English 10H American Literature 2021-Period 6 Assignments

Read all of "Dylarama", the last section of White Noise.

Read chapter 21 of White Noise

Submit the final draft of your research paper, including a revised Works Cited page, all as one document, to turnitin.com

Read White Noise chapters 16-20

Read White Noise chapters 13-15

Read White Noise chapters 10-12

Bring a rough draft of your research paper to class for peer editing. The rough draft must be complete, meet the word count and page length requirements, have citations from both the novel and the scholarly sources, be as complete of a product as possible.  Refer to the assignment sheet for further details, and the OWL for MLA formatting and citation rules. Bringing a revised, updated version of your Works Cited page is also encouraged, but not required. Submit your rough draft to the google classroom only.

Read White Noise chapters 7-9

Read White Noise chapters 4-6

Read White Noise chapters 1-3

Read M. Butterfly Acts 2-3.

Read Act 1 of M. Butterfly

Type an edited, revised draft of your essay about The Great Gatsby. Submit this to turnitin.com.

Read the document about Contemporary History and Literature. You received a hard copy of this in class. 

Print the outline of your research paper and submit it to google classroom, but not to turnitin.com.

For JFK's speech answer the Analyze the Text Questions #1-4 on page 288, the Craft and Structure Questions #1-3 on page 289, and the Author's Style questions #1-2 on page 291. Do not copy the questions. Submit your document to turnitin.com and to the google classroom.

Read pages 308-313

Complete the Analyze the Text questions 1-3 on page 278 and the Analyze the Craft and Structure questions 1-4 on page 279.  Do not copy the questions. Submit your work to turnitin.com.

Read the document about either Marxist Literary Criticism or the document about Freudian Psychoanalytical Criticism. Be prepared to discuss and come up with examples of this criticism in class.

Have a source for your research paper read and understood. Then complete a four sentence rhetorical preci. Type the sentences and submit them to turnitin.com.  The sentence frames have been provided in class, along with an example.  You can then use this framework and style of summary in your research paper and later on in AP Language if you like.

Read chapter 9 of "Gatsby"

Submit your 7 page, single-spaced, 4,500 word free write to turnitin.com. Remember to have no direct citations, make it 12-point font, single-spaced, and have no fewer than 7 complete pages and no fewer than 4,500 words.

Read chapter 8 of "Gatsby"

Answer analysis questions 5-9 for chapter 7. Do NOT copy the questions. 

Be sure to answer every part of the question and include evidence from the novel and plenty of commentary.  Submit your responses to turnitin.com.

Read "Gatsby" chapter 7

Type and revise your modern poem essay. That means fix everything that I commented on and factor in the analysis of the poem that we went over in class.  Submit your revision to turnitin.com.

Read "Gatsby" chapter 6

Complete the passage analysis sheets. You received these in class. You may do this by hand - you do not need to submit the work to turnitin.com. Staple the sheets together.

Read "Gatsby" chapter 5

Read chapter 4 of "Gatsby"

Read chapter 3 of "Gatsby"

Complete the color-coding analysis/questions for the passage from chapter 3. Type your responses and submit them to turnitin.com. Do NOT copy the passage or questions on to your document - submit only your analysis/answers.  Printout your responses and bring them to class for discussion. If you are not able to print, then please let me know; you will need to remember your typed responses so that you can share during class discussion. Add notes to them during our class discussions.

Yes, I have moved the due date of your Works Cited page for your research paper to Thursday, February 17th.  You must print the Works Cited page and bring it to class.

Read chapter 2 of "Gatsby"

Bring your completed registration materials, and "Gatsby" materials, and meet in the library.

Finish reading chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby.

Finish the color-coding analysis of the passage from chapter 1. We are not doing the passages or color-coding for passages from other chapters yet.  Type your responses and submit them to turnitin.com.  Printout your responses and bring them to class for discussion. If you are not able to print, then please let me know; you will need to remember your typed responses so that you can share during class discussion.

Complete the Interim on Illuminate, which you can locate on rowlandhs.org under Students - Student Login - Illuminate is in the blue box on the right.  Login using your google account.  Your are taking the ELA Grade 10 Winter Interim.  Once you begin you have 50 minutes to finish, and you cannot pause. It should be easy and fast.

Choose any 20 of the additional questions about the modern poems to analyze besides those covered by me and your group.  Be sure to label what poems and questions you are answering. Do NOT copy the questions.  I encourage to do this analysis before another group presents so that you have thoughts and ideas prepared for them.  I also encourage you to do beyond this 20 for additional practice.  Submit your work to turnitin.com.

Someone from your small group must submit your groups' analysis of your section of "Prufrock" and your other poem.  Do NOT copy the questions.  Include all of your analysis and what you will say during your presentation.

Answer questions 1-9 about "Mending Wall".  Do NOT copy the questions.  Use textual analysis in your responses.  Submit your work to turnitin.com.

Submit responses to questions 1-4 about "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" to turnitin.com.  Do the best you can to analyze them. The questions come right after the poem.  Do not copy the questions.

Skim read through these different Modernist poems. We will begin with "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "Mending Wall".  I will be doing part of "Prufrock" and all of "Mending Wall" with you for practice.  You will then be assigned other poems in small groups. Be prepared to discuss and analyze these poems.  Also, I have attached biographies about these poets for you read too. Be mindful of Modernism, poetical terms, and their bios as you analyze these poems.

Read the document about the Modernist movement. The google slides are supplemental to the reading, I encourage you to look at them, but they are not required. 

Read this document, which will give you a good example of a scholarly source, look somewhat like the research you will do and the essay you will write, and teach more about the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 

Read over the assignment sheet for the research paper, the rubric for the paper, and you should have your book read by this point. There are some other documents attached here that will be relevant to the paper as well. 

Be prepared for your final essay, which will be about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Your group will be presenting its assigned topic for the novel this week and the beginning of the following week.

Complete and turn in the Mark Twain biography questionnaire in class.

Submit a revision of your prose essay to turnitin.com. Be sure that you have, minimally, 4 complete paragraphs.

Choose any 20 of the analysis questions to answer about the Romantic Poems other than the 2 poems that your group has done. In addition, answer the 10 questions about "To A Waterfowl" and "Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life".  30 responses total.  Do not copy the questions. Be sure to label every poem and question clearly.  Practice using citations from the poems for evidence.  Use the line number for the parenthetical citations.  If the question has more than one part, then be sure to answer each part. Analyze the poems as thoroughly as you can; just do the best you can - it is for practice. Submit your document to turnitin.com.

Read all of the Romantic poems, and the biographies the poets, to be involved in the group presentations.

Attached here is the reading calendar for "Huck". As it says on the document, I encourage you to read ahead so that your group can begin work on the project, but that will be up to you.  

Read "Huck" chapters 5-6 and the context in the back of the book about Twain, the language, and other background and context.

Read chapters 2-4 of the novel

Read the document about Literary Realism.  The graphic organizer received in class is optional for taking notes, but not required. Also read the document about the project on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and bring "Huck" to class.  This project will be done in your 5 established groups.  Your group needs to come up with a ranking of choices of which topic you want (Race, Nature, Women, Violence, Education/Religion - see the document for details). We will figure out which group gets what next week. In addition, finish the Interim and submit your responses about the 7 questions on "The Raven" to turnitin.com.

Submit a revision of your rhetorical analysis essay about the speech. 

Read "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe on pages 104-107 in your book. Make use of the questions on the packet, but there is no writing assigned, just read.

Unfortunately we will not do posters because of the screens on your desks.  You will make google slides for this; make your slides decorative and aesthetic. Use an effective slide style, and find some online pictures (video clips if possible and applicable) to accentuate your presentation. Put everyone's name on the first slide and your group's topic. Analyze your topic in depth, use literary terminology, and come up with an overall theme/meaning about your topic. Do NOT put every single word that you are going to say on your slides. The words on your slides can be concise, brief, LARGE FONT, and to the point. When you present, you will elaborate on the words on your slides. Also, choose 3-5 relevant passages from the story that support and connect to your analysis (discuss and analyze them, not just read them, during your presentation). You can attach audio to your slides (such as with screencastify) if you want and know how to do so, but that is not a requirement.  One thing you will do is post these slides to the stream of the Google Classroom so that your classmates have access to them for review and study purposes.  Delegate different responsibilities to members of the group (speakers, writers/editors, slide designers, etc.), but be sure to come together to make sure it is all synchronized. Share your slides with me so that I can put them on the screen for you to present to everyone else. Also, on a separate google document put all of your thoughts and analysis (including your elaboration, but not your passages), and submit this document to turnitin.com so that I know your analysis is original.  Only one of you in the group needs to submit this, and it should have everyone's words

Finish reading "The Fall of the House of Usher". Attached here also are study guide/analysis questions about the story, but there is no required writing assigned or due. 

Read the biography about Poe and the first half of the story, pages 12-21 in Volume 1 of the book. Attached here also are study guide/analysis questions about the story, but there is no required writing assigned or due. 

Write a practice thesis sentence and 2-3 topic sentences about the speech, so a total of 3-4 sentences. The prompt is open, or use this: Analyze how in “The Gettysburg Address” Lincoln uses diction and parallelism and/or other uses of syntax to create a memorable message for all people, for all time.

A revision of your poetry essay is due. Submit it to turnitin.com.

Read the speech and the accompanying comments about the Civil War.

Type up a practice introductory paragraph and one body paragraph about the essay. You are typing two paragraphs total.  Practice timing yourself - see what you can come up with in 30 minutes. There is no specific prompt - you can take any approach to it that you prefer.  You might analyze what argument or arguments of Thoreau's are most convincing, what is a theme of the essay and how does Thoreau develop that theme throughout the essay, or what relevance the speech has to today's social and political climate.  Either way, be sure to base it all around analysis of literary topics (diction, paradox, metaphor, etc.) 


When you cite passages refer to the paragraph number. Be sure to include an introduction, two-three topics, a thesis, a topic sentence, evidence, commentary, and finish with a transition. 


Submit this to turnitin.com and the google classroom.

Here is the video from class today if you missed it, or wanted to see it again.  Click on the link provided here. The username is rowland and the password is raiders.  In the search engine at the top type in Romanticism: Imagining Freedom.  It will take you to clips of the video, but you want to watch the whole 50 minute video.  The first clip may be Birth of Romanticism, but you want to click underneath this title where it says From Title: Romanticism: Imagining Freedom.  This should take you to the full 50 minute video. If you saw most of it in class, just scroll ahead to where we left off, around minute 45.  Watch the video and record 20 notes on video (interesting statements, noticeable images, questions you have, etc.).

Read the essay "Resistance to Civil Government", which is also known as "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau. Also, read the biography about him. 

Read the document about the Romantic Era and the google slides that complement it. You will be provided a graphic organizer to take notes, but you do not have to turn in these notes.

Choose 5 of the questions on the last page to answer about The Declaration. Type your responses, do not copy the questions, and submit your work to turnitin.com and the google classroom.  

Read the biography about Thomas Jefferson and the document. Make use of the questions on the last page to analyze different parts of the text. There is no writing assigned yet. 

Type up a practice introductory paragraph and one body paragraph about the speech. You are typing two paragraphs total.  Practice timing yourself - see what you can come up with in 30 minutes. There is no specific prompt - you can take any approach to the speech that you prefer.  If you need a prompt, then use one of these:
1. Analyze Henry's usage of language and argue whether or not the speech is adequately persuasive. 
2. How is Henry's use of language and rhetorical strategies emblematic of an 18th century mindset and consider whether the speech is still relevant today or not. 


When you cite passages refer to the paragraph number (there are only 6). Be sure to include an introduction, two-three topics, a thesis, a topic sentence, evidence, commentary, and finish with a transition. 


Submit this to turnitin.com and the google classroom.

Read Patrick Henry's "Speech to the Virginia Convention", also known as the "Give me Liberty, or give me death" speech.

Watch the youtube video "Finding Joe" about the hero's journey and the mono myth of the hero from philosopher/writer/teacher Joseph Campbell. You will find it motivational and inspiring.

Prepare for your in-class essay on a poem

Read the Newsweek Magazine article about The Salem Witch Trials.

Open the slides and listen to the audio instruction about analyzing and writing an essay about a passage from Romeo and Juliet. Come to class with any questions about the instructions.

Answer all of the analysis questions of the other poems. Do not copy the questions. Be sure to label every poem and question clearly.  Practice using citations from the poems for evidence. If the question has more than one part, then be sure to answer each part. Analyze the poems as thoroughly as you can; just do the best you can. Submit your document to turnitin.com.

Make slides completing all of the analysis questions for your groups' poem. Only one person in the group needs to submit the slides.  Uniquely, this does not need to be submitted to turnitin.com, only google classroom.

Type a 500 word free write, unrestrictive, about your groups' poem. Submit your free write to turnitin.com

Answer the four questions about the poem. Do not copy the questions. Submit your work to turnitin.com.

Read the slides about the Puritans and the handout about John Smith

Read all of the handouts that you received in class

Read the document Encounters and Foundations to 1800 for Monday (this date is tentative and could be pushed back).

You received a hard copy of the syllabus in class. Please read over it (the syllabus for English 10H only), ask any questions that you may have, and then sign it, and have your parent/guardian sign it.

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