American Character First Semester

American Character

First Semester--Mrs. Haasakker

	Beginning of the Year Stuff	Mrs. Haasakker's Class Expectations/Rules Community Involvement Project Proposal Proposals DUE October 25th Community Involvement Paper Grading Rubric Helpful websites which list cultural events: Log Cabin Literary Center Calendar of Events Readings and Conversations Egyptian Theatre
	Persuasive Essay/ DWA	Essay Outline Handout The students will take the DWA on November 29th The essay the students will write will be a persuasive essay Tips and Reminders about the DWA The students will be graded on the following: Ideas Organization Voice Word Choice Sentence Fluency Conventions The students were given a rubric in class which will be used to grade their DWAs.
	The Age of Faith/Puritans	Anne Bradstreet Read "Verses Upon the Burning of Our House" Read "To My Dear and Loving Husband Cotton Mather Read "Wonders of the Invisible World" Five Key Aspects of Puritan Beliefs Jonathan Edwards Read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Notes: American Puritanism Phillis Wheatley Read "An Hymn to the Evening" Read "To His Excellency, General Washington"
	The Age of Reason	Notes Ben Franklin From Autobiography From Poor Richard's Almanac Read Ben Franklin's 13 Virtues Vice/Virture Chart Assignment Directions Vice/Virtue Chart Virtual Tour of Philadelphia Hector St. Jean de Crevecour *Letters from an American Farmer* Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence Thomas Paine The Crisis, Number 1 America Brochure Persuasive Assignment
	Romanticism	Elements of Romanticism/ Transcendentalism Notes *Click here* for an extended list of American Romantic/Transcendentalist writers Mrs. Haasakker's Romanticism Vocab Skit Assignment Washington Iriving** Read The Devil and Tom Walker
	Transcendentalists	Henry David Thoreau Read Thoreau's bio Read Walden Read Civil Disobedience Ralph Waldo Emerson Read Emerson's bio Read Nature Read Self-Reliance Transcendentalist Society Project
	The Dark Romantics	Edgar Allan Poe bio Read "The Fall of the House of Usher" Read "The Raven" Nathaniel Hawthorne bio Read "The Minister's Black Veil
	Civil War/ Reconstruction: The Rise of Realism	Notes: The Rise of Realism--Civil War and Reconstruction Ambrose Bierce--Read his bio Read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" Abraham Lincoln Read The Gettysburg Address Read The Second Inagural Address Civil War Timeline Frederick Douglass bio Read My Bondage, My Freedom Robert E. Lee Letter to His Son Stephen Crane bio Read "An Episode of War"
	Civil War Poets	Emily Dickinson's bio Read Emily Dickinson's Poems Walt Whitman's bio Read Leaves of Grass Read "O Captain! My Captain!" Read "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" Read "O Me! O Life" Read "A Noiseless Patient Spider"
	The "ISMs": Realism, Regionalism, Naturalism	Notes: "The ISMs" The "ISMs" QUIZ will be given on November 16th The Pulitzer Prize: Click on this link to learn about past winners (like Cather, Robinson, Twain, and Garland) and about the history of the award.
	Realism	Edwin Arlington Robinson Read "Luke Havergal" Read "Richard Cory" Paul Laurence Dunbar Read "We Wear the Mask" Read "Frederick Douglass" Willa Cather bio Read "A Wagner Matinee" Listen to Wagner's "Tannhäuser Overture" (which is mentioned in Cather's story) for free online
	Regionalism	Edgar Lee Masters Read "The Spoon River Anthology" Definition of an epitaph Read "Lucinda Matlock" Read "Richard Bone" Kate Chopin--PBS resources on Chopin Read "The Story of an Hour" Complete Study Guide Questions Read "Desiree's Baby" Mark Twain bio Read "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
	Naturalism	Read more about Naturalism Hamlin Garland "Under the Lion's Paw Jack London Read "To Build a Fire" Complete the study guide questions
	The Frontier/ Native Americans	Amerigo Paredes "The Legend of Gregorio Cortez" Bret Harte Read "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" Chief Joseph Read "I Will Fight No More Forever" James Cloyd Bowman "Pecos Bill Becomes a Coyote" Miriam Davis Colt "Heading West"
	Immigration	Eric Schlosser: from Fast Food Nation Chapter 8 "The Most Dangerous Job" Upton Sinclair Read The Jungle in its entirety online Read Chapter 9 of The Jungle (This is the selection we will be reading in class) "The American Dream" Immigration writing packet
	Modernism	Cubism Activity Students will write a modernist poem and create a cubist drawing Learn more about this art form and see examples of Cubsim Read and learn more about Modernism Hemingway Read "In Another Country" Read In Our Time T.S. Eliot Read "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Read "The Wasteland"
	Imagism	Read a definition of Imagism Archibald MacLeish "Ars Poetica" e.e. cummings "anyone lived in a pretty how town" "old age sticks" Ezra Pound "In a Station of the Metro" "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) "Heat" "Pear Tree" Marianne Moore "Poetry" W.H. Auden "The Unknown Citizen" William Carlos Williams "The Great Figure" "The Red Wheelbarrow" "This is Just to Say"
	The Roaring Twenties	1920's Timeline F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Read The Great Gatsby in its entirety online Links to individual chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Read F. Scott Fitzgerald's biography The Great Gatsby Index: Go to this website to find out even more information about the novel! *Listen to 1920's Music for free* online**
	The Harlem Renaissance	Read a Harlem Renaissance Timeline Arna Bontemps "A Black Man Talks of Reaping" Countee Cullen "From the Dark Tower" Zora Neale Hurston "Dust Tracks on a Road" Langston Hughes "Ardella" "Dream Variations" "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" "Refugee in America" Claude McKay "The Tropics in New York" Jean Toomer "Storm Ending" (scroll down to page 22)
	Literary Terms	*11th Grade Literary Terms (Coming Soon!)*

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