Unit Three: A Growing Nation
Time Allotted: 6 Weeks
How does freedom spark a Renaissance in American Literature?
Key Selections:
History to A Growing Nation p. 230
Romanticism
“The Devil and Tom Walker” p. 242
“A Psalm of Life” p. 258
“The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” p. 260
“The First Snowfall” p. 272
From “Snowbound” p.275
American Gothic
“The Fall of the House of Usher” p. 308
“The Raven” p. 326
Transcendentalism
History of Transcendentalism p. 384
from “Nature” p. 388
from “Self-Reliance” p. 391
“Civil Disobedience” p. 412
New England Renaissance: Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman
“Because I could not stop for Death” p. 420
“I heard a Fly buzz—when I died” p.422
“The Soul selects her own Society” p. 425
“The Brain is wider than the sky” p. 426
“Water, is taught by thirst” p. 428
from “Song of Myself” p. 436
“I Hear America Singing” p. 442
“A Noiseless Patient Spider” p. 444
Optional selections for additional practice:
“Thanatopsis” p. 267
“Old Ironsides” p. 270 (Audio cassette 15 and 16, audio CD 2)
“Crossing the Great Divide” p. 286 (Audio cassette 1, audio CD 2)
“The Most Sublime Spectacle on Earth” p. 289 (Audio cassette 1, audio CD 2)
“Concord Hymn” p. 393
“The Snowstorm” p. 394
from “Walden” p. 402
“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” p. 440
“By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame” p. 441
Connections: Literature Past and Present
“Seeing” p. 300
“Where is Here?” p. 374
“I, too” p. 448
“To Walt Whitman” p. 450
Major Assignments: Unit Tests
Comparison Contrast Essay