English 10H American Literature 2025-Period 2 Assignments

Read chapter 9 of The Great Gatsby

Read chapter 8. of The Great Gatsby

Finish and turn in the analysis of the passage on pages 124-124.

Complete the analysis questions 5-9 about chapter 7 of "Gatsby".  Please do not copy the questions.

Read chapter 7 of The Great Gatsby

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 10th ELA Common Assessment #2: Reading Informational Texts. Once you begin you have 50 minutes to finish, and you cannot pause. It should be easy and fast, there are less than 20 questions, and you should see your score when you are done. No, this is not for a class grade, but you need to do it and try your best.

Submit a typed revision of your poem essay

Read chapter 6 of The Great Gatsby

Complete the analysis of the passages from chapter 5 that you received in class

Read chapter 5 of The Great Gatsby

Read The Great Gatsby chapter 4

Finish all of the questions/analysis for the passage from chapter 3 of "Gatsby"

Read chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby. 

Read chapter 2 of The Great Gatsby.

Complete the color coding analysis including assessment of the words and their connotations, as well as paragraphs about your initial impressions of Gatsby and what Nick's tone about Gatsby is. This is all done by hand.  You are only doing the first color coding assignment on the passage from chapter 1, which you receive in class on Monday; do not look ahead or begin the other color codings.

Read chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby. Do NOT read the preface or introductory material - they will ruin the ending.

Prepare for your essay on a modern poem by reviewing the poems that we covered.

Do this assignment by hand. 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 you to time yourself when you do this work in order to simulate essay situations.  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.

You'll want to get a jump start on learning the vocabulary that is in the novel. I am not collecting any work.

Make sure that you have read biographies about the poets that we are doing.

Please watch the attached video.

Submit answers to questions 1-4 about "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Read over the rest of the poems and biographies about the poets.

Submit answers to the 9 questions about "Mending Wall"

Read the poem "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost. We will be doing this poem together for the lesson Wednesday. You received the poems in class.

Do a first read of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". You received the poems in class. We will discuss the opening lines together in class, and then you will have small sections of it in small groups.

Here are the slides from class that I was discussing with you. Finish reading through them and let me/the class know if you have any questions or comments. Use this information as you analyze The Great Gatsby and Modern poetry (sophomores)

Read the document about the Modern Age and Modern writers

Read this analysis of "Huck" by a professional scholar. There is no photocopy/hard copy of this document.

Submit a typed revision of your previous essay on a poem

Be prepared for your 5th and Final essay, which will be a free style prompt about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Take care of your STAR reading skill check. Go to your clever account, scroll down to the red tile that says Renaissance and click on it. Click on the yellow star that says reading. Select the ELA test and begin. It should only take you about 20-30 minutes. It is not for a grade, but you must take it and it is to check your reading skill level.

Group Project Presentations will be all of this week on various topics for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.  Details about the project have been discussed in class and you should know what day your group is presenting.

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. Be sure to label every poem and question clearly, but do not copy the question.  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 a 4-5 paragraph typed revision of your prose essay in preparation for your poetry essay.

Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn chapters 40-the end

Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn chapters 37-39

Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn chapters 34-36

Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn chapters 31-33

Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn chapters 28-30

Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn chapters 25-27

Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn chapters 22-24

Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn chapters 19-21

Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn chapters 16-18

Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn chapters 13-15

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.

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 4-6

After reading chapter 1 together in class read chapters 2-3 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Read the document about Realism and fill out the graphic organizer that you received in class for notes.

Submit answers to the seven analysis questions about "The Raven".  We should cover most of this in class. Handwrite the assignment or type/print your work.   Do not copy the questions please.

Submit answers about the six questions about Thoreau's poem "Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life".  Handwrite the assignment or type/print your work.  Do not copy the questions.  We should cover most of this in class together.

Read pages 192-195 in the book, which have "The Raven" by Poe.  The other Romantic and Dark Romantic poems that we will cover will be on the packet you receive in class, but you need the book for "The Raven". But, the questions for "The Raven" are in the packet, so you have to utilize both.

Read the poem "Within the Circuit of this Plodding Life" by Henry David Thoreau. It is on the packet that you received in class.  Utilize the list of vocabulary that you received and the steps to poetry analysis if you need them.  Be prepared to analyze the poem and answer the questions that are juxtaposed with the poem.

Reread through the slides about Romanticism.  In preparation for the Romantic Poetry unit and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn look at the last slides about Emerson, The American Hero, the Romantic Hero, the Frontier and the influence of the writer James Fenimore Cooper.

Type and submit a revision of your 2nd essay

Work on and complete your portion of your group's project on "The Fall of the House of Usher". Details about this project were provided in class.

Read the second half of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" pages 129-139 in the textbook and the handout about gothic literature.

Read the first half of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" pages 120-129 in the textbook, as well as a biography about Edgar Allan Poe

Review what you must with The Declaration of Independence, "Resistance to Civil Government" and "The Gettysburg Address" to prepare for your rhetorical analysis essay. Look on the google classroom for the slides to these 3 texts. Bring any handouts that you are going to use.

Write a practice thesis and 2-3 topic sentences about the speech, and submit to turnitin.com

Submit a typed revision of your first essay to turnitin.com.

Read the speech "The Gettysburg Address" and the accompanying contextual information/commentary about The Civil War. Be prepared to analyze and do some practice writing about it.

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 transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau and his essay "Resistance to Civil Government".

Submit a practice thesis sentence and two practice topic sentences about The Declaration of Independence to turnitin.com. I explained this in class on Tuesday.

Read the document about the context of American Romanticism (you will receive a hardcopy in class) and fill out the 2-sided graphic organizer (which you will receive in class) with notes as you read.

Choose any 5 of the 12 questions on the backside of the handout. Answer these five questions fully and completely, do NOT copy the questions, and submit your writing to turnitin.com.

Take a page of Cornell Notes on the video about The Enlightenment. You will receive the template and instructions for Cornell Notes in class.

Read the biography about Thomas Jefferson and The Declaration of Independence - you should have received them in class, or get them from the google classroom. There are analysis questions on the last page but none are assigned, yet. Just read. Attached here is video presentation/reading of The Declaration by various celebrities, since scholars believe that the Declaration is meant to be performed aloud and not just read.

Read all of the handouts and slides that were mentioned in class on Wednesday.

Type answers to the 4 questions about the Anne Bradstreet poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband". You received this poem and information in class.  Submit your document to turnitin.com.

Read the poems by Anne Bradstreet and use the steps to poetry analysis suggestions

Read the attached slides about The Puritans and the document about John Smith and Jamestown.  We will discuss them in class. There MIGHT be a quiz on the reading, so read thoroughly, take notes, reread them, etc. etc. 

Read the document received in class entitled "Encounters and Foundations" and use the graphic organizer to record notes.

Read through the slides about terminology and the examples. Complete the assignment on the second to last slide and the last slide, combined, on one document (10 devices all together).  Make an account on www.turnitin.com.  Submit your writing/document to turnitin.com.  Here is the turnitin.com information:
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Class ID # is 49461498
Class Enrollment Key is Twain

Read the attached slides and documents. Come to class with any questions or comments.

Read and sign the class syllabus, and have your parent/guardian sign it as well as the movie permission letter. Return them to class. You received them in class. Please note that on the attached document yours is the syllabus for English 10H only.