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English 9 MYP
English 9 MYP is a two-semester survey of American Literature from 1600 to the present. The focus of the course is developing rigorous skills in reading, writing, and literary analysis, as well as studying cultural diversity and conflict and the impact of these on American values and history during the past 400 years.

Semester One
•    Writing workshop
•    Personal writing/autobiography
•    Colonial Literature
•    The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
•    The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
•    Romanticism
•    American humor

Semester Two
•    The research process and paper (American author)
•    Modern Poetry
•    Modern short stories
•    Medicine River by Thomas King
•    The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
•    American drama – A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
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