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English 11B — Land, Citizenship and the Modern American Story
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4 Sections
20 Lessons
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Unit 1: Land and Law in California — The Squatter and the Don
5
1.1
A Californio Novel — Reading The Squatter and the Don
50 mins
1.2
Language Lab — Voice, Dialect and Satire: Twain and Ruiz de Burton
45 mins
1.3
Seminar — Treaty, Land Act and Novel: Reading Law Through Fiction
50 mins
1.4
Writing Workshop — Bringing Documents into a Literary Argument
50 mins
1.5
Key Assignment — Law and Land Analytical Essay
200 mins
Unit 2: Trifles and the Short Story — Women’s Lives, Realism and Voice
5
2.1
Point of View and Structure — Gilman and Chopin
50 mins
2.2
Language Lab — The Words That Name Us: Diagnosis, Identity and Nuance
45 mins
2.3
Performance Lab — Trifles on the Page, the Stage and in the Story
100 mins
2.4
Writing Workshop — Comparative Analysis: Organizing So Each Point Builds
50 mins
2.5
Key Assignment — Comparative Interpretation Essay
200 mins
Unit 3: Citizenship and the Color Line — Amendments, Courts and Voices
5
3.1
The Words of Citizenship — The Reconstruction Amendments
50 mins
3.2
Language Lab — The Grammar of Law: Qualification, Precision and Legal Vocabulary
45 mins
3.3
Seminar — Plessy and Wong Kim Ark: Two Readings of the Fourteenth Amendment
50 mins
3.4
Writing Workshop — Voices and Images Outside the Courts: Du Bois, Pokagon and Nast
50 mins
3.5
Key Assignment — Argument Essay: Who Is a Citizen?
200 mins
Unit 4: The Great Gatsby and the Researched Capstone
5
4.1
Nick’s Narration — Structure, Symbol and the Unreliable Witness
50 mins
4.2
Language Lab — Fitzgerald’s Figures and the Rhythm of a Sentence
45 mins
4.3
Seminar — Gatsby, Yezierska and the Promise of Arrival
50 mins
4.4
Research Workshop — Questions, Sources and the Annotated Bibliography
100 mins
4.5
Key Assignment — Researched Argument Capstone
300 mins
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