Assignment: Eng11: Read Martin Luther King Date:Fri, Jan 16, 2009
English 11Watch video Part 3: Thoreau and Individualism
Read “Letter from Birmingham Jail” p. 256-257
Assignment: MUS Writing Assessment Date:Thu, Jan 15, 2009
AdvancedEnglish 1140 minute timed writing for Montana University System assessment
Huck’s attitude toward the Duke and Dauphin: Handout
Is Huck Finn the great American novel? Handout
Assignment: Eng11: Begin Thoreau Civil Disobedence Date:Thu, Jan 15, 2009
AdvancedEnglish 11Discuss global impact of Thoreau’s ideas.
Discuss “limited government,” contrasting Thoreau’s view with Jefferson’s.
Discuss anarchy and failed states.
Lecture: Watch YouTube: Individualism, Part 2
Read pages 248-256
Assignment: Eng11: Thoreau Date:Tue, Jan 13, 2009
AdvancedEnglish 11Finish Walden p. 240-244
Assignment: Eng11: Intro to Thoreau Date:Mon, Jan 12, 2009
AdvancedEnglish 11CohortIntroduction with good interpretation, both Walden and “Civil Disobedience” (4 minutes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhP7PKoRmmY&feature=related
Thoreau says most men live lives of “quiet desperation. A major theme of Walden is how to live without fear: Fear (from Rich Dad/Poor Dad)
Read pages 233-240 (stop at “Brute Neighbors)
Assignment: Eng11: Revise and submit final essay Date:Fri, Jan 09, 2009
AdvancedEnglish 11CohortRevise and submit final essay: compare/contrast Longfellow and Whitman
Assignment: Eng11: Draft a compare/contrast paragraph Date:Thu, Jan 08, 2009
AdvancedEnglish 11CohortWrite a paragraph either comparing or contrasting a Longfellow poem with a Whitman poem
First, fill out a Paragraph Frame
Paragraph Frame (filled in example)
Use these two poems.
Assignment: Read a selection of Walt Whitman’s poems Date:Wed, Jan 07, 2009
AdvancedEnglish 11CohortWalt Whitman’s poetry: literature anthology pages 347-358
Be sure you understand the relationship between free verse and cadence
Assignment: Eng11: Read and take notes on a selection of Longfellow’s poems Date:Tue, Jan 06, 2009
AdvancedEnglish 11Cohort
Assignment: Eng11: Write a compare/contrast essay Date:Mon, Jan 05, 2009
Looking at a model compare/contrast essay
Read Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Psalm of Life"-- page 150, literature anthology
Read Langston Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again”Review the slide show Organizing a compare/contrast essay