11th Grade · Full-year course · 4 units
English III
Week 1 is free. Tap Week 1. The reading and the problems are on that lesson. Weeks 2–36 open with a Life Academy plan ($35/month per student or $69/month per family (up to 4 students)).
Unit 1: Foundations
Weeks 1–9Week 1American lit survey launch; Puritan → Enlightenment proseWeek 2Edwards / Franklin paired; close rhetorical readingWeek 3Revolutionary rhetoric; Paine & responsesWeek 4Federalist/Anti-Federalist debate analysisWeek 5American Romanticism; Emerson/Thoreau selectionsWeek 6Hawthorne/Poe/Melville craft; symbolism & ambiguityWeek 7Whitman/Dickinson contrast; free verse vs compressionWeek 8Research paper launch (8–10 pp guided): question & archive planWeek 9Civil War literature & speeches; close reading Lincoln
Unit 2: Building fluency
Weeks 10–18Week 10Reconstruction debates in essays/speechesWeek 11Realism/naturalism; Crane/Chopin's craftWeek 12Research checkpoint + American lit portfolio defenseWeek 13Modernist poetry/fiction; Harlem RenaissanceWeek 14Depression-era literature & oral history craftWeek 15WWII literature; rhetoric of memorialsWeek 16Research draft 1 (full)Week 17King / Malcolm / women organizers rhetorical comparisonWeek 18Later 20th-c American prose; voice & ideology
Unit 3: Depth & application
Weeks 19–27Week 19Research draft 2; evidence density clinicWeek 20Research near-final + midyear seminarWeek 21Contemporary American lit; craft imitationWeek 22DBQ writing clinic using US History contentWeek 23Media rhetoric; claim testing contemporary op-edsWeek 24Research paper final + Works CitedWeek 25Seminar: American literature themes revisitWeek 26Literary criticism intro; schools of reading (overview)Week 27Timed rhetorical analysis
Unit 4: Mastery & showcase
Weeks 28–36Week 28Peer workshop of best essayWeek 29Socratic series: conviction, conscience, and community in US textsWeek 30Portfolio evidence mappingWeek 31Oral research/portfolio rehearsalWeek 32Near-final portfolioWeek 33English 11 portfolioWeek 34Oral defensesWeek 35Clinic weekWeek 36Final English 11 packet