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Port Angeles High School English      

11th Grade English: American Studies semester 1 assignments


Class Overview
Grading Policy and Late Work
English 11 syllabus

Unit 1: Freedom, Liberty,and the Individual

  1. Unit 1 Calendar
  2. Unit 1, Freedom, Liberty, and the Individual Projects
  3. Constitutional Issues Essay and Photo Essay Rubrics(required)
  4. Constitutional issues essay intro para
  5. Constitutional issues essay reasons para
  6. Constitutional issues essay other side para
  7. Constitutional issues essay conclusion para
  8. Literature Essay (required)
  9. Lit Essay outline (required)
Unit 1 Required Readings and class assignments
  1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  2. Huck Finn wkst 1
  3. Huck Finn wkst 2
  4. Huck Finn wkst 3
  5. Huck Finn wkst 4

  6. Huck Finn Test 1
  7. Huck Finn Test 2

  8. Declaration of Independence - Thomas Jefferson
  9. The American Crisis (from Chapt. 1) - Thomas Paine
  10. Declaration and Crisis wkst

  11. Speech in the Virginia Conventtion - Patrick Henry
  12. My Bondage and My Freedom (excerpt from chapter xi) - Frederick Douglass
  13. speech and bondage wkst

  14. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (excerpt) - Henry David Thoreau
  15. Letter from Birmingham Jail (excerpt) - Martin Luther King, Jr.
  16. Refugee in America - Langston Hughes
  17. civil and letter wkst
Unit 2: American Dream
  1. Unit 2 Calendar
  2. American Dream Project - Overview

  3. History Essay (required)
  5. Great Gatsby Literature Essay (required)
  6. Lit Essay outline (required)
  7. Gatsby example essay
  8. Gatsby rant essay
Unit 2 Required Readings and Class Assignments
  1. Letters From an American Farmer
  2. Letters From an American Farmer wkst

  3. Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
  4. Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography wkst

  5. The Great Gatsby
  6. The Great Gatsby wkst 1
  7. The Great Gatsby wkst 2
  8. The Great Gatsby wkst 3
  9. The Great Gatsby Quiz

  10. Leaves of Grass
  11. I Hear American Singing
  12. I, Too
  13. To Walt Whitman
  14. Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Angelo de Hoyos wkst

  15. Richard Cory
  16. Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper
  17. Richard Cory and Perfection of Paper wkst

  18. The Turtle
  19. The Turtle wkst

  20. Hayden's Frederick Douglass
  21. Two editorials and Hayden's Frederick Douglass wkst

Unit 3: Individual and national Identity

  1. Unit 3 Calendar
  2. Identity unit project
  3. Uncle Sam Trial Rubric (required)
  4. In-Class essay Rubric (required)
  5. Identity interview, paragraph (required)
  6. Identity essay (required)

Unit 3 Required Readings and Class Work

The Things They Carried

  1. TTTC quiz 1 chapters 1-4
  2. TTTC quiz 2 chapters 5-8
  3. TTTC quiz 3 chapters 9-11
  4. TTTC quiz 4 chapters 12-14
  5. TTTC quiz 5 chapters 15-18

  6. Song of Myself + Noiseless Patient Spider poems
  7. Song of Myself + Noiseless Patient Spider wkst

  8. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God text
  9. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God wkst

  10. Self-Reliance text
  11. Nature text
  12. Self-Reliance + Nature wkst

  13. In Another Country - Hemmingway text
  14. In Another Country - Hemmingway wkst

  15. Mother Tongue text
  16. Mother Tongue wkst

  17. Chicago + Birches text
  18. Chicago + Birches wkst

  19. Ambush text
  20. Ambush wkst