List of American Authors
 

Author Title Plot
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac(k) Collection of general info, tide tables, witty sayings
Thomas Paine The Crisis  Revolutionary War (1775-1783) pamphlet
Edgar Allan Poe The Raven Poem's theme - death of a beautiful woman
Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature  Transcendentalist essays
Henry David Thoreau Walden  Diary of two years spent in the woods
Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Story of adultery in Puritan colonial Boston
Herman Melville Moby Dick Story of an obsessed whaling captain
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline Ill-fated French Canadian lovers are separated
Emily Dickinson Because I Could Not Stop for Death Author's themes of death & nature showed intensity
Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass Non-rhyming (free verse) book-length poem; brash
Mark Twain  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Boyhood adventures on the Mississippi River
Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage  Young Union recruit comes of age - Civil War (1861-1865)
Jack London Call of the Wild Animal survival in the Yukon
James Thurber The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Story of daydreaming, henpecked man
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby  Disillusioned rich man's story set in the dissipated 1920's
Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea Fisherman Santiago accepts his fate; won Nobel Prize in 1954
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath  Migrant farmers (Okies) head west
Carl Sandburg Chicago Poem whose author loved folk songs, wrote on Lincoln
Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Famous poem ends "and miles to go before I sleep"
Alice Walker The Color Purple African American woman Celie triumphs over adversity
Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers  Poem of the Harlem Renaissance (1920's)
Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club Story of four Chinese-American women & their 
daughters

 

 


Vocab list #1 -- perpetrate, eviscerate, pedantic, mellifluous, felicitous, axiom, despotism, peruse, empiricism, espouse

Future lists--

raison d'etre, joie de vivre, elan, nouveau riche, ubiquitous, unmitigated, subrosa, recalcitrant, dissimulation

decimate, rankle, odyssey, idiosyncrasy, quintessence, succumb, incumbent, protean, narcissism, fiasco

unequivocal, indispensable, bemoaned, snafu, mandate, nascent, galvanize, insurgency, pragmatic, surcharge

hubris, hyperbole, equanimity, brouhaha, reticence, affable, hegemony, boondoggle, sadomasochism, stoic.

 

Outline Format -- It is doublespaced, begins with thesis, never has only one subheading

Outine

Thesis: Your thesis is "beyond info" and

states an opinion you intend to support.

I. Introduction - state what it is

II. Further explanation

A. Supporting point

B. Example

1. Subheading

2. Subheading

III. Another main point

You finish...

Note: this is simply showing the format - you must determine the flow / points of your paper.

Highlight the following and print the selection to make your own form

If you went can collecting, be sure that you marked it on the chart in Religion room.


Outreach Report Form

Student's name___________________________________________ Rel_______ Date this report is due______

Outreach #1 (only one is required each nine weeks)
Where outreach took place_________________________________________________________-

Who organized this outreach?_____________________________________________
What you did_________________________________________________________________________________________
What you thought of the activity__________________________________________________________________________

Parent's signature____________________________________________________________________________

 

Outreach #2 and #3 (these outreaches are extra credit) repeat form above

For Feb 20/21 English assignment --

SITUATIONS facing a married couple

One loves outdoor activities; the other doesn’t

One loves pets; the other doesn’t

One loves to travel; the other doesn’t

One likes solitude; the other likes socializing

_________________________

Your child is born severely handicapped

One spouse believes in corporal punishment

for children; the other doesn’t

One spouse wants children; the other doesn’t

One spouse plans on Christian education for

their children; the other doesn’t

____________________________

One spouse develops dementia

(mental deterioration such as Alzheimer’s)

One spouse has an affair

One spouse loses $30,000 on stock market

One spouse becomes paralyzed

 

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