General Class Information:
Course Syllabus & Policies
Laptop Policy
Opt-Out Policy
AP Central (College Board Website)
Assorted Online Resources:
American Rhetoric
Literary Terms Flashcards
ACT Practice Questions
SAT Question of the Day
New York Times Learning Network
Vocab King Game
Princeton Review Vocabulary Flashcards
SAS Writing
New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest
Grammar Resource Website (Comnet.edu)
Intro. to Rhetoric & Satire:
Satire Handout
Gioia's "Summer Storm"
Dave Barry article on modern art
Onion News Network clip on wind energy
Kids in the Hall clip: Sarcasm Guy
"Put a Bird on It" from Portlandia
"Whole Foods Parking Lot"
"Peyton Manning Unitd Way SNL spoof"
Group Satire Project
Point/Counterpoint Assignment (due 10/21)
Point/counterpoint Example from The Onion
Collaborative Debate Discussion Google Doc
The Loved One
Vocabulary list
Questions: Chapters 1-2
Kipling's "White Man's Burden"
Eliot's "The Hollow Men"
Found Themes in _The Loved One_
Metacritical Discussion Preparation
Loved One Take-Home Essay Assignment
Misc. Handouts
AP Essay Improvement Chart
AP Essay Writing Gold
Class Survey 9/21
Rhetorical Analysis Topic Sentence Formula & Thesis Comparison Chart
Shaw Sample 4 & 7 Essays
Sample Paper Outline
Body Paragraph Handout
Color-Coded Body Paragraph
MLA & Quote Lead-ins/outs
Subject/Verb Agreement Quiz
Noun-Pronoun Agreement Quiz
Misplaced/Dangling Modifiers Examples
Verb Agreement, Tense, & Parallelism Quiz
Pronoun I/Me; That/Which; Who/Whom Quiz
Clauses & Semi-Colon Quiz
Rhetorical Terms to Know
Fall 2012 Final Exam Information
Spring 2013 Welcome Back Letter
Mid-March Writing Goals
Beowulf Materials
Archaeological Dig into the Poem's Context of Construction
Archaeological Dig Conference Worksheet
Translation Comparison Worksheet
Audio Clip: Old English Prologue and Audio Clip: Seamus Heaney's Prologue
Summaries of Cantos 13-8
Final (Collaborative) Response to Beowulf
Preparing for the Final Bout with Beowulf (Synthesis Essay Prep-Sheet)
Independent Reading Assignments
Introduction & Texts for Selection
Assignment 1
Assignments 2 & 3
Assignments 4 & 5
Assignments 6-10
Canterbury Tales Materials
"Prologue" Pilgrim Presentation Assignment
English Class Structure, Genres, & Physiognomy
English Class Structure with Pilgrims
Chaucer's Heads/Tales Attitudes Chart
"Pardoner" 5 Angles of Rhetorical Analysis
Final Response to Canterubry Tales Assignment
Poetry & Romanticism
John Donne's "Death be not Proud" ; William Wordsworth's "Strange Fits of Passion"
Romanticism Collage Assignment
John Donne's "Meditation 17"
John Donne's "The Flea" and Sir Phillip Sidney's "My True Love Hath My Heart"
John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
Week 3 Lexicographic Chart Assignment
Richard Blanco reading his poem "One Today" at the 2nd Inaguration of Pres. Obama (1/20/13).
History of English Literary Ages
Rape of the Lock Treasure Hunt
Daydream Lyric Essay Assignment
Blake's "Tyger" and "Lamb" from Songs of Innocence/Exeperience
Additional Blake Packet with poems from both Songs of Innocence/Experience and The Marriage of Heaven & Hell
Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" Analysis Assignment
Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"
Waxing Romantic Assignment
Byron's "She Walks in Beauty" and "Apostrophe to the Ocean"
Waxed Romanticism Assignment Rubric
Pride & Prejudice / Heart of Darkness Materials
Pride & Prejudice / Heart of Darkness Archealogical Dig Assignment
Cohorts & Conference Assignment 1 (due Tues., Feb. 5th)
Conference Assignment 2 (due Tues., Feb. 12th)
Conference Assignment 3 (due Thurs., Feb. 14th)
Conference Assignment 4 (due Tues., Feb. 19th)
Conference Assignment 5 (due Tues., Feb. 26th)
Conference 5 Connection Contraption Worksheet
Conference Assignment 6 (due Thurs., March 7th)
Typscript of Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now Permission Letter to Parents
Conference Assignment 7 (due Fri., March 15th)
Lit. Conference Evaluation Form
Synthesis Packet Assignment Rubric
Shakespeare's Hamlet
No Fear Shakespeare Hamlet
LirbriVox Recording; YouTube Version
RSC Hamlet
Positioned/Becoming Code-Switching Identities of Hamlet
Hamlet Act I.3-5 Conference Assignment
Hamlet Act 1 and 2 Scenic Overlook Assignment
Hamlet Act 3.1 Trio
Foucault's "Panopticism"
Hamlet & Fallacies: No Shame Theatre Assignment
Hamlet Final Response Assignment
Final Review Materials & Brave New World
AP Central (College Board Website)
Rhetorical Device/Literary Term Shared & Collaborative Google Doc
Huxley/Wallace Interview pt. 1; pt. 2; pt. 3
Course Review Survey
Utopian Daydream Assignment
Letter of Recommendation Survey