 Rehearsal Day 5 Performance Preview \| Activity 16 Performance \| Assessment One Advice Comparison \| Assessment Two Performance and Compare/Contrast