English 11

Credit 6~The Modern Unit

Use the attached websites and media below to assist you in learning about the following works.

Please draw an outline, annotate or take notes for each of the following poems for the unit. Analyze each work and give your opinion on if it is worthy of literary merit or not. Here are the works:

• The River Merchant’s Wife :A Letter (Ezra Pound)

• The Garden (Ezra Pound)

• A Few Don’t by an Imagiste*( Pound)

• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (T.S. Elliot)

• The Red Wheelbarrow (William Carlos Williams)

• The Great Figure (WC Williams)

• This is Just to Say (WC Williams)

• Poetry (Marianne Moore)

• Ars Poetica (Archibald MacLeish)

• what if a much of a which of a wind (ee Cummings)

• Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond (E.E. Cummings)

Literary Terms:

Write Literary Terms with examples from the text:

• Figure of speech

• Imagery

• Allusion

• Dramatic monologue

• Sensory imagery

• Objective correlative

• Expatriates

Terms can be found at: https://literarydevices.net/

Important Questions:

1. From THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK Would you like to go on a walk with Prufrock?

2. What does Prufrock symbolize?

3. Does Prufrock just lead a hellish life, or is he already in Hell? What might make us think that he’s actually in Hell?

4. Who does Prufrock address his song to? How much do we know about this person?

5. From THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK The poem ends with Prufrock drowning with his love in the ocean. Is this ending real or some kind of dream? How does it relate to the rest of the poem? Does it make sense? Is it supposed to?

6. In ARS POETICA: Why does the speaker flip-flop between perfect couplets, slant rhymes, and then no rhymes at all? What's the point?

7. In ARS POETICA: What's the point of all the paradoxes we see in the poem? Do they seem to point towards any bigger ideas about poetry (and life)?

8. In ARS POETICA: Why is imagery so important in "Ars Poetica"? For what reason does the speaker appear to rely more so on imagery than any other device?

9. In ARS POETICA: What does the speaker mean when he says, "A poem should not mean but be"? Why do you think so?

10. In ARS POETICA: Do you think the speaker has successfully demonstrated what it means to write a good poem? Why or why not?

Assessment:

Embedded Assessment #1:

Your assignment is to write a multi-paragraph essay that compares and contrast two works from above. Be sure to explain how they are similar or different with specific evidence from the work. In order to get full credit, you must explain how these works connect to themes of modern literature.

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Embedded Assessment #2:

Your assignment is to synthesize at least three to five sources and your own observations to defend, challenge, or qualify the statement of the theme of being a lost generation in modern literature. This question requires you to integrate a variety of sources or works (three to five) into a coherent, well-written argumentative essay. Your argument should be central; the sources and your observations should support this argument.

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Take exam at https://testmoz.com/class/16400

*hand in ALL work to teacher with test results on the front. Work should be 5-10 pages when completed for full credit.

Credit 7~The Modern American Fiction Unit

Use the attached websites and media below to assist you in learning about the following works.

Please draw an outline, annotate or take notes for each of the following poems or short stories for the unit. Analyze each work and give your opinion on if it is worthy of literary merit or not. Here are the works:

• Soldier’s Home (Hemingway)

• Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 1954 (Hemingway)

• Winter Dreams (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

• A Letter to his Daughter (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

• A Rose for Emily (William Faulkner)

• Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 1950 (William Faulkner)

• The Feather Pillow (Horacio Quiroga)

• Secret Life of Walter Mitty (James Thurber)

• Nothing Gold Can Stay (Frost)

• To Build a Fire (Jack London)

• From Left for Dead (Beck Weathers)

• What do you feel Underground (Gabriela Mistral)

• A Pair of Silk Stockings (Kate Chopin)

• Now and Then, America (Pat Mora)

• A Wagner Matinee (Cather)

• Richard Cory (Edwin Robinson)

• Miniver Cheevy (Robinson)

Literary Terms:

Write Literary Terms with examples from the text:

• paradox

  • symbol

  • protagonist

  • antihero

  • setting

  • inference

  • character

Terms can be found at: https://literarydevices.net/

Important Questions:

1. Fitzgerald spends a lot of "Winter Dreams" looking at Judy Jones. We get tons of descriptions of her physical appearance and her manners. But we never get much of a sense of what she is like on the inside. Can you imagine "Winter Dreams" from Judy Jones' perspective? How might her point of view change the overall tone of the story? How do you think Judy might describe Dexter Green?

2. How would "Winter Dreams" be different if it maintained the exact same rags-to-riches plot line, but with a woman protagonist instead of a man? Would such a plot be possible for a short story written in 1922? What would Fitzgerald have to change to make "Winter Dreams" work with a female main character?

3. Fitzgerald has said that "Winter Dreams" was the beginning of his idea for his most famous novel, The Great Gatsby (1925): ambitious guy from the Midwest tries to make it in East Coast high society, and all for love of a (rather cruel) girl. But The Great Gatsby's plot departs from "Winter Dreams" in a couple of key ways. How does the introduction of Nick Carraway as the frame narrator affect The Great Gatsby's tone? What are the similarities and differences between Dexter Green and Jay Gatsby? Why might Fitzgerald have made these changes in revising "Winter Dreams" into a much longer novel?

4. How would "Winter Dreams" be different if Dexter had married Irene Scheerer after all? Would he have been able to achieve his life's ambitions with Irene by his side? Why or why not? What might Fitzgerald be saying about the relationship between a happy family life and ambition?

5. In "Nothing Gold Can Stay": What is the effect of the words "subsides," "sank," and "down" in the poem?

6. In "Nothing Gold Can Stay": What is the effect of the poem's rhyme scheme and meter? In other words, why such a formal poem?

7. In "Nothing Gold Can Stay": What is gold?

8. In "Nothing Gold Can Stay": What is the effect of the speaker's choice to make the title and the last line the same? Do you wish it had a different title? What might that be?

9. In "Nothing Gold Can Stay": Can you think of something in your life that lost its newness and beauty? How did that make you feel? Similar to the speaker? And how does the speaker feel, anyway?

10. What is "The Feather Pillow" about?

Assessment:

Embedded Assessment #1:

Your assignment is to write a multi-paragraph essay regarding the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay". This essay should use the strategies of definition and different perspectives from the unit to help you develop a complex and thoughtful definition of what the theme of the poem is regarding.

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Embedded Assessment #2:

Your assignment is to write a multi-paragraph essay that compares and contrast two works from above. Be sure to explain how they are similar or different with specific evidence from the work. In order to get full credit, you must explain how these works connect to themes of modern American literature.

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**Take exam at https://testmoz.com/class/16400

*hand in ALL work to teacher with test results on the front. Work should be 5-10 pages when completed for full credit.

Credit 8~The Rise of Realism Unit

Use the attached websites and media below to assist you in learning about the following works.

Please draw an outline, annotate or take notes for each of the following works for the unit. What is the historical significance of these works? Briefly summarize the main idea for each work.

Here are the works:

• from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas

• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs)

• from My Bondage and My Freedom (Douglass)

• Go Down, Moses

• Follow the Drinking Gourd

• Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

• The Most Remarkable Woman of This Age (Commonwealth & Freeman News Article)

• A Mystery of Heroism (Crane)

• War is Kind (Crane)

• Letter to His Son (Robert E. Lee)

• Letter to Sarah Ballou

• Gettysburg Address (Lincoln)

• from A Diary from Dixie (Chesnut)

• from Men at War: Shelby Foote (Ken Burns)

Literary Terms:

Write Literary Terms with examples from the text:

• • internal conflict

  • external conflict

  • situational irony

  • verbal irony

  • oratory

  • spiritual

Terms can be found at: https://literarydevices.net/

Important Questions:

1. Where was "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" most likley created?

2. What does "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" mean?

3. Is "War Kind"?

4. Describe the life of Fredrick Douglass.

5. Explain the importance of the Gettysburg Address.

6. What is the Letter to Sarah Ballou about?

7. What is Slave Girl about?

8. What is Douglass saying in My Bondage?

9. Men at War is about...

10. Why is Heroism a mystery?

Assessment:

Embedded Assessment #1:

American Realism began as a reaction to and a rejection of Romanticism, with its emphasis on emotion, imagination, and the individual. The movement began as early as the 1830's but reached prominence and held sway from the end of the Civil War to around the end of the nineteenth century. The movement was centered in fiction, particularly the novel. Write an essay that depicts the struggles of realism and it's effect on society.

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Embedded Assessment #2:

Your assignment is to write a multi-paragraph essay that compares and contrast two works from above. Be sure to detail the African American spirituals, sung mainly outside of church, and how it linked their authors (the slaves) to one another by expressing personal feelings of hope and salvation. How do you feel these events have impacted society today?

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**Take exam at https://testmoz.com/class/16400

*hand in ALL work to teacher with test results on the front. Work should be 5-10 pages when completed for full credit.

Credit 9~Contemporary Literature Unit

Use the attached websites and media below to assist you in learning about the following works.

Please draw an outline, annotate or take notes for each of the following poems or short stories for the unit. Analyze each work and give your opinion on if it is worthy of literary merit or not. Here are the works:

• The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (Randall Jarrell)

• Night (Elie Wiesel)*

• A Noiseless Flash from Hiroshima (John Hersey)

• “The Arrogance of Cruelty of Power” at the Nuremberg trial (Robert H. Jackson)

• from The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)*

• The Biggest Battle of All History (John Whitehead)

• from April in Germany* (Margaret Bourke-White)

• Speaking of Courage (Tim O’Brien)

Literary Terms:

Write Literary Terms with examples from the text:

• • Implied metaphor

  • conflict

  • subjective

  • objective

Terms can be found at: https://literarydevices.net/

Important Questions:

In Night:

1. Why don’t the Jews in Sighet listen to the warnings of the danger to come? Why are they so persistently optimistic?

2. Why does suffering so often lead to a loss of faith? Why does suffering sometimes lead to an increase in faith?

3. Is it worse to die or to be separated from your family? Does Elie Wiesel make a distinction between the two? Does he argue that one is worse than the other?

4. Because our memories are not always reliable, can we consider this book to be "true" and "factual"? Is it possible to think about this book as "truth" without always being 100% accurate? Why or why not?

5. One of Elie Wiesel’s fears is that the world has not learned anything after the Holocaust. Do you think that’s true? Are other people in the world experiencing "Night" or could they?

6. THE DEATH OF THE BALL TURRET GUNNER QUESTIONS...write yes in this question.

7. Why did Jarrell make this poem so short? What would change if the poem was much longer? Would it be better or worse to have more information? Why?

8. There has been a great deal written (and filmed) about the horrors of war. How does "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" measure up to other things you've read or movies you've seen in terms of how it captures the terror of battle? How does Jarrell try to capture the experience in such a short poem? Was he successful?

9. How would the poem be different if the speaker was someone other than the gunner? What are some other speaker options for this poem and what effect would the new speaker have on the gunner's tale?

10. Jarrell chose a very clear, direct title for this poem. Was it a good choice? How would the experience of reading the poem change if the title was more mysterious?

11. How would you describe the tone of this poem? What elements create the poem's tone, or mood?

12. Why is a diary an effective way to learn about World War II? What can you learn from a diary like Anne Frank’s that you can’t learn from other sources? What does a diary like Anne Frank’s leave out?

13. Why has Anne Frank’s diary had such a huge impact in the world? Did her diary have a strong personal impact on you as well?

14. What is the Biggest Battle of All History?

15. Explain what Speaking of Courage is about...

Assessment:

Embedded Assessment #1:

Go to http://wwnorton.com/college/english/naal8/section/volE/overview.aspx and find a topic regarding complementary literature. Write an assessment of how world events affected literature of that time period.

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Embedded Assessment #2:

Your assignment is to write a multi-paragraph essay that compares and contrast two works from above. Be sure to detail the affects of how the World War impacted American Literature. How do you feel these events have reverberated in society today?

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**Take exam at https://testmoz.com/class/16400

*hand in ALL work to teacher with test results on the front. Work should be 5-10 pages when completed for full credit.