Welcome to American Literature!
Important Classroom Resources:
Syllabus
REMIND sign up: text @ypaeng3 to 81010
RESEARCH PROJECT (Final Exam grade!):
Calendar + project details
Research project outline EXAMPLE
Research project THESIS + OUTLINE -- DUE Wednesday, 5/9!
MLA CITATIONS: Easybib or BibMe -- and check them over using the Purdue OWL!
SAMPLE project here! Yours should look like this!
Grammar:
diagnostic (2/22/2018): complete diagnostic 1 and then send results to yourself and me: [email protected]
Comma practice: http://www.chompchomp.com/exercises.htm#Commas
Fragments: exercise 1, ex. 2, ex. 3
Unit III (Realism):
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" text and short film
Slave Narratives
Africans in America: Judgment Day
Realism writing assignment: write a 1-2 page personal narrative about a time in your life that did not go the way you wanted it to AND how you dealt with it. Be sure to provide AT LEAST THREE EXAMPLES of realistic details and underline them. (For the example we read in class, click here.)
"The Story of an Hour" (text only; see Mrs. DiMatteo for questions)
"The Yellow Wallpaper" on Common Lit
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn + questions (we are reading ch. 1-9)
Unit II (Romanticism):
Introduction to Romanticism pp + notes handout
Link to "The Devil and Tom Walker"
For "The Pit and the Pendulum": go to https://www.commonlit.org/student/KNQD46 and create an account (code: KNQD46)
Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U61xjjE_z0Q
Link to "The Minister's Black Veil"
Unit I (Early American):
Native American myths
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention work + speech performance (film version)
MLK: "I Have a Dream" speech
Link to Thomas Paine's "The Crisis"
Template for personal persuasive essay (Olaudah Equiano assignment)--make a copy and start typing!
Syllabus
REMIND sign up: text @ypaeng3 to 81010
RESEARCH PROJECT (Final Exam grade!):
Calendar + project details
Research project outline EXAMPLE
Research project THESIS + OUTLINE -- DUE Wednesday, 5/9!
MLA CITATIONS: Easybib or BibMe -- and check them over using the Purdue OWL!
SAMPLE project here! Yours should look like this!
Grammar:
diagnostic (2/22/2018): complete diagnostic 1 and then send results to yourself and me: [email protected]
Comma practice: http://www.chompchomp.com/exercises.htm#Commas
Fragments: exercise 1, ex. 2, ex. 3
Unit III (Realism):
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" text and short film
Slave Narratives
Africans in America: Judgment Day
Realism writing assignment: write a 1-2 page personal narrative about a time in your life that did not go the way you wanted it to AND how you dealt with it. Be sure to provide AT LEAST THREE EXAMPLES of realistic details and underline them. (For the example we read in class, click here.)
"The Story of an Hour" (text only; see Mrs. DiMatteo for questions)
"The Yellow Wallpaper" on Common Lit
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn + questions (we are reading ch. 1-9)
Unit II (Romanticism):
Introduction to Romanticism pp + notes handout
Link to "The Devil and Tom Walker"
For "The Pit and the Pendulum": go to https://www.commonlit.org/student/KNQD46 and create an account (code: KNQD46)
Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U61xjjE_z0Q
Link to "The Minister's Black Veil"
Unit I (Early American):
Native American myths
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention work + speech performance (film version)
MLK: "I Have a Dream" speech
Link to Thomas Paine's "The Crisis"
Template for personal persuasive essay (Olaudah Equiano assignment)--make a copy and start typing!