for Thursday, Oct 30, have your op/ed pieces ready to turn in. By class time make sure you have read "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. Be able to discuss the tone, audience and purpose. The selection is in your red Lit. book on page 326
Read about Benjamin Franklin on pages 138-148.
Be prepared for a quiz . I will be at a county meeting but Mrs. Hajduk will give you the quiz.
After reading "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" choose five rhetoric strategies from Edward's sermon and give a specific example(quote) for each strategy.
Read intro to "A Nation is Born"---pp. 128-135.
Read Act II of The Crucible and be prepared to take a quiz over acts i and II on Monday. Vocab.1 quiz will be on Wednesday.
Govenor's Honors----meeting on Monday afternoon in the auditorium at 3:30------if you are interested please attend.
Research for background information the relationship between the McCarthy era hearings and the play that Arthur Miller wrote, The Crucible. Also, read in your American Literature red textbooks pages 1234-1237. This is the beginning of Act I and gives you valuable information. We will begin reading the play in class on Wednesday, so look over the parts, note their lenghth, and be prepared to sign up for your part when you come to class on Wednesday.
Also, begin doing the exercises in your vocabulary book for vocab. 1.
For tuesday, august 26, read the bio. of William Bradford on page 70. Also ,read thr excerpt from Of Plymouth Plantation on pages 78-84. On page 85, answer questions 2-6, adding tone and audience to the purpose asked abouy in question #2.
For some reason the system will not let me attach this article. Go to google and type in national geographic the real story of jamestown. It is a 10 page article.
read the following:Download jamestown_national_geographic_magazine.htm
In your red american literature textbook read:
from History of Virginia pages 12-17
Also, the biography of Smith page 70
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For thursday, aug. 21 read "Joan Didion:On Keeping a Notebook" beginning on p. 90 in The Norton Reader.
For Friday, aug. 22 rewrite your paragraph on Mubarak Dahir's article ,using your worksheet on basic questions for rhetorical analysis.
Begin reading 1776 and answer study questions as you read. Study questions are due on September 18th.
We will discuss your reading of the introductory material in your American Lit. book on thursday.
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