美國未經審查：高中美國文學（第二部分，共 2 部分）

𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀: 

❶ 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 If the class fee is a barrier to your learner's enrollment, message me for more information about payment plan options and scholarship opportunities. 

❷ 𝗘𝗻𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝘀/𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 Learners registering for both the America Uncensored: High School U.S. History Part 1 and America Uncensored: High School American Literature Part 1 course in the same school year, or enrolling in one of the courses in the immediate consecutive school year following completion of the other course (for example, taking history in 2024-25 and literature in 2025-26), will be refunded $100 of their course fees ($50 for Part 1 and $50 for Part 2). The refund will be made in the week before class meetings begin, at the time Google Drive links are being distributed to students. For learners on the payment plan, the $50 refund will be applied to the second payment. 

❸ 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗹𝗲 The course will meet twice per week, 45 minutes per meeting, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The fall semester begins on August 12 and ends on December 18. There are no classes the week of September 1 because of the Labor Day holiday, the week of October 27 because of fall break, and the week of November 24 because of the Thanksgiving holiday. The spring semester begins on January 28, 2026, and ends on May 22, 2026, with a one-week spring break the week of March 9. 

❹ 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 Students will receive a Google Drive link before the course begins. The Google Drive will include the student's journal, essay templates, MLA style guide, and grading/feedback document. 

❺ 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀 No refunds of course fees are given after the Google Drive links are distributed. 

❻ 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹 Learners enrolled in any of my semester courses are invited to attend study hall, held on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons during the semester, at no additional cost. This is a time when students can get extra help with assignments, ask questions, work with classmates on group projects, or just log in and work on homework with other learners. 

❼ 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 Homework is assigned following each class meeting. Students are welcome to attend the course and complete as much or as little homework as they and their adult wish. In order to receive a letter of completion, however, students must complete homework in order to earn at least a 70 percent of better on their final grade. 

➑  𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿: 𝗢𝘄𝗹𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 The Foster Woods Folk School publishes a school newsletter during the school year (with the exception of break weeks). Learners enrolled in any Foster Woods Folk School course are invited to contribute writing and artwork for the newsletter with a completed permission form from the learner's adult. 

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In "America Uncensored: High School U.S. Literature," students will read oral literature, diary entries, essays, poetry, letters, song lyrics, autobiography, novels, and more while analyzing works through decolonial, anti-racist, feminist, queer, and historical lenses. We'll read some from within the traditional American literary canon and question why these works are included and if they should be included. We'll also reach outside the canon to bring in the diverse experiences of Americans of other races, genders, sexual orientations, religions, classes, and national origins. We'll interrogate the reading selections of the course and ask which Americans are over-represented and which Americans are underrepresented. We'll look for ways as a cohort of learners to bring those underrepresented Americans' voices into our course. 

Part 1 of "American Uncensored: High School U.S. Literature" covers the Indigenous nations through Reconstruction and is offered in the fall semester (August through December). Part 2 begins with Reconstruction and continues to the present and is offered in the spring semester (January through May). Each part is 16 weeks with 45-minute twice weekly meetings. The course includes lecture, discussion, slides, video clips, audio clips, escape rooms, creative writing, and small group activities. Learners should complete assigned reading and journal entries before class to be prepared for the discussion. 

Homework includes reading assignments, twice-weekly journal entries, and twelve essays throughout the semester. 

The following is a schedule of texts assigned and works covered during Part 2. Lectures, discussion, writing assignments, and activities for the week will center on the assigned texts. 

Week 1: Jourdon Anderson's "Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master," Frances E.W. Harper's "We Are All Bound Up Together," and Frederick Douglass' "Reconstruction." 

Week 2: Mark Twain's 𝑨𝒅𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑯𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒆𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝑭𝒊𝒏𝒏. 

Week 3: Stephen Crane's 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒅 𝑩𝒂𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆 and W.E.B. Du Bois' 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑭𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒔.

Week 4: Ida B. Wells-Barnett's 𝑴𝒐𝒃 𝑹𝒖𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝑶𝒓𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔, Upton Sinclair's 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑱𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆, 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑬𝒍𝒌 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒔, Charles Alexander Eastman's "Deep Woods Civilization," John M. Oskison's "The Problem of Old Harjo," and Zitkala-Ša's "Impressions of an Indian Childhood," "The School days of Indian Girl," and "Why I Am a Pagan." 

Week 5: Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins' "Talma Gordon," Edith Wharton's "The Other Two," and poetry of James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edgar Lee Masters, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and E.E. Cummings.

Week 6: Zora Neale Hurston's 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝑾𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑮𝒐𝒅, Langston Hughes' "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," and the poetry of Hughes, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer.

𝗦𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞

Week 7: John Steinbeck's 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉.

Week 8: Arthur Miller's 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒏.

Week 9: Arthur Miller's 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒏.

Week 10: J.D. Salinger's 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒚𝒆 and Ernest Hemingway's 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒍𝒅 𝑴𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒆𝒂.

Week 11: Ralph Ellison's 𝑰𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒏, Richard Wright's 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝘽𝙤𝙮, and Lorraine Hansberry's 𝑨 𝑹𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒏,  James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues," Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," and The Combahee River Collective Statement.

Week 12: Selections from Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Sherman Alexie, Mary Oliver, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, William Berry, Louise Erdrich, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Billie Holiday, Woody Guthrie, The Temptations, Credence Clearwater Revival, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Tracy Chapman, and Public Enemy. 

Week 13: S.E. Hinton's 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔.

Week 14: Toni Morrison's 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑬𝒚𝒆.

Week 15: Maxine Hong Kingston's 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑾𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒓: 𝑴𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒊𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑨 𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝑨𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔