Realism & Modern Life

In Q3 for American Lit this year we'll be looking at some classic American authors from the last 40 years of the 1800's and the first 40 years of the 1900's. You've probably heard of Hemingway & Steinbeck,  Fitzgerald & Frost, and we'll read them. But you'll also get a taste of some odd poets like William Carlos Williams and e.e. cummings, who liked to refuse using capital letters even for his name. And there are surprisingly fresh African-American voices like Langston Hughes and Alice Walker that you will experience.

Q3 Required Literature Homework

HW27 Soldier’s Home – E. Hemingway – p. 693: 7,8,9,10 TEST

HW28 Winter Dreams – F. Scott Fitzgerald – p. 715: 3,7,8,9 TEST

HW30 Leader of the People – J. Steinbeck – p. 756: 6,8,10 TEST

HW33 Mending Wall – R. Frost – p. 804: 8,9,10 TEST

HW36 Poems by W. Carlos Williams: The Red Wheelbarrow, The Great Figure, This is Just to Say – p. 670: 4,6,7 TEST

HW37 Poems by E.E. Cummings: what if a much… & somewhere i have never travelled… – p. 678: 5 for both & 6 for second one

HW38 Poems by C. Cullen: Tableau, Incident – p. 822: 3 & 4 for both

HW39 Poems by Langston Hughes: The Weary Blues & Harlem – p. 832: 4,5 for Weary Blues and 1,5 for Harlem  TEST

HW41 Black Boy – R. Wright – p. 1076: 5,7,9,11

HW42 In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens – A. Walker – p. 1109: 5,7,9 TEST (Optional)

10 homework assignments; 6 required tests

To make things more reasonable for our busy students, we have reduced the number of required homework assignments to 10, and there will be six tests. For homework assignments, the number of questions has been reduced to 3 or 4. All required homework assignments will be tested on the final.

We will have a variety of speaking and writing tasks that will be listed here later. For now, focus on your speech for speech meet, which you have received a scan of, and get exercises C & E done by Wednesday this week. By Friday everyone will be tested for the first 200 words of their speech.