American+Literature+2010-2011

Welcome to our class page for American Literature, Periods 2 and 4!

You can find the outline and rules for our class here -

Find The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as downloadable file here - http://www.loudlit.org/works/hfinn.htm

Below, you will find the log for each day in class and any homework you have to complete.

=__**Class Log:**__=


 * Tuesday, January18 -**
 * Review for Final Exam
 * Revised questions for Final - [[file:AmLitFinal2010-11.doc]]


 * Friday, January 14 -**
 * Quiz on Chapter 31
 * Discuss moral dilemma, satire
 * Review for Final Exam - [[file:11.doc]]


 * Thursday, January 13 -**
 * Finish group presentations
 * Read Chapter 31 for quiz tomorrow


 * Wednesday, January 12 -**
 * Groups I, II and III give presentations
 * Read Ch. 31 for homework


 * Tuesday, January 11 -**
 * Group practice for presentations


 * Monday, January 10 -**
 * Group work
 * **Questions due tomorrow**


 * Friday, January 7 -**
 * Conference with Ms. Ostendorf about your Presentation Plan
 * Continue group work


 * Thursday, January 6 -**
 * Group Presentation Plan with your group
 * Begin working on assigned pieces for your presentation


 * Wednesday, January 5 -**
 * Quiz on your reading section
 * Begin Group Work


 * Monday and Tuesday, January 3 & 4 -**
 * Reading days on group work assigned
 * Prepare for quiz on Wednesday


 * Tuesday, December 21 -**
 * Quiz on Ch. 10-12
 * Begin Group Reading Project - See attachment - [[file:GroupWork2010.doc]]


 * Monday, December 20 -**
 * Quiz on Ch. 7-9
 * Homework: Read Ch. 10-12


 * Friday, December 17 -**
 * Quiz on Ch. 1-6 - You may use any notes in your own handwriting for quizzes on this novel.
 * Homework: Read Ch. 7-9


 * Thursday, December 16 -**
 * Review Ch. 2 & 3
 * Homework: Read Chapters 4-6 - Quiz on Friday!


 * Wednesday, December 15 -**
 * Characters, events and Huck - Chapter 1
 * Homework: Read Chapters 2 & 3


 * Tuesday, December 14 -**
 * Finish Twain background notes
 * Begin reading - Homework: Finish Chapter 1 and make a list of characters


 * Monday, December 13 -**
 * Begin background notes on Mark Twain - [[file:Background Notes Outline]]


 * Friday, December 10 -**
 * Poem presentations
 * Homework: Research Mark Twain and answer the questions below:
 * 1. Find two new facts about Mark Twain's life
 * 2. Give two reasons that Twain got in trouble in his lifetime or that his works were in question


 * Thursday, December 9 -**
 * Quiz on "The Raven"
 * Work on Poe immitation


 * Wednesday, December 8 -**
 * Begin "The Raven" - rhyme scheme, internal rhyme, alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance
 * Finish summarizing all the stanzas on the handout - [[file:AnnabelLeeRaven.doc]]


 * Tuesday, December 7 -**
 * Read Annabell Lee - terms: rhyme, rhythm, rhyme scheme


 * Monday, December 6 -**
 * Review "The Tell Tale Heart" and Poe's use of mood, terror and plot development


 * Friday, December 3 -**
 * Review of Plot Diagram (Setting, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Resolution)
 * 2nd Hour - Read "The Tell-Tale Heart" and write out all the piece of the plot diagram based on the story (What is the setting? What is the conflict?, etc) [[file:The Tell Tale Heart]]


 * Thursday, December 2 -**
 * Review Native Grounds background notes
 * Read "The Devil and Tom Walker" - p. 105-112 - and write out two examples it contains of the characteristics of Romanticism


 * Wednesday, December 1 -**
 * Reason and Revolution unit quest
 * Complete background outline on Native Grounds - p. 99-101 [[file:NativeGroundsBackgroundOutline.doc]]


 * Tuesday, November 30 -**
 * Review Persuasion Graph
 * Review for tomorrow's Unit Quest [[file:RRTestReview.doc]]


 * Monday, November 29 -**
 * Review Thomas Paine's "American Crisis"
 * Begin work on Persuasion graph [[file:Rev.PersuGraph.doc]]

Happy Thanksgiving!
 * Wednesday, November 24 -**


 * Tuesday, November 23 -**
 * Quiz and discussion of Declaration of Independence
 * Homework - Read "from Common Sense" - p.82 - and answer the question below to hand in tomorrow
 * If you were in George Washington's army and heard this read to you, would it persuade you to keep fighting? Why or not? Explain.


 * Monday, November 22 -**
 * Begin Declaration of Independence
 * Homework: Finish Declaration of Independence outline to prepare for tomorrow's quiz [[file:DecOfIndepOutline10.doc]]


 * Thursday, November 18 -**
 * Patrick Henry persuasion speeches


 * Wednesday, November 17 -**
 * Review elements of persuasion and prepare speech dues tomorrow [[file:Patrick Henry Student Speech]]


 * Tuesday, November 16 -**
 * Review Patrick Henry's speech, elements of persuasion


 * Monday, November 15 -**
 * Unit background review and Ben Franklin's writings


 * Thursday, November 11 -**
 * Work on Patrick Henry's //Speech to the Virginia Convention [[file:PHenrySumm.doc]]//


 * Wednesday, November 10 -**
 * Complete Background outline of Reason and Revolution unit


 * Tuesday, November 9 -**
 * Bibliography and completion of essay - Essay due tomorrow in class


 * Monday, November 8 -**
 * Introduction and conclusion writing


 * Friday, November 5 -**
 * Type and hand the rest of your body paragraphs


 * Thursday, November 4 -**
 * Type and hand in one body paragraph
 * Work on body paragraphs #2 and #3


 * Wednesday November 3 -**
 * Begin work on body paragraphs [[file:BuildingBodyparaCrucible.doc]] [[file:Body Paragraph Sample.doc]]
 * Have at least on body paragraph ready to type and hand in during class tomorrow


 * Tuesday, November 2 -**
 * Review 3 topics and topic sentence sheet
 * Find two quotations to support each of the topic sentences for the topic on which you will write your essay


 * Monday, November 1 -**
 * Discuss Brainstorming sheet
 * Homework: finish Topic Sentence sheet [[file:Topic Sentences3.doc]]


 * Friday, October 29 -**
 * Brainstorming for topics
 * Homework: Finish Brainstorming sheet for Monday [[file:ThesisBrainstorming.doc]]


 * Thursday, October 28 -**
 * Finish movie, discuss "what is the play really about?"


 * Wednesday, October 27 -**
 * Finish "Play Overview" Questions [[file:End-Summary - Overview.doc]]


 * Tuesday, October 26 -**
 * Finish Act IV


 * Monday, October 25 -**
 * Movie to end of Act III
 * Begin Act IV


 * Thursday, October 21 -**
 * Movie to p. 109
 * Act out rest of Act III - finish Act III for homework


 * Wednesday, October 20 -**
 * Quiz on Act II
 * Reading Act III - finish Act III to p. 109 for class tomorrow


 * Tuesday, October 19 -**
 * Movie through end of Act II - Exploring the hysteria
 * Take notes on questions in preparation for quiz tomorrow - [[file:Act II, Questions.10]]


 * Monday, October 18 -**
 * Begin reading Act II
 * Homework: Finish reading Act II - through p. 81


 * Friday October 15 -**
 * Quiz on Act I, watch movie to end of Act I


 * Thursday, October 14 -**
 * Act I review to p. 32, movie
 * Homework: Finish Act I (to p. 48) for quiz tomorrow


 * Wednesday, October 13 -**
 * In-class reading of Act I
 * Homework: Finish reading through p. 32


 * Monday and Tuesday, October 11-12 -**
 * Background, discussion of witch examination criteria, Arthur Miller and Salem Witch Trials


 * Friday, October 8**
 * Discuss "The Trial of Martha Carrier"
 * Puritan background and Witch criteria [[file:Examination of a Witch.pdf]]


 * Thursday, October 7**
 * Test on Early America
 * Read "The Trial of Martha Carrier" and answer questions [[file:TrialOfMarthaCarrier.pdf]]


 * Tuesday, October 5**
 * Review for Thursday's test [[file:EarlyAmericanReview.doc]]


 * Monday, October 4**
 * Review persuasion and John Smith, William Bradford and Jonathan Edwards


 * Friday, October 1**
 * Review images from Edward's "Sinners" speech
 * Group questions and drawings


 * Thursday, September 30**
 * Finish commercials (speeches)
 * Background on Jonathan Edwards and Puritans
 * Homework: Translate the first four paragraphs of "//Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God//"


 * Wednesday, September 29**
 * Commercials - practice and presentation


 * Tuesday, September 28**
 * Review of Elements of Persuasion
 * Begin preparation of commercials


 * Monday, September 27**
 * Connect elements of persuasion to John Smith's writing
 * Homework: Read and translate William Bradford's "//Of Plymouth Plantation//"


 * Friday, September 24**
 * Review paragraph #1 of John Smith's "Description of New England"
 * Finish document of translation of each paragraph
 * **Bring a print-out of your group's document to class. Each person needs a copy!**


 * Thursday, September 23**
 * Finish Columbus discussion, begin John Smith reading
 * Homework: Finish translating the first paragraph of John Smith's "Description of New England" - p. 20 in textbook


 * Wednesday, September 22**
 * Discuss Columbus article
 * Group work to summarize each paragraph and then answer questions


 * Tuesday, September 21**
 * Discuss "from Columbus' Journal", p. 15-18
 * Begin reading "Columbus, the Natives and Progress"

On loose leaf paper, explain two piece of information from the read that you already knew and two pieces of information that are new to you.
 * Monday, September 20**
 * Assemble and share origin myths
 * Homework: Read "from Columbus' Journal", p. 15-18


 * Friday, September 17**
 * Group work on origin myth - **//have it ready for Monday!//**


 * Thursday, September 16**
 * Elements of origin myths and examples
 * Begin group work on origin myths [[file:Writing an Origin Myth.doc]]


 * Wednesday, September 15**
 * Creation Myth v. Origin Myth
 * Homework: Find an origin myth, print it out and cite the source - see attachment [[file:Origin Myths.doc]]

(Creation Myth Elements: 1. Begins with nothing, 2. "God" or some super-natural power, 3. Something is created - animals, land, etc., 4. People, 5. Evil and Good struggle, 6. Honor)
 * Tuesday, September 14**
 * Review of "Walum Olum" and Genesis stories; discussion of myth and creation myth elements
 * Homework: Read the story you were given in class and identify the elements of a creation myth in your story.


 * Monday, September 13**
 * Introduction of unit and reading of "Walum Olum"
 * Homework: Find out when and how your family came to the United States

1. What have you heard, in our stories and videos, about what it means to be American? 2. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
 * Friday, September 10**
 * Finish speeches and discuss American values
 * Homework: Answer the following questions, each in a paragraph of at least four sentences


 * Thursday, September 9**
 * "American" object speeches
 * What does media tell us about American and what it means to be American?


 * Wednesday, September 8**
 * Brainstorming about "American" ideas and proper way to give a speech
 * Homework: Prepare your speech about your object - at least 30 seconds, no more than 60 seconds


 * Tuesday, September 7, 2010**
 * Introductions, class outline and policies
 * Homework: Think about what "American" means or what it means to be "an American". Find an object that shows this and prepare a one minute speech for class tomorrow to explain your object and idea. Bring your object and speech to class tomorrow.