10th Grade English Web Links
All Quiet on the Western Front:
All Quiet on the Western Front--Wikipedia
Debate:
Athlete of Equipment-Room for Debate
Sports out of Schools-Room for Debate
New York Times--"Room for Debate" Blog
Room for Debate--Should NYC Ban Soda Size?
TED Debate--Does the World Need Nuclear Energy?
TED Persuasive Speech--Salman Khan: Use Video to Reinvent Education
TED Persuasive Speech: Climate Change
TED Persuasive Speech--Change Agriculture, Pro "Terraculture"
TED Persuasive Speech--Jamie Oliver: Teach Children About Food
Debt Ceiling interview--John Boehner
Govt. Shutdown/debt ceiling--Barack Obama
Is it the Athelete or the Equipment? NYT Room for Debate
Ted Talk: Climate Change and Human Rights
Ted Talks: Happiness and Success
Lord of the Flies:
William Golding--Lord of the Flies
Teaching Lord of the Flies--New York Times
Lord of the Flies - online text
Macbeth/William Shakespeare:
Macbeth--PBS Great Performances
Harvard Lectures--Shakespeare Plays
Harvard Lectures--Shakespeare's Early Plays
Teaching Shakespeare--New York Times
Macbeth Synthesis Essay - Rough Draft due 3/20, Final Draft due 3/22
Macbeth Synthesis Paragraph Structure
Macbeth -- short animated drama
Poetry:
Essays on Modern American Poetry
Library of Congress - A Poem a day
New Yorker Poems
Night:
United States Holocaust Museum
Textbook audio:
College Application Essay:
College Application Essay Examples
More College Application Essay Examples
Even More College Essay Examples--NYT 2016
Another College Application Essay Example (Costco story)
"Costco" College Application Essay analyzed
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary Practice--Units 1-15
Vocabulary Word Lists--Units 1-15
Creative Writing Web Links
Pixar's 22 Rules of Good Storytelling
Screenplay-Dead Poet's Society
Daily Creative Writing Prompts
Short Story - Rough Draft /, Final Draft Due /
American Literature Web Links
Early American Writers:
Native American Creation Myths
Early Native American Oral Narrative
On the Trail of Captain John Smith
The Crucible:
Arthur Miller Interview--The Paris Review
Teaching The Crucible--The New York Times
"Why I Wrote The Crucible" by Arthur Miller
Writers of the Revolution:
Thomas Jefferson--Times Topics
American Presidents--WhiteHouse.gov
American Romanticism/Fireside Poets:
Introduction to American Romanticism--VCU
The New England Transcendentalists:
American Transcendentalism--Univ. of Colorado
American Transcendentalism--critical essays
American Gothic/Dark Romantics:
Edgar Allan Poe--"Knowing Poe"
Nathaniel Hawthorne--Times Topics
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson:
Walt Whitman's Abraham Lincoln
Voices of the Civil War:
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address--NYT
The Catcher in the Rye:
Catcher in the Rye--Holden in NYC
Catcher in the Rye: Giving Voice to a Generation (npr audio)
To Kill a Mockingbird:
To Kill a Mockingbird--chapter vocabulary and allusions
The Great Gatsby:
Teaching The Great Gatsby--The New York Times
The Great Gatsby NES video game
CBS News--The Real Gatsby Mansion
The Great Gatsby--Warner Bros.Site
Grammar
Commas, Parentheses and Dashes--Grammar Girl Podcast
Affect vs. Effect--Grammar Girl
First, Second and Third Person
Research
Issaquah Public Library (KCLS)
fullbooks.com--free online classics
Test Prep
Random Links
60 Minutes--Amazon's Jeff Bezos
60 Minutes: Robots Taking Jobs
60 Minutes: The Gardens of the Queens
60 Minutes: The Mozart of Chess
Mark Twain's Autobiography Released
American Passages--image archive
https://learningsynths.ableton.com/