| American Literature |  | Content-based Instructional Practices:
Reading: The teacher models reading strategies and provides guided practice to promote comprehension during pre reading, during reading and post reading of a variety of genres. The teacher asks students to process the information from texts and demonstrate their comprehension by speaking and in writing.
Vocabulary: The teacher integrates vocabulary instruction with reading. Key vocabulary focuses on the need for students to understand the words both in the context of reading the selections and for the usefulness of the vocabulary beyond the selection. Some emphasis on prefixes, suffixes and roots is taught separately.
Literature: The teacher provides the means for students to develop background information about the selections read including the historical, cultural and biographical context. The teacher reinforces and further develops the students' skills in using literary terminology to respond to and analyze literature. Students are given opportunities to make connections to the literature including text to self, text to text and self to world.
Writing: The teacher assigns both informal and formal writing assignments. Students respond to readings and other classroom instruction on an almost daily basis. The students keep a readers'/writers' notebook for informal responses to reading and other classroom activities and to use as a basis for more formal writing assignments. The teacher models and instructs students in the writing process including pre writing (idea generating), drafting (organizing, developing), revising and editing. Students receive feedback from both teacher and peers during the process. The teacher instructs students about how to consider audience and purpose for their writing. Spelling and grammar instruction is integrated with the teaching of writing.
Speaking, listening and viewing: The teacher provides instruction for both small group communication and more formal presentations. The teacher instructs students on consideration of audience and purpose for their speaking.
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| American Literature Novels | -The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
-Anthem
-The Autobiography of Malcolm X
-Beloved
-The Bean Trees
-Black Boy
-The Catcher in the Rye
-Ceremony
-Cold Mountain
-Cruddy
-The Crucible
-Flowers for Algernon
-Going After Cacciato
-The Good War
-Grand Opening
-The Grapes of Wrath
-The Great Gatsby
-I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
-In the Lake of the Woods
-Into the Wild
-The Intuitionist
-The Journals of Lewis and Clark
-Life on the Mississippi
-Love Medicine
-The Mulching of America
-Native Son
-The Nick Adams Stories
-A Prayer for Owen Meany
-A River Runs Through It
-Scar Lover
-The Scarlet Letter
-Slaughterhouse Five
-Snow Falling On Cedars
-The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
-Tar Baby
-Their Eyes Were Watching God
-Tracks
-Travels with Charley
-White Fang
-White Fang/Call of the Wild
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