Assignment: Eng11: Lecture on American Renaissance Date:Thu, Jan 31, 2008
English 11Information on Hawthorne and Melville
Assignment: Eng11 Writing Date:Wed, Jan 30, 2008
English 1140 minute argumentative essay due at end of period
Write this in Microsoft Word
Assignment: Eng11 Test over “Moby Dick” Date:Tue, Jan 29, 2008
English 11Review ABCDs of taking a writing prompt
Review scores on Thoreau essayNew material: Editing for style
A. Figurative language
B. Fluent sentencesTomorrow: 40 minute timed writing
Assignment: Eng11 Test over “Quarterdeck” Date:Mon, Jan 28, 2008
English 11For Tuesday, read “Moby Dick” p. 321-327
Assignment: Eng11 Test over Hawthorne Date:Fri, Jan 25, 2008
English 11Test over “The Minister’s Black Veil”
Read “Moby Dick” p. 313-320
Assignment: Eng11: Test over “Fall of the House of Usher” Date:Thu, Jan 24, 2008
English 11Reading for tomorrow: “The Minister’s Black Veil” p. 299-307
Assignment: Eng11 Hawthorne Date:Thu, Jan 24, 2008
English 11Test over “Fall of the House of Usher”
For tomorrow: Read “The Minister’s Black Veil” p. 299-307
Do “Words to Own” Worksheet
Assignment: Eng11: Edgar Allan Poe Date:Wed, Jan 23, 2008
English 11In class, read “The Raven” p. 282
Homework: read “The Fall of the House of Usher” p. 263-272
Do “Words to Own” worksheet
Pay attention to how Poe creates atmosphere.
Think about the connotations/denotations of words.
Assignment: 40-minute timed writing over Thoreau Date:Tue, Jan 22, 2008
English 11Bring your outline with you. Class will go to the writing lab.
Assignment: Eng11 Thoreau outline Date:Mon, Jan 21, 2008
English 111. Have complete sentence outline for essay about Thoreau (probably on one of these topics)
(Here’s an outline worksheet)
2. Come ready to discuss the questions about civil disobedience on this assignment sheet.
We will go over your outlines and begin discussion of the seminar questions.
Assignment: Timed essay: write a 40-minute timed essay on Civil Disobedience Date:Fri, Jan 18, 2008
Write a 40-minute timed essay about this question: Support or oppose this statement from “Resistance to Civil Government”:
“That government is best which governs not at all.”
Assignment: Timed Essay: Walden Date:Thu, Jan 17, 2008
English 11Write a 40-minute timed essay about one of the topics here.
Assignment: Eng11: Writing a timed argumentative essay Date:Wed, Jan 16, 2008
English 11Review the scoring rubric used by MUS Writing Assessment.
Go over the ABCDs of writing essays for timed prompts
Assignment: Eng11: Reading “Civil Disobedience” Date:Tue, Jan 15, 2008
English 11Quiz over Thoreau’s “Resistance to Civil Government”
In class: Read Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Homework: Write answers to questions 1, 3, 4, 6 on page 257. Hand in at the beginning of the period tomorrow.
Assignment: Eng11: Writing about Walden Date:Mon, Jan 14, 2008
Write unified and well-developed paragraph answering one of the questions on page 246, under “shaping interpretations.”
Be sure to start with a clear topic sentence. Include 5-10 sentences that support your topic sentence.
Homework: read “Resistance to Civil Disobedience” (pages 249-254). Reading quiz tomorrow.