Thur/Friday March 12/13

Fitzgerald Commentary presentations

Vocab 31-40

Hemingway--differences between his style and Fitzgerald's

Watch movie

Wed/Thur March 3, 4--Gatsby passages, themes

HOMEWORK:
1. Read chapters 7, 8, 9 (finish) before class next Tue or Wed
PDF The Great Gatsby
2. Review vocabulary words 21-30 for quiz Monday

TODAY
1. Write vocabulary story with partner using 5 words from 21-30
2. 20 min reading time
3. Discuss Gatsby passages: 16 (solstice), 21(beautiful little fool), 38 (he was a gentleman), 96 (how do you live there alone?), 99 (push you around in a cloud), 101 (Daisy tumbled short of his dreams)
4. Watch Gatsby, Baz Luhrman/Leo DeCap 

RESOURCES:
"In Another Country"
"A Clean, Well-lighted Place"
Hemingway Code Hero
PDF The Great Gatsby

Audiobook, The Great Gatsby 
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 1
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 2
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 3
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 4
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 5
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 6
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 7
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 8
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 9

Hemingway Code Hero; Gatsby Movie

Hemingway Code Hero

HOMEWORK:
Read chaptes 5, 6, 7 before class next Tue or Wed
PDF The Great Gatsby

TODAY
1. Hemingway Code Hero
2. 30 min reading time (or review vocabulary, if you prefer)

Hand in your questions

3. Color mark Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-lighted Place"
    Take notes/annotate for future reference


RESOURCES:
"In Another Country"
"A Clean, Well-lighted Place"
Hemingway Code Hero
PDF The Great Gatsby

Audiobook, The Great Gatsby 
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 1
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 2
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 3
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 4
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 5
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 6
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 7
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 8
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 9

STUDY GUIDE FOR GATSBY QUIZ, CHAPTERS 3, 4

Tue/Wed 25/26th

THE GREAT GASPY

HOMEWORK
Review Study Guide (recommended)
STUDY GUIDE FOR GATSBY QUIZ, CHAPTERS 3, 4 (10pt. quiz)
All questions will be taken from this list (be sure to check list after 8th period enters questions)
Review SAT Vocabulary: The Great Gatsby ALL words 11-20 for easy quiz next time
Read chaptes 5, 6, 7 before class next Tue or Wed
PDF The Great Gatsby

TODAY
1. 40 min reading time (or review vocabulary, if you prefer)
2. Enter at least one of your questions from chapter 3 or chapter 4 into Study Guide
STUDY GUIDE FOR GATSBY QUIZ, CHAPTERS 3, 4
Hand in your questions

3. Color mark Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-lighted Place"
    Take notes/annotate for future reference


RESOURCES:
Some students might like to reread In Another Country at some point, so here it is:
    In Another Country

The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 1
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 2
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 3
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 4
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 5
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 6
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 7
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 8
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 9

Great Gatsby, chapter 1

HOMEWORK:
1. Read Gatsby chapter 2
PDF The Great Gatsby
  (public domain since it was published more than 75 years ago)
2. Memorize vocabulary for quiz next time (words 1-10 SAT Vocabulary: The Great Gatsby ALL)

CLASSWORK:
1. Reading check, chapter 1
2. Commentary passages--In My Younger and More Vulnerable Years  and Daisy's House
3. Gatsby Vocabulary --share example sentences
4. Gatsby Vocabulary Game


Read Gatsby chapter 1
THE VOCABULARY IN GATSBY IS APPROXIMATELY FRESHMAN IN COLLEGE LEVEL (AT WILLAMETTE OR STANFORD, FOR EXAMPLE).
Below, you will find extensive lists of vocabulary for all of the chapters (approximately 30 words per chapter, 250 in all).
I would recommend reviewing the vocabulary before reading a chapter.
Another thing you could do would be to print the list of vocabulary and refer to it as you read.
Quizlet, Gatsby Vocabulary, Chapter 1
Quizlet, Gatsby Vocabulary, Chapter 2, 3, 4
Quizlet, Gatsby Vocabulary, Chapter 5
Quizlet, Gatsby Vocabulary, Chapter 6
Quizlet, Gatsby Vocabulary, Chapter 7
Quizlet, Gatsby Vocabulary, Chapter 8, 9

The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 1
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 2
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 3
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 4
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 5
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 6
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 7
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 8
The Great Gatsby Audiobook, chapter 9

F. Scott Fitzgerald--Great American Dreamer

Thur/Fri, February 13/14

HOMEWORK: Read Gatsby chapter 1
PDF The Great Gatsby
  (public domain since it was published more than 75 years ago)

Reading check, pp. 693-707

Gatsby Vocabulary
Create Google Doc for Gatsby Vocabulary
Go to the Web and find definitions and example sentences.
Copy definitions and example sentences into a Quizlet deck
SAT Vocabulary: The Great Gatsby ALL

Read Gatsby chapter 1
THE VOCABULARY IN GATSBY IS APPROXIMATELY FRESHMAN IN COLLEGE LEVEL (AT WILLAMETTE OR STANFORD, FOR EXAMPLE).
Below, you will find extensive lists of vocabulary for all of the chapters (approximately 30 words per chapter, 250 in all).
I would recommend reviewing the vocabulary before reading a chapter.
Another thing you could do would be to print the list of vocabulary and refer to it as you read.
Quizlet, Gatsby Vocabulary, Chapter 1
Quizlet, Gatsby Vocabulary, Chapter 2, 3, 4
Quizlet, Gatsby Vocabulary, Chapter 5
Quizlet, Gatsby Vocabulary, Chapter 6
Quizlet, Gatsby Vocabulary, Chapter 7
Quizlet, Gatsby Vocabulary, Chapter 8, 9

THUR/FRI--COMMENTARY

HOMEWORK: We will have 50 minutes of class time today to finish the  first draft of your Commentary (5 pts.) If that is not enough time for you, work on it at home.
HOMEWORK over the weekend:
     1. Finish final draft of Commentary (20 pts.)
     2. Complete Commentary checklist and self-evaluation (5 points)
 MONDAY'S HW: Read Intro to Modern Age in The American Experience (pp. 693-707)
         Read Intro to Hemingway in The American Experience (pp. 720, 721)

CLASSWORK:
Type 2-3 page double-spaced Commentary (see handout) on a poem by Emily Dickinson
or Walt Whitman

   Example: Spring and Fall--to a Young Child
     We will work on your Commentary in class today
         Draft 1 due Today (5 pts) (I will simply come around and check to verify progress
     We will revise on Thur/Fri during class
         Final draft due Monday, Feb 10, 11:59 PM (20 pts.)

Whitman Poems
When I Heard the Learned Astronomer, by Walt Whitman
Top Ten Whitman Poems
Dickinson Poems
 I died for beauty, by Emily Dickinson
Some keep the sabbath
I cannot live with you
Top 15 Dickinson Poems

TUE/WED Feb 4/5

HOMEWORK: We will have 50 minutes of class time Thur/Friday to finishthe  first draft of your Commentary (5 pts.) If that is not enough time for you, work on it at home.
HOMEWORK over the weekend:
     1. Finish final draft of Commentary (20 pts.)
     2. Complete Commentary checklist and self-evaluation (5 points)
 MONDAY'S HW: Read Intro to Modern Age in The American Experience (pp. 693-707)
         Read Intro to Hemingway in The American Experience (pp. 720, 721)
CLASSWORK:
Type 2-3 page double-spaced Commentary (see handout) on a poem by Emily Dickinson
or Walt Whitman

   Example: Spring and Fall--to a Young Child
     We will work on your Commentary in class today
         Draft 1 due Thur/Fri  (5 pts)
     We will revise on Thur/Fri during class
         Final draft due Monday, Feb 10, 11:59 PM (20 pts.)
         NOTE: You will have 50 minutes during class to finish.

Whitman Poems
When I Heard the Learned Astronomer, by Walt Whitman
Top Ten Whitman Poems
Dickinson Poems
 I died for beauty, by Emily Dickinson
Some keep the sabbath
I cannot live with you
Top 15 Dickinson Poems

Monday, February 3

I died for beauty, by Emily Dickinson

Thursday, January 30

HOMEWORK:
Read all Emily Dickinson poems in American Experience, pages 368-390
Emily Dickinson

Some keep the sabbath

I died for beauty

Tue/Wed, last week of January (the daffodils are ready to start opening!)

HOMEWORK: Read all of Whitman's poems in the Anthology

When I Heard the Learned Astronomer, by Walt Whitman

What is the message of the poem?
   In what way does the word choice lead to your interpretation?

An archetypal reading of the poem

HOMEWORK:
Read all Whitman poems in American Experience and come to class prepared to tell the class which is your favorite, and why.

Top Ten Whitman Poems

Welcome to Semester 2!

Second Semester Class Syllabus


Song of the Open Road, Whitman

I Am Waiting, Ferlinghetti

What is the American Dream? Why aren't some of us able to achieve it?

January 14

FINAL EXAM--HUCK FINN TEST
ESSAY DUE AT FIRST OF FINAL EXAM PERIOD

HUCKLEBERRY FINN SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT--ESSAY
  Huckleberry Finn Argument Essay--Prompts
  Huckleberry Finn Argument Essay--Supplemental Readings
     Don't Censor the N-Word, by Leonard Pitts
          N-word CBS news article
     Charlotte Perkins Gilman biographical information (author of The Yellow Wallpaper)
        Panther Rilke's poem is very similar to The Yellow Wallpaper

*Feel free to find other sources, so long as you cite Huckleberry Finn at least twice and one of the other sources at least once (these are absolute minimums)

GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR EVERYTHING YOU EVER WRITE:

Before you start, be sure that you come up with an idea that you feel strongly about. Remember, all good writing is filled with passion. If you don't feel strongly about it, find another topic.

Your first sentence should engage the reader (a "hook.")
Write a short (or longer) introduction that pulls the reader into your topic.
Write a strong thesis (often the last sentence, but not necessarily).
   Thesis must be very specific and capable of being defended/supported
   Thesis must be interesting

Write at least three paragraphs supporting your thesis/main idea.

Each paragraph should have between 6-11 sentences (roughly).
Each paragraph should have a strong idea (and different ideas should be in different paragraphs)
Each idea of yours must have evidence backing up your assertion
    Quote from the book that supports what you're saying in
     Explain how the quote supports your idea
         Elaborate (explain for at least two sentences)

Write a conclusion that sums up your ideas and, if possible, leaves the reader thinking about your topic in a new way.

January, 9 Huck Finn

IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY DONE SO, FINISH HUCK FINN OVER THE WEEKEND

You will have half of all class time next week to work on your essay.

HUCKLEBERRY FINN SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT--ESSAY
  Huckleberry Finn Argument Essay--Prompts
  Huckleberry Finn Argument Essay--Supplemental Readings
     Don't Censor the N-Word, by Leonard Pitts
     Charlotte Perkins Gilman biographical information (author of The Yellow Wallpaper)
        Panther

 N-word CBS news article

*Feel free to find other sources, so long as you cite Huckleberry Finn at least twice and one of the other sources at least once (these are minimums)