Mrs. Hendel

Summer Reading

Here are the Summer Reading Lists by course.  Summaries of suggested novels are also attached.  Happy reading!!!

9th Grade

Download 9th GRADE LITERATURE - Download 9th with summaries

Download HONORS 9TH GRADE LITERATURE - Download 9th honors with summaries

10th Grade

Download 10th GRADE LITERATURE - Download 10th with summaries

Download HONORS AMERICAN LITERATURE - Download Honors Am Lit with summaries

11th Grade

Download 11th GRADE LITERATURE - Download 11th Grade List With Summaries

Download AP LANGUAGE - Download AP lang with summaries

12th Grade

Download 12th GRADE LITERATURE - Download 12th with summaries

Download AP LITERATURE - Download AP lit with summaries

The Final Week - 5/18-5/22

Finally, it's here!  Summer break is within our reach!  I have certainly enjoyed my classes this semester, and I hope you have too.  We've had some great learning experiences and a lot of laughter.  I hope you finally realize why we study American Literature.  Please have a great and SAFE summer!

Monday 5/18 - Finish Cool Hand Luke, 3rd Period Senior Finals

Tuesday 5/19 - Cool Hand Luke Review, 1st Period Senior Finals

Wednesday 5/20 - Evaluations

Thursday 5/21 - 3rd and 4th Period Finals (early dismissal)

Friday 5/22 - 1st and 2nd Period Finals (early dismissal)

American Lit - Week of 5/11-5/15

Monday 5/11 - EOCT in Room 204

Tuesday 5/12 - EOCT in Room 204

Wednesday 5/13 - Review for Vocab Test - Download Final Study Guide

Thursday 5/14 - Vocab Test

Friday 5/15 - Cool Hand Luke

 

American Lit - Week of 5/4-5/8

This is the last week before the American Lit EOCT.  Please continue to review and practice at www.usatestprep.com. See me if you need the username and password.  We will meet in Room 204 on May 11th and 12th.

Monday 5/4

1. Final Research Papers due today!!!
2. EOCT Prep
3. Modernism Background - Download Modernism 2009
4. Terms to know: structure, point of view, blank verse, symbolism, allusion, theme
5. Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" and Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"

Tuesday 5/5

1. EOCT Prep - Download AMERICAN LITERATURE EOCT REVIEW 2009
2. FInish "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
3. Poetry - E.E. Cumming, Robert Frost, Harlem Renaissance poets

4. Modernism Test Review - Download Modernism Test Review - TEST MOVED TO THURSDAY

Wednesday 5/6

1. EOCT Practice Test
2. Finish Harlem Renaissance
3. Modernism Test Review - Test moved to Thursday
4. Post-Modernism Background - Download Post-Modernism (1946-Present)

Thursday 5/7

1. Modernism Test
2. EOCT Practice Test
3. Flannery O'Connor's "The Life You Save May Be Your Own"

Friday 5/8

1. EOCT Practice Test
2. Sylvia Plath's "Mirror" and Vietnam War works

American Lit Research Paper

The final draft of the research paper is due Monday, May 4th.  Please remember to double space and use MLA format!  Turn in all previously graded steps of the research process.  Everything goes in the manila envelope!!!

American Lit EOCT

Mark your calendars!!!  The American Lit EOCT is on Monday, May 11th and Tuesday, May 12th.  We will meet in the English Writing Lab Room 204. Please continue to use www.usatestprep.com for review.  If you need the username and password, please see me. 

Download AMERICAN LITERATURE EOCT REVIEW 2009

EOCT Guide from GA Department of Education

American Lit - Week of 4/27-5/1

Please keep up with all steps of the research process!  We're almost at the end of it.  Final papers for both classes are due Monday, May 4th.  That's an extra weekend.  Everyone should have plenty of time to type and print their papers.  The Media Center is open before and after school and during lunch. 

Monday 4/27

1. EOCT Prep - Please use www.usatestprep.com to prepare for our upcoming EOCT.
2. Vocab #12 - Download 11th_vocab_week_12
3. Read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" - Download An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Quiz tomorrow

Tuesday 4/28

1. EOCT Prep
2. Vocab #12 Review
3. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" Quiz
4. Read "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" - Download Regionalism and Poker Flat

Wednesday 4/29

1. EOCT Prep
2. Vocab #12 Review
3. "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" Quiz
4. Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" and irony - Download The Story of an Hour

Thursday 4/30

1. EOCT Prep
2. Vocab #12 Review
3. Finish "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" and read poetry - 1st period - Download Richard Cory-Lucinda Matlock Poems
4. Read "To Build a Fire" - 3rd period

Friday 5/1

1. Vocab #12 Sentences due
2. Vocab #12 Quiz
3. American Realism in-class essay - Remember to bring your textbooks!!!
4. EOCT Prep

American Lit - Week of 4/20-4/24

Monday 4/20

1. Intro Vocab #11 - Download 11th_vocab_week_11, Quiz on Thursday
2. Whitman/Dickinson Review
3. Whitman/Dickinon Quiz
4. Research Paper Introductory Paragraph due Tuesday

Tuesday 4/21

1. Vocab #11 Review
2. Turn in Research Paper Introductory Paragraph
3. Whitman-Dickinson Poem Assignment - Download Write Your Own Whitman or Dickinson Poem 
4. Unit 4 Study Guide Download Study Guide - due Wednesday

Wednesday 4/22

1. EOCT Review - Please use www.usatestprep.com for review at home.  See me if you need the username and password.
2. Vocab #11 Review - Quiz tomorrow
3. TYPED Research Paper Outline, Rough Draft, and Works Cited Page due tomorrow.  You may find this document helpful in writing your outline. Download  Research_paper_outline
4. Realism Background Open Note Quiz - Please bring your textbook to class tomorrow.  We will start "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce.

Thursday 4/23

1. Turn in Research Paper Outline, Rough Draft, and Works Cited Page
2. EOCT Review
3. Vocab #11 Quiz

Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman

Download Whitman-Dickinson 2009

Dickinson Poems:

"Because I could not stop for Death" (420-421)

"I Heard a Fly buzz - when I died" (423)

"There's a certain Slant of light," (424)

"Water, is taught by thirst." (428)

Whitman Poems:

"I Hear America Singing" (442)

"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" (440-441)

A Noiseless, Patient Spider" (444)

Quiz  Friday 4/17

Research Process Information & Due Dates

Helpful information for your research paper:

Download Research Paper Requirements 2009

Download Research Paper Calendar Spring 2009

Download Research Guide - See page 27, #38 for citation information

Download Research_paper_outline

Citation Machine

Due Dates:

3 Bibliography Cards - 4/15 (Graded and returned on 4/15)

15 Note Cards - 4/17

Preliminary Thesis & Outline - 4/17

TYPED Introductory Paragraph - 4/21

TYPED Rough Draft with Outline Page and Works Cited Page - 4/23 (1st Period) and 4/24 (3rd Period)

Highlighted Articles with Source Information - 4/27

TYPED Final Paper with Outline Page and Works Cited Page - 4/30

PLEASE KEEP UP WITH YOUR MANILLA ENVELOPES AND NOTE CARDS!!! USE YOUR MANILLA ENVELOPE AS YOU TURN IN EACH STEP OF THE RESEARCH PROCESS.

IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, PLEASE ASK!!!  THE FINAL PAPER IS DUE 4/30.