Bulletin Board
American Lit / Comp Fall 2015
Assignment and Assessment Deadlines
Upcoming AssessmentsFormative / Quiz:
03.23.15: Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" 03.26.15: Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" Summative: 03.30.15: Final Test--American Modernism Literary Movement 04.13.15: Final Project Due: Film or slideshow of chosen American Literary Movement (see handout) Final Exam Date: TBD Teacher InformationWelcome to Mrs. Wolff's Fall 2015 American Lit / Comp Class.
Please feel free to call me between 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. at: 404.555.1212 e-mail: [email protected] |
Recorded Synchronous Sessions
American Literary Movements:
Class Syllabus*Click on the picture for a copy of the American Lit / Comp Fall 2015 Syllabus
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Important Class Handouts:
- Native American Oral Literature
- Puritanism: William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Jonathan Edwards, and Edward Taylor
- Rationalism: Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, and Phyllis Wheatley
- Romanticism--Dark v. Light: Washington Irving, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Transcendentalism: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott
- Realism: Mark Twain, Jack London, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin
- Modernism: Lorraine Hansberry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, John Steinbeck, D.H. Lawrence
- Harlem Renaissance: James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston
- Postmodernism: Alice Walker, Wallace Stevens, e.e. cummings, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Sandra Cisneros, Amy Tan
Helpful Links:
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL):
https://owl.english.purdue.edu
MLA Format (OWL):
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/
The American Novel (PBS):
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/index.html
Great American Authors Since 1650 (PBS):
http://www.iptv.org/series.cfm/20449/great_american_authors/episodes
Themes of the American Experience / Novel (PBS):
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/ideas/index.html
Ernest Hemingway (PBS):
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/ernest-hemingway/career-timeline/630/
Poets.org:
http://www.poets.org
Finding Dulcinea--High School English Literature Help:
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides/Education/High-School-Literature.xa_1.html