American Literature for August 19-23

Post date: Aug 18, 2019 9:3:9 PM

Here's an overview of the coming week:

We will have new vocabulary this week--15 words taken from an article called "Death of an Innocent" by Jon Krakauer. We will spend next week reading the article and completing activities related to it.

We will also finish up our American Dream unit this week, finishing The Pursuit of Happyness (sic) and completing a short writing assignment. We will also read and analyze two poems by Langston Hughes--"I, too, Sing America" and "Let America Be America Again."

Finally, we will wrap up the unit with a project focused on the American Dream, including your own ideas and those from works we've read and images that you think reflect the ideas of the American Dream.