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OSC Course Contract
Instructor: Date Assigned:
Credits granted upon completion: A completed assignment is equivalent to 5 instructional days of work. Ten (10) credits will be earned upon successful completion of all assignments and a grade of 60% or better on each test.
Course Goals: Upon completion of this course, the student will:
gain an appreciation of our literary heritage and a familiarity with works of quality literature.
develop a higher order reading comprehension
articulate the relationship between the expressed purposes and the characteristics of different forms of
literature
understand the important points in the history of the English language.
gain language competence in English usage and in writing essays, biographical or autobiographical
narratives, business letters and creative pieces.
the ability to assess various forms of information and to evaluate them critically.
learn effective individual speaking and listening applications
stress academic research skills, including writing a research report
develop reading as a recreational activity
demonstrate an understanding of proper English usage and control of grammar, paragraph and
sentence structure, diction, syntax and spelling.
Method of evaluation:
1. Teacher observation and review of student work.
2. Quizzes and tests (mastery level 60% or better).
Other:__________________________________________________________________________________
Description of major learning activities and /or study materials:
Textbook and study materials: Holt Literature and Language Arts, Fifth Course; Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2003
Computer based instructional opportunity: Odyssey Online Curriculum, Apex
Supplemental audiovisual instructional support: As needed
Note: All school resources needed for completion of assignments are available to students.
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Assignment Description
Unit 1~Foundations to 1800 Unit Read and review pages 1-114
Do the Reading Check and Interpretations questions for the following works:
22 - The Sun Still Rises…
24 - The Sky Tree
24 - The Earth Only
25 - Coyote Finishes His Work
29 - Here Follow Some Verses…
33 - World, in hounding me…
51 - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equino
61 - from To the Right… Dartmouth
67 - from The Autobiography
107 - From The Iroquois Constitution
109 - Letter to John Adams
110 - from Declaration of Sentiments
Do Vocabulary definitions for: arduous, rectitude, facilitate, subsequent, eradicate, assailant, distraction, alleviate, interspersed, commodious, abdicated, confiscation, constrains, magnanimity, transient.
Literary Terms to define with examples from text; The Plain Style, Parallelism, Inversion, Sonnet. Petrachan Sonnet
Unit 2~ American Romanticism Unit Read and review pages 133-297
Do the Reading Check and Interpretations questions for the following works:
153 - The Devil and Tom Walker
182 - from Nature
211 - From Resistance to Civil Government
239 - The Minister’s Black Veil
274 - The Raven
Vocabulary Check: “The Raven”
Literary Terms to define with examples from text: Imagery, Paradox, Mood, Symbol, Sound Effects (use “The Raven”).
Unit 3~ American Masters Unit (pages 298-375)
Do the Reading Check and Interpretations questions for the following works:
314 – from Song of myself 10
316 – from Song of Myself 33
319 – from Song of Myself 52
322 – A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
323 – from Specimen Days
325 – from Hospital Sketches
333 – Full Powers
337 – The Soul Selects her own Society
338 – If you were coming in the Fall
347 – Because I could not stop for Death
349 – I heard a fly buzz- when I died
350 – Much Madness is Divinest Sense
Write Literary Terms with examples from the text: symbol, irony, theme, paradox, tone, free verse, slant rhyme, cadence, personification
Unit 4~ The Civil War Unit (pages 377-456)
Do the Reading Check and Interpretations questions for the following works:
399 – from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
407 – Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
413 – from My Bondage and My Freedom
415 – Go Down, Moses
415 – Follow the Drinking Gourd
416 – Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
418 – The Most Remarkable Woman of This Age
435 – A Mystery of Heroism
443 – War is Kind
446 – Letter to His Son
447 – Letter to Sarah Ballou
448 – Gettysburg Address
449 – from A Diary from Dixie
450 – from Men at War: Shelby Foote
Vocabulary Check: “from My Bondage and My Freedom”, “Go Down Moses”, “Follow the Drinking Gourd”, “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”, “The Most Remarkable Woman of This Age”, “Commonwealth”, and “Freeman’s Record”
Literary Terms to define with examples from text: internal conflict, external conflict, situational irony, verbal irony, oratory.
Unit 5~ The Rise of Realism (pages 479-547)
Do the Reading Check and Interpretations questions for the following works:
481- To Build a Fire
493- From Left for Dead
500- What do you feel Underground
504- A Pair of Silk Stockings
510- Now and Then, America
514- A Wagner Matinee
523- Richard Cory
524- Miniver Cheevy
Literary Terms to define with examples from poems: Setting, Motivation, Connotations, Naturalism, Imagery, Cause and Effect.
Unit 6~The Moderns Unit (Pages 557-606)
Read the following works and answer the Reading Check and Interpretations questions (in bold) *Write summary of all works without questions:
576 - The River Merchant’s Wife : A Letter q. 1-5 (580)
578 - The Garden q. 1-7 (580)
579 – A Few Don’t by an Imagiste*
584 – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock q. 1-15 (589)
593 - The Red Wheelbarrow
594 – The Great Figure
595 - This is Just to Say q. 1-7 (596)
598 – Poetry*
599 - Ars Poetica q. 1-8 (600)
602 - what if a much of a which of a wind
603 – Miracles are to come
603 – Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond
q. 1-5, q. 1-5 (pg. 604)
Write Literary Terms with examples from the text: Figure of speech, imagery, allusion, dramatic monologue, sensory imagery, objective correlative.
Unit 7~The Modern American Fiction Unit (Pages 610-665)
Read the following works and answer the Reading Check and Interpretations questions. *Write summary of all works without questions:
611- Soldier’s Home*
618- Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 1954 q. 1-10 (619)
624- Winter Dreams q. 1-11 (pg. 641)
640- A Letter to his Daughter
646- A Rose for Emily q. 1-15 (pg. 655)
654- Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 1950 q. 1-15 (pg. 655)
659- The Feather Pillow q. 1-7 (pg. 663)
Do vocabulary development for each story
Write literary terms with examples from the text: paradox, symbol, protagonist, antihero, setting, inference and character.
Unit 8~Harlem Renaissance Unit (Pages 741-789)
Read the following works and answer the Reading Check and Interpretations questions. *Write summary of all works without questions:
745- Tableau q. 1-6 (748)
747- Incident q. 1-5 (748)
751- The Weary Blues q. 1-6 (pg. 758)
754- Harlem q. 1-5 (pg. 758)
756- Heyday in Harlem
759- The Negro Speaks of Rivers q. 1-7 (pg. 761)
761- The Mississippi river empties into the gulf*
763- from Dust Tracks on A Road
q. 1-11 (pg. 770)
Write Literary Terms with examples from the text: biography, autobiography, rythem, mood, metaphor, repetition, refrain and blank verse
Unit 9~Contemporary Literature Unit (Pages 792-876)
Read the following works and answer the Reading Check and Interpretations questions. *Write summary of all works without questions:
814- The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner q. 1-10 (p. 815)
818- from Night q. 1-10 (827)
831- A Noiseless Flash from Hiroshima q. 1-9 (843)
846- The Arrogance of Cruelty of Power q. 1-7 (852)
857- from The Diary of a Young Girl*
859- The Biggest Battle of All History*
861- from April in Germany*
867- Speaking of Courage q. 1-13 (pg. 874)
Do vocabulary development for each story
Write Literary Terms with examples from the text: Implied metaphor, conflict, subjective, objective
Unit 10~Novel Unit (Pages 774-783)
Read one American Literature Novel and complete the following assignment:
1 page plot summary
1 page reflection: Did you like it? Why or why not?
2 page critical analysis of one of the main characters using the following questions……..
Is the character believable? Why or why not?
Is the character the protagonist or antagonist? Why?
Is the conflict the character faces internal, external or both?
What is the characters motivation?
Is the character static (does not change) or dynamic (does change)? How and give examples?