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English III B (American Literature)
(Units: 0.5)

This course is the second semester of a full year American Literature (English III) course.

This course meets TEKS requirements for one semester of high school English IIIB.

Course cost: $325 / student

Course Overview

      Changes Unit
            Coming to America
                  "I Have Not Signed a Treaty with the United States Government"
                  "On Being Brought From Africa to America"
                  "The Wisdom of the New"
                  "A Doctor Painting Houses"
                  "Of Plymouth Plantation"
            Neighborhoods
                  "The Old Italians Dying"
                  "Magic Island"
                  "Stranger in the Village"
            The House on Mango Street
                  Families
                  One Teenager in Ten
                  "The Father Poem Two"
                  "Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park"
                  "Learning to See"
                  This Boy's Life
      Nature Unit
            Conservation
                  "Paragonah Canyon--Autumn"
                  "Walking"
                  "Sunbonnet Sue Signs On At Three Mile Island"
            Harmony
                  "The Wild Honey Suckle"
                  "Wisteria"
                  "The Sacred Soil"
      Connections Unit
            Heritage
                  "No Name Woman"
                  "Recognized Futures"
                  "The Loom"
            Friends
                  "Coming Close"
                  "The Kiss"
                  "Treated Better By Wolves"
            Community
                  When I Was Puerto Rican
                  for colored girls who have considered suicide/when
                         the rainbow is enuf
                  "The Blues I'm Playing"
      Choices Unit
            Partnerships
                  Their Eyes Were Watching God
                  Always Running
                  "Family Dancing"
            Identity
                  "La Promesa"
                  The Autobiography of Malcolm X
                  Coffee Will Make You Black
            Acceptance
                  "The Flesh and the Spirit"
                  "The Parrot's Beak"
                  "When I First Saw Snow"
                  "Eagle Poem"
      Final Writing Project