Lesson Plan Overview for American Literature, 3rd ed.
American Literature, Third EditionLesson Plan OverviewDaysTopicPagesSupport Materials*Bible IntegrationUnit 1: Early American Literature: An Era of ChangeChapter 1: Literature of Settlement1Unit 1: Early American Literature1–5Teaching Helps 1A–1D2–3SettlementThe Iroquois Confederacy: “How the World Began”6–18Teaching Helps 1E–1HSupplemental Texts 1A–1BEvaluate: Myth versus the BibleShape Worldview: Contrast of Ancient One’s jealousy versus God’s infallibility and holiness, thinking biblically about the original paradise, biblical view of earth not as our mother but as a resource to use responsibly, viewing the curse in light of God’s redemptive plan 4The Constitution of the Five Nations18–22Teaching Help 1GSupplemental Texts 1C–1DShape Worldview: God’s moral law written in hearts5–6John Smith: The General History of Virginia,A Description of New England23–30Teaching Helps 1I–1KEvaluate: Worldview and bias7–8William Bradford: Of Plymouth Plantation31–38Teaching Helps 1C, 1L–1NSupplemental Text 1EEvaluate: Divine ProvidenceShape Worldview: The power of Scripture to heal and soothe griefs and fears, Bradford’s motivation to persuade the younger generation to remain faithful to the God of their fathers, contrasting the Pilgrims’ and Puritans’ approaches to government9–10John Winthrop: Journal,“A Model of Christian Charity”39–45Teaching Helps 1O–1SSupplemental Text 1FEvaluate: Law and libertyShape Worldview: Biblical evaluation of a husband’s treatment of his wife 11Mary Rowlandson: “A Narrative of the Captivity”46–52Teaching Helps 1T–1USupplemental Text 1GEvaluate: God’s sovereigntyShape Worldview: Balancing Rowlandson’s perspective on Native American attacks with settlers’ lack of mercy and charityShape Worldview: Complexity of God’s purposes in war12Chapter 1 Review53Answers, pp. R1–R313Chapter 1 TestChapter 2: Literature of Religious Experience14–15PuritanismRoger Williams: A Key into the Language of America / The Bay Psalm Book: “Psalm 23”54–60Teaching Helps 2A–2ESupplemental Texts 2A–2BShape Worldview: Perpetuating spiritual error Evaluate: View of Native Americans16Writing Lesson 1: Narrative EssayW1–W2Writing Rubric 1Writing Worksheets 1A–1B17–18Anne Bradstreet: “The Author to Her Book,” ”Contemplations,” “Upon the Burning of Our House,” ”To My Dear and Loving Husband”61–68Teaching Helps 2F–2JSupplemental Text 2CEvaluate: The human dimensionShape Worldview: Puritans’ view of spousal love patterned upon Christ’s love for the church, correcting one’s own unbiblical thinking19–20Edward Taylor: “Meditation 6 (First Series),” “Huswifery,” God’s Determinations, “Upon a Spider Catching a Fly”69–75Teaching Helps 2K–2NEvaluate: Worldview and aestheticsShape Worldview: Good religious poetry helps believers grapple with and resolve internal conflict21–22Jonathan Edwards: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”76–86Teaching Helps 2O–2PEvaluate: The sinner’s plightShape Worldview: Necessity of heart knowledge for genuine belief23–24Samson Occom: A Short Narrative of My LifeRed Jacket: “The Great Spirit Has Made Us All”86–96Teaching Help 2QShape Worldview: Personal failings affecting others’ acceptance of the gospelEvaluate: Race and religion25Chapter 2 Review97Answers, pp. R4–R626Chapter 2 TestChapter 3: Literature of Revolution27–29DeismBenjamin Franklin: The Autobiography98–111Teaching Helps 3A–3C Supplemental Texts 3A–3BEvaluate: Moral exampleShape Worldview: Divine wisdom superior to conventional wisdom, the harm of Franklin’s immoral example, biblical evaluation of the American Dream, biblical evaluation and clarification of “doing good to man,” biblical evaluation of Franklin’s plan for moral perfection, discernment of Franklin’s religious views30Patrick Henry: “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!”112–16Teaching Helps 3D–3GEvaluate: Authority versus liberty31–32Thomas Paine: The Crisis, No. 1; The Age of Reason117–25Teaching Helps 3H–3KEvaluate: Discernment in readingShape Worldview: Use of name calling unbiblical33Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography,Declaration of Independence126–33Teaching Help 3LShape Worldview: Biblical evaluation of the major premise of the Declaration of Independence34Phillis Wheatley: “To the University of Cambridge,” “On Being Brought from Africa to America”134–38Teaching Helps 3M–3O Supplemental Texts 3C–3EEvaluate: True freedom35Chapter 3 Review139Answers, pp. R7–R936Chapter 3 TestUnit 2: American Romanticism: An Era of OptimismChapter 4: Minor Romantics37Unit 2: American Romanticism140–45Teaching Helps 4A–4BShape Worldview: Biblical evaluation of romantic emphases38–40Knickerbockers / New England School Washington Irving: “Rip Van Winkle”146–62Teaching Helps 4C–4DSupplemental Text 4AShape Worldview: Christ, the best source of escape from life’s pressures; description of Rip’s farm attesting to truth of Scripture41Writing Lesson 2: Persuasive EssayW3–W4Writing Rubric 2Writing Worksheets 2A–2B42–43James Fenimore Cooper: The Deerslayer163–71Teaching Helps 4E–4GSupplemental Text 4BEvaluate: Racial and cultural differencesShape Worldview: Proper motivations undergirding the golden rule44William Cullen Bryant: “Thanatopsis,” ”To a Waterfowl”172–77Teaching Helps 4H–4IEvaluate: Nature as teacher45Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “Psalm of Life,” ”Mezzo Cammin”178–80Supplemental Text 4CEvaluate: The brevity of lifeShape Worldview: Evaluating the eternal value of one’s work46John Greenleaf Whittier: “Ichabod,” “First- Day Thoughts”181–83Teaching Help 4JEvaluate: Inner light47James Russell Lowell: A Fable for Critics, ”The Courtin’”184–88Teaching Helps 4K–4MSupplemental Texts 4D–4E48Oliver Wendell Holmes: “Old Ironsides,” ”The?Chambered Nautilus”189–92Evaluate: Spiritual self-improvement49Chapter 4 Review193Answers, pp. R10–R1150Chapter 4 TestChapter 5: Major Romantics51–53Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, “Self-Reliance”194–201Teaching Help 5ASupplemental Texts 5A–5BEvaluate: TranscendentalismShape Worldview: Interrogating transcendentalists’ assumptions and responding biblically, Scripture’s denial of Emerson’s optimistic vision of the future, unbiblical view of children as exemplars of innocence, Emerson’s moral relativism answered, Emerson’s argument for the reliability of intuition challenged54–55Henry David Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience,” Walden202–11Teaching Helps 3G, 5B–5DEvaluate: Applications of self-reliance56–57Walt Whitman: “Song of Myself,” “I Hear America Singing,” “A Noiseless Patient Spider,” “O Captain! My Captain!”212–18Teaching Helps 5E–5HSupplemental Text 5CEvaluate: The self as divineShape Worldview: The insufficiency of nature alone to convey truth, contrasting Whitman’s expression of equality with the Bible’s58–59Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven,” “Annabel Lee,” “The Cask of Amontillado”219–31Teaching Helps 5I–5KSupplemental Texts 5D–5FEvaluate: Pessimistic view of man’s natureShape Worldview: The forfeiture of life for those guilty of premeditated murder60–62Nathaniel Hawthorne: “The Minister’s Black Veil,” “The?Birthmark”232–54Supplemental Texts 5G–5HEvaluate: View of God and manShape Worldview: The impossibility of hiding sin permanently, separation from God as the result of sin, prudence of preparing for death even as a young person, Scripture’s condemnation of envy63–64Herman Melville: “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall?Street” 255–80Teaching Helps 5L–5OEvaluate: Man’s responsibility to man and determinism65Chapter 5 Review281Answers, pp. R12–R1466Chapter 5 TestChapter 6: Voices of Conflict67–68Literature Through the WarAbraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address, Second Inaugural Address282–88Teaching Help 6AEvaluate: Brotherly love and divine providence69Writing Lesson 3: Short StoryW5–W6Writing Rubric 3Writing Worksheet 370–71Ambrose Bierce: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”289–97Evaluate: Pessimism72Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass298–301Evaluate: The humanity of slaves73Negro Spiritual: “Go Down, Moses”302–4Teaching Help 6BEvaluate: The Bible and slavery74Chapter 6 Review305Answers, pp. R15–R1675Chapter 6 TestUnit 3: American Realism and Naturalism: An Era of New BeginningsChapter 7: Regionalists76Unit 3: Realism and Naturalism306–11Teaching Helps 7A–7CShape Worldview: Biblical treatment of neighbors, regardless of their cultural or ethnic identity; biblical perspective on wealth; biblical perspective on individual worth and material wealth; genuine Christianity versus mere conformity; scriptural motivation behind many reform efforts; benefits of reading realists and naturalists77–79Regionalism Bret Harte: “The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion”312–25Teaching Help 7DSupplemental Text 3CShape Worldview: The Christian and offensive language80–81James Whitcomb Riley: “When the Frost Is on the Punkin” / Sarah Orne Jewett: “A White Heron”326–37Teaching Helps 7E–7GEvaluate: Pleasure in ordinary lifeEvaluate: Valuing animal life82–84Emily Dickinson: Selected poems338–47Teaching Helps 7H–7KEvaluate: Death and immortalityShape Worldview: Legitimacy of discernment in religion, tempering Dickinson’s view of the imagination with Scripture’s view85–86Kate Chopin: “Désirée’s Baby”348–54Teaching Helps 7L–7OEvaluate: The Bible and racism87Chapter 7 Review355Answers, pp. R17–R1888Chapter 7 Test89Midterm Review90Midterm ExamChapter 8: Realists and Naturalists 91–94Master Realists / Naturalism Henry James: The American356–76Teaching Help 8AShape Worldview: Contrasting secular realistic fiction with Christian realistic fictionEvaluate: Moral superiority95Writing Lesson 4: Historical ReportW7–W8Writing Rubric 4Writing Worksheet 496–98Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn377–93Teaching Helps 8B–8CSupplemental Text 8AEvaluate: Moral dilemma99–101William Dean Howells: “Editha”394–405Teaching Helps 8D–8GEvaluate: Views on war102–4Stephen Crane: “God fashioned the ship of the world carefully,” “A man said to the universe,” “The Open Boat” 406–25Teaching Helps 8H–8JEvaluate: NaturalismShape Worldview: Reminder that life is not limited to “under the sun” with its inherent frustrations but transcends to eternity, God not indifferent to human plight105–6Jack London: “The Law of Life”426–32Evaluate: Man as an animal107Chapter 8 Review433Answers, pp. R19–R20108Chapter 8 TestUnit 4: Modern American Literature: An Era of PessimismChapter 9: Modern Poetry 109–10Unit 4: Modern American LiteratureImagism / Harlem Renaissance434–41Teaching Helps 9A–9BShape Worldview: American attitude toward wealth in the 1920s, discerning good and evil, understanding the heart, evaluating Marxist theory from Scripture111Edwin Arlington Robinson: “Miniver Cheevy,” “Richard Cory”442–47Evaluate: Modern themesShape Worldview: Biblical injunction to avoid comparison with others112–15Robert Frost: “The Gift Outright,” “The Road Not Taken,” “The Death of the Hired Man,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “Mending Wall,” “Birches”448–61Evaluate: WorldviewShape Worldview: The truth that God directs the path of a Christian116Edna St. Vincent Millay: “Sonnet XXVI”462–63Teaching Helps 9C–9EEvaluate: Love and beauty117Imagists—Ezra Pound: “In a Station of the Metro” / William Carlos Williams: “The Red Wheelbarrow” / H.D.: “Heat” / Archibald MacLeish: “Ars Poetica”464–68Teaching Helps 9F–9G118T. S. Eliot: “Journey of the Magi”469–71Teaching Help 9HEvaluate: Disillusionment or transformation119Carl Sandburg: “Chicago,” “Fog,” “Grass”472–77Teaching Helps 9I–9JEvaluate: Socialistic view of the common manShape Worldview: The Christian and war120E. E. Cummings: “Somewhere i have never travelled,” “In Just-,” “r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r”478–82Teaching Helps 9K–9L121Theodore Roethke: “My Papa’s Waltz,” “Dolor”483–85Teaching Help 9MEvaluate: ThemeShape Worldview: Work given to man by God122–24Harlem Renaissance Poets—Claude McKay: “If We Must Die,” “America” / Countée Cullen: “Yet Do I Marvel” / Langston Hughes: “Harlem [2],” “I, Too,” “Dream Variations”486–92Teaching Help 9NEvaluate: Responses to social injustice125Chapter 9 Review493Answers, pp. R21–R23126Chapter 9 TestChapter 10: Modern Prose127–28The Lost Generation / The Social IdealistsZora Neale Hurston: “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”494–500Teaching Helps 10A–10BEvaluate: Ethnic identity and equalityShape Worldview: Evaluating differing responses to injustice129Writing Lesson 5: PoetryW9–W10Writing Rubric 5Writing Worksheets 5A–5C 130–31James Thurber: “The Catbird Seat”501–7Teaching Help 10CEvaluate: Humor132E. B. White: “Once More to the Lake”508–14Teaching Helps 10D–10EEvaluate: Reminiscence133–35F. Scott Fitzgerald: “Winter Dreams”515–33Teaching Help 10FEvaluate: The American DreamShape Worldview: The wrong of judging from the subjective standard of feelings136–37Ernest Hemingway: “In Another Country”534–39Teaching Help 10GEvaluate: Echoes of Ecclesiastes138–40Thornton Wilder: The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden540–54Teaching Help 10HEvaluate: Traditional values141–42John Steinbeck: “Flight”555–69Teaching Helps 10I–10JShape Worldview: Scriptural truths and passages related to adulthoodEvaluate: Moral culpability143–44Eudora Welty: “A Worn Path”570–76Teaching Help 10KEvaluate: HeroismShape Worldview: Showing sensitivity to others145Chapter 10 Review577Answers, pp. R24–R25146Chapter 10 TestUnit 5: Contemporary American Literature: An Era of DiversityChapter 11: Contemporary Poetry147Unit 5: Contemporary American Literature578–81Teaching Help 11AShape Worldview: The Bible’s perspective on material goods, biblical response to postmodernism148–49Contemporary American PoetryElizabeth Bishop: “The Fish,” “One Art”582–87Teaching Helps 11B–11CShape Worldview: Biblical attitude toward sin and sinners150Randall Jarrell: “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”588–89Evaluate: Response to war151William Stafford: “With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach,” “Bess”590–92Evaluate: Worldview152–54African American Poets Laureate—Robert Hayden: “Frederick Douglass” / Gwendolyn Brooks: “Life for my child is simple, and is good,” “The Explorer” / Rita Dove: “Rosa”593–98Teaching Helps 11D–11E155Sylvia Plath: “You’re,” “Stillborn”599–601Teaching Helps 11F–11GShape Worldview: Potential of confessional poems for believers156Billy Collins: “Introduction to Poetry,” “Workshop”602–5Teaching Help 11H157Li-Young Lee: “Eating Alone,” “Eating Together”606–8158Chapter 11 Review609Answers, pp. R26–R28159Chapter 11 TestChapter 12: Contemporary Prose160–62Contemporary American ProseRay Bradbury: “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains”610–17Teaching Helps 12A–12CEvaluate: The end of the world163Writing Lesson 6: Literary Analysis EssayW11–W12Writing Rubric 6Writing Worksheets 6A–6B164–66Flannery O’Connor: A Prayer Journal, “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”618–27Teaching Help 12DEvaluate: Worldview and aestheticsShape Worldview: The importance of Scripture and the Holy Spirit for wisdom in life167–68John Updike: “Still of Some Use”628–32Teaching Help 12EEvaluate: Presentation of divorce169–70Joyce Carol Oates: “Murder”633–37Shape Worldview: Biblical injunctions against gossip and persecution of others171–72Alice Walker: “My Mother’s Blue Bowl”638–41Evaluate: View of possessions173–74Amy Tan: “Two Kinds”642–50Teaching Help 12FEvaluate: Actions of characters175–76Sandra Cisneros: “Straw into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday”651–54Teaching Help 12GShape Worldview: Importance of understanding people who differ from you as part of the believer’s mission177Chapter 12 Review655Answers, pp. R29–R30178Chapter 12 Test179Final Review180Final Exam ................
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