Course: English 11 American Literature 2016-17 Leo

Topic outline

General
General
- News forum
Semester 1
Semester 1
- August 17/18 Class Plan File
- English 11: American Literature: Course Overview File
- Summer Reading Character Analysis Paragraph 2016 File
- MLA ms format template: MSWord File
  As always, use a template skeptically! Only YOU will be responsible for the formatting of your writing! At the same time, I'm always eager to update the templates I've made for you, so if you catch any problems, let me know!
- MLA ms format template: Pages File
  As always, use a template skeptically! Only YOU will be responsible for the formatting of your writing! At the same time, I'm always eager to update the templates I've made for you, so if you catch any problems, let me know!
- August 21 22 Class Plan File
- Peter Elbow, "The Benefits of Freewriting" File
- Narrative #1: The "Who Am I Here and Now?" Essay File
- Sample Essay: Personal Identity Essay by Josey Bartlett File
- Personal Narrative Essay by Koby Caster w ajl notes File
- August 23/24 Class Plan File
- What to Do When You Miss Class/Submitting Late Work File
- Elements of a Persuasive Essay File
- English 11-- Peer Reviewing Narrative Essays File
- Sample Peer Review from Nada Baracat File
- Essay Annotation Symbols File
- August 25/28 Class Plan File
- August 29/30 Class Plan File
- August 31/September 01 Class Plan File
- Crafting Metacritical Essays File
- English 11 Sample Metacritical Essay from Erik L w ajl comments File
- September 04 05 Class Plan File
- Block A Debriefing Delta Questions: link to Googledoc URL
- Block E: Googledoc link: Narrative #1 Delta Questions URL
- September 06/07 Class Plan File
- English 11 Test Question Types File
- September 08/18 Class Plan File
- September 19 & 20 Class Plan File
- September 21 & 22 Class Plan File
- September 25 & 26 Class Plan File
- Class Participation Self-assessment File
- September 27/28 Class Plan File
- Key Elements in Irving File
- September 29/October 02 Class Plan File
- October 04/05 Class Plan File
- WWW ART WRITING File
- Keys to Poe File
  This document should help you focus your active reading annotations, especially your hunt for likely ID passages, as you work through Poe's short stories. The handout also include some important terms that should find their way into your glossaries.
- October 16/17 Class Plan File
- Gratitude Project File
- Cherpumple! File
- October 18 & 19 Class Plan File
- October 20/23 Class Plan File
- TED talk on the relationship between happiness and gratitude URL
- October 24/25 Class Plan File
- October 27 & 30 Class Plan File
- English 11 Test Question Types File
- Quick Reminder: students who have already qualified for extended time or other accommodations during testing must speak to me in advance to set up their tests!
- M. H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms, 7th ed File
- October 31 & November 01 Class Plan File
- November 02 03 Class Plan File
- November 06 & 07 Class Plan File
- Definition: Transcendentalism File
- November 08 & 09 Class Plan File
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar" File
- November 10 & 13 Class Plan File
- Emerson Poetry IDs SUPERdoc!! URL
  Both sections of English 11: American Literature will have access to this GoogleDoc, which will also serve as a nice record of our work together on the remaining Emerson poems. This transcript should serve as a helpful aid for students who missed class on November 10 & 13.
- November 14 & 15 Class Plan File
- November 16 & 17 Class Plan File
- SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR BLOCK E!!! File
- Guide to Reading Hawthorne File
- November 20 & 21 Class Plan File
- November 22 & 23 Class Plan File
- The Short Prose Narrative for an Audience of Strangers File
- Guide to College Essay by Katie and Christy File
- Advice for revising personal statement File
- Johns Hopkins University: Examples of Student Essays that Worked URL
- Tufts University: Common Application Essays that Matter URL
- November 27 & 28 Class Plan File
- Elements of a Persuasive Essay File
- English 11-- Peer Reviewing Narrative Essays File
- Sample Peer Review from Nada Baracat File
- Essay Annotation Symbols File
- Template for Evaluating Peer Reviews File
- The Who Am I Here and Now Essay Self-assessment Template File
- Sample Essay: Personal Identity Essay by Josey Bartlett File
- November 29 & 30 Class Plan File
- December 01 & 04 Class Plan File
- December 05 & 06 Class Plan File
- December 07 & 08 Class Plan File
Semester 2
Semester 2
- What to Do When You Miss Class/Submitting Late Work File
- January 08/09 Class Plan File
- Themes in Melville File
- "Bartleby the Scrivener," by Herman Melville; Librivox Recording URL
  All of us can read faster than we can listen, but the reader in this audio version completes the entire story in a leisurely fashion in less than two hours. You can find quicker readings elsewhere, but this reader does a very nice job interpreting the tone of the tale. He understands that a severely gloomy story told by a profoundly perplexed narrator can contain within it moments of warped hilarity. Really: there are funny parts!
- "Bartleby the Scrivener," by Herman Melville digital text URL
  This reliable on-line version of the short story may help you to collect potential ID passages more efficiently.
- January 10/11 Class Plan File
  10 January 2016 ONLY!
  
  Important Note: Because I am ill today, please alter the class plan in this way: after completing your WEDGE work, each member of the class should contribute three (3) conversation starters, each one rooted in a different Theme from Melville, to the Melville GoogleDoc. Once you have completed the three conversations starters, STOP! Do not reply to the work of your classmates. Instead, begin your homework.
- January 12 & 15 Class Plan File
- January 16 & 17 Class Plan File
- CAC70 Short Fiction Contest Rules File
- Short Fiction Notes (for teachers) File
- "Bedtime Story," by Jeffrey Whitmore File
- Nine CAC70 Entries File
- January 18 & 19 Class Plan File
- January 22 & 23 Class Plan File
- Active Reading Questions: Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat" File
- January 24 & 26 Class Plan File
- Realism in American Literature File
- Naturalism in American Literature File
- Definitions of Realism and Naturalism by M.H. Abrams File
- January 29 & 30 Class Plan File
- Stephen Crane: Two Poems File
- Stephen Crane: Two Poems (MSWord version) File
- January 31/February 01 Class Plan File
- February 02 & 03 Class Plan File
- Motifs in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson File
- Self-assessment Template: The Short Prose Narrative for an Audience of Strangers File
- Emily Dickinson Exegetical Essay 2017 DRAFT File
- February 06 & 07 Class Plan File
- ~25 Dickinson Poems File
- Emily Dickinson, Complete Poems File
- Emulating Emily Dickinson File
- Was (Not Was)-- "Walk the Dinosaur" URL
  This link should help explain what's going on in the cartoon at the top of today's Class Plan. The joke rests on an allusion to this text!
- Emily Dickinson Poem Selections 2017 URL
  This link will take you to the GoogleDoc that lists the approved poem selections.
- February 08 & 09 Class Plan File
- TSPNfaAoS Metacritical II Step File
- February 12 & 13 Class Plan File
- Sample Emily Dickinson Poem File
- Glossary of Terms for Lyric Poetry File
- Isaac Watts and Emily Dickinson: Inherited Meter URL
- Exegesis Essay Prewriting Worksheet File
- February 14 & 15 Class Plan File
- Literary Analysis Essay Worksheet for EDEE 2017 File
- Sample Exegesis Theses File
- February 16 & 19 Class Plan File
- Elements of a Persuasive Essay File
- Sample Exegesis Essay File
  N.B. This sample was written by a 10th grader. It offers an example of a thoughtful exegetical essay, but it also does not reveal an understanding of some of the expectations that we would expect to see in the work of an AmLit scholar. For example, both introduction and conclusion are too abrupt.
- "Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump," by David Bottoms File
  This is the poem to accompany the sample exegesis.
- Elements of Exegesis Essays 2015 File
  Consider this checklist both before and after drafting!
- February 21 & 22 Class Plan File
- Formal vs Informal Language File
- Formal vs Informal Language Practice Sentences File
- February 22 & 23 Class Plan File
- Strengthening Key Verbs File
- February 26 Class Plan File
- February 27 28 Class Plan File
- Elements of a Persuasive Essay File
- Peer Reviewing Exegesis Drafts File
- Sample Peer Review from Nada Baracat File
- Template for Evaluating Peer Reviews File
- Essay Annotation Symbols File
- March 01 02 Class Plan File
- March 05 06 Class Plan File
- March 07 12 Class Plan File
- Huckleberry Finn Reader's Guide File
- Huckleberry Finn Reader's Guide File
- Audio Version: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn URL
  While there are many versions available, a former student named Jee insisted that this iteration is the most helpful.
- Literary Terms: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn File
- March 13 & 14 Class Plan File
- March 16 & 19 Class Plan File
- March 20 & 21 Class Plan File
- March 22 & 23 Class Plan File
- March 26 27 Class Plan File
- March 28 & 29 Class Plan File
- March 30 & April 02 Class Plan File
- April 03 & 04 Class Plan File
- April 05 & 06 Class Plan File
- April 09 & 10 Class Plan File
- April 11 & 12 Class Plan File
- Emulating Walt Whitman File
- April 13 & 23 Class Plan File
- April 24 & 26 Class Plan File
- Find a Poem/Emulate a Poet! File
- April 27 & 30 Class Plan File
- Norton Anthology of American Literature 1914-1945: Introduction to Modernism File
- American Literary Modernism File
- Oyl Miller, "Blog of Myself" URL
  A former student of mine took some time to imagine what might have happened if Walt Whitman had been born in an age that allowed him access to the digital interwebs. The result is funny enough that McSweeny's published it for all to see! Enjoy!
- May 02 & 03 Class Plan File
- May 08 & 09 Class Plan File
- May 10 & 11 Class Plan File
- Walt Whitman Exegesis 2017 File
- Exegesis Essay Prewriting Worksheet File
- Literary Analysis Essay Worksheet for EDEE 2017 File
- Glossary of Terms for Lyric Poetry File
- Formal vs Informal Language File
- Strengthening Key Verbs File
- May 14 & 15 Class Plan File
- May 16 & 17 Class Plan File
- William Faulkner, Nobel Laureate Speech File
- May 18 & 21 Class Plan File
- Literary Terms: Drama File
- Literary Terms: Narrative File
- May 22 & 23 Class Plan File
- May 24 & 25 Class Plan File
- Elements of an Exegesis Essay Checklist File
- Emily Dickinson Exegesis Essay Final Reflection Instructions File
- May 28 & 29: The Final Class Plan! File
- How to Request a Letter of Recommendation File
- Summer Reading 2017 File
Enrichment Opportunities
Enrichment Opportunities
- Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" File
  Yes: I know you already have hard copies of this handout.
  
  Yes: I know we don't have time to read this wonderful story together.
  
  But: I wanted you to know that I had intended to end the course with this wonderful story (and the definition that goes with it), but then I experienced that horrible bout of illness a couple of weeks ago and we lost too much time we might have spent together wondering about Flannery O'Connor's delightfully disturbing flavor of Modernism. Dang.
  
  So this is a gift! Enjoy!
- Definition: "The Grotesque" File
- Flannery O'Connor, "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction" File

Topic outline

General

Semester 1

Semester 2

Enrichment Opportunities