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==Unit 6: The Center Cannot Hold (1945-?)==
===Postmodernism===

The Postmodern Period in American literature begins with the conclusion of World War II. Scholars debate its end point.

===Enduring Understandings===
===Essential Questions===
===Standards and I Can Statements===
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===Lesson Sequence===
===Assessments===
====Diagnostic====
====Formative====
====Summative====

===Literary Resources===

A good list of postmodern novels is available from the [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/07/the-mostly-complete-annotated-and-essential-postmodern-reading-list.html ''L.A. Times''].

====Drama====
:* Hansberry, Lorraine: ''A Raisin in the Sun'' (1959)
:* Miller, Arthur: ''Death of a Salesman'' (1949), ''The Crucible'' (1953)
:* Williams, Tennessee: ''The Glass Menagerie'' (1944), ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' (1948)

====Novels====
:*Alexie, Sherman: ''Reservation Blues'' (1995)
:*Baldwin, James: ''Got Tell It on the Mountain'' (1953)
:*Banks, Russell: ''Rule of the Bone'' (1995)
:*Barth, John: ''Giles Goat Boy'' (1966), ''Lost in the Funhouse'' (1968)
:*Bellow, Saul: ''Seize the Day'' ()
:*Bradbury, Ray: ''Fahrenheit 451'' (1953)
:*Burroughs, William: ''Naked Lunch'' (1959)
:*DeLillo, Don: ''White Noise'' (1985)
:*Dick, Phillip K: ''The Man in the High Castle'' (1962)
:*Eggers, Dave: ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'' ()
:*Ellis, Bret Easton: ''Less Than Zero'' (1985)
:*Ellison, Ralph: ''Invisible Man'' ()
:*Erdrich, Louise: ''Love Medicine'' ()
:*Fowles, John: ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' (1969)
:*Heller, Joseph: ''Catch-22'' (1961)
:*Hersey, John: ''Hiroshima'' (1946)
:*Krakauer, Jon: ''Into the Wild'' ()
:*Lee, Harper: ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' (1960)
:*McCarthy, Cormac: ''All the Pretty Horses'' (), ''The Road'' ()
:*McInerney, Jay: ''Bright Lights, Big City'' (1984)
:*Momaday, N. Scott: ''House Made of Dawn'' (1968)
:*Moore, Alan, and Dave Gibbons: ''Watchmen'' (1984)
:*Morrison, Toni: ''Beloved'' (1987), ''Song of Solomon'' ()
:*Pynchon, Thomas: ''V'' (1963), ''Gravity's Rainbow'' (1973)
:*Robbins, Tom: ''Still Life with Woodpecker'' (1980)
:*Roth, Philip: ''Goodbye, Columbus'' (1959)
:*Salinger, J.D.: ''The Catcher in the Rye'' (1951)
:*Thompson, Hunter S.: "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'' (1971)
:*Vonnegut, Kurt: ''Cat's Cradle'' (1963), ''Slaughterhouse-Five'' (1969), ''Breakfast of Champions'' (1973)
:*Walker, Alice: ''The Color Purple'' (1982)
:*Wallace, David Foster: ''Infinite Jest'' (1996)
:*Wright, Richard: '' Native Son'' ()

====Poetry====
:*Bishop, Elizabeth: "The Fish" (), One Art (), "Sestina" ()
:*Brooks, Gwendolyn: "The Bean Eaters" ()
:*Carver, Raymond: "Happiness" (), "The Current" ()
:*Forche, Carolyn: "The Visitor" ()
:*Ginsberg, Allen: "America" ()
:*Jarrell, Randall: "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" ()
:*Kleinzahler, August: "The Tartar Swept" ()
:*Lowell, Robert: "Skunk Hour" (), "Memories of West Street and Lepke" ()
:*Merrill, James: "The Black Swan" (), "The Octopus" (), "Days of 1964" ()
:*Merwin, W.S.: "My Friends" ()
:*Plath, Sylvia: "Mirror" (), "Mushrooms" (), "Tulips" ()
:*Sexton, Anne: "The Bells" (), "Young" ()
:*Wilbur, Richard: "The Beautiful Changes" (), "Boy at the Window" (), "The Writer" (), "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World" (), "Advice to a Prophet"

====Short Stories (and collections)====
:*Barthelme, Donald: ''Sixty Stories'' (1981); "Game" (1968)
:*Carver, Raymond: ''What We Talk About When We Talk About Love'' (1981), ''Cathedral'' (1983); "Everything Stuck to Him" ()
:*Cheever, John: "The Swimmer" ()
:*Jackson, Shirley: "The Lottery" (1948)
:*Kaplan, David Michael: "Doe Season" (2005)
:*LeGuin, Ursula K: "She Unnames Them" (1985)
:*Oates, Joyce Carol: "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" ()
:*O'Brien, Tim: ''The Things They Carried'' (1990)
:*O'Connor, Flannery: "A Good Man is Hard to Find" (1955)
:*Olsen, Tillie: "I Stand Here Ironing" (1961)
:*Tan, Amy: ''The Joy Luck Club'' (1989)
:*Welty, Eudora: "Petrified Man" ()
:*Wright, Richard: "The Man Who Was Almos' a Man" ()
:*Updike, John: "Pigeon Feathers" (1962), "A&P" (1962), "How to Love America and Leave It at the Same Time" (), "Son" (),

====Speeches====
:*Kennedy, John F.: "Inaugural Address" (1961)
:*Minow, Newton: "Address to the Broadcasting Industry" (1961)
:*Reagan, Ronald: "Brandenburg Gate Address" (1987)

===Teaching Resources===
====Background Reading====
====Documentaries====
====Websites====

===Academic Language===
====Tier 2====
====Tier 3====

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