English 10
Second Trimester
Literature
Romanticism and Transcendentalism
“The Devil and Tom Walker” - Washington Irving
“Thanatopsis” - William Cullen Bryant
“The Raven” - Edgar Allan Poe
“The Chase” from Moby Dick - Herman Melville
“I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died” - Emily Dickinson
“Because I Not Stop for Death” - Emily Dickinson
“Song of Myself” (Canto I) - Walt Whitman
“A Noiseless Patient Spider” - Walt Whitman
Local Color and Realism
“The Outcasts of Poker Flat” - William Harte
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” - Mark Twain
Realism and Naturalism
“To Build a Fire” - Jack London
"An Episode of War" - Stephen Crane
The Adventures of Hucleberry Finn - Mark Twain\
Harlem Renaissance
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” - Langston Hughes
“The Tropics in New York” - Claude McKay
“From the Dark Tower” - Countee Cullen
Vocabulary
Units IV, V
Spelling
Lists 14-21
Grammar
Capitalization
End Marks and Commas
Semicolons and Colons
Italics, quotation marks, and ellipsis points
Apostrophes, hyphens, dashes, parenthesis, brackets
