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== =Guilderland High School = September 2008 English AP11 - Block 2AC Instructor: Mrs. Young

Welcome students! Our focus of study this year will be American literature with an emphasis on the influences that have contributed to our American landscape. America offers new vistas as we approach the end of the first decade in the twenty-first century. What may not seem like much progress to you in your teen years, represents knowledge of exciting proportions to those born not more than 50 years ago. Of course, there have been setbacks that compel us to wonder: At what price progress? But we are not the first generation to ponder the questions we will explore in our class However, we are more connected to the rest of the work than ever before thanks to technological advances. Consequently, our community has expanded to include other countries while the world has been "flattened" by easy access and collaboration across time and space. Thus, we cannot examine the state of education, labor, politics, family, and community without also evaluating the role that new media play.

  The Basics The Educational Landscape The Political Landscape The Natural Landscape Our Personal Landscape