Welcome to 11E - American Lit

 

Here are important documents and links for our class:

 

General Info:

1. 11E Class Syllabus 2015

2. Parent Information - Google Form

3. How to Study - Tips and Tricks

 

MP1: Foundations of the American Landscape

1. Journal Instructions [WS]

2. Cell Phone Use Article [PDF]

3. How to Annotate

4. Whitman "What is the Grass" [Poem]

5. Sherman Alexie [Poems]

6. Thomas King - "The Truth about Stories" [Excerpt]

7. Thoreau - Walden [Excerpts]

   1. Tiny Homes Assignment [WS]

8. Goldsworthy - Rivers and Tides [DVD Doc]

9. MP1 One Page Project - Instructions [WS]

10. Faulkner - "The Bear" [Text] DO NOT PRINT @ SCHOOL!

11. Berry - "Native Hill" [Excerpt]

12. White - "Once More to the Lake" [Text]

13. Detropia Documentary - [Assignment]

14. MP1 Final Project - [Assignment]

15. MP1 Synthesis Essay (Gentrification) - [Assignment]

16. Essay Rubric Breakdown - [Excel Spreadsheet]

17. How to Use Quotes - Instructions [WS]

 

MP2: What does it mean to be an American?

1. Coates - Between the World and Me [Excerpt]

2. Audre Lorde - "Power" [Poem]

3. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly [album]

   1. Lyrics Packet

4. Whitman - "Song of Myself" [Poem Excerpt]

   1. Whitman Volvo Advertisement [Video]​

5. Lamar - Whitman Comparison Essay [GDOC]​

6. Zora N. Hurston - "How it feels to be Colored me" [Essay]

7. College Essay - Assignment [WS]

8. Dickinson - Poems

9. Poetry Project - Instructions [WS]

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MP3: How to Achieve the American Dream: Theory

1. American Dream - Questions [WS]

2. Franklin - Autobiography [Excerpt]

   1. Franklin Reading Guide

   2. Evaluating Sources [GDoc]

3. Douglass - "Self-Made Man" Speech [Text]

   1. Douglass Reading Guide

4. Thesis / Intro Paragraph Construction - Instructions [WS]

5. Emerson -"Self-Reliance" [Excerpts]

   1. Reading Guide [WS]

6. Steele - "Black and Middle Class" [PDF]

7. Into the Wild [Film]

   1. Viewing Guide [WS]

 

MP4: Achieving the American Dream at any Cost

1. How to Annotate a Book [WS]

2. College Project [GDOC]

3. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby [Novel]

   1. Gatsby Reading Guide

   2. The Hollow Men [Poem]

   3. Gatsby Paragraph Analysis

   4. Gatsby Project

4. Hughes - "Bop" [Short Story]

5. Hughes - Poems

6. Miller - Death of a Salesman [Play]

   1. DoaSM Reading Guide

7. Welcome to Suburbia:

   1. Rows to McMansion 1900 - 2000 [PDF]

   2. Levittown and [Video]

   3. Ted Talk - Suburban Problems [Video]

   4. Arcade Fire - [Video]

8. Chau - "Tiger Mom" [Article]

9. The Free School / Sudbury School [Video]

10. Crafting - PBS Doc

11. Gatsby / Death Comparison Essay [WS]

12. Bell - Bigger, Stronger, Faster [DVD Doc]

 

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Past Unit: 

1. College Project - Instructions [WS

2. Whitman - "Song of Myself" [Poem Excerpts]

   1. Levi's Go Forth Ads [America] [O'Pioneers]

3. Whitman - "Drumtaps" [Poem Excerpts]

4. Synthesis Argument AP History - Sources [Packet]

5. Zora N. Hurston - "How it feels to be Colored me" [Essay]

6. Steele - "Black and Middle Class" [Essay]

   1. Riley - Please Stop Helping Us [Excerpt]

7. Hughes - "Bop" [Short Story]

8. Hughes - Poems

9. Dickinson - Poems

10. Poetry Project - Instructions [Web Link]

11. O'Brien - The Things They Carried [Novel Excerpts]

12. Final Exam - Study Guide [WS]