Odyssey (English 9 - Honors)

Comparative Poetry
Final Project Handout
Project and Presentation Rubrics

Romanticism, Gothic, and Transcendentalism (English 11)

Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman - these are just a few of the amazing American authors we will be learning from in the next few months!

Author Studies - See November and December Calendars for presentation dates
Intro Guided Notes
"Thanatopsis"
Link to "Rip Van Winkle" Text
Watch Rip Van Winkle in a series of short films from 1902 in The Public Domain Review! 
"Rip Van Winkle" Characters
"Rip Van Winkle" Chart and Questions
"Dr. Heidegger's" Allegory Chart
"House of Usher" Reading Guide
"The Over-Soul" Handout
Connection to "Over-Soul": TED Talk by Nicholas Christakis
"Civil Disobedience" Reading Guide
"Could you Survive without Money" article by Christopher Ketcham
Nature Writing
Study Guide for Test
Transcendentalism Activity: Due Thursday, 12-20
Links for Transcendentalism Activity:
#1   #2

Aphorism Research Paper (English 9-H)

Research Paper Info and Requirements

Assignments / Handouts:
#1 - Research Terms
#1 - Book Pages for Research Terms
#2 - Thesis Statement Handout
#3 - Sources and Databases
#4 - Works Cited
#5 - Highlighting
#6 - Quoting, Paraphrasing, Summarizing
#7 - Note-taking
#7 - Notes Chart
#8 - Outlining
#9 - Writing the Paper
#9 - Sample Paragraphs
#9 - Self-Editing and Peer Editing for Rough Draft
Final Draft Rubric

Turnitin.com: All papers must be submitted by 11:59pm on Friday, 11/30.

Cleveland Rocks Research (English 11)

Introduction

Letter to Parents
Topic Ideas
Research Aid
Sources and Works Cited Handout
Outline PowerPoint
Sample Attention Grabbers
Self and Peer Editing
Presentation Information
Presentation Rubric

Please see the October and November calendars for due dates!

Positively Cleveland Video

 

Revolutionary Lit (English 11)

Packet Cover and Unit Goals
Virgina Convention Worksheet
Persuasive Rhetoric Handout
Paraphrasing Activity for the "Declaration of Independence"
Teenage Declaration
Aphorisms
"Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" Text
"Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" Questions: Due Tuesday, 10-30
"What is an American" Essay Response
Tone - "Lecture to a Missionary"

Tuesdays with Morrie (English 9-H)

Tuesdays with Morrie Letter to Parents
Books are due on Wednesday, 9-19

Study Guide 
Collage Project
Socratic Seminar: Tuesday, 10-9