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**Course Resources**

 * Welcome to COURSE RESOURCES!**
 * Page is organized by unit of study
 * Units of study are organized into sections:
 * Introduction--Learning Objectives and Unit Overviews
 * Readings--class reading assignments
 * Assessments--projects and papers information, directions and rubrics when applicable
 * Resources--stuff from class or in addition to class to help you understand unit skills and concepts
 * General Areas of Course are Included at the Bottom of the Page


 * ===== **Native Americans** =====

Introduction:
 * Learning Objectives for Native Americans
 * [[file:UnitOneOverview.doc]](2009)

Readings:
 * Historical Background: Download from Historical Background Page
 * "World on the Turtle's Back": Download from Readings Page
 * "Genesis"
 * "Song of the Sky Loom"
 * "Coyote Stories":
 * "Coyote and Buffalo": Download from Readings Page
 * "Fox, Coyote and Whale"
 * "How Coyote Brought Fire to the People": Download from Readings Page

Assessments:

Resources: || ===== **Settlers in the New World** =====

Introduction:
 * Learning Objectives for Settlers in the New World
 * [[file:UnitTwoOverview.doc]](2009)

Readings:
 * Historical Background: Download from Historical Background Page
 * "Log of Christopher Columbus"
 * "La Relacion"
 * "Of Plymouth Plantation"
 * "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano"

Assessments:

Resources:
 * Early American Literature Video
 * Literature Book Activities ||
 * ===== **Puritans** =====

Introduction:


 * Learning Objectives for Puritans
 * Unit Three Overview: [[file:UnitThreePuritanOverview.doc]](2009)

Readings:
 * John Winthrop: Download from Readings Page
 * Winthrop v. Williams (Research)
 * Anne Bradstreet: Download from Readings Page

Resources:
 * Focus Area: Tone Handout- [[file:tonewords.pdf]]
 * Early American Literature Video || ===== **"The Crucible"** =====
 * Learning Objectives for The Crucible
 * [[file:CrucibleUnitOverview.doc]](2009)

Readings: //Arthur Miller//
 * "Why I Wrote the Crucible": Download from Readings Page
 * "Tragedy and the Common Man":Download from Readings Page
 * Fact Vs. Fiction in "The Crucible": Download from Readings Page
 * Sarah Good: Download from Readings Page

Resources:
 * The Crucible vs. The Majestic
 * Interactive Site: []
 * See Readings Page for More Resources under "The Crucible"
 * Crucible PowerPoint: [[file:crucibleinformation.ppt]]
 * Act Three Notes from Shubert's Board
 * Extended Resources: []

Writing Portfolio Item:
 * [[file:AllegoricalPlay.doc]] ||
 * ===== **Enlightenment and Revolution** =====
 * Learning Objectives for Enlightenment and Revolution

Readings:
 * "Historical Background"-[[file:historicalbackgroundoftheenlightenment.doc]]
 * Jonathan Edwards: Download from Readings Page
 * "Speech to the Virginia Convention"-- Patrick Henry: Download from Readings Page
 * "The Declaration of Independence"--Thomas Jefferson
 * "The Crisis"--Thomas Paine
 * "Letter to John Adams"--Abigail Adams
 * "Letter to Rev. Samsom Occum"--Phyllis Wheatley

Extension Resources:
 * Enlightenment Background
 * http://librivox.org/give-me-liberty-by-patrick-henry/: Click here for audio
 * [|Color Coded Declaration of Independence]
 * http://faculty.govst.edu/pa/Advertising/Pitch/spot_quiz.htm
 * Early Draft of the Declaration of Independence: Download from Readings Page
 * [[file:AnalyzingAnArgument.doc]]
 * Aristotle's Appeals: Readings Page

Debates (Optional Assignment Based on Semester):
 * Persuasion Unit Debate Overview
 * Argumentation Notes
 * Rubric for Persuasion Unit Debate
 * [|Ten Rules for Winning a Debate] || **Author Study: Washington Irving**
 * Learning Objectives for Washington Irving

Readings:
 * Background: [[file:WashingtonIrving.doc]]
 * "Rip Van Winkle"
 * Audio Complement: http://www.chatterboxtheater.org/node/326
 * "The Devil and Tom Walker":
 * Devil and Tom Walker : Download from Readings Page
 * Devil and Tom Walker Animation
 * Faust allusion
 * "Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
 * "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (optional text) ||
 * Transcendentalism and Romanticism
 * Learning Objectives for Transcendentalism and Romanticism

Readings:
 * "A Psalm of Life"
 * "from Self-Reliance": Download from Readings Page
 * "from American Scholar": Download from Readings Page
 * "from Walden": Download from Readings Page
 * "from Civil Disobedience": Download from Readings Page
 * Walt Whitman: Download from Readings Page
 * "I Hear America Singing
 * I Sit and Look Out"
 * from" Song of Myself
 * from When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd
 * Oh Captain! My Captain!
 * On the Beach at Night Alone

Extension Resources:
 * Historical Background: Download from Readings Page
 * [|American Transcendentalism Web]: Great Resource!
 * American Transcendentalism PowerPoint: [[file:AmericanTranscendentalism.ppt]]
 * [|Roots and Influences]
 * Puritans vs. Transcendentalism
 * Dead Poet's Society Film Guide
 * Self-Reliance with Highlighted Aphorisms: Download from Readings Page
 * Walden: http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden00.html
 * [|Poetry Terms]
 * [|Whitman Archive Site]
 * Transcendentalism Videos || **Author Study: Emily Dickinson**
 * Learning Objectives for Emily Dickinson

Readings: Download from Readings Page
 * "This is my letter to the World"
 * "'Hope' is a thing with feathers--"
 * "Success is counted sweetest"
 * "Much Madness is divinest Sense"
 * "My life closed twice before its close"
 * "After great pain, a formal feeling comes"
 * "I Heard a Fly Buzz--when I died"
 * "Because I could not stop for Death"

Resources:
 * [|Poetry Terms]
 * Critical Questions for Dickinson: [[file:Guideline forReadingDickinson.doc]]
 * [|Dickinson Resource]
 * [|Moods in Verbs]
 * Dickinson v. Whitman v. Bradstreet
 * Compare and Contrast: SCLIFT
 * Dickinson Practice ||
 * **Gothic Literature and Romanticism**
 * Learning Objectives for Gothic and Romanticism

Readings: Literature Book:
 * Historical Background Reading
 * Download from Readings Page
 * [[file:historicalbackgroundgothic.doc]]
 * Author Study-Edgar Allan Poe: [[file:AuthorStudyPOE.doc]]
 * The Masque of the Red Death--Edgar Allan Poe
 * [|Online Text]
 * Download from Readings Page
 * from Danse Macabre--Stephen King
 * [[file:DanseMacabre.doc]]
 * The Raven--Edgar Allan Poe
 * [|Interactive Raven]
 * The Fall of the House of Usher--Edgar Allan Poe
 * [|Animated Interpretation>]
 * Download from Readings Page
 * Dr. Heidegger's Experiment--Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * [|Online Text]

Online Readings: (remember to check end for questions)
 * "Annabel Lee"-- Edgar Allan Poe
 * "The Bells"--Edgar Allan Poe
 * "Minister's Black Veil"--Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * "Tell Tale Heart"-- Edgar Allan Poe
 * Download from Readings Page
 * Tell Tale Heart Video
 * "Seven Ages of Man"--Shakespeare (connects to "Masque")
 * Download from Readings Page

Resources:
 * [|NPR page for "The Raven"]
 * [|The Simpsons and "The Raven"]
 * [|Masque of the Red Death Interpretation]
 * Gothic Elements and Poe's Playbook
 * http://www.poedecoder.com/-- Recommended by Chad Dixon
 * [|Heroes and Villains in American Cinema] || **Realism and Naturalism**
 * Learning Objectives for Realism and Naturalism

Readings:
 * Nonfiction:
 * Historical Background: A House Divided
 * Historical Background: Tricksters and Trailblazers
 * Historical Background: Women's Voices, Women's Lives
 * Historical Background: The American Dream-Illusion or Reality
 * Fiction:
 * An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge--Ambrose Bierce
 * The Man Who Was Almost a Man--Richard Wright
 * The Yellow Wallpaper--Charlotte Perkins Gilman
 * The Story of an Hour--Kate Chopin
 * Poetry:
 * Stanzas on Freedom--James Russell Lowell
 * Free Labor--Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
 * Chicago--Carl Sandbur
 * Online Readings: (check for questions/exercises)
 * "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane: Download from Readings Page
 * [[file:OpenBoatQuestions.doc]]
 * [[file:CharactersinOpenBoat.pdf]]
 * "The Upturned Face" by Stephen Crane
 * [[file:Upturned Face.doc]]
 * [[file:Upturned Face Comprehension Questions.doc]]
 * "To Build a Fire" by Jack London: Download from Readings Page
 * [[file:ToBuildaFireQuestions.doc]]
 * Poetry:
 * WAR IS KIND --Stephen Crane: Download from Readings Page
 * A MAN SAID TO THE UNIVERSE-Stephen Crane

Resources:
 * "Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper"
 * Gilman on Suffrage
 * Early Moments in the Woman's Rights Movement
 * The Good Wife's Guide ||
 * **Novel Unit: //Adventures of Huckleberry Finn// -Twain**
 * Learning Objectives for Huckleberry Finn


 * ONLINE TEXT:** []
 * Huck Finn Questions
 * [[file:HuckFinnQuestions.doc]]

Resources:
 * Important Scenes and Passages in Huckleberry Finn
 * Mark Twain Quotes:[[file:marktwainquotes.doc]]
 * [[file:Satire Activity.pdf]]
 * [[file:map activity.pdf]]
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzAtEqFU3Lc^funny video Shubert showed us in class^

Extension Readings: Literature Book:
 * Life and Times of Mark Twain
 * from The Autobiography of Mark Twain
 * from Life on the Mississippi

Online Readings:
 * "How to Read a Story": http://www.mead.k12.wa.us/mhs/Stedman/classweb/Short%20Stories/How%20to%20Tell%20a%20Story.htm || **The Emerging African American Voice**
 * Learning Objectives for the Emerging African American Voice

Readings: Fiction/Nonfiction: Online:
 * Historical Background: A New Cultural Identity
 * The Author's Style: Langston Hughes
 * How it Feels to Be Coloured Me--Zora Neale Hurston
 * The Lesson--Toni Cade Bambara
 * What to The Slave is the Fourth of July?-- Frederick Douglass
 * Returning Soldiers-- W.E.B. DuBois

Poetry:
 * We Wear the Mask--Paul Lawrence Dunbar
 * Sympathy--Paul Lawrence Dunbar
 * I,too--Langston Hughes
 * Weary Blues--Langston Hughes
 * Harlem--Langston Hughes
 * If We Must Die--Claude McKay
 * A Black Man Talks of Reaping--Arna Bontemps
 * Life for My Child is Simple--Gwendolyn Brooks
 * Primer for Blacks--Gwendolyn Brooks

Online: Find the poems--Questions for EAAV Online Poetry
 * WE REAL COOL--Gwendolyn Brooks
 * NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS-Langston Hughes
 * YET DO I MARVEL-Countee Cullen
 * THE LYNCHING-Claude McKay

Resources:
 * [|African American Timeline from PBS]
 * [|Time Magazine Article on Douglass]
 * 20th Century African American Literature Overview: An interpretation
 * My City--James Weldon Johnson
 * Any Human to Another--Countee Cullen

Assessments: ||
 * **Novel Unit: The Great Gatsby**

Learning Objectives for The Great Gatsby

Reading:
 * The Closing of the American Frontier

Online: Resources:
 * []
 * []
 * [[file:The-Great-Gatsby.pdf]]
 * The Great Gatsby Questions : [[file:GatsbyQuestions.doc]]
 * The Great Gatsby PowerPoint
 * The Great Gatsby Notes
 * [[file:GatsbyReviewPage.pdf]]
 * [[file:color symbolism chart.pdf]]
 * [[file:SocialDarwinism.doc]] || **Drama Unit: Death of a Salesman**
 * Learning Objectives for Death of a Salesman

Resources:
 * Film Guide
 * Assignment ||
 * **Unit 15: Hemingway**
 * Learning Objectives for Hemingway


 * Hills Like White Elephants**
 * [|Hills Like White Elephants]
 * HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS: [[file:hemingwayHillsLikeWhiteElephants.pdf]]
 * //Questions://
 * 1) Write a plot summary of the reading. Identify the climax.
 * 2) Describe the setting (time, place, scenery)
 * 3) Identify the main characters and give a description
 * 4) Identify the point of view and discuss how it impacts the story
 * 5) "Hemingway's style–developed in part when he worked as a newspaper reporter and correspondent early in his career–is simple and compact, with short sentences and paragraphs devoid of verbosity. Adjectives and adverbs are few. However, this straightforward style, which he used in all his major novels and short stories, often conveys complex themes and suggests–but does not explicitly state–motives, mind-sets, attitudes, and so on. In this respect, Hemingway is imitating life." Discuss how Hemingway's story "imitates life".
 * 6) Choose one of the following theme stems and discuss its presence in the reading: Confronting the future, Inability to communicate effectively, Selfishness, Evasion of responsibility
 * 7) Propose a possible meaning for the potential symbols: White Elephants, Railroad Tracks, Zarazoga, Green Side of the Station, Arid Side of the Station, Ebro River, Baggage


 * Soldier's Home**
 * [|Hemingway's Stories]: "Soldier's Home", "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place", "In Our Time", from "A Farewell to Arms"
 * SOLDIER'S HOME:[[file:HemingwaySoldersHome.pdf]]
 * Questions: [|http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/soldiershome.htm]


 * The Killers**
 * [|The Killers]
 * THE KILLERS: [[file:hemingwaythekillers.pdf]]
 * Killers Questions

Resources:
 * [|University of Delaware Special Collections Page: Hemingway]
 * Hemingway Handout || **Unit 16: Voices from the Modern Era**

Readings:

Resources: Learning Objectives for Southern Gothic
 * [|University of Delaware Special Collections Page: Pound] ||
 * **Southern Gothic:**
 * A Rose for Emily--William Faulkner
 * A Rose for Emily Online Text
 * Download from Readings Page
 * The Life You Save May Be Your Own--Flannery O'Connor
 * [|Online Text]
 * Download from Readings Page
 * "A Good Man is Hard to Find"--Flannery O'Connor: Download from Readings Page
 * Shirley Jackson: Download from Readings Page ||  ||
 * **Novel Unit: Moby Dick**


 * Learning Objectives for Moby Dick

Reading:
 * Online text: [|http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/moby/]

Resources:
 * Reading Questions for Moby Dick || **Novel Unit: Scarlet Letter**


 * Learning Objectives for The Scarlet Letter

Reading:
 * Online text: http://www.bartleby.com/83/

Resources:
 * Background Reading: [[file:ElementsoftheGothicRomanceNovel.doc]]
 * Reading Questions for The Scarlet Letter: [[file:scarletletterquestionstwopage.doc]]
 * [[file:ScarletLetterCritique1.pdf]]
 * [[file:ScarletLetterCritique2.pdf]]
 * [[file:ScarletLetterCritique3.pdf]] ||


 * **Reading:**
 * Reader's Block?[[file:flowchartofbehavior.pdf]]
 * [[file:purpose-audience.pdf]]
 * [[file:howtoreadastory.pdf]]
 * [[file:plotchart.pdf]]
 * [[file:Characterization.doc]]
 * [[file:101GreatBooksRecommendedforCollege.doc]]
 * Reading a Novel Tips: [[file:HowtoReadaNovel.doc]] || **Writing:**
 * GREAT page for Writing: []
 * Writer's Block?[[file:HowToBeginanEssay.pdf]]
 * Sample APA Paper: [[file:sampleAPApaper.doc]]
 * Transitions List:[[file:TransitionsList.pdf]]
 * [|11th Grade Rubric] (this link will take you to a page containing a MS Word Document you can download)
 * [[file:ActivitiesResumeTemplate.doc]] ||
 * **Literature:**
 * [|Textbook]: Check out student tools
 * http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/
 * American Literary Periods
 * [[file:literaryarchetypes.doc]]
 * COLOR Symbolism: [[file:color symbolism chart.pdf]] || 21st Century Skills:
 * http://www.thinkfinity.org/StudentHome.aspx
 * Introduction Activities and Contract:[[file:IntroToWikispaces.doc]]
 * Consent Form: [[file:consentform.pdf]]
 * [|College Applicants, Beware: Your Facebook Page is Showing]:Article in the Wall Street Journal, 2008
 * WORD HELP: [[file:Advanced Word Features and Tips.doc]]
 * KEYBOARD HELP: [[file:keyboard shortcuts.doc]] ||
 * **SAT Vocabulary:**
 * || **Research**:
 * [[file:udlibsearch.doc]] ||
 * **Grammar:**

Focus Areas: Helpful Sites for Grammar

General Resources:
 * http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/
 * Grammar Girl's Downloadable Podcasts on Grammar: http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/About.aspx
 * Parts of Speech Poem || **Summer Reading:**

Required for ALL Courses:
 * "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James
 * [] ||
 * **Independent Reading:**

|| **Poetry**:

Notes on Poets ||