Vocabulary - new list

Set one: expedient, underlies, civil disobedience, non violent protest, individualism, eccentric, exhausted, advocated, manifest destiny, instigated, abolitionist, endeavor, cultivate, disposed, palpitation. Set two: inclined, unscrupulous, esteem, transgress, excommunicate, perchance, friction, hindrance, allegiance, industriously, snivel, inert, obliged, impetuous, despondent. Set three: exotic, introspective, realm, morbid, formulaic, desolation, renowned, collaboration, reprimand, surcease, entreat, obeisance, beguile, craven, ominous. Set four: quaint, implore, undaunted, countenance, ungainly, placid, gloating, divining, specious, equivocal, inordinate, insipid, palpable, obstinate, prodigious.

Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience"

http://thoreau.eserver.org/default.html

Educational Resource for Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience"

http://edsitement.neh.gov/launchpad-henry-david-thoreaus-essay-civil-disobedience

Full text of "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/mbv.html

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" - full text

http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/ygb.html

video version of "Young Goodman Brown"

The Romantic Times Newspaper Project for November 26, 2013

Ally and Jesse - Parallelism

Logical Comparison - Alex and Nick in the Pumpkin Patch

Spice Drop Nightmare

Kayla and Kristin Improper Modification

Subject Verb Agreement - Josh and Matt

Wordy Story - Ziyan and Siobhan

Angel or Angle??

Diction - Lighting and LightNing

Avoiding Improper Modification

I or Me?

comparison and modifiers english project updated one

arachnid attack 1

English project

Sequence of Tenses Gone Bad: English 2 Honors

Subject-Verb Agreement. Mrs. Elmeer's fifth period class.

Idioms

English Project: Diction

The Wordiness Reaper

Pioneering Art

EXAMINING MY ANTONIA'S HISTORICAL CONTEXT

DIRECTIONS: Use pioneer letters and narratives from the websites below, and your history or literature text books to research issues of American Westward Movement. 1. What was the effect of Manifest Destiny on native-born Americans and immigrants to the United States? 2. How did immigrants from various nations sustain a sense of self and cultural identity within the United States? 3. How did trains and the transcontinental railroad affect western settlement and urban growth along the rail lines? 4. How did women's lives and rights change from 1890 to 1920, especially in the West and Nebraska? 5. What aspects and promises of pioneering were emphasized by popular novels and advertisements to encourage settlement of the West? 6. How quickly did changes in communications, road systems, and "civilizations" come to western states? YOU MUST WORK IN YOUR GROUP TO ANSWER YOUR ASSIGNED QUESTION. YOU MUST USE TEXTUAL EVIDENCE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION. YOU WILL BE REPORTING BACK TO YOUR CLASSMATES. http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/five/nebraska.htm
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
http://historymatters.gmu.edu http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/ http://tdl.org/txlor-dspace/bitstream/handle/2249.3/684/05_changes_transport.htm?sequence=17 http://www.elderweb.com/book/export/html/2816

DYSA African American English (or Ebonics) in the classroom

Do You Speak American?

Do You Speak American?

PIONEERING MUSIC - MY ANTONIA

Directions: Group members should each pick a song to research. All group members need to work with one another to answer the following questions for ONE of the listed. 1. At what time in HISTORY was this song written and most popular? Can you find anything out about the writers, originators, or composers of this song? 2. Read the lyrics and text of the song? What is the purpose communicated through the diction, imagery, irony, and syntax of the song? Do these words change meaning over time? Do you see any shifts or changes in the song over time? 3. How does the musicality, the tone, the tempo, the use of rhyme affect the meaning of the song? How do these things affect the emotions of the listeners? 4. Who originally performed this song? Who is the most famous performer of this song and why do you believe that is? 5. Looking at the song rhetorically, what do you believe is the purpose or agenda behind this song? 6. What does this song say about life during the time it was first performed and sung? What is the genre of your song? 7. Consider the characters and speakers within the songs. Are any gender issues presented? What emotions or feelings do the songs appeal to in its singers or in its listeners?

Willa Cather: The Road is All

Willa Cather: The Road is All from Twenty Ten Productions on Vimeo.

EXCELLENT TUTORIAL ON HOW TO UNEARTH A THEME

Click this link: http://youtu.be/p4qME64SkxM

HIT THE LINK BELOW FOR A TUTORIAL ON INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPHS

http://youtu.be/Rnq17dyxyu4

This is a copy of my Glog in HTML 5. It does not use flash!!!

IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT

KEEP YOUR BLOG IN HTML...DO NOT SWITCH TO FLASH AS IT MAY NOT WORK.

An excellent resource for understanding symbolism: http://youtu.be/9-F599mU6L4

Glogster directions: Your Glogster poster is worth one reading quiz grade. It must include the following: 1. Your completed group paragraph that synthesizes general quotes about the symbol's archetypal meaning and specific quotes that allow us to see references to the symbol in context of The Road. 2. Three images that visually represent your symbol. 3. A title for your poster that emphasizes a main idea about your symbol in sentence form. 4. An appropriate background that makes solid use of color for readability and clarity. 5. Solid font selection. 6. Cohesive design elements. 7. Two subtitles...one for each aspect of the symbol. One for the universal aspects and one for the textual aspects.

Create your blog first!

Create your own blog which I will link to this, our main class blog.

We will be uploading our digital creations on our blogs, using our blogs as a type of digital/electronic portfolio collection...more to come!!