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1. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2

1.1

Native American Literature and Oral Traditions

2. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.9

2.1

Colonial Literature Puritan and Enlightenment Writers

3. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.6

3.1

Revolutionary Period Literature and Foundational Documents

4. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4

4.1

Early National Period Irving and Cooper

5. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.2

5.1

Transcendentalism Emerson and Thoreau

6. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.3

6.1

Dark Romanticism Hawthorne Poe and Melville

7. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5

7.1

Poetry Unit Whitman and Dickinson

8. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.7

8.1

Slavery and Abolitionist Literature

9. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.7

9.1

Civil War Literature and Poetry

10. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.2

10.1

Comparative Analysis Regional Voices in Early America

11. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1

11.1

Realism and Social Change Industrial America

12. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3

12.1

Regionalism Local Color Writing

13. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2

13.1

Naturalism Crane Norris and London

14. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3

14.1

Immigrant Literature and Urban Experience

15. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5

15.1

Modernist Poetry and Experimental Forms

16. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.7

16.1

African American Literary Renaissance

17. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2

17.1

Lost Generation and Post-War Disillusionment

18. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.6

18.1

Working Class Literature and Labor Themes

19. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4

19.1

Regional Modernism and Southern Literary Renaissance

20. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.1

20.1

Synthesis Essay Evolution of American Identity

21. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.6

21.1

Post-WWII Literature New Voices and Perspectives

22. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4

22.1

Beat Generation Literature

23. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.7

23.1

Civil Rights Era Literature

24. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2

24.1

Contemporary Multicultural American Literature

25. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5

25.1

Women's Voices in American Literature

26. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.2

26.1

Environmental Literature and Nature Writing

27. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.5

27.1

Digital Age Literature and New Media

28. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1

28.1

Independent Reading and Book Clubs

29. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.2

29.1

Literary Analysis Portfolio Development

30. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.8

30.1

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