Of Mice and Men permission slip
English 11
1-22-07 - Slave Narrative analysis
1. Review 1st semester exams
2. Read both Slave Narratives and complete questions
3. Finish Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives video and complete questions.
1-23-07
Finish Slave Narrative activity
1-24-07 - Civil War Photography Analysis
Objective: Choose a Civil War photograph to illustrate several lines from a poem from Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps.
Walt Whitman was in his forties when the war began and did not participate as a soldier. Two of Whitman's brothers did, however, join the Union Army. Andrew Jackson Whitman served only briefly but George Washington Whitman fought with the Fifty-first Regiment of New York Volunteers for most of the war. When George was wounded in the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862, Whitman made the trip to the nation's capital and then to Falmouth, Virginia, across the Rappahanock River from Fredericksburg to find and care for his brother. George was only slightly wounded, but Walt's errand of mercy would forever change his outlook on the war and life.
- From Whitman's Drum Taps and Washington's Civil War Hospitals
1. Read several poems from Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps.
2. Browse selected Civil War Photographs from the U.S. Library of Congress for a photograph that illustrates the poem's theme.
3. After choosing a photograph, complete the Photograph Analysis Guide.
4. Print the photograph and attach the lines from Whitman's Drum-Taps.
5. Write a paragraph describing how the poem and the photograph describe a similar affect.
HW: Read articles on Frederick Douglass and DJDrama and define unkown words.
1-25-07
1. Finish Civil War photograph analysis
2. Finishing reading NYTimes articles.
3. Define Weekly Vocabulary List
1-26-07 - Of Mice and Men preview
AP English 12
1-22-07
1. Review 1st semester exam
2. Brave New World quiz
3. Kurt Vonnegut's Universal Plot Outline:
CINDERELLA MYTH:
In Palm Sunday, Vonnegut says he believes that one of the reasons the Cinderella story is so popular has to do with its design. The structure of its plot is the same as that of the basic story of Christianity. The Old Testament creation myth parallels the gifts from Cinderella's fairy godmother, the expulsion from the Garden of Eden is the clock striking twelve, and the prince finding Cinderella is the redemption of the world by Jesus Christ. Both stories are so comforting and hopeful that they're hard to resist. Vonnegut maintains that any story with this structure is bound to be popular because people want so much to believe that life works this way.
GRAPH A STORY WITH MR. VONNEGUT
1-23-07
1. What is a cwntral question in Brave New World?
2. Write the opening paragraph to an essay addressing a prompt dealing with a central question in BNW.
1-24-07
1. Discuss BNW term paper topics and requirements.
2. Discuss criteria for evaluation of multi-genre sources
English Language Arts Academic Content Standards