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Port Angeles High School English      

11th Grade English: American Studies semester 1 assignments


Class Overview
Grading Policy and Late Work

Unit 1: Freedom, Liberty,and the Individual

  1. Unit 1 Calendar
  2. Personal Photo Essay (required)
  3. History Essay (required)
  4. Literature Essay (required)
  5. 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 2010 - Overview
  3. Great Gatsby Literature Essay (required)
  4. Lit Essay outline (required)
  5. Gatsby example essay

  6. History Essay (required)
  7. Presentation (required)
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 essay overview
  3. Identity interview, paragraph (required)
  4. Identity essay (required)
  5. Uncle Sam Trial Project (required)
  6. Uncle Sam Trial Rubrics (required)

Unit 3 Required Readings and Class Work

The Things They Carried

  1. Song of Myself + Noiseless Patient Spider poems
  2. Song of Myself + Noiseless Patient Spider wkst

  3. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God text
  4. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God wkst

  5. Self-Reliance text
  6. Nature text
  7. Self-Reliance + Nature wkst

  8. In Another Country - Hemmingway text
  9. In Another Country - Hemmingway wkst

  10. Mother Tongue text
  11. Mother Tongue wkst

  12. Chicago + Birches text
  13. Chicago + Birches wkst

  14. Ambush text
  15. Ambush wkst