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
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.
Student's name___________________________________________ Rel_______ Date this report is due______ Outreach #1 (only one is required each nine weeks) Who organized this outreach?_____________________________________________ 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