English 10H American Literature 2022-Period 2 Assignments

Finish reading White Noise

Finish reading White Noise

Submit a revision of your rhetorical analysis essay to turnitin.com.

Read White Noise chapter 21

Read White Noise chapter 21

Submit a revision of your rhetorical analysis essay to turnitin.com. 

Submit your final draft of your research paper to turnitin.com and give me the rubric in class.

Submit your final draft of your research paper to turnitin.com and give me the rubric in class.

Read White Noise chapters 16-20

Read White Noise chapters 16-20

Read White Noise chapters 13-15

Read White Noise chapters 13-15

Read White Noise chapters 10-12

Read White Noise chapters 10-12

Read White Noise chapters 7-9

Read White Noise chapters 7-9

Read White Noise chapters 4-6

Read White Noise chapters 4-6

Submit a completed copy of your rough draft to turnitin.com. No, you do not have to print out this one, unless you really want to for feedback from me and/or your peers. Be sure that your draft has the page length, word count, numerous paragraphs, plenty of parenthetical citations, and is as best of a draft as you can make it. 

Submit a completed copy of your rough draft to turnitin.com. No, you do not have to print out this one, unless you really want to for feedback from me and/or your peers. Be sure that your draft has the page length, word count, numerous paragraphs, plenty of parenthetical citations, and is as best of a draft as you can make it. 

Finish reading chapters 1-3 of White Noise. 

Finish reading chapters 1-3 of White Noise and also read the attached document about satire.

Read M. Butterfly Acts 2-3. Act 3 is very short. 

Read Act 1 of M. Butterfly

Submit a revision of your "Gatsby" essay to turnitin.com.

Read this document about Contemporary History and Literature

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.

Submit your research paper outline to turnitin.com. 

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.

Have a source for your research paper (that is not too long like a book or too brief - an essay or journal would be good) read and understood. Then complete a four sentence rhetorical preci.  You received the packet in class that explains this 4-sentence structure.  The first page of the packet has an explanation of a preci, the sentence by sentence description, and the template.  The second page has an example of a preci.  The 3rd page has another description of each sentence, a frame and a model/example.  The fourth page on the backside has an additional frame for the four sentences.  You just need to do one 4-sentence preci for one of your sources.  Type the sentences and submit them to turnitin.com.  You can then use this framework and style of summary in your research paper (it is an optional but not mandatory way of summarizing and utilizing a source) and later on in AP Language if you like.

The free write for the research paper is due. Details for this assignment were provided in class.  Submit this to turnitin.com. 

Read "Gatsby" chapter 9

Submit your Modern Poem Essay revision to turnitin.com

Read the document about Tragedy so that you understand the history and context of the term, how it applies to Shakespeare, and to our modern American texts. 

Read "Gatsby" chapter 8

Complete the analysis questions 5-9 about chapter 7 of "Gatsby".  Submit these responses to turnitin.com. Please do not copy the questions.

Read chapter 7 of "Gatsby"

Read chapter 6 of "Gatsby"

Complete both sides of the "Gatsby" chapter 5 passage analysis sheet that you received in class.  It is pages 3-4 of the attached document. 

Read chapter 5 of "Gatsby"

Read chapter 4 of "Gatsby"

Read chapter 3 of The Great 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.

Bring a hard copy of your Works Cited page for the research paper to class to turn in.  

Complete the 2nd 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, there are about 20 questions, and you should see your score when you are done.

Read chapter 2 of "Gatsby"

Read chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby

Reread pages 5-6. Bring your completed color coding analysis to class. Have questions two and three thoroughly completed. You are only doing the passage for chapter 1.

Prepare for your essay on a Modern poem. Details were provided in class. 

Choose any 20 of the additional questions about the modern poems to analyze besides questions 1-4 on "Prufrock" and the questions about "Mending Wall".  Type complete and thorough responses.  Be sure to label what poems and questions you are answering. Do NOT copy the questions.  I encourage you to do this analysis before we discuss the poem in class so that you can practice and struggle with the poems independently before we analyze them together, and so that you have thoughts and ideas prepared for class.  I also encourage you to do beyond this 20 for additional practice.  Submit your work to turnitin.com.

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 opening lines of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".  Be prepared to discuss and analyze these poems.  We will not have time to cover all of the poems, so come prepared with questions and preferences of poems that you would like to assess.  We will be doing "Mending Wall" together, eventually.  Also, I have attached biographies about these poets for you read too. Be mindful of Modernism, poetical terms, and their biographies 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.

Submit a typed revision of your poetry essay to turnitin.com before noon on the Friday after Finals. 

Be prepared for your final essay, which is about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Details were provided in class.

Type and submit a revision of your prose essay to turnitin.com.

Be prepared to present your multimedia presentation about a specific topic and theme in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Guidelines, expectations, the rubric and grading have been discussed in class.

Be prepared for your in-class essay about a poem.

Read "Huck" chapters 40-The End

Choose any 20 of the analysis questions to answer about the Romantic Poems other than the 2 poems that your group has done.  These could include the 4 questions for "To A Waterfowl", even though no group is presenting it.  This does not include the questions for "The Raven" or "Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life" because you already did them.  You do not necessarily have to do all of the questions for any poem - you can pick and choose; your document just needs to have a total of 20 questions addressed.  Try to do this work before the poem is presented.  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 "Huck" chapters 37-39

Read "Huck" chapters 34-36

Read "Huck" chapters 31-33

One person from your group must submit all of the analysis for your two poems on one document to turnitin.com. Put everyone's name in your group on the document.  Do not copy or submit the questions. Do not submit google slides.  

Read "Huck" chapters 28-30

Read "Huck" chapters 25-27

Read "Huck" chapters 22-24

Read "Huck" chapters 19-21 

Read "Huck" chapters 16-18 

Read "Huck" chapters 13-15

Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn chapters 10-12

Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn chapters 7-9.

Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn chapters 5-6.

We will read part of chapter 1 together in class.  Finish chapter 1 from where we left off and read chapters 2-4.  Do NOT do this reading until after we have gone over the introductory material and controversy of the novel.

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 Fall Interim.  Once you begin you have 50 minutes to finish, and you cannot pause. It should be easy and fast, there are about 20 questions, and you should see your score when you are done.

Submit answers to the seven analysis questions about "The Raven" to turnitin.com.  Do not copy the questions please. 

Read through all of the poems in The Romantic Poetry packet.

Read pages 104-107 in the book, which have "The Raven" by Poe.  The other Dark Romantic poems that we are doing are attached here, but "The Raven" is only in the book.  

Attached here are some slides and sample writings about Romeo and Juliet (which is poetic, and you know), and about the poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet, a Puritan woman and poet.  The slides have audio with my lecturing and instruction.  There is a biography about Anne Bradstreet attached here as well.  You must go through these slides and follow all of the instructions for how to analyze the poetry and how to put together the respective essays and thesis statements that I have posted with them.  We will not have time to cover all of this in class, so you must do this independently.

Submit responses to the six questions about the poem on turnitin.com. Do not copy the questions. 

Submit a typed revision of your rhetorical analysis essay to turnitin.com.

On the Romantic Poetry packet, read the poem "Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life" by Thoreau.  Use the 10-steps to poetry analysis for a suggested approach; I gave you a hardcopy of this in class, and it is attached here.  There are questions juxtaposed with the poem in the packet.  We will be discussing and analyzing this poem together in class to get you acclimated.  

Read the document "The Rise of Realism" about Literary Realism and Naturalism. These changes to literature affect our novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Melville's poetry that we cover, and some of your research paper books.  I gave you a graphic organizer in class; you can take notes on this, but it is not required.  

Complete this assignment on Friday, October 14th

Complete this Nearpod on Friday, October 14th. 

Complete this Nearpod Assignment on Friday, October 14th

You will make google slides and a poster; make both the slides and posters decorative and aesthetic. On the poster put your groups' assigned topic as a title (It is either Roderick, The Narrator, Madeline, Symbolism or Ambiguity), illustrate your character(s) and/or literary device, the setting or any images from the story, perhaps some language from the story, and few concise insights.  Minimal language, BIG font size.  Use up all of the poster - try not to leave any dead space.  I would like to decorate the room with them, so make the look as good as possible.  For the google slides, 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; you can use flash cards, your phone, or a tablet, but also try to know and memorize what you will say.  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 (illustrators, speakers, writers/editors, slide designers, etc.), but be sure to come together to make sure it is all synchronized.  Everyone should speak about something (the poster or a passage or about a slide, etc.) during the presentation. 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 groups' thoughts and analysis - copy and paste them to one google document (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. All together, your presentation, including followup questions and answers, may take about 20-30 minutes.  

Finish reading the short story

Read the first half of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" pages 12-21 as well as a biography about Edgar Allan Poe

Sample or suggested prompt: Analyze how “The Gettysburg Address” uses diction and parallelism and/or other uses of syntax to create a memorable message for all people, for all time.  Write a practice thesis sentence and two-three practice topic sentences. Write a practice food-for-thought sentence to end the hypothetical essay. 4-5 sentences total. Submit this to turnitin.com.

Please read through the slides about Romanticism

Read Abraham Lincoln's speech "The Gettysburg Address" and the accompanying comments by historian Shelby Foote about the Civil War. 

Type up a practice introductory paragraph and one body paragraph about Thoreau's 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.  Or you might find a prompt about it online. Either way, be sure to base it all around analysis of literary topics (diction, paradox, metaphor, etc.). The first paragraph should include your thesis. The second paragraph, your body paragraph, should focus on one literary topic, provide examples of it, and analyze what meaning it creates in relation to your thesis. 

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.  You may want to also consider using counter arguments.  

Submit this to turnitin.com.

Read the biography about Thoreau and his essay "Resistance to Civil Government", which is also known as Civil Disobedience. 

Read the document about American Romanticism. The graphic organizer received in class in optional. 

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

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.

Submit your final draft of your paper to turnitin.com

Read the speech by Patrick Henry

Choose any 5 of the 12 questions to answer. Be sure to answer every part of the question, properly label which questions you are doing, answer in complete sentences but do NOT copy the questions, use citations from the text, and submit your document to turnitin.com.

Read and reread the Declaration of Independence and the biography about Thomas Jefferson. There is no writing assignment, yet.  There are questions on the back of the document to consider and that we will discuss and analyze. You may want to make use of audio reading of the text such as the one I have posted here, or any other that you find online. 

Read through the slides about terminology and the examples. Complete the assignment on the last slide.  Submit your writing/document to turnitin.com.  Here is the turnitin.com information:
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Class ID # is 35449732
Class Enrollment Key is Twain

Please read through both slides presentations about the class and its content. Come to class to with any questions or concerns that you may have, or email me about them. 

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. Have your parent/guardian read and sign the movie permission letter too. 

Read the document about the early Colonial Era, Native Americans, the Puritans and the Rationalists. 

Please fill out the google form and tell me about yourself.