Core American Literature
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This room is designed to allow students access to resources and links to help them be successful during both class and on the New York State Eleventh Grade English Regents Examination. Links and resources will be added as I develop them. To get you started, please click on a unit below:
Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun Larry Watson's Montana 1948
Arthur Miller's The Crucible Tennessee William's The Glass Menagerie Grammar Podcasts
Tuesday Review Schedule can be found here
Homework Quote from Class Meeting #1 - "Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk" - Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider
Class Supply List - So you know what you need for supplies in order to survive the semester.
How to Access Your Server From Home - Instructions to access your school server from home using Windows XP (Vista is very similar)
Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in The Sun
September-October Unit Calendar - This will give you information as to what we are completing in class and what your homework will be (or was, for you slackers) for the first unit.
Character Profile Sheets - This will help you keep track of the characters in the play and what they are up to.
A Dream Deferred - The Langston Hughes Poem that inspired the play.
Unit Vocabulary - Where you will find the vocabulary you will be quizzed on.
The Diary Assignment - The long range assignment for this unit.
October-November Unit Calendar - This will give you information as to what we are completing in class and what your homework will be (or was, for you slackers) for October & November.
Montana 1948 Web Quest - The web quest that we will be completing in conjunction with reading Larry Watson's Montana 1948.
Dec '07/Jan '08 Unit Calendar - This will give you information as to what we are completing in class and what your homework will be (or was, for you slackers) for December and the start of January..
The Crucible Resource Packet - This is the resource packet with all the work you need to get through the unit including study guide questions and essay tasks.
Can You Survive the Witch Trial? - A National Geographic "Choose Your Own Adventure" to see if you are set free, whipped, or swingin' from Gallows Hill.
The Geography of the Salem With Trials - See how where people lived influenced who were the accusers and who were they accused.
Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie
September Unit Calendar - This will give you information as to what we are completing in class and what your homework will be (or was, for you slackers) for the first three weeks of school.
TGM: Character Profile Sheet 1 - for use with Tennessee Williams's play, The Glass Menagerie.
TGM: Character Profile Sheet 2 - The second page of the above worksheet.
Grammar Girl Podcast Series - Hate studying grammar lessons, but have a question? Listen to this free, downloadable three minutes podcast lesson that make grammar study bearable. Most of them are at least amusing, such as the one entitled "Barry Bonds's Least Favorite Punctuation" The Asterisk (*)".
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