Sophs: Post Christmas Holiday Work & Pre-Exam Work

I will begin a mini-unit on mid-19th century American poetry when we return on Thursday. It will consist of the following poets and poems: William Cullen Bryant ("To a Waterfowl"), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ("The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls"), and Oliver Wendell Holmes ("Old Ironsides"). I will give you biographical and literary notes on each of these authors on a handout.

For Monday January 6, you should have read "The Fall of the House of Usher," a short story by Edgar Allan Poe that is in your text book and is available online. I will post on Studywiz and hand out a pre-reading guide for that story that includes notes on Poe. We will study Poe for at least two days--one day on this story and another on his poem "The Raven."

I will collect journals from ALL CLASSES on Wednesday, January 8. The assignments were: Jim Valvano, Be Like Ben (Franklin), The American Dream, and the Stock Character. Make sure what you hand in is your "best" work for this will be your last "major" graded assignment for the second quarter.

Later during this same week  we will study two Transcendentalists authors, Ralph Waldo Emerson (pp. 365-371 in your book) and Henry David Thoreau (pp. 377-387).

To get ahead, you should read any or all of these works.

One last note: we will NOT finish The Greatest Generation until after semester examinations.