AMERICAN SEMINAR
Language Arts 11 is a two-semester required course which provides students with an understanding of our American Literary tradition by exposing them to a study of the literature of our nation. Students read novels, short stories, essays, speeches, and poems by recognized American authors. The course will also improve student writing and speaking skills by responding to and interacting with these texts.
COURSE DOCUMENTS
Course Syllabus
Lesson Plans Calendar
Course Values
Sem Exam SG - Titles
Sem Exam SG - Author bios
Sem Exam SG - Quotes
Sem Exam SG - Poetry
Sem Exam SG - Terms
Christmas Academic Cheer Fund Offering
Essay about Lit Comment Code
Lesson Plans Calendar
Course Values
Sem Exam SG - Titles
Sem Exam SG - Author bios
Sem Exam SG - Quotes
Sem Exam SG - Poetry
Sem Exam SG - Terms
Christmas Academic Cheer Fund Offering
Essay about Lit Comment Code
America's Religious Foundation
Of Plymouth Plantation Response Writing
Model of Christian Charity ?'s
Personal Narrative ?'s
"Sinners" Work
Religious Background Essay
Religious Background Essay Global Commentary
Model of Christian Charity ?'s
Personal Narrative ?'s
"Sinners" Work
Religious Background Essay
Religious Background Essay Global Commentary
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bradford_bio.pdf | |
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winthrop_bio.pdf | |
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edwards_bio.pdf | |
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personal_narrative.pdf | |
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Response to Lit: Unit 1
Plymouth Plantation Response ?s and writing
Model of Christian Charity ?'s
Personal Narrative ?'s
Edwards Response 1 (250-300 words)
Sinners Work
Edwards Response 2 (250-300 words)
Model of Christian Charity ?'s
Personal Narrative ?'s
Edwards Response 1 (250-300 words)
Sinners Work
Edwards Response 2 (250-300 words)
America's Political Foundation
Franklin Assignment
Franklin Response
Patrick Henry Notes
Federalist 10 Guiding Questions
Federalist Atlantic Article
Federalist Atlantic Article Guiding Questions
Powerball Revolution Podcast
- Listen to the podcast. On your Unit 2 document write a 300 word response regarding your thoughts of the ideas presented in the podcast and your connections with what you've read from The Federalist.
Political Foundation Paper
Political Foundation Paper Option 2 (2018)
Franklin Response
Patrick Henry Notes
Federalist 10 Guiding Questions
Federalist Atlantic Article
Federalist Atlantic Article Guiding Questions
Powerball Revolution Podcast
- Listen to the podcast. On your Unit 2 document write a 300 word response regarding your thoughts of the ideas presented in the podcast and your connections with what you've read from The Federalist.
Political Foundation Paper
Political Foundation Paper Option 2 (2018)
Response to Lit Unit 2
Franklin Assignment
Patrick Henry Notes
Federalist 10 Guiding Questions
Atlantic Article Guiding Questions
Powerball Revolution Response
Patrick Henry Notes
Federalist 10 Guiding Questions
Atlantic Article Guiding Questions
Powerball Revolution Response
Transcendentalism
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Transcendentalism Essential Questions
Nature Questions
Nature Response
Self-Reliance Questions
Emerson Response
Resistance to Civil Govt. ?'s
Final Transcendentalism Paper
Nature Questions
Nature Response
Self-Reliance Questions
Emerson Response
Resistance to Civil Govt. ?'s
Final Transcendentalism Paper
Response to Lit
Transc Background Notes
Nature Questions
Nature Response
Self-Reliance Questions
Emerson Response
Walden Notes
Nature Questions
Nature Response
Self-Reliance Questions
Emerson Response
Walden Notes
- 891-896: Main ideas and quotes for each page
- 914-920: Main ideas and quotes for each page
- Quote choices response
Dark Romantics
DR Background Reading
DR Assignment 1
DR Assignment 2: Usher ?'s
MBV Response Questions
DR Essay
Dark Romantic Unit Document:
DR Assignment 1
DR Assignment 2: Usher ?'s
MBV Response Questions
DR Essay
Dark Romantic Unit Document:
- DR Assignment 1 (Tell-Tale Heart and Cask of Amontillado)
- Fall of House of Usher ?'s
- Minister's Black Veil Discussion ?'s
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Slavery
Slavery Themes
Slavery Essay
Writing About Lit Notes
Introduce it, Produce it, Comment on It
Slavery Essay Rubric
Slavery Essay
Writing About Lit Notes
Introduce it, Produce it, Comment on It
Slavery Essay Rubric
jacobs_reading_am_sem.docx | |
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slavery_extra_readings.pdf | |
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slavery_essay_outline.docx | |
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word_choice_guide.doc | |
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Poetry Unit
Poetry Response Assignment
Bradstreet: bio p. 97
Bradstreet: bio p. 97
- To My Dear and Loving Husband (108)
- In Memory of My Dear Grandchild (109)
- Here Follow Some Verses Upon the Burning of my House 109-110)
- Meditation 8 (137)
- Meditation 150 (139)
- Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children (140)
- On Being Brought from Africa to America (420)
- To the University of Cambridge (421)
- To His Excellency General Washington (427)
- Skeleton in Armor
- Psalm of Life (p. 645)
- My lost Youth (p. 650)
- Cross of Snow
- The Raven (p. 675)
- Annabel Lee (p. 678)
- Dream Within a Dream
- Alone
- Song of Myself
- #1 (p. 1011)
- #21 (p. 1025)
- #33 ln. 822-870 (p. 1038)
- #52 (p. 1055)
- I Hear America Singing
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whitman_bio.pdf | |
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HUCKLEBERRY FINN
Short Fiction Unit
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lowest_animal.pdf | |
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united_states_of_lyncherdom.docx | |
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Time Articles Questions
Lowest Animal Anticipation Guide
Lowest Animal Response Writing
United States of Lyncherdom ?'s
TBF Questions
Snows Questions
Soldier's Home Response
TLH Essay Exam Questions
Lowest Animal Anticipation Guide
Lowest Animal Response Writing
United States of Lyncherdom ?'s
TBF Questions
Snows Questions
Soldier's Home Response
TLH Essay Exam Questions
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Twain-London-Hemingway Short Fiction Assignments
Notes: Realism & Naturalism
Two Twain Articles ?'s
America's Original Superstar Notes
LA Response Writing
USL ?'s
TBF ?'s
Snows ?'s
SH Response
Two Twain Articles ?'s
America's Original Superstar Notes
LA Response Writing
USL ?'s
TBF ?'s
Snows ?'s
SH Response
HARLEM RENAISSANCE
HR Background Reading
Colored Me ?'s
To Negro Writers Response
Hughes Poetry Work
McKay Poetry Work
Harlem Renaissance Response Writing
Harlem Renaissance Assignments:
Color Purple Final Writing Response
Color Purple Final Essay Exam
A-A Lit Supplemental texts
African-American Lit Final
Colored Me ?'s
To Negro Writers Response
Hughes Poetry Work
McKay Poetry Work
Harlem Renaissance Response Writing
Harlem Renaissance Assignments:
- Colored Me ?'s
- Hughes Poems 1-4 Writing
- Hughes Poems 5-8 Writing
- McKay Poetry Writing
- Harlem Renaissance Response Writing
Color Purple Final Writing Response
Color Purple Final Essay Exam
A-A Lit Supplemental texts
African-American Lit Final
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Of Mice and Men
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of_mice_and_men_historical_context.doc | |
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steinbeck_americans_and_the_future.pdf | |
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The Crucible
crucible_and_arthur_miller_notes.pptx | |
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2022 Act IV Writing
Act I Character Work
Crucible Writing
Crucible Character Essay
Trial of Arthur Miller
Act I Character Work
Crucible Writing
Crucible Character Essay
Trial of Arthur Miller
The Things They Carried
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