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**Course Resources**

 * Welcome to COURSE RESOURCES!**
 * Page is organized by unit of study
 * Units of study are organized into sections:
 * Readings--class reading assignments
 * Activities--unit activities on wikispaces
 * 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

Article in the Wall Street Journal, 2008 ||
 * **General English Stuff:**
 * [|Textbook]: Check out student tools
 * [[file:sampleAPApaper.doc]]
 * [[file:TransitionsList.pdf]]
 * Learning Objectives (all): [[file:learningobjectivelist.doc]]
 * http://www.thinkfinity.org/StudentHome.aspx
 * American Literary Periods || * **21st Century Skills Stuff: **
 * Intro Activities
 * First Wikispace Questions
 * WikiWednesdays FAQs
 * [[file:samplewikiwednesday.doc]]
 * [[file:consentform.pdf]]
 * Honors 11 TECH SURVEY: [|Click Here to Take the Survey]
 * Pre AP 11 TECH SURVEY: [|Click Here to Take the Survey]
 * [|College Applicants, Beware: Your Facebook Page is Showing]:
 * **SAT Vocabulary:**
 * Cumulative Vocabulary List
 * Review sheets found on CV List || Current Events:
 * [[file:obamavictoryspeech.doc]]
 * [[file:John McCain’s Concession Speech.doc]] ||
 * Grammar:

Focus Areas:
 * Comma Use:
 * [|http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_comma.html]
 * http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm
 * [[file:comma.pdf]]
 * Run-On Sentences:
 * http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/598/02/
 * http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/runons.htm
 * Fragments:
 * http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_frag.html
 * http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/fragments.htm
 * Passive/Active Voice:
 * http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_actpass.html
 * http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/passive.htm
 * Commonly Confused Words:
 * http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/notorious.htm
 * http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_spelhomo.html || Grammar:

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

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 * =====**Unit One: Native Americans** =====
 * Learning Objectives for Native Americans || =====**Unit Two: Settlers in the New World** =====
 * Learning Objectives for Settlers in the New World
 * The Counter Perspective (Unit Connections): [[file:nativeamericansupplementquotes.doc]] ||
 * =====**Unit Three: Puritans** =====
 * Learning Objectives for Puritans

Readings:

Resources:
 * Focus Area: Tone Handout- [[file:ToneWords.pdf]]
 * Excerpt from John Winthrop: [[file:fromAModelofChristianCharity.doc]]
 * Extension Poetry: [[file:BradstreetPoetry.doc]]
 * [|Puritan Background Video] || =====**Unit Four: "The Crucible"** =====
 * Learning Objectives for The Crucible

Readings:
 * Read: [|"The Crucible":Fact of Fiction]
 * Read: [|Why I Wrote the Crucible]
 * [[file:cruciblequotes.xls]]
 * [[file:crucibleinformation.ppt]]

Activities:
 * Literary Terms in The Crucible : Add a definition or example (g.i.g.o.--type in word-- edit, paste, save)
 * Characterization in The Crucible : Add information from class or the text (g.i.g.o.--type in word-- edit, paste, save)
 * Consider this: Discuss the difference between history and literature. What is the purpose and effect of dramatic interpretation? You should be able to support your ideas with information/text from both articles. Be ready to talk about it...
 * Moral Panic in America : Briefly research the concept of moral panic in American history (5-10 minutes)
 * Crucible Discussion

Assessments:
 * The Crucible Essay Directions
 * [|11th Grade Rubric] (this link will take you to a page containing a MS Word Document you can download) ||
 * =====**Unit Five: Enlightenment and Revolution** =====
 * Learning Objectives for Enlightenment and Revolution

Readings:
 * [[file:EnlightenmentorAgeofReason.doc]]
 * [|Color Coded Declaration of Independence]
 * Thomas Paine Reading: from "Common Sense"
 * Ben Franklin Reading: "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America"
 * Second Thomas Paine Reading: "The American Crisis"
 * [|Ten Rules for Winning a Debate]

Activities:
 * Persuasion Unit Debate: Sign Up Chart
 * Persuasion Discussion Board: Check back, we will be discussing different subjects to practice our arguing skills
 * Patrick Henry Reading Activity

Assessments:
 * Persuasion Unit Debate Overview: Directions for Your Upcoming Debate
 * Argumentation Notes
 * Rubric for Persuasion Unit Debate || **Unit Six: Transcendentalism and Romanticism **
 * Learning Objectives for Transcendentalism and Romanticism

Readings:
 * "A Psalm of Life"
 * The Devil and Tom Walker"
 * "from Self Reliance"
 * "from Civil Disobedience"
 * "from Walden"
 * Walt Whitman
 * "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

Resources:
 * What is Transcendentalism?
 * [|American Transcendentalism Web]: Great Resource!
 * [[file:AmericanTranscendentalism.ppt]]
 * [|Roots and Influences]
 * Puritans v. Transcendentalism
 * Dead Poet's Society Film Guide
 * [|Poetry Terms]
 * [|Whitman Archive Site]

Activities:
 * The Devil and Tom Walker Theme posting
 * Transcendentalism in Texts Comparison Chart
 * Modern Transcendentalism Activity
 * Metrical Patterns ||  ||   ||
 * **Unit Seven: Emily Dickinson**

Learning Objectives for Emily Dickinson

Readings:
 * "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: Activities:
 * [|Poetry Terms]
 * Critical Questions for Dickinson
 * Direct Link : [|http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/dickpoems.html]
 * [|Dickinson Resource]
 * [|Moods in Verbs]
 * Dickinson v. Whitman v. Bradstreet: Template that can be used to compare and contrast
 * [[file:CompareContrastSCLIFT.doc]]
 * [[file:DickinsonPractice.doc]]
 * Theme in Emily Dickinson's Poetry || **Unit Eight: Gothic Literature and Romanticism**

Learning Objectives for Gothic and Romanticism

Readings: Literature Book:
 * Historical Background--[[file:HistBackDarkSideofIndividualism.doc]]
 * Author Study-Edgar Allan Poe
 * The Masque of the Red Death--Edgar Allan Poe--[|Online Text]
 * Danse Macabre--Stephen King
 * The Raven--Edgar Allan Poe--[|Interactive Raven]
 * The Fall of the House of Usher--Edgar Allan Poe--[|Animated Interpretation]
 * Dr. Heidegger's Experiment--Nathaniel Hawthorne--[|Online Text]
 * A Rose for Emily--William Faulkner--A Rose for Emily Online Text
 * The Life You Save May Be Your Own--Flannery O'Connor--[|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
 * "A Good Man is Hard to Find"--Flannery O'Connor
 * "Tell Tale Heart"--Edgar Allan Poe--[[file:telltaleheart.doc]]
 * Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Man" (connects to "Masque of the Red Death")

Resources: >
 * [|NPR page for "The Raven"]
 * [|The Simpsons and "The Raven"]
 * Gothic and Romanticism Reading Schedule
 * [[file:howtoreadastory.pdf]]
 * [[file:the_raven_comprehension_handout.doc]]
 * [|Animated "The Tell Tale Heart"]
 * [|Masque of the Red Death Interpretation]
 * Gothic Elements and Poe's Playbook
 * Storyboard Tool: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/
 * http://www.poedecoder.com/-- Recommended by Chad Dixon
 * [|Heroes and Villains in American Cinema]

Honors/Pre-AP Activities:
 * "Annabel Lee" --Edgar Allan Poe--break down the poem
 * "The Philosophy of Composition"
 * Posting on "A Rose for Emily"--Applies to both classes.
 * Life You Save May Be Your Own Posting
 * O'Connor's Purpose

Assessments: ||
 * **Unit Nine: Realism and Naturalism**

Learning Objectives for Realism and Naturalism

Readings: (Lit Book Activities Apply)
 * Nonfiction:
 * Historical Background: A House Divided (558)--take notes
 * Historical Background: Tricksters and Trailblazers (632)--take notes
 * Historical Background: Women's Voices, Women's Lives (742)--take notes
 * Historical Background: The American Dream-Illusion or Reality (820)--take notes
 * Fiction:
 * An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge--Ambrose Bierce (580)
 * The Man Who Was Almost a Man--Richard Wright (1045)
 * The Yellow Wallpaper--Charlotte Perkins Gilman (765)
 * The Story of an Hour--Kate Chopin (783)
 * Poetry:
 * Stanzas on Freedom--James Russell Lowell (574)
 * Free Labor--Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (574)
 * Chicago--Carl Sandburg (824)
 * Richard Cory/Minister Cheevy--Edwin Arlington Robinson (830)

Online Readings: (check for questions/exercises)
 * Fiction:
 * The Open Boat by Stephen Crane
 * Poetry:
 * War is Kind--Stephen Crane
 * A Man Said to the Universe--Stephen Crane
 * from [|The War Prayer]--Mark Twain

Resources:
 * Realism and Naturalism Reading Schedule
 * Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper
 * Gilman on Suffrage
 * Early Moments in the Woman's Rights Movement

Activities:
 * Discussion: The Good Wife's Guide

Assessments: || **Unit Eleven: The Emerging African American Voice**

Learning Objectives for The Emerging African American Voice

Readings: Fiction/Nonfiction:
 * Historical Background: A New Cultural Identity (p. 916)--take notes
 * The Author's Style: Langston Hughes (p. 938)--take notes
 * How it Feels to Be Coloured Me--Zora Neale Hurston (p. 950--LBA)
 * The Lesson--Toni Cade Bambara-- [[file:TheLesson.pdf]]
 * What to The Slave is the Fourth of July?-- Frederick Douglass
 * from Jazz -- Toni Morrison

Poetry:
 * We Wear the Mask--Paul Lawrence Dunbar (p. 835--LBA)
 * Sympathy (p. 835--LBA)
 * I,too--Langston Hughes (p. 924--LBA)
 * Weary Blues--Langston Hughes (p. 924--LBA)
 * Harlem--Langston Hughes (p. 924--LBA)
 * Negro Speaks of Rivers--Langston Hughes
 * My City--James Weldon Johnson (p. 940--LBA)
 * Any Human to Another--Countee Cullen (p. 940--LBA)
 * Yet Do I Marvel-Countee Cullen
 * The Lynching--Claude McKay
 * If We Must Die--Claude McKay (p. 945--LBA)
 * A Black Man Talks of Reaping--Arna Bontemps (p. 945--LBA)
 * Life for My Child is Simple--Gwendolyn Brook (p. 967--LBA)
 * Primer for Blacks--Gwendolyn Brooks (p. 967--LBA)
 * We Real Cool--Gwendolyn Brooks
 * [|Preface to a 20 Volume Suicide Note]--Amiri Baraka

Resources:
 * [|African American Timeline from PBS]
 * [|Time Magazine Article on Douglass]
 * [|What to The Slave is the Fourth of July?] -- Frederick Douglass
 * 20th Century African American Literature Overview: An interpretation

Activities:
 * Lesson Pages for EAAV Poetry

Assessments: ||
 * **Novel Unit: //Adventures of Huckleberry Finn// -Twain**

Learning Objectives for Huck Finn

Readings: Literature Book:
 * Life and Times of Mark Twain (654)
 * from The Autobiography of Mark Twain (658)
 * from Life on the Mississippi (669)


 * ONLINE TEXT:** http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Twa2Huc.html

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

Activities:
 * Huck Finn Questions
 * HF Chapter Analysis
 * Huck Finn Debate

Assessments:
 * HF Essay || =====**Novel Unit: //The Great Gatsby//- Fitzgerald**=====

Readings:

 * ===== ONLINE GATSBY TEXT =====

Activities:

 * =====Chapter Analysis Activity: An editable page for each chapter.=====
 * =====Gatsby Prompt : Answer the question in your own thread.=====

Resources: 

 * =====__ [[image:http://cavsenglish11fall08.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.png width="32" height="32" link="http://cavsenglish11fall08.wikispaces.com/file/view/TheGreatGatsby.ppt"]][| TheGreatGatsby.ppt] __ : A review of the end of Gatsby, symbols, and other interesting info!=====
 * =====THE GREAT GATSBY NOTES : Notes on the book!=====
 * =====The Great Gatsby Questions:[[image:http://cavsenglish11fall08.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png width="32" height="32" link="http://cavsenglish11fall08.wikispaces.com/file/view/Gatsby.doc"]][| Gatsby.doc]=====

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 * **Unit 14: Death of a Salesman**

Film Guide and Assignment || **Unit 15: Hemingway**


 * Hills Like White Elephants**
 * [|Hills Like White Elephants]
 * [[image:http://cavsenglish11fall08.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="http://cavsenglish11fall08.wikispaces.com/file/view/Hills+Like+White+Elephants.pdf"]][| Hills Like White Elephants.pdf]
 * Read this webpage and complete numbers 1-6: http://vccslitonline.cc.va.us/copy_of_hills/stuguide.htm


 * Soldier's Home**
 * [|Hemingway's Stories]: "Soldier's Home", "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place", "In Our Time", from "A Farewell to Arms"
 * [[image:http://cavsenglish11fall08.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="http://cavsenglish11fall08.wikispaces.com/file/view/Hemingway-Solders_Home.pdf"]][| Hemingway-Solders_Home.pdf]
 * Questions: [|http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/soldiershome.htm]


 * The Killers**
 * [|The Killers]
 * [[image:http://cavsenglish11fall08.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="http://cavsenglish11fall08.wikispaces.com/file/view/hemingwaythekillers.pdf"]][| hemingwaythekillers.pdf]
 * Questions: http://www.gs.cidsnet.de/englisch-online/Leistungskurs2/hemingway7.htm

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

Readings:

Resources:
 * [|University of Delaware Special Collections Page: Pound] ||  ||