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English 11A — Founding Arguments and the American Self
Curriculum
4 Sections
20 Lessons
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Unit 1: The Argument for a Nation — Paine, the Founders and Those They Left Out
5
1.1
Common Sense — Reading the Argument That Made a Nation
50 mins
1.2
Language Lab — Usage Is a Convention: Reading Adams and Wheatley
45 mins
1.3
Seminar — Faction and the Large Republic: Federalist 10 and 51
50 mins
1.4
Writing Workshop — Delineating Reasoning: Claims, Premises and Counterclaims
50 mins
1.5
Key Assignment — Rhetorical Analysis of a Founding Argument
200 mins
Unit 2: Sin, Law and Community — The Scarlet Letter
5
2.1
The Three Scaffold Scenes — How The Scarlet Letter Is Built
50 mins
2.2
Language Lab — Hawthorne’s Sentences: Syntax, Hedging and Nuance
45 mins
2.3
Seminar — Hawthorne’s Puritans and the Puritans’ Own Words
50 mins
2.4
Writing Workshop — Two Themes, One Argument
50 mins
2.5
Key Assignment — Literary Analysis of The Scarlet Letter
200 mins
Unit 3: Whose Declaration? Rights, Removal and the Nation’s Promise
5
3.1
Using the Audience’s Values — Red Jacket and Douglass
50 mins
3.2
Language Lab — Irony, Hyperbole, Paradox and Euphemism
45 mins
3.3
Listening Lab — Removal Argued: Jackson and the Cherokee Memorial
50 mins
3.4
Writing Workshop — Legal Reasoning and Fair Counterclaims: Dred Scott
50 mins
3.5
Key Assignment — Argument Essay: The Promise and Its Critics
200 mins
Unit 4: The Self and Its Critics — Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman and ‘Bartleby’
5
4.1
Where I Lived — Emerson’s Scholar and Thoreau’s Experiment
50 mins
4.2
Language Lab — Whitman’s Catalogs and Fuller’s Claims: Hyphens, Dashes and Syntax
45 mins
4.3
Seminar — ‘I Would Prefer Not To’: Bartleby and the Limits of the Self
50 mins
4.4
Writing Workshop — Reflective Narrative: Scene, Pacing and Reflection
50 mins
4.5
Key Assignment — Reflective Essay in the American Tradition
200 mins
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