English III Juniors

Course Guidelines and Listening & Speaking Criteria

Thinking Skills:  Creative, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Knowing How to Learn, Reasoning. Personal Qualities:  Responsibility, Self-Esteem, Sociability (empathy), Self-Management (control, organization), Integrity/Honesty. Student Leaders and Mentors receive more Listening & Speaking credit

Click on this link if you cannot access the Academic Honesty (plagiarism) policy

Avoiding Plagiarism (web link)

Quoting, Paraphrasing & Summarizing (web link)

Unit 2: Free and Independent

 Holt Collection 2: American Romanticism (WebLink)

 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (WebLink)

 My Bondage and My Freedom (WebLink)

 Into the Wild Vocabulary Flashcards (WebLink)

 Into the Wild Lit Circle Packet (PDF Document - PDF)

 Into the Wild Cliffnotes (WebLink)

 Into the Wild: The Wild Truth by Carine McCandless (WebLink)

 The Wild Truth about the McCandless Family (WebLink)

 How Did Chris McCandless Die? (WebLink)

 Romantic Period PowerPoint (WebLink)

 Emerson's Self-Reliance (WebLink)

 Emerson's Nature (WebLink)

 Emerson - Self-Reliance Worksheet (PDF Document - PDF)

 Thoreau's Resistance to Civil Government (WebLink)

 Thoreau's Walden (WebLink)

 Thoreau Walden Spreadsheet Instructions (PDF Document - PDF)

 The Declaration of Independence Text (WebLink)

 The Declaration of Independence original (WebLink)

 The Second Treatise Of Civil Government by John Locke (WebLink)

 The American Crisis by Thomas Paine (WebLink)

 Permission Slip Operation Homecoming (PDF Document - PDF)

 James Fenimore Cooper Biography (WebLink)

 Cooper's The Pioneers (WebLink)

 Moby Dick: An American Book of Wonder by Joyce C. Oates (WebLink)

Research and MLA Format

 DCE Author List (PDF Document - PDF)

 Motivation TED Talk (WebLink)

 Evaluating Web Sources (WebLink)

 Library of Congress (WebLink)

 Citing Priming Sources Correctly (WebLink)

 Calabasas City Library (WebLink)

 JSTOR - Research Basics (WebLink)

 Research Using the Internet (UC Berkeley) (WebLink)

 Diigo Online Research Tool (WebLink)

 Evernote Research Tool (WebLink)

 Best Smartphone Notetaking Apps (WebLink)

 Best iPhone Notetaking Apps (WebLink)

 MLA Eighth Edition Format Changes (WebLink)

 MLA - Sample Paper (PDF Document - PDF)

 MLA - Sample Works Cited (PDF Document - PDF)

 MLA - Annotated Bibliography Tutorial (WebLink)

 MLA Style - Research and Documentation (WebLink)

 MLA Formatting & Styleguide - Purdue (WebLink)

 MLA Research Guide - Online Computer Library Center, Inc (WebLink)

 MLA Citation - Government Sites & Documents (WebLink)

 MLA Format - Sample Citations (WebLink)

 MLA Citation Format & Works Cited (WebLink)

 U.S. Archives for Research (WebLink)

 Source and Note Cards Information (PDF Document - PDF)

 Critical Theory (WebLink)

 Critical Theory - Purdue (WebLink)

 Literary Theory: Criticism Activity (PDF Document - PDF)

 Literary Criticism: An Overview (PDF Document - PDF)

 Criticism - Biographical (PDF Document - PDF)

 Criticism - Historical (PDF Document - PDF)

 Criticism - Socioeconomic (PDF Document - PDF)

 Presentation Evaluation Rubric (PDF Document - PDF)