Hale Center ISD

English III Course Syllabus

First Nine Weeks:  Unit Theme:  The Pursuit of Happiness

Primary Fiction:  Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Novel Project)

Socratic Seminars over various aspects of this novel

Primary Nonfiction:  The Declaration of Independence

Primary Speech:  Speech in the Virginia Convention

Performance Based Assessment:  Project over novel

Second Nine Weeks:  Unit Theme:  Individual and Society

Primary Fiction:  Edgar Allan Poe (selected short stories)

Primary Nonfiction:  Essays by Emerson and Thoreau

Primary Poetry:  Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

Primary Media:  The Pit and the Pendulum and Dead Poets’ Society

Third Nine Weeks:  Theme:  Times of Trouble

Primary Writing Lesson:  Research and avoiding Plagiarism

Performance Based Assessment:  Google slides presentation over The Jazz Age

Primary Fiction:  The Great Gatsby (Novel Project)

Primary Grammar:  Phrases: Prepositions and Participles

Performance Based Assessment:  Project over novel

Primary Media:  The Great Gatsby

Fourth Nine Weeks:  Theme:  The Storyteller’s Craft

Primary Fiction/Drama:  The Glass Menagerie

Primary Nonfiction:  Selected articles

Primary Grammar:  Clauses:  Independent and Subordinate

Primary Writing Lesson:  Narrative Writing

Performance Based Assessment:  Write a personal narrative

Primary Media:  The Glass Menagerie