Assignment: Eng11: Romanticism: Longfellow 2 Date:Tue, Dec 16, 2008
AdvancedEnglish 11CohortLongfellow’s poems, 2
Assignment: Eng11: Romanticism: Longfellow Date:Mon, Dec 15, 2008
AdvancedEnglish 11CohortOverview of Romantic period
Readings of Longfellow’s poems
Assignment: Eng11: American Dream writing Date:Fri, Dec 12, 2008
AdvancedEnglish 11CohortWork on draft of “My American Dream” using Word
Assignment: Eng11: Classical and Romantic World Views Date:Thu, Dec 11, 2008
AdvancedEnglish 11CohortSlideshow: The art of Ancient Greece: Archaic, Classic, Hellenistic
Slideshow: Romanticism in visual arts
Assignment: Eng11: Slave spirituals Date:Wed, Dec 10, 2008
AdvancedEnglish 11CohortRead literature anthology page 432-434
Listen to recordings of “Go Down Moses” and “Follow the Drinking Gourd”
Also “Wade in the Water”
“We Shall Overcome”Free write: “What music has shaped your dreams”
Assignment: Eng11: American Dreams Date:Tue, Dec 09, 2008
AdvancedEnglish 11Give American Dream essay assignment, due November 19 American Dream assignment
Watch video American Dreams
Take notes: Note sheet for video
Assignment: Eng11: Frederick Douglass 7 Date:Tue, Dec 02, 2008
AdvancedEnglish 11CohortReading homework: Appendix: p. 100-106
Assignment: Eng11: Frederick Douglass Date:Mon, Dec 01, 2008
AdvancedEnglish 11Worksheets and Handouts
Study Guide: Most of the questions for the final exam will be drawn from this: Study Guide (8 page PDF)
Worksheet: Reading Douglass’ Rhetoric
(Handout on Aristotle’s “modes of persuasion"--logos, ethos, pathos--to be used with the “Reading Douglass’ Rhetoric” worksheet)
Worksheet: Analyzing Douglass’ Style
(Outline of the Elements of Style, to be used with the “Analyzing Douglass’ Style” worksheet)
Worksheet: Slave Spirituals: Myth and Reality
Worksheet: Irony Chart
Worksheet: Theme to Thesis
Worksheet:Characterization: What Virtues were Important to Douglass’ Greatness?
Assignment: Eng11: Frederick Douglass 6 Date:Mon, Dec 01, 2008
Reading homework: Chapter XI: 88-99