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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. Literature Essay (required)
  3. History Essay (required)
  4. Personal Photo Essay (required)
Unit 1 Required Readings and class assignments
  1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  2. Huck Finn Test
  3. Declaration of Independence - Thomas Jefferson
  4. The American Crisis (from Chapt. 1) - Thomas Paine
  5. Speech in the Virginia Conventtion - Patrick Henry
  6. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (excerpt) - Henry David Thoreau
  7. Letter from Birmingham Jail (excerpt) - Martin Luther King, Jr.
  8. My Bondage and My Freedom (excerpt from chapter xi) - Frederick Douglass
  9. Refugee in America - Langston Hughes
Unit 2: American Dream
  1. Unit 2 Calendar
  2. Great Gatsby Literature Essay (required)
  3. History Essay and Journal (required)
  4. Original Artwork (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 Quiz

  7. Leaves of Grass
  8. I Hear American Singing
  9. I, Too
  10. To Walt Whitman
  11. Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Angelo de Hoyos wkst

  12. Richard Cory
  13. Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper
  14. Richard Cory and Perfection of Paper wkst

  15. The Turtle
  16. The Turtle wkst

  17. Hayden's Frederick Douglass
  18. Two editorials and Hayden's Frederick Douglass wkst

Unit 3: Individual and national Identity

  1. Unit 3 Calendar
  2. Uncle Sam Trial Project (required)
  3. Uncle Sam Trial Rubric

Unit 3 Required Readings and Class Work

Hiroshima by John Hersey

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

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

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

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

  11. Mother Tongue text
  12. Mother Tongue wkst

  13. Chicago + Birches text
  14. Chicago + Birches wkst

  15. Ambush text
  16. Ambush wkst

  17. Who Am I - 7 factors wkst
  18. Interview sheet - friend
  19. Interview sheet - student choice
  20. Interview sheet - family member
  21. Who Am I Essay