Assignment: Eng11: Frederick Douglass 5 Date:Tue, Nov 25, 2008
AdvancedEnglish 11TEST: pages 32 - 48
Reading homework: Chapter VIII-IX: 49-58
Assignment: Eng11: Frederick Douglass 4 Date:Mon, Nov 24, 2008
AdvancedEnglish 11Reading homework: Chapter VI-VII: 40-48
Assignment: Eng11: Frederick Douglass 3 TEST Date:Fri, Nov 21, 2008
TEST: pages XXIII-31
Reading homework: Chapter IV-V: 32-39
Extra Credit: Douglass discussion on OurSpace Forum
Assignment: Eng11: Frederick Douglass 2 Date:Thu, Nov 20, 2008
AdvancedEnglish 11In class: Autobiographical paragraph on Moodle. Write this today. Publish on Moodle during test tomorrow.
Reading homework: Chapter II-III: 22-31
Assignment: Eng11: Frederick Douglass 1 Date:Wed, Nov 19, 2008
AdvancedEnglish 11Hand out Study Guide
Reading homework: Chapter 1: 17-21
Assignment: Eng11: Test over Thomas Paine Date:Tue, Nov 18, 2008
CohortTest over reading of Thomas Paine (The Crisis) p. 106-112
Assignment: Eng11 Cohort: Longfellow’s poetry Date:Mon, Nov 17, 2008
AdvancedEnglish 11Readings from handouts
Assignment: Eng11: Test over Patrick Henry Date:Mon, Nov 17, 2008
Video: Spirit of American Nationalism
Key Ideas about Franklin from the videoReading: P. 100-105
Also, written test for memorization of second paragraph of Declaration of Independence
Assignment: Eng11: Autobiography of B Franklin 4 Date:Thu, Nov 13, 2008
AdvancedEnglish 11Take test: video in class when finished
On Friday, you will have a test which will include an essay test. The question will be this: “Write one unified and coherent paragraph of at least 7 sentences that begins with this topic sentence: ‘Benjamin Franklin illustrates an important aspect of 18th Century America.”
Use one or more quotes from the book. Be sure that each quote is incorporated smoothly into the flow and that it is punctuated perfectly. Handout: How to incorporate quotations (PDF)
Example: How to incorporate a quote into a paragraphThe paragraph should be unified and coherent. http://www.flatheadreservation.org/images/phs/Unity_and_Coherence.pdf">Handout explaining “unity and coherence (PDF)
You should bring this paragraph with you so you can type it into the test, as you will not be able to use your book during the test.Handout explain “unity and coherence (PDF)
Assignment: Eng11: Autobiography of B Franklin 3 Date:Wed, Nov 12, 2008
AdvancedEnglish 11Read: p. 81-92 (Chap VII)
On Friday, you will have a test which will include an essay test. The question will be this: “Write one unified and coherent paragraph of at least 7 sentences that begins with this topic sentence: ‘Benjamin Franklin illustrates an important aspect of 18th Century America.”
Use one or more quotes from the book. Be sure that each quote is incorporated smoothly into the flow and that it is punctuated perfectly. Handout: How to incorporate quotations (PDF)
Example: How to incorporate a quote into a paragraphThe paragraph should be unified and coherent. http://www.flatheadreservation.org/images/phs/Unity_and_Coherence.pdf">Handout explaining “unity and coherence (PDF)
You should bring this paragraph with you so you can type it into the test, as you will not be able to use your book during the test.Handout explain “unity and coherence (PDF)
Assignment: Eng11: Autobiography of B Franklin 2 Date:Tue, Nov 11, 2008
CohortIn class: Discuss virtues and communities
Homework: read . p. 67-80 (chap VI)On Friday, you will have a test which will include an essay test. The question will be this: “Write one unified and coherent paragraph of at least 7 sentences that begins with this topic sentence: ‘Benjamin Franklin illustrates an important aspect of 18th Century America.”
Use one or more quotes from the book. Be sure that each quote is incorporated smoothly into the flow and that it is punctuated perfectly. Handout: How to incorporate quotations (PDF)
Example: How to incorporate a quote into a paragraphThe paragraph should be unified and coherent. http://www.flatheadreservation.org/images/phs/Unity_and_Coherence.pdf">Handout explaining “unity and coherence (PDF)
You should bring this paragraph with you so you can type it into the test, as you will not be able to use your book during the test.Handout explain “unity and coherence (PDF)
Assignment: Eng11 Cohort: Romanticism Date:Mon, Nov 10, 2008
AdvancedEnglish 11Introduction: Romanticism
Read p. 78 Longfellow
American Romanticism 1800 - 1860
Pages 136-405You should be able to discuss how major events reflected the times, and how they shaped the way people understood the world they lived in.
Slavery
The Missouri Compromise, 1820-21
The Underground Railroad, c 1830
Republican Party organized to oppose slavery, 1854
Dred Scott decision, U.S. Supreme Court, 1854Technology and Industry
The cotton gin, 1794
The Erie Canal connects the Great Lakes and the Atlantic, 1825Sense of Nation
The Louisiana Purchase, 1803
Cherokee Trail of Tears, 1838
US annexes Texas (1845), Mexican War, 1846-48
Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858Sense of Society
Irish Potato Famine and Irish immigration, 1846
California Gold Rush, 1849Sense of the World
The War of 1812, leading to the British burning Washington, D.C., 1814
Through the Treaty of Nanking, Hong Kong is opened to foreign trade, 1842
British government takes over administration of India, 1858
Commodore Perry opens Japanese ports to U.S. trade, 1854Major Writers
You should be acquainted with the following writers
William Cullen Bryant
Edgar Allen Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emily Dickinson
Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Walt Whitman
Assignment: Eng11: Declaration of Independence Date:Mon, Nov 10, 2008
In class: read Declaration of Independence
Homework: read The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, p. 56-55 (chap V)On Friday, you will have a test which will include an essay test. The question will be this: “Write one unified and coherent paragraph of at least 7 sentences that begins with this topic sentence: ‘Benjamin Franklin illustrates an important aspect of 18th Century America.”
Use one or more quotes from the book. Be sure that each quote is incorporated smoothly into the flow and that it is punctuated perfectly. Handout: How to incorporate quotations (PDF)
Example: How to incorporate a quote into a paragraphThe paragraph should be unified and coherent. http://www.flatheadreservation.org/images/phs/Unity_and_Coherence.pdf">Handout explaining “unity and coherence (PDF)
You should bring this paragraph with you so you can type it into the test, as you will not be able to use your book during the test.Handout explain “unity and coherence (PDF)
Assignment: Eng11: Turn in Franklin Paragraph: Test Date:Sun, Nov 09, 2008
AdvancedEnglish 11You will have a test which will include an essay test. The question will be this: “Write one unified and coherent paragraph of at least 7 sentences that begins with this topic sentence: ‘Benjamin Franklin illustrates an important aspect of 18th Century America.”
Use one or more quotes from the book. Be sure that each quote is incorporated smoothly into the flow and that it is punctuated perfectly. Handout: How to incorporate quotations (PDF)
Example: How to incorporate a quote into a paragraphThe paragraph should be unified and coherent. http://www.flatheadreservation.org/images/phs/Unity_and_Coherence.pdf">Handout explaining “unity and coherence (PDF)
You should bring this paragraph with you so you can type it into the test, as you will not be able to use your book during the test.Handout explain “unity and coherence (PDF)
Assignment: Eng11: Where I’m From poem due Date:Mon, Nov 03, 2008
Post your “Where I’m From” poem in the About Me field on your Profile on OurSpace.
Test over contemporary poetry:
alliteration
assonance
free verse
meters
personaRichard Hugo: Poems from Kicking the Loose Gravel
T. S. Eliot: Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
John Keats: When I have Fears
Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken
Alexander Pope: Essay on Criticism