Browse the slave narratives. Choose your favorite. Describe what your favorite says. Why is it your favorite?
Monday, December 13, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Huck Finn and Jim
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Satire in Shrek 2
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Kindred Project Questions
Walk around the room and look at different projects. Answer these questions:
1. Post your favorite found poem. Why do you like it?
2. Which group had your favorite picture? Describe the picture.
3. Write down one quote from another group. Analyze the quote. What does it tell us about the story, the themes or the characters?
4. After looking at the descriptions about the three characters, what conflict do you think is going to develop among them?
Kindred Short Story
Go to this link. Read the information for the short story assignment. Take your homework from last night as a starting point. Start to brainstorm who your main character is going to be by filling out the worksheet Character Questionnaire.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Slavery and America Today
How did slavery change America? What are the effects of slavery that we see in today's society?
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Satire
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Note to a Critical Friend Template
Dear ______________,
I would like to persuade ___________________ to _____________________
The greatest obstacles to this happening seem to be ___________________________
I am also worried about _____________________
What do you think of ________________________?
Thanks for your help.
Sincerely,
_________________
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Thoreau's Walden
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Calvin and Hobbes/ Music
Go to google and find a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip that shows a Transcendental idea. Post it in your blog.
Homework: Look at your favorite comic. Find an example that shows a Transcendental idea. Post the comic and explain how it expresses the idea.
Homework Part II: Find a song that shows the ideas of Transcendentalism. Post the lyrics. Bring in the song to play in the class.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Annotated Bibliography
Go to this link
Read the information about Annotated Bibliography. Today, decide on a topic for the Year Long Civil Disobedience Project with your group. Each person should find one source and do one annotation with the summary, assessment and reflection. Post it in the blog.
American Literary Periods
How is the Colonial Period different from the Romantic Period? What are some characteristics of Transcendentalism? How did the Historical Context affect these Literary Periods?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
The Glass Menagerie
Monday, October 18, 2010
Civil Disobedience Project
Pick your group. Brainstorm three ideas. Post the three ideas. Link to one .edu or .gov article for each idea. Cite the article using MLA format.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Common Themes
Go to wordle.net
Copy and paste the essay by Thoreau, the speech by Martin Luther King Jr. and the song by Rage Against the Machine into wordle. The words that are the biggest are the most common words. What do you think this says about the themes of their writing? How do they all connect?
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Teen Suicide
Why do so many teenagers commit suicide? Find a .gov or .edu site that has information about teenage suicide; make a link to it in your blog.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Favorite Presentation Today
After watching the presentations today, which one was your favorite? Why?
How do you think your Crucible Project turned out? What could you improve on for next time?
Monday, September 27, 2010
Respond to Arthur Miller's Quote
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Reflection
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
MLA Citations, Works Cited
Look at this link.
1. Take two quotes from your rough draft and use the correct format for in-text citations.
2. Start your Works Cited page by giving me two sources in the correct format.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
The Hazy Line Between Fact and Fiction
Listen to this excerpt or read it. Where should a writer draw the line between fact and fiction in a memoir? Does Tobias Wolff lie about who he really was? Does it matter?
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
This Boy's Life
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Mo Money Mo Problems
Monday, March 22, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Intelligent Design
Read part of this article. What is Intelligent Design? What are some arguments against Evolution?
Take a look at Liberty University's Creation Studies Department. What could one study in this department?
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Logical Fallacies in Oral Addresses
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Huck's Tough Decision
Friday, January 29, 2010
Satirical Cartoons
Post a link to a Satirical Cartoon. What is it satirizing? Is it using parody, exaggeration or non-congruity?
Friday, January 22, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Norman Mailer's View of Women Writers
Here is a quote from the famous writer Norman Mailer:
“I have a terrible confession to make-- I have nothing to say about any of the talented women who write today. Out of what is no doubt a fault in me, I do not seem able to read them. Indeed I doubt if there will be a really exciting woman writer until the first whore becomes a call girl and tells her tale. At the risk of making a dozen devoted enemies for life, I can only say that the sniffs I get from the ink of the women are always fey, old-hat, Quaintsy Goysy, tiny, too dykily psychotic, crippled, creepish, fashionable, frigid, outer-Baroque, maquille in mannequin’s whimsy, or else bright and stillborn. Since I’ve never been able to read Virginia Woolf, and am sometimes willing to believe that it can conceivably be my fault, this verdict may be taken fairly as the twisted tongue of a souted tasted, at least by those readers who do not share with me the ground of departure-- that a good novelist can do without everything but the remnant of his balls.”
Look up the words you don't know. What is his view? What are his prejudices and stereotypes? Do you agree with any of his ideas? What ideas do you disagree with?
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
The Yellow Wallpaper
What happened to the narrator of the story? List 10 concrete details the author uses to show what happened to the narrator.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
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