Class and Homework w/o 10/13/08

Tuesday

• SL Multiple Choice Exam (in class: timed AP format)
• "Gettysburg Address" Grammar exercise: Identify at least 10 examples of the sentence patterns we discussed in class. You can work with a partner in class, but YOU MUST COMPLETE IT for homework.

Wednesday: SL Free Response Essay Question (in class: timed AP format)

• You will have 15min to read the prompt and prepare an outline/annotate/prepare for your essay.
• You will have 35min to write a thorough and complete essay
• Homework: "The Slave's Dream" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (you will receive a hard copy, or you can click here: http://www.hwlongfellow.org/poems_poem.php?pid=77). Please complete your 2page literary response. Use the handouts with top-down analysis questions if necessary. Summaries, at this point, will receive an automatic zero!

Thursday: PLATO LAB

• Homework: 1)" Civil Disobedience" By Henry David Thoreau click here for a link to the electronic hyper-text
• 2) "Self-Reliance" by: Ralph Waldo Emerson. Click here for a link to the e-text
• Complete your 2pg literary response on either essay. Be ready for a reading quiz on Friday.

Friday:

• Interim Assessment--Literary Time Periods--Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by: Harriet Jacobs (chapters 1 and 7 click the link above for an e-text)...comparisons to Lincoln's Address and the slave narrative.
• Homework: Finish Incidents, In your literature response, consider Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address". Was his message meant for Linda Brent (aka Harriet Jacobs)? Does her reality make Lincoln's address more pertinent and meaningful?