Weeks 15-16

Quiz schedule for the remainder of the novel Warriors Don’t Cry (WDC).

You will have time in class to read, though we will also pause to seminar, so some reading may be homework.

You still have to take quizzes when you have been absent – you don’t get “extra time to study” since the schedule is posted in advance.

Week 15:
Quiz: Warriors Don’t Cry (WDC) chapters 3-5 Monday 04/22
Quiz: WDC chapters 6-8 Wednesday 04/24
1/2 day Friday

Week 16:
Quiz: WDC chapters 9-12 Monday 04/29
Quiz: WDC chapters 13-16 Wednesday 05/01
Quiz: WDC chapters 17-epilogue Friday 05/03

Week 14: Warriors Don’t Cry

Monday 04/15: We will conclude our return-to-speed-reading activity. You will compose a journal, reflecting on your reading skills & submit your entire Junior Journal today for a major writing grade.

Tuesday-Wednesday 04/16-04/17: Read chapters 1-2 in Warriors Don’t Cry. Quiz over chapters 1-2 Wednesday.

Thursday-Friday: Read chapters 3-6. Be prepared for reading quizzes periodically. Keep up with reading – even when absent you should be ready to take quizzes in class.

Week 12 & Beyond

We will finish our fun film post-SAT.

We will prep for Warriors Don’t Cry by returning to speed reading from past semesters.

(You will actually read this silently to yourself – no following-along-with-audio-and-falling-asleep-in-class for this novel.)

We will start the novel in full after the eclipse, 04/08.

Tuesday 04/09: prep work on The Little Rock Nine and a worksheet quiz to complete.

Wednesday 04/10: Finish speed reading and calculate new reading speed – view film on Little Rock Nine – take notes in your class notebook. NOT ON GOOGLE DOCS.

Thursday 04/11: Finish film & quiz over it (open note).

Friday 04/12: Start reading the novel. Schedule TBA.

You will read, take notes, collect quotes, and be prepared for quizzes each week. There will be a final in-class essay on this, written by hand.

Post Spring Break SAT Prep

SAT is around the corner.

We will focus on the Essay portion, since the essay is optional and prep materials are few and far between on that: SAT ESSAY RULES

You also have access to full-length practice tests in your BlueBook app, so use those as well (you can pause and return at your leisure).

Week 11: SAT + Mental Mashed Potatoes after + Friday off for Easter. Take SAT then recharge before our final unit.

Harlem Renaissance Research 2024: Part One

Choose how you want to learn and create

Students may choose to work in groups of no more than two students, or they may choose to work individually.

Choose a topic

Writers and Poets: Use the links below as one resource – you cannot use Wikipedia, but can bib. farm from the links at the bottom of Wiki pages. 😀

• Alain Locke and “The New Negro”
• Langston Hughes
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Gwendolyn Bennett
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• Maya Angelou
• Claude McKay
• Countee Cullen
• Arna Bontemps
• Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Helene Johnson
• James Weldon Johnson
• Jean Toomer

Musicians

• Ma Rainey
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Duke Ellington
• Louis Armstrong
• Billie Holiday
• “Strange Fruit” and Abe Meeropol
• Josephine Baker:
  famous entertainer, fought for French in WWII, part of French Resistance, adopted children from all over the world called her “Rainbow Tribe” (and you thought Madonna and Angelina Jolie were original)
• Cab Calloway
• The Nicholas Brothers
• Jelly Roll Morton
• Bessie Smith
• Mamie Smith (considered to be the first blues recording artist)

Artists

• Oscar Micheaux (African American filmmaker)
• Palmer Hayden
• Aaron Douglas
• Malvin Gray Johnson
• James VanDerZee
• Some of VanDerZee’s photographs
• Romare Bearden
• William H. Johnson
• Jacob Lawrence (created art about the Great Migration)
• Augusta Savage (female sculptor)
• Hale Woodruff
• Meta Warrick Fuller (female sculptor)
• Lois Mailou Jones (female painter influenced by Haiti & Africa)

Leaders/Philosophers/Activists/Scientists

• Charles Houston: The Man Who Killed Jim Crow / African American lawyer who argued before the Supreme Court
• NAACP:
  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Madam C.J. Walker
  (first self-made millionaire – salon owner / hair care products – her hair care line is still going strong)
• Ida B. Wells (fought against lynching)
• National Association of Colored Women / Negro Women’s Club
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Marcus Garvey
• Marie Maynard Daly (conducted important studies on cholesterol & sugars)
• George Washington Carver (scientist)
• Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey (the women behind modern day gynecology – click on ‘transcript’ to the left to read information about the troubling history of medical experimentation on African Americans and its implications in modern day hospitals)
• Henrietta Lacks (her body’s cells are still reproducing in labs today to advance medicine around the world)

Places/Events/Travel

• The Black Wall Street
• Apollo Theater
• Cotton Club
• Savoy Theater
• The Great Migration 1910-1930
• The Negro Motorist Green Book (how to safely travel across America by car)
• Convict Leasing

Create an Annotated Bibliography using 3-5 sources.

1. Most classes will just start with the title and author: Annotated Bibliography sans citations.
2. Honors English students will create more formalized Annotated Bibliography with works cited entries.
   1. Start each entry with the bibliographic citation (follow MLA format from the Purdue OWL).
      1. Start with Author’s Last Name,First Name. (If no name is available, skip to next data point.)
      2. “Title of the Article or Page”
      3. Title of the Website or Journal or Newspaper
      4. Publication date: Day month year
      5. URL
      6. Date Accessed
      7. Entries that are longer than a single line are reverse-indented. See sample below.
3. List entries in alphabetical order by author’s last name or title if no author is given.
4. Entries are single-spaced with a space between entries.
5. Skip a line then write thorough summaries of the article.
6. Include at least two-three significant quotes per entry. Quotes should be key to the argument; don’t just pick any random quote.
7. Talk about ways in which ideas are similar to other texts you have read.  What makes each article unique and how does each contribute to your overall argument?

Weeks 6-10 (2nd part of 3rd Quarter)

Research Projects: Slavery by Another Name, The Great Migration, & The Harlem Renaissance

Realism came out of a need to accurately represent what was actually happening in our country which included the horrors of slavery and the Civil War.

Students will watch part of the PBS documentary Slavery by Another Name which covers the period of time immediately following the Emancipation Proclamation.  Most Americans believe that freedom came easily and instantaneously after Lincoln’s speech, but that was not the case.  Through convict leasing and peonage, alternative forms of slavery lasted through the 1940’s in this country.

Isabel Wilkerson wrote The Warmth of Other Suns which chronicles the Great Migration out of the south to New York & the east coast, Chicago & the Midwest, and LA & the west. The Great Migration led to the Harlem Renaissance.

All of these topics will be our primary focus for research projects in coming weeks.

Update: Weeks 7-9

Students will be introduced to the Harlem Renaissance & will choose topics for research projects which will culminate in an annotated bibliography.

Beginning of Spring 2024

Last semester we started with the Puritans and ended with Romantics & Transcendentalists.

Things were lovely and hopeful as the country began and expanded, but slavery and the Civil War soon changed how we viewed ourselves. So, we’ll start this semester with the Rise of Realism.

We will look at poetry by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.

We will memorize and recite either an excerpt from Leaves of Grass by Whitman (“barbaric yawp”) or “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Dickinson the first quarter. The Poetry Recitation Rubric will be used to grade these.

We will read “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and “Story of an Hour.” Students will create one-pagers on one of these stories.

We will engage in seminar discussions over these texts and students should expect to be quizzed over them as well.

This will comprise a majority of work for the first few weeks of the semester. See Google Classroom and pay attention in class for homework due dates and details.

Last Week: Week 18 & Finals

English 3 Fall Journal will be collected for 200 points Monday & Tuesday.

Your final exam will be a comprehensive test covering all materials from the course: 1600’s-1800’s in American Literature.

You can use your notebooks on your final exam.

Make up any missing journals before then.

Study all prior quizzes / test as many of those same questions will appear on the final.

We will finish Into the Wild – character list is in Google Classroom. You can copy that into your notebook as well. There will be 20-25 questions on the final over the film. We will seminar about the film once we finish.

Week 17: 12/04-12/08

Monday: 4th Hour Honors present slide decks / group presentations

Journal (update your journals – they are a large part of the cumulative grade of your English Notebook & are part of your final exam grade)

Read “To Build a Fire” by Jack London. Maybe nature does wear a mean appearance sometimes, despite what Emerson says. Here is an audio version for folks who need supplemental assistance.

Tuesday – Thursday: Watch Into the Wild & take notes = film as text, so some of this content will be on the final exam.

Friday: Quiz over the film and “To Build a Fire.”

Week 16: POST THANKSGIVING

Monday – Tuesday: Seminar over Ben Franklin & Emerson’s work. Discuss posters. Pull lines from each.

Wednesday- Thursday:
Journal entries.
Read excerpt from Walden by Thoreau and possibly excerpt from Into the Wild by John Krakauer (about a young man who went to “live in the woods” but it didn’t go so well for him). Take notes & write summary in notebook.

Students in 1st, 3rd,& 7th made individual slide decks arguing which was better: City vs. Nature per Emerson & Romantics vs. Franklin & Rationalist views.

Honors read an article from The Guardian: “The Nature Cure How  Time Outdoors Transforms our Memory, Imagination, and Logic”

Then Honors also created City vs. Nature slides in groups to present on Monday 12/04 (since 1/2 the class was late due to a test / gone due to a field trip)

Friday: Accept late work for Thoreau readings. Touch on Thoreau as author of “march to the beat of your own drummer” idea.

Present slide decks & discuss pros / cons of Nature/City.

Read Edgar Allen Poe selections, take notes, write summaries, prep for seminar next week.

Prep to watch Into the Wild, a film about a young man who goes to live in the wilds of Alaska, based on a novel by John Krakauer.