Watch these two short clips to get a better understanding of the context in which MLK Jr. wrote "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0lD37bq8YI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCxE6i_SzoQ

Homework reminder: The Crucible Worksheets for ACT III due Monday

Quiz: The Crucible Act III on FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9TH

Homework:

DUE MONDAY: Finish Reading "What is an American" by Crevecoeur (pg. 289) and choose 20 unfamiliar words and write sentences using them.

DUE THURSDAY: Finish making 2nd round of edits to your comparison paper.


Extra Credit: Read "The Dark Side of Crevecoeur's Letters'..." Write a summary AND explain how it helped you to better understand Crevecoeur's "What is an American"

Reading Assignment

Finish reading What is an American? by Michel Guillaume Jean d'Crevecoeur (pg. 69-71) by Thursday 12/1

Study Guide for Midterm #2

1. Review The Crucible focus on Act I, II and the first half of Act III

2. Research your selected historical event that relates to the events in The Crucible (choose from the list on the handout that I gave you in class last week).

3. Make a detailed outline or rough draft of  a compare and contrast essay for #2 above.

4. Find and make notes of examples of Fear, Risk, Compromise, and Bravery from The Crucible

5. Make an outline or rough draft of an argument that Fear, Risk, Compromise, and Bravery are themes in The Crucible. Think about these themes from a social and political point of view.

There will be a Quiz Friday, Nov. 4 on Act I of the Crucible

Outline for essays due Thursday, Nov 10

There will be a Quiz tomorrow (Friday) on the Prologue of Act I The Crucible.


HINT:  When you're re-reading take note of the setting, characters, descriptions, and the Author's opinion of the characters and events (remember he wrote the play over a hundred years after the actual events occurred) and the themes "Group vs Individual" and "Freedom vs. Order"

Quiz Monday

There will be a Quiz on Monday covering words #21-40 from your vocabulary list for Act I of The Crucible.

Know the definitions and how to use them appropriately and aptly in a sentence.

Watch the following history.com video about the historical background of the Salem Witch Trials.

There will be some questions from the video on the quiz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdX1vK03hRw

Quiz on Thursday

There will be a Quiz on Thursday covering the first 20 words from your vocabulary list for Act I of The Crucible.

Know the definitions and how to use them appropriately and aptly in a sentence.

Watch the following history.com video about the historical background of the Salem Witch Trials.

There will be some questions from the video on the quiz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdX1vK03hRw

Homework Due Monday

Bring printout (paper copy) of your homework to class or email before Monday.


What to do :

1) Take notes on the Crucible (pg. 166-170). Demonstrate your reading comprehension. It is often helpful to think of a story as episodic, or not just being one big story but having related parts or episodes.

Some helpful questions to consider when you are taking notes.

Setting:        Where did the episode happen?
                    When did the episode happen?
Characters:  Who was the episode about?                  
                    Who were the people in the episode?                     
                    Who was the most important person in the episode?
Problem:      Did the people have a problem?                  
                    What was the big problem that episode was about?
Action:        What did the people do to solve the problem?                     
                    What were the important things that happened in the episode?
Resolution:  How did the people solve the problem?                     
                    How did the episode end?
Theme:       What lesson could we learn from the episode?
                   What tied the episode together?
                   Was there an overarching message?



                      

2) Create a personal vocabulary list and write definitions for them. Attach the vocabulary list  as a separate section to the end of your  notes.

Helpful Notes on the Midterm

Be able to identify and explain examples of the following from our readings:

Figurative language (non-literal meanings) for: metaphor, personification, hyperbole, and metonymy

Themes - a subject, topic, or "takeaway"

Motifs - a distinctive or repeated idea

Symbols - an object representing something else; perhaps something deeper and more important or a material object representing something immaterial

Make your own associations/connections between texts

Make sure to review unfamiliar words from the texts we have read

Good Luck!

Quiz on Monday - Writing a Compare and Contrast Essay

Here is a link about how to organize a compare and contrast essay. Your assignment is to read it.

There will be a short quiz on Monday ( 9/26/16) on the topics and ideas for organizing your compare and contrast essay. Prepare well. Good Luck

Reminder: 5 Sections of your assignment are due by email today

5 sections.

Each section has:

a) A title
b) At least 5 sentences describing the noteworthy history
c) An explanation, in 3 or more sentences, of why you chose this one noteworthy event, situation or person, in particular  (be specific why you chose it)
d) At least one citation per section in proper formatting but more citations are encouraged

Good Luck! Hope you find out some interesting things along the way!

10 noteworthy things...1800's America due: 9/19/16

Homework Assignment: 10 noteworthy or interesting things I learned about 1800's America

Due date: Friday, September 19, 2016 in class (late homework will be penalized)

1) Research 19th Century America. Note anything unusual, interesting or momentous - pay special attention to the pre-civil war period.

2) Things to consider or possible questions you can answer:
                   
     What kind of jobs did people do for a living? What about pay? Working conditions?
     How did people travel and was there any mode of mass transit?
     What kind of clothes did they wear and how was it different from today's styles?
     How did the geography of America change in this time?
     Who were some famous people? Why were they famous and what did they do?
     What did the urban environment versus the countryside look like?
     Were there any radical laws passed?
     Were there any wars fought? Over what? Who fought? What were the losses or gains?
     What was school like? Was it compulsory? Free? Expensive? For everyone?

3) Write your list in 10 separate sections.

     Each section must have a:  title, description and your explanation of why you chose it.
     Each section should be at least a paragraph or two. (approximately 5 to 10 sentences)

 4) Include a citation for all sources of information in an appropriate citation format such as MLA or APA (you must cite all sources including online texts, websites, or videos).

    
Note: The goal is for you to begin to understand what America was like back in 1800's so that when we begin our journey with Huckleberry Finn you have created some pictures of what life was like back then. In other words you are creating the context for the text of the novel.