Materials/Resources

ONLINE American Literature!

• Prompts for the ending of The Great Gatsby

• Critical Review Revision Instructions

• How To Set Up Your Gatsby Blog (Screencast)

• Revised Gatsby Fishbowl Sign-Up

• Wednesday Writes

• Screencast on Grammar #9: Apostrophes

• Google doc version of Grammar #9

• Quiz on Grammar #9 (Google Form)

• Screencast on Grammar #10: Transitions

• Google doc version of Grammar #10

• Quiz on Grammar #10 (Google Form)

• Click HERE to join our Quizlet class for optional Gatsby vocab!

General

• Second Semester: Syllabus and Expectations

• SAS Writing Reviser

• Turnitin and Turnitin instructions

• Easybib

• AHS subscription sites (you must be signed in to access)

• AHS subscription sites helpful instructions/passwords

• One-Minute Speech Rubric

• Opt In/Opt Out Policy

Mapping Our Racial Dynamics

Independent Reading

• The Big Overview

• iPhone Reading Tracker App (Leio)

• Android Reading Tracker App (Read More)

• Narrative Thought Logs

Slave Narratives

• Excerpts from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

• Excerpts from Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Reconstruction Era

• Mark Twain's "The Damned Human Race"

• Ethnic Notions, an Emmy-winning documentary

• Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Compromise" Speech (click HERE to listen)

Harlem Renaissance

• Overview of Arapahoe Renaissance Little Project

• Making a Way out of No Way: Harlem Renaissance Documentary

• Reflection Sheet on Making a Way out of No Way

• "Criteria of Negro Art" by W.E.B. Du Bois

• "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" by Langston Hughes

• Countee Cullen

• Langston Hughes

• James Weldon Johnson

• Claude McKay

• Helene Johnson

• Jean Toomer

• Angelina Weld Grimke

• Anne Spencer

• Aaron Douglas

• Jacob Lawrence

• Palmer Hayden

• Lois Mailou Jones

• Harlem Renaissance music

The Green Book

• Background and Historical Context Slides

• Green Book Jigsaw

• Mapping Out Their Journeys

• Critical Review Overview and Timeline

Questioning Class and Power: The American Renaissance, Modernism and The Great Gatsby

• Timed Writing Prompts

• Gatsby Fishbowl Overview and Sample Syllabus

• Fishbowl Leader and Discusser Sign-Up

• Gatsby Reading Schedule / Bookmark

• Friday Freewrites

• Journal Rubric

• Journal Overview

• Optional: Study guide questions (to help with your journal)

• Free AUDIOBOOK of The Great Gatsby

• Timed Writing RUBRIC

• LEADERS: POST YOUR SYLLABUS HERE

Investigating Our Contemporary American Hierarchy: Post-Modernism and Contemporary Nonfiction

• Investigative Journalism Bookmark/Daily Assignments

• Letter / Permission Form for Book Clubs

• Documentary Contract

• Book List

• Documentary Tracking Notes: Ethos, Pathos, Logos

• Waiting for Superman Viewing Questions

• Blackfish Viewing Questions

• Documentaries on Social Change

• 180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School

Final Exam

• Speech Sign-Up

• Overview of Final Speech and Panel Discussion

• Rubric for Final Speech

• Ethos, Pathos, and Logos

• Good Advice on Public Speaking

• Openings and Closings

Publishing Your Work

• 13 Stunning Places to Publish Student Art and Writing

• Wattpad

• The Concord Review

• TeenInk

• Figment

Test Preparation

• The New PSAT

• The New SAT

• SAT Tone Vocabulary

• 18 Grammar Rules You Must Know