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11AP American Literature Assignments |
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Summer Reading Essay
Assignment In-class Essay - Analyze author purpose & strategy in Nancy Mairs' "I am a Cripple" |
Unit 1 "Good Readers & Good Writers"; "What is Language"; "Selection, Slanting, and Charged Language" "World of Doublespeak" "Giving Things Names" |
In
Cold Blood
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Socratic Circle questions The Things They Carried - possible Socratic Circle questions As I Lay Dying - possible Socratic Circle questions |
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In-class Essay - compare &
contrast: 1. H.L. Mencken's "The Penalty of Death" 2. Michael Kroll's "The Unquiet Death of Robert Harris" In-Class Essay Planning Guide |
Unit 2 Historical Research Guide Winthrop: "A City upon a Hill" Ronald Reagan: "The Evil Empire" Winthrop & Reagan Socratic Circle Planning Guide Edwards: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"; "On the Great Awakening" |
The Scarlet Letter - background notes, Select Passages The Crucible - Socratic Circle questions; Movie Viewing Guide; character list & descriptions Fact & Fiction in the Play Online Witch Hunt - Got Time? Do This! |
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Synthesis Essay Assignment In-class essay - AP prompt: Queen Elizabeth's "Speech to the Troops at Tilbury"
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Unit 3 Historical Research Guide John Locke: selections from The Second Treatise of Civil Government Henry: "Speech in the Virginia Convention" Roosevelt: " Pearl Harbor Address" Jefferson: Declaration of Independence Mencken: "Declaration of Independence in American" Paine: "Crisis, No. 1" "The Horse America Throwing His Master" Ben Franklin: "On the Constitution, 1787"; "Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection" George Orwell: "Politics of the English Language" |
Political Cartoon Resource Fun Facts About The Constitution see this celebrity performance of the Declaration of Independence |
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Debate Assignment Need help with ideas? You might start here... Tips for Persuasive Speakers Visual Requirement - rubric, tips for effective PowerPoints |
Letter of Intent -
rubric,
sample Annotated Bibliography - rubric, sample |
Suggestions for sources * see "research" link on GHS English web * CBS * MSNBC * ABC * PBS * BBC * Public Agenda * CNET News * CBC * NPR |
| In-class essay - AP Prompt: Audubon/Dillard |
Unit 4 Romanticism (notes) Bryant: author background; "Thanatopsis text, questions Longfellow: author background; "A Psalm of Life" Gothicism [notes] Dickinson: author background; poems Transcendentalism - [notes] Emerson: author background; "The American Scholar" Thoreau: author background; "Where I Lived and What I Lived For"; "Civil Disobedience" Annie Dillard: "Living Like Weasels" |
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In-class essay - AP Prompt:
Eudora Welty's "One Writer's Beginnings" ISA Research Essay Assignment "Buch"masters - assignment; sample agenda; call log (for Master "Buch"master only); time log (for Timer only); grammar miscue log (for Grammarmaster only) schedule - 1st and 2nd period rubrics - impromptu speech; prepared speech |
Unit 5 Louis Althusser: ISA additional notes Malcolm X: author background; decentering the myth of Malcolm X; "Learning to Read" Amy Tan: author background; "Mother Tongue" Ngugi wa Thiong'o: author background; selection from Decolonising the Mind Judith Ortiz Cofer: author background; "The Myth of the Latin Woman" |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave - author background; online text; points of analysis for Socratic Circle |
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Unit 6 "Gender & Gendered Institutions" 1/28 - "An Etiquette/Advice Book Sampler"; "I Want a Wife"; "Our Barbies, Ourselves"; "Barbie Doll" 2/1 - "Being a Man"; "Guys vs Men"; "How to Sell Humvees to Men" Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper"; listen to "The Yellow Wallpaper" Chopin: "The Story of an Hour" "There is No Unmarked Woman" |
The Awakening - background on The Awakening; Socratic Circle questions | |
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Writing
Reflection
assignment Writing Reflection template Synthesis essay - see a sample prompt; see what I will be looking for when I grade your essay (rubric) Source A; Source B; Source C; Source D; Source E; Source F; Source G; Source H |
Unit 7 Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"; "The Waste Land" - text, audio |
The Great Gatsby - Socratic Circle questions |
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Debate Assignment Business Letter Format Visual Requirement - rubric, tips for effective PowerPoints |
Unit 8 Dumas: "The F Word" Rodriguez: "Blaxicans and Other Reinvented Americans" White: "High School's Secret Life" |
Invisible Man - background information on Ralph Ellison; "Profile of an American Novelist"; "Man Underground" |