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Exam & Test Information
Bring in typos from the newspaper, magazines, books, etc. for Extra Credit! Attend an event in the community, volunteer for a charity and write about your experience!
State of Michigan Content Standards Michigan Graduation Requirements English Language Arts Content Standards Educational Technology Standards
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English 10 |
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Literature
PowerPoint Presentations Native American Literature “I Will Fight No More Forever” by Chief Joseph The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper Puritan Literature Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Crucible by Arthur Miller “Of Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne “The Birth Mark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne “Upon the Burning of Our House” by Anne Bradstreet “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards The Age of Reason The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin “The Declaration of Independence” by Thomas Jefferson “Farewell Address to the Nation” by George Washington “Speech in the Virginia Convention” by Patrick Henry The Constitution of the United States of America Romanticism “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne “The Devil in the Manuscript” by Nathaniel Hawthorne “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” by Nathaniel Hawthorne Emily Dickinson poetry Walt Whitman poetry “The Raven” on YouTube by Edgar Allan Poe Realism Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Pierce “An Episode of War” by Stephen Crane “A Horseman in the Sky” by Ambrose Bierce “The Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Revolt of Mother” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman “A White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett Slave Narrative “A True Story” by Mark Twain Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe “Free Joe and the Rest of the World” by Joel Chandler Harris “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin Frontier Literature O! Pioneers by Willa Cather White Fang by Jack London “To Build a Fire” by Jack London The Call of the Wild by Jack London Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder My Life on the Plains by George Armstrong Custer “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” by Bret Harte “A Wagner Matinee” by Willa Cather Harlem Renaissance A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansbury (audio file) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston “Laughing to Keep from Crying” by Langston Hughes “Harlem” by Langston Hughes Jazz Age The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald “Winter Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” by F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Depression Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck East of Eden by John Steinbeck “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty Modernism “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot “The Hollow Men” by T.S. Eliot “Miniver Cheevy” by Edward Arlington Robinson Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros 1984 by George Orwell Animal Farm by George Orwell Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brian “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury
Fun Stuff Word Games |
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Writing Workshop
Instructions for Typed Revisions: 1) Highlight changes from the PQS feedback you received. “Insert Comment” and write “PQS” in the box. 2) Highlight changes you make yourself. “Insert Comment” and write “Author” in the box. 3) Circle ALL the FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) (only if directed) 4) Make sure all 4 margins are 1” (File/Page Setup/Margins) – make that your Default (lower left corner of Margins option) 5) 12 point font, Times or Arial 6) MLA heading in upper left corner, single spaced (Your Name/My Name/Class/Date/Genre #) 7) Double space the body of your paper (Format/Paragraph/Line Spacing/Double) 8) NO EXCUSES for not having a typed paper. Email it to me for a Grammarly report.
Editorial Assistance Twenty Most Common Errors in Writing Find rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, definitions and more!
Writing rap? Check out
Writing checklist: www.mcasmentor.com/rubricscheck.htm
Nature Writing Sites www.care2.com/channels/solutions/outdoors/358
Reading September 24–October 1 is Banned Book Week 2011 ALA Top 100 Banned Books 1990-2000 ALA Top 100 Challenged & Banned Books 2000-2009 ALA Banned & Challenged Classics Radcliffe Banned & Challenged Books
Recommended Reading for College-Bound Students
Top Books for Teens: www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/bestofbest2000.html www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/Complete2005TTTNoms.pdf
Top 100 Novels: www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100rivallist.html
Top 100 American Speeches of the 20th Century www.news.wisc.edu/misc/speeches/
Free e-books: http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/genrelist.html http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/ http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
Grammar & Vocabulary Unsure about how to use “to,” “two,” or “too” or other homophones? Go to www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html
Find correct spellings and definitions at
Words every student should know before graduating
Need to know your prepositions? Go to http://grammar.englishclub.com/prepositions-list.htm
Need help with grammar? Go to http://encarta.msn.com/column/grammarmain.asp http://grammar.englishclub.com/
Research Information Checklist for source credibility Author Presentation – Research Project Works Cited template REAL Notes template
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