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Summer Reading Essay
Assignment In-class Essay - AP Prompt: Nancy Mairs' "Cripple" |
Unit 1 "Good Readers & Good Writers"; "What is Language"; "Language & Thought"; "Selection, Slanting, and Charged Language" "World of Doublespeak" |
In Cold Blood - possible
Socratic Circle questions The Things They Carried - possible Socratic Circle questions As I Lay Dying - possible Socratic Circle questions |
| In-class Essay - compare Winthrop's "A City on a Hill" & Reagan's "The Evil Empire" speeches |
Unit 2 Winthrop: notes; "A City upon a Hill" De las Casas: "Devastation" Edwards: "Sinners" Mather: notes; "Devil's Territory" The Trial of Anne Hutchinson "Anne Hutchinson: Puritanism’s Dissident Daughter" Bradstreet: "Upon the Burning of Our House"; critical analysis |
The Crucible - Got Time? Do This!, Socratic Circle questions; Fact & Fiction in the Play |
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In-class Essay - AP prompt: Queen Elizabeth's "Speech to the Troops at Tilbury" Out-of-class Synthesis Essay - assignment; here's one place for political cartoons |
Unit 3 Deism notes Jefferson: "Declaration of Independence" Ben Franklin: notes, article; "On the Constitution, 1787" "Rules for Reducing a Great Empire" "Ridicule as a Weapon" Thomas Paine: "Crisis, No. 1" George Orwell: "Politics of the English Language" "The Convergence of Science & Religion" |
elements of style checklist |
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In-class essay - AP Prompt: Audubon/Dillard Debate - assignment; letter of intent rubric; debate rubric; What do I need to bring on the day of my debate? Helpful Links: Debate Central; Arts & Letters Daily; You Debate.com; Speakout.com Tips on Visuals PowerPoint |
Unit 4 Romanticism (notes) - Bryant: "Thanatopsis text, questions; Longfellow: "A Psalm of Life" Gothicism - Dickinson: "I heard a fly buzz when I died", "I felt a funeral in my brain" Transcendentalism (notes)- resources Emerson: "Self-Reliance" Thoreau: "Civil Disobedience" |
Scarlet Letter - Introduction, Socratic Circle questions |
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In-class Essay - AP Prompt: Eudora Welty's "One Writer's Beginnings" Out of class essay - assignment; rubric "Buch"masters - assignment; 2nd period assignments; 3rd period assignments; impromptu speech rubric, prepared speech rubric; sample agenda |
Unit 5 Stanton: "The Slaves Appeal" Ballou: "The Voice of Duty" King: "I Have a Dream" (audio version; comments on King as a speaker) Lincoln: "The Gettysburg Address" (text; audio version; analysis; comments) Malcolm X: background; decentering the myth of Malcolm X; "Learning to Read" Tan: "Mother Tongue" Cofer: "The Myth of the Latin Woman" Rodriguez: "Strange Tools" |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave - online text |
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Unit 6 Buchanan: "Got Husband?" Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper"; listen to "The Yellow Wallpaper"; study text of "The Yellow Wallpaper" Chopin: "The Story of an Hour"; rhetorical analysis of "The Story of an Hour" Buchanan: "Man, Being a Mammal" |
The Awakening - background on The Awakening; Socratic Circle questions | |
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In-class Essay - AP Prompt: Peter Singer's quote from free response 2005 Out of class essay - Convert Singer's prompt to a formal synthesis essay |
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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Unit 8 Hughes: "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"; "I, Too"; "A Dream Deferred" Baldwin: "Sonny's Blues" Bellow: "Looking for Mr. Green" |
Invisible Man - background information on Ralph Ellison; "Profile of an American Novelist"; "Man Underground" | |
