WELCOME TO WORLD LITERATURE

WL Scholars,

Welcome to World Literature and Composition!  We are going to have a great semester together!

Here’s your homework for tonight:

Homework

Monday (August 22):  Study for Vocabulary Unit #2 Review Game tomorrow and earn extra-credit points on your quiz on Wednesday.

 

 

 

AMERICAN LITERATURE FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

 

 

AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY GUIDE FOR THE FINAL EXAM

 

Directions:  Please review for the final exam:

 

Colonial Period:

 

1.  Anne Bradstreet “To My Dear and Loving Husband”
2. Edward Taylor:  “Huswifery)
3. Puritan Plain Style

 

American Renaissance and Civil War:

 

1. Devil and Tom Walker
2. Minister’s Black Veil
3. Fall of Usher
4. Self Reliance
5. Civil Disobedience
6. Dickinson’s Poetry (pp.408-417)
7. Walt Whitman’s Poetry (pp.426-436)
8. Gettysburg
9. The Notorious Jumping Frog…
10. Story of an Hour
11. The First Seven Years

Know:  Characteristics of American Modernism and Naturalism

Week of April 30-May 4

April 30: * Read: pp. 1003-1006 (Cartoons & NY Times Editorials); answer questions on pp. 1006-1007.  Due beginning of class tomorrow on May 1, 2012.

                  *Voc. Unit  # 13 Exers.

               **Writing Lab:  ePortfolio Collaboration & Assignment ( Continue working to develop pages) and linking pages.

                                               

 

May 1: *O’Connor

              *Voc. Unit #13 Exers.

May 2: Malamud

                *Writing Lab:  ePortfolio Collaboration & Assignment:  This will be your final day in class in the lab.  Your ePortfolio is due this Friday, May 4.  PLAN ON TURNING IN YOUR RUBRIC DURING CLASS.

                                            

 

May 3:  Plath

• Vocabulary Unit #13 Quiz

May 4:  Assessment:  NYT, O’Connor, Malamud, & Plath.  EPORTFOLIO PROJECT IS ALSO DUE BY 3:45 PM.

Chopin, Arlington, Faulkner Study Guide

Chopin, Robinson, Faulkner Study Guide

 

American Realism:  1850-1914

Author:  Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

Lit. Work:  “Story of an Hour”

Known for the following:  1. author who pioneered feminism in American literature

                                              2. stories/issues that deal w/ scandalous subject: infidelity, societal suppression of women.

 

American Naturalism:  1850-1914

*Focuses on amorality of the universe; morals matter less than circumstances.

Author:  Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

Lit. Work:  “Richard Cory”

Known for…       1. Resisting romantic sentimentality

                             2.  Energizing fin de siècle poetry.

American Modernism:  1914-1945

*Literary period that deals w/the text and how readers respond to the text.  Writers experiment w/ narrative structure.

Author:  William Faulkner (1897-1962)

Lit. Work:  “A Rose for Emily”

Known for…       1. Nobel Prize

                             2. Stream of Consciousness

Literary Terms

Conflict                 Ambiguity           Plot        Setting                  Characters          Speaker                               Irony

External Conflict               Narrative Poetry              Verbal   Irony                     Situational Irony              

Internal Conflict                                Dramatic Irony                  Philosophical Argument                  Stream of Consciousness

American Literature for April 26

Hi!

Come to class prepared with the following:

1. Take the Voc. Unit #12 Quiz.

2. Have a two-three page “story of an hour” reflective essay.  Refer to the writing assignment at the end of Chopin’s story and write accordingly.  This is also available online in Pearson in the “After You Read” writing section.

3. Complete your reading of Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” in lit. book, also available online in Pearson.

AMERICAN LITERATURE ePORTFOLIO PROJECT

AMERICAN LITERATURE ePORTFOLIO PROJECT INSTRUCTIONS

 My Fellow AmericanLitanders,

 

I do expect you to create a large portion of the project at home.  Below are the instructions to help you successfully navigate your way through google docs.

 

Instructional link:

https://sites.google.com/site/wheelermediacenterportfolio/home/GoogleSitesPortfolioLinkedAWilliams.pdf

 

Model Portfolio link:

http://students.ed.uiuc.edu/ekim7/eport/index.htm

 

Georgia Common Core Standards link:

http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards

 

America at the Turn of the Century

April 23:  *Writing Lab:  ePortfolio Collaboration & Assignment

H.W.: Complete Voc. Unit #12 Exers.

April 24: *Chopin

Voc. Unit #12 Exers.

April 25:  *Faulkner

                *Writing Lab:  ePortfolio Collaboration & Assignment

                 * EOCT PREP (CRITICAL READING DOMAINS)

 

April 26:  Frost

• Vocabulary Unit #12 Quiz

 

April 27:  Assessment:  Chopin, Faulkner, Frost

All About Twain: American Literary Comedian

Everyone:

Read pp. 564-582, which presents a variety of account about Twain.  Answer all questions on p. 582.

Some (if this applies to you):

Revise your Lincoln/Lee Compare/Contrast Essay and bring both the original and the updated copy to class with you.  YOU MUST PRINT A HARD COPY BEFORE ENTERING CLASS.  POINTS WILL BE DEDUCTED FOR PRINTING IN CLASS.

Only the Brave Soul(s):

E.C.  Based on the assignment on p. 565, let’s change it & make it FUN:

Prepare and deliver an original 60 sec. comedic script!  Keep it clean but make it funny.

Caveat:  You only get the E.C. if you make the audience laugh (spontaneously, not pre-scripted)!

Mme. Williams

 

 

America Divided: Prep. for April 17

AMERICAN LITERATURE APRIL 16, 2012

 

 

1. Read Lincoln’s speech and Lee’s letter, starting on p. 539-542.  Complete the writing prompt on p. 543:  I expect a one-page typed, double –spaced essay.  Due @ beginning of class tomorrow.

 

2. H.W. Voc. Unit  #11 Exers. Due beginning of class tomorrow.

Defining an Era: Projecting Your Voice

H.W for April 16.:  Save and be able to access electronically a copy of all written assignments/projects (including collaborative work).

April 16:  *Lincoln & the Gettysburg Address

                   *Writing Lab:  ePortfolio Collaboration & Assignment

                                                EOCT PREP (LITERARY TERMS)

    H.W.:  Complete Voc. Unit #10 for Tuesday 4/17.

April 17:  *Mark Twain

• Voc. Unit #10 Exers.

April 18:  Kate Chopin

• Voc. Unit #10 Exers.
• *Writing Lab:  ePortfolio Collaboration & Assignment
•                             EOCT PREP (GENRES)

April 19:  Kate Chopin

• Vocabulary Unit #10 Quiz

April 20:  Assessment:  Lincoln, Twain, & Chopin