LITERATURE

Unit One: A Gathering of Voices

• ORIGIN MYTHS
• PURITANISM
  • Study Guide--what to review
• RATIONALISM

American Literary Movements:

• PowerPoint
• HANDOUT: "THE GIST LIST"
• HANDOUT: GRADING GUIDE

The Crucible

• Background Information/PowerPoint Project
  • Assignment Sheet
  • Topic Assignments
  • Grading Guide
• Study Guide Questions--All Acts
• POWERPOINT
• Review for Test
  • The Crucbile Review--online game/quiz
  • Jeopardy Review #1--online game
  • Jeopardy Review #2--online game

Unit Two: A Growing Nation

• American Renaissance: Romanticism--check out this introductory PowerPoint.

The Awakening

• SOCIAL ETIQUETTE--During this time, men and women followed strict social structures. See how Victorian society behaved.
• PowerPoint: The Parts of a Story (Elements of Fiction)
• "An Artist Must Create": Edna's Awakening. Create a  visual depiction of a phase in Edna's Awakening
• REVIEW: Foldable

ITEMS BELOW CORRESPOND WITH OLD TEXTBOOK.

Unit Two: From Colony to Country

• BRADSTREET POEMS
• "Examination of Sarah Good"
• "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
• Test Review
  • Constructed Responses
  • Short Answer Questions

Of Mice and Men

• PowerPoint
  • Notes--on Modernism and the Novel itself

As I Lay Dying

• Yoknapatawpha County--link to map/locations visited by the Bundren family.
• Southern Gothic--link to powerpoint, defining the grotesque.

The Great Gatsby

• The Jazz Age and Fitzgerald--learn more about the times and the book's author.
• Women in the 1920s--learn more about the Flapper.

The Catcher in the Rye

• Conformity--learn about the late 40s/early 50s and the need to conform to the standards of the "perfect" family.
• Elements of Literature--highlighted discussion points regarding the novels structure.

WRITING
WRITING RUBRIC

• SCORING GUIDE--Here is a copy of the holistic scoring guide used for Common Assessment essays, as well as others.

WRITING INTRODUCTION

• AUTHORITY LIST
• THE RHETORICAL SITUATION (POWERPOINT SLIDE)
• CREATING TITLES
• FORMATTING GUIDELINES FOR PAPERS

Observing Essay (Descriptive)

• SHOW DON'T TELL--focus on descriptive techniques (action, dialogue, sensory details) to develop one's writing style
  • SHOW DON'T TELL--Note/Information Sheet
  • ACTIVITY--choose three "tell" sentences to rewrite as "show" statements
• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE--writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally; the language goes beyond its ordinary sense or meaning. The reader must interpret figurative language to comprehend the meaning. The many types of figurative language are known as figures of speech.
  • PRETEST --What do you know? What do you need to learn?
  • POWERPOINT --Take notes over terms. Create a three-column sheet, one each for TERM, DEFINITION, and EXAMPLE.
    • NOTE SHEET for POWERPOINT
  • Definition of Terms
  • Figurative Language Web Sites
  • Play BATTLESHIP
  • Other GAMES
• CLICHÉS TO AVOID
• DIALOGUE AND PARAGRAPH RULES--how to format properly
• DESCRIPTIVE TECHNIQUES and ASSIGNMENT
  • POWERPOINT--lists the criteria necessary for your descriptive essay
  • BEAUTIFUL ASSIGNMENT--assignment sheet

Remembering Essay (Narrative)

• REMEMBERING TECHNIQUES
  • PowerPoint listing the techniques/requirements for the essay.
• IN MEDIAS RES--how to "start in the middle"
  • Example essay that uses the "in medias res" technique (along with flashback); "In Medias Res" is where you start right before the climatic moment, right in the middle, and then give the backstory that led you to that place.
• ASSIGNMENT
  • ASSIGNMENT SHEET
  • PEER REVIEW SHEET

Author's STYLE

• 14 ELEMENTS of STYLE--PowerPoint
• Reading Selections: Where the Wild Things Are and Green Eggs and Ham
  • COMPARE/CONTRAST CHART
• MIMICKING STYLE: Rewrite a children's story. Be sure to chart the style first, and analyze the story according to the 14 elements discussed. Be sure to change the content but maintain the style when creating your story.
  • SAMPLE.

• PHOTO STORY. Creating a Photo Story or using Movie Maker?

  • Here are some music web sites that might yield samples.

  • Here is a PowerPoint to help you use Move Maker.

  • Photo Story--You can download this program for free. Also, it's the "simplified" version of Movie Maker.

Annotated Bibliography

• American Authors. Select an American author, focusing on a specific work (poems and short stories the easiest to cover since you have to read/respond to one of the author's selections; if you cover a novel, you must read that novel).
  • Here is a link highlighting American authors (also organized according to literary movements).
  • Here is the packet for the project.
  • Here is the grading guide for the project.