English 2 Honors

featuring American literature at its finest

 

Once, about a million years ago, I found myself arguing with my uncle--an English teacher also--about the greatest works of American literature.

"No question," he declared.  "Our Town and The Beans of Egypt, Maine."

Well, you'd have to go a long way to find another person to agree about the latter novel, a fairly minor work about a Faulkerian family in Maine, but Our Town?

You betcha. 

In this class, we'll explore Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play as well as the transcendentalist philosophies that lie at its core.  We'll read John Steinbeck's

The Grapes of Wrath, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, and J.D.Salinger's A Catcher in the Rye too as we meander our way through some of the greatest works

of literature America has ever produced.  Along the way, we'll see some poems and short stories and maybe visit with another author or twain.  It will be a great ride.

 

 

 

Some Assignments

 

 

The Grapes of Wrath final project              Our Town quotes            Harold and Maude essay          Death of a Salesman Scene Project

Great Depression Interview Assignment                 Transcendentalism Final Assignment                   Quotations of Thoreau and Emerson

Transcendentalist Writings                 Catcher in the Rye Journal Assignment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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