English 10H American Literature 2020-Period 6 Assignments

What was your favorite text that you read this year (it could have been a poem, a short story, a speech, a novel, a play, your research paper book - anything you read for my class) and why? Submit your response to turnitin.com for attendance please.

Submit your essay to turnitin.com

Finish reading White Noise

Read chapter 21 of White Noise

Read White Noise chapters 16-20

Read chapters 8-15 of White Noise

Read White Noise chapters 4-7

Finish your last bit of work on your research paper and submit your final draft, including your updated Works Cited page as the last page in your essay, to turnitin.com and to the google classroom. 

Read chapters 1-3 of White Noise.  At the end of chapter 3 is a scene with The Most Photographed Barn in America with the main character Jack Gladney and his colleague Murray J. Siskind.  Consider these questions: What does Murray mean by aura? What does he mean, “no one sees the barn”? Are they all blind? What does he mean “they are taking pictures of taking pictures?” Analyze this passage, and we will look at it together.

Answer one of the 9 analysis questions for M. Butterfly. Use evidence from the play and plenty of commentary. Submit your response to turnitin.com and to the google classroom.

Finish reading M. Butterfly

Submit your rough draft to the google classroom. It must be 6-10 pages in length, roughly 2500-4000 words, MLA format, with parenthetical citations from both your novel and your sources.  

Submit a revision of your essay about The Great Gatsby to turnitin.com and the google classroom.

Submit your essay to turnitin.com and to the google classroom. 

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. Submit your document to turnitin.com and to the google classroom. 

Read the attached document about contemporary history and literature.

Answer questions 1-3 on page 278 and 1-4 on page 279 about the rhetoric in FDR's "Four Freedoms" Speech. We will be listening to this speech, reading it, and doing a lot of this work together in class on April 13th.

Submit your outline ONLY to google classroom. Be mindful of the materials that I posted to the stream of the google classroom on March 23rd for guidelines on this task.

Read the last chapter of the novel.

Read The Great Gatsby chapter 8. Be mindful of the vocabulary and reading guide questions.

Revise and edit your essay about a Modern poem. Submit your revision to turnitin.com and to the google classroom.

Answer the reading guide questions 5-9 about chapter 7 of The Great Gatsby. Do not copy the questions. Submit your responses to turnitin.com and the google classroom.

Read The Great Gatsby chapter 6. Be mindful of the reading guide questions and vocabulary.

Your free write must be at least 6 pages single spaced, at least 4000 words, and not have any direct quotes or citations in it. See the free write handout for further details. Submit your free write to turnitin.com and to the google classroom.

Read chapter 5 of The Great Gatsby. Be mindful of the vocabulary and reading guide questions for the chapter. Then complete the analysis of the passages on pages 3-4 of the attached document. Complete your work on a separate, fresh document. Do not copy the passages or questions onto your document; only put your analysis, or else you will be penalized. Submit your document to turntin.com and the google classroom.

Read The Great Gatsby chapter 4. Be mindful of the reading guide questions and vocabulary.

We will not have time to watch this biography of Fitzgerald during the zoom, so I would like you to watch it on your own. SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT THE VIDEO: YOU MUST PAUSE THE VIDEO AT 21:10 AND SKIP AHEAD TO 22:50 OR ELSE IT WILL RUIN THE NOVEL FOR YOU! You will have several weeks to do this and the video is not too long. Take one page of Cornell Notes on the video. Your essential question is this: What are the important events of Fitzgerald's life, especially those that came to impact his writing of The Great Gatsby? The objective is this: Students will know the major events of Fitzgerald's life and how they impacted his literature. Remember to put some questions in the margin alongside your notes (either questions that you have about Fitzgerald before watching the video, during, and/or after). Write a short summary of your notes at the end as well. Submit your notes to turnitin.com and the google classroom.

Read The Great Gatsby chapter 3. Be mindful of the reading guide questions and vocabulary.

Read chapter 3, at least up to page 53, and complete the color coding analysis of the passage from chapter 3 (the second page of the attached document). Complete your analysis on a separate document; do not copy the passage or questions on to your document. Submit your analysis to turnitin.com and to the google classroom.

Submit your responses to the analysis questions about chapters 1-2 to turnitin.com and the google classroom.

Read The Great Gatsby chapter 2. Be mindful of the reading guide questions and vocabulary.

Finish reading chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby. Be mindful of the reading guide questions and vocabulary.

Color code the passage from chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby (DO NOT move on to other passages). Use blue for positive words, red for negative words, and purple for words that you deem positive and negative. Then answer the analysis questions thoroughly on a separate document; do not copy the questions or the passage. See the attached document for further details; you are only doing the first page of the document . Submit your analysis to turnitin.com and to the google classroom.

Submit the Works Cited page of your research paper in proper MLA format to turnitin.com and the google classroom. Refer to the rest of the research paper materials on the google classroom, which we discussed, for further details.

You all need to go online and take the Grade 10 ELA Winter Interim Assessment. The window will be open from now until Thursday, February 11th. You will need to set aside about 40 minutes to take the assessment, and you must complete it in one sitting because once you begin it will be timed and you must finish - you will not be able to return to it later. On the school website under Students click on Illuminate Login, login in with your google information, take assessment/test, and proceed. This will count for an assignment score, so try your best. It is a skills assessment from the district, so it is not directly related to anything that we are studying, just your skills. You do not have to study for it, just try your best. When you take it you should not be looking at any resources, any other websites, or communicating with anyone.

Complete 10 additional analysis questions about "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (You choose which 10, 1-4 and whatever questions your group had are done, no need to repeat), and then choose 20 other questions to answer (not from "Mending Wall" or the poem your group had). You may pick and choose questions from different poems, and it is optional if you want to answer every question for any specific poem. So you have 30 questions to answer in total; of course you can do more if you wish. Be sure to label every poem and question number clearly, DO NOT COPY THE QUESTIONS, have plenty of analysis and evidence in your responses, and submit your work to turnitin.com and the google classroom.

One person from your small group needs to submit a document with everyone's name and role, and your analysis of your section of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and your other Modern poem. Submit the document to turnitin.com and the google classroom.

Answer the first four questions about "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and all of the questions about "Mending Wall". Submit your analysis to turnitin.com and to the google classroom.

Read through all of the modern poems, consider the questions that go with them, and be prepared to discuss them in small groups and as a class. There is no writing about them assigned yet.

Type and submit a revision of your Romantic poem essay based off the comments that I provided to you. Please submit your revision to turnitin.com and to the google classroom.

Please read over the information about registration that I posted on the google classroom stream, as well as the information on the attached link from the counselors.

Give "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" a first read, and consider the footnotes and questions that follow it. I will be doing the epigraph and opening lines with you, and you will be in groups with other sections of it afterwards.

Read the attached document about Literary Modernism.

Please read the following documents that pertain to your research paper. One is the assignment sheet (I will let you know the due dates when we return in January, and there may be a few changes to some of the requirements). Another is an essay about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that serves as a sample research paper, a good example of a source, and to teach you more about the novel. Other documents include the rubric for the essay, the documents about free writing and outlining, a compare and contrast of the research paper with the synthesis essay for AP Language, and the once again the distinguish between literary analysis and plot summary or plot analysis. Come prepared to discuss each of these with thoughts and questions.

Please submit your final essay to turnitin.com and the google classroom

Review The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, all of the slides, your notes, the information about a free response style prompt, and previous writings to prepare for your essay final.

Watch the first part of this Ken Burns documentary and follow along with the questionnaire. On a separate document answer questions 1-25 about Mark Twain. Do not copy the questions. Unfortunately the next part of the documentary may not be available to finish the questionnaire (questions 26-42), but at least you will learn about the early part of his life.

In addition to all of the questions about your group's poems, choose other questions from some of the other poems to answer. In total you must respond to at least 20 analysis questions. No, you do not have to do every question for the other poems that you choose. Be sure to label everything clearly, give the titles of poems in quotation marks, and indicate which questions you are doing. Answer every question thoroughly and completely, especially if it has different parts, and use evidence in your commentaries. Think of all of them as practice essay writing. Do NOT copy the questions and do NOT submit your responses on the same document as the poems. Submit your document to turnitin.com and to the google classroom.

The revision of your rhetorical analysis essay is due Friday morning to both turnitin.com and to the google classroom.

Be sure to have read all of the other poems so that when the groups present you are prepared to follow their analysis, ask questions, and add to the class discussion about each poem. Again, this is all in preparation for your next essay too.

The 13 combined questions on the two poems are due to turnitin.com. Do NOT copy the questions. Also, read the other poems on the two documents. Your group will be assigned two of them - one Romantic poem and one Dark Romantic poem.

Read the poem "Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life" by Thoreau, which is on page 2 of the document. Utilize the 6 analysis questions about the poem. If you need to use the 10 steps to analyzing a poem, then do so.

Read "The Raven" on pages 104-107 in the textbook (or page 16 on the digital platform). Go back to and use steps to poetry analysis, if you need to use them. Utilize the 7 questions that I have on the attached document about Dark Romantic poems; they are on the top of the second page after another of Poe's poems entitled "Annabel Lee". You will need to submit answers to these questions the first week of November.

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 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. Delegate different responsibilities to members of the group, 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.

Read "The Fall of the House of Usher", which is pages 12-35 in the paperback textbook, or page 7 on the digital platform (I have attached a slide here for how to access the online textbook). Attached here are documents about the difference between plot summary, plot analysis, and literary analysis; gothic literature; and biographical information about Edgar Allan Poe - please read them as well. You will need all of your knowledge about the Romantics to analyze this story too. You will be forming 5 small groups on Friday the 16th, and you will have a small project about the story to complete with your group. Details will be provided that Friday.

I would like all of you to watch the video Romanticism: Imagining Freedom. This will give you a broader and firmer understanding of the Romantic movement. The video is 50 minutes long. I will give you a couple of weeks to complete this, no rush, so that you can watch it at your leisure. But watch it as soon as you can because it will relate to Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, Edgar Allan Poe short story "The Fall of the House of Usher", our next poetry unit, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which are all coming up in October and November. You need to take one page of Cornell style notes and submit the notes to turnitin.com.
Here is how you find the video:
Go to the rowlandhs.org. Under Academics click on the library link. Click on Research and then click on Teacher Resources. Scroll down a little bit and click on Classroom Video on Demand. The username is rowland and the password is raiders (both all lowercase). In the search box at the top type in Romanticism: Imagining Freedom. It may be broken up into small segments, but you want to click on From Title: Romanticism: Imagining Freedom to get the full 50 minute video.

Revise your essay about a poem as much as possible (starting with making it at least 4 paragraphs for some of you). Be mindful of all of the comments and corrections, and apply this learning to your writings in the future. Submit your revision to turnitin.com and to google classroom too.

Here is prompt for the speech: 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. Please submit your sentences to turnitin.com as well as to google classroom, by the time that your class period begins on Friday, October 9th.

Read over these slides on the Declaration and listen to the audio

Read the handout with the speech "The Gettysburg Address" by Abraham Lincoln as well as the comments from noted Civil War historian Shelby Foote. You can make a copy of the speech to edit and annotate. Also attached here is a document about Literary Realism (it means more than just realistic!), the predominant style of literature that replaces Romanticism in the latter half of the 19th Century and early part of the 20th Century. This will be relevant to the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (which is both Romantic and Realistic), some of your research paper books, and future readings. You do not need this context as much for the speech, but you will need it when we get to "Huck".

Similar to assignment about Patrick Henry's speech, write a practice introductory paragraph and body paragraph about Thoreau's essay. Be sure to include 2-3 literary topics in your introduction and thesis, analyze one of these topics thoroughly in the body paragraph, and frame the body paragraph with a topic sentence and a transition. Make up your own prompt/approach or research a prompt online.

Please read Henry David Thoreau's essay "Resistance to Civil Government" (also known as "Civil Disobedience"). There are questions at the end of the document to give topics to think about, but there is no writing about the essay due yet. There is also a biography about Thoreau to read so that you know about him. These texts are editable so that you can annotate them as you wish.

Read the document and slides about Romanticism, which focus on American Romanticism. Take notes on the 2 pages of graphic organizers and submit this to turnitin.com. If for some reason you cannot open the graphic organizer and type on it, then write your notes on a separate document and submit that.

Write one practice thesis statement and 2-3 topic sentences about the Declaration of Independence. Here are a couple of sample prompts for you to pick from, or make up your own, or look up one online:

Thomas Jefferson was certainly a man of science and reason. In looking at The Declaration of Independence what scientific principles and qualities does the reader become aware of? How does the text exude an experimental essence? Be sure to utilize specific textual features in making your argument.

or

Analyze how Jefferson uses modes of language to create an ambiguous, timeless document despite the text’s (and Jefferson’s) firm rootedness in science and reason. Be sure to use specific literary examples for evidence and support.

Read the biography about Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence. There are questions at the end of the document to give you topics to think about and analyze as you read the text. Factor in what you have learned so far about the Enlightenment, rhetoric, and parallelism, just to name a few. You can make of a copy of the document from here so that you can annotate it. Be prepared to discuss it. There will be some kind of writing about it due later in the week.

The instructions for these 2 paragraphs are on the bottom of the document. Do not write your paragraphs on the same document as the speech; write them on a separate document. I moved the due date to Friday morning so that you have plenty of time.

Review all of the documents I made you aware of, as well as the poems that we covered.

Read Patrick Henry's "Speech to the Virginia Convention" as well as the slides about the 3 modes of rhetoric, and watch the attached videos about rhetoric and The Enlightenment for context. There are questions at the end of the speech, so use them to guide your reading, and they will be about topics that we will discuss. There is no writing task to complete about the speech yet, but if you want to know what it will be and get started on it, then look at the Practice Writing Task with Henry's Speech at the end of the document. That will be assigned later.

Please read through and listen to these slides about a passage from Romeo and Juliet. This will make use of your background knowledge, and also help remind and reteach you some important skills and criteria for thesis statement, paragraph and essay writing. Please note that in this presentation (and future slides that I will share with you) not every slide has audio attached to it; if you do not hear any audio but see a speaker on the slide, then try to click on the speaker to see if it will play.

Please read through and listen to these slides about a passage from Romeo and Juliet. This will make use of your background knowledge, and also help remind and reteach you some important skills and criteria for thesis statement, paragraph and essay writing. Please note that in this presentation (and future slides that I will share with you) not every slide has audio attached to it; if you do not hear any audio but see a speaker on the slide, then try to click on the speaker to see if it will play.

I mentioned this before with the Joseph Campbell video. I want you and all of your classmates to contribute examples to this Padlet about myths and archetypes. Put in examples of archetypes as well as examples of any of the stages of the Hero's Journey from the cycle described by Joseph Campbell's monomyth. We are going to have the district/state skills test this day, so we will be taking a brief hiatus from the poetry. Attached here is the link to your Padlet.

I mentioned this before with the Joseph Campbell video. I want you and all of your classmates to contribute examples to this Padlet about myths and archetypes. Put in examples of archetypes as well as examples of any of the stages of the Hero's Journey from the cycle described by Joseph Campbell's monomyth. We are going to have the district/state skills test this day, so we will be taking a brief hiatus from the poetry. Attached here is the link to your Padlet.

Answer the analysis questions (4 about the Native American poetry, 7 about "Upon the Burning of Our House", and 4 about "The Wild Honeysuckle" - 15 total) completely and thoroughly. Do NOT copy the questions or poems (other than cited lines for evidence) on your answer document. Be sure to have MLA format on your paper (if you know what this is - to the best of your ability). Be sure to label and number everything clearly. Submit your work to both turnitin.com and google classroom.

For this assignment, and any in the future like it with study guide/analysis questions, DO NOT copy the questions. Type your answers to the questions on a fresh google document, number and label everything correctly, use complete sentences, and have plenty of thought, analysis and citations for evidence. Submit your answers to both turnitin.com and the google classroom.

There has been trouble for students being able to hear the audio on my slides, so let me try again. Please read (and hopefully listen to) these slides.

Watch the video about Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey. Take one-two pages of Cornell Style Notes and submit your notes to both turnitin.com and the google classroom. The Objective: "Students will know about the cyclical components of the Hero's Journey, about the monomyth philosophies of Joseph Campbell, and have some newfound insight into their own, personal journeys." Essential Question: "Why is the hero's journey useful for both the study of literature and in application to my personal life?"

Here is the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8nFACrLxr0

Also, read the biography about the poet Philip Freneau. We will discuss the video, and continue with the poems in small groups.

Read the handout about the 10 steps to poetry analysis. Read through the poems in the packet (no writing due yet); our focus will initially be on the Anne Bradstreet poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband", then we will later look at the Native American and Philip Freneau. Also, read the biography about Anne Bradstreet.

Read the attached FYI documents about my writing comments, syntax and tone.

Read the following documents for more introductory, background information about both the Jamestown Settlement and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Do one page of Cornell Notes to practice with this style of note-taking. Submit your page of notes to the google classroom (we have not begun turnitin.com yet).

Read the attached documents, slides, and important pieces of information

Please read these documents that explain needed information for your success in this class.

Read the document "Encounters and Foundations" for next week.

Please read the syllabus for your class and prepare any questions or concerns that you may have.