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ENGLISH III Honors ACADEMIC LIBRARY

English III Honors Online

This junior-year honors English course invites students to delve into American literature from early American Indian voices through contemporary works. Students will engage in literary analysis and inferential evaluation of great texts, including the full-length novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin.

While critically reading fiction, poetry, drama, and expository nonfiction, honors students will master comprehension, use evidence to conduct in-depth literary analysis, and examine and critique how authors develop ideas in a variety of genres.

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English III Honors Online Academic Library

Unit 1: American Roots: From Native Traditions to the American Revolution

The Iroquois Creation Myth: “The World on Turtle’s Back” Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – What is a creation myth, and how can it reveal the values of a culture?
3. Assignment – Read “The World on Turtle’s Back” to learn its explanation of creation and cultural values.
4. Instruction – What is a creation myth, and how can it reveal the values of a culture?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Jonathan Edwards’s “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How did early American writers use word choice and rhetorical techniques to appeal to an audience?
3. Assignment – Read “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” to interpret Edwards’s word choice.
4. Instruction – How did early American writers use word choice and rhetorical techniques to appeal to an audience?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Female Colonial Poetry Guided Notes
1. Warm Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How do female colonial poets use poetic devices to impact the audience?
3. Assignment – Read “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and “To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.”
4. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
5. Quiz Answers
Thomas Paine Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How did colonial writers inspire the American colonists to fight for independence?
3. Assignment – Read “The Crisis,” No. 1 by Thomas Paine to examine his choice of language and decide on his purpose.
4. Instruction – How did colonial writers inspire the American colonists to fight for independence?
5. Assignment – Read an excerpt from Common Sense to examine rhetorical technique and language.
6. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
7. Quiz Answers
The Declaration of Independence Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How does the structure of the Declaration of Independence reflect its reasoning?
3. Assignment – Read the Declaration of Independence and evaluate how each section develops the structure of the argument.
4. Instruction – How does the structure of the Declaration of Independence reflect its reasoning?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Sentence Fluency Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can understanding sentence elements and patterns make you a better writer?
3. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
4. Assignment – Practice revising sentences for better fluency.
5. Quiz Answers
Writing Workshop: Summary
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can you write an objective and engaging summary of a text?
3. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
4. Assignment – Summarize an excerpt from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.
5. Quiz Answers
Unit Test
1. Unit Test Review Answers
2. Unit Test Answers

Unit 2: Bright Romanticism: American Individualism

Fireside Poets Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can word choice, imagery, and structure be compared in two poems?
3. Assignment – Read “Auspex” and “A Psalm of Life” to observe word choice, imagery, and structure.
4. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
5. Quiz Answers
Ralph Waldo Emerson Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can you use the central ideas of a text to determine and assess the author’s argument?
3. Assignment – Read an excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature to determine its central ideas.
4. Instruction – How can you use the central ideas of a text to determine and assess the author’s argument?
5. Assignment – Read an excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Society and Solitude to assess his argument.
6. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
7. Quiz Answers
Henry David Thoreau – “Civil Disobedience” Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can knowledge of historical events be used to evaluate a text’s significance?
3. Assignment – Read Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience” to understand his beliefs.
4. Instruction – How can knowledge of historical events be used to evaluate a text’s significance?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How does Whitman use word choice, tone, and structure to express themes in his poetry?
3. Assignment – Read an excerpt from Whitman’s “Song of Myself” to examine word choice and tone.
4. Instruction – How does Whitman use word choice, tone, and structure to express themes in his poetry?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Emily Dickinson’s Poetry Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How do structure and language create meaning in Dickinson’s poetry?
3. Assignment – Read two Dickinson poems to analyze the poet’s style using structure and language.
4. Instruction – How do structure and language create meaning in Dickinson’s poetry?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Writing Workshop: Narrative Writing
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can you write a personal narrative to share a significant event with an audience?
3. Pre-Writing – Plan to write your narrative essay.
4. Instruction – How can you write a personal narrative to share a significant event with an audience?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Assignment – Write a narrative essay.
7. Drafting – Draft your narrative essay.
8. Assignment – Evaluate your narrative essay draft.
9. Revising – Revise your narrative essay.
10. Assignment – Evaluate your narrative essay revision.
11. Quiz Answers

Unit Test
1. Unit Test Review Answers
2. Unit Test Answers

Unit 3: Dark Romanticism: American Gothic

Suspense and Horror: Gothic Writing across Time Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How do American gothic texts use suspense, and how do they affect contemporary stories?
3. Assignment – Read Washington Irving’s “The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture” to analyze suspense.
4. Instruction – How do American gothic texts use suspense, and how do they affect contemporary stories?
5. Assignment – Read an excerpt from Stephen King’s Danse Macabre to recognize Irving’s influences.
6. Instruction – How do American gothic texts use suspense, and how do they affect contemporary stories?
7. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
8. Quiz Answers
The Scarlet Letter Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can an author’s choice of words convey the setting and mood of a fictional plot?
3. Assignment – Read chapters 1 and 2 of The Scarlet Letter to analyze setting and mood.
4. Instruction – How can an author’s choice of words convey the setting and mood of a fictional plot?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
The Scarlet Letter, Part 2 Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – In what ways can an author use characterization to make a story more effective?
3. Assignment – Read chapters 3 and 4 of The Scarlet Letter to uncover clues about characters.
4. Instruction – In what ways can an author use characterization to make a story more effective?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Symbols in Moby-Dick Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How does Melville use symbols to convey themes in Moby-Dick?
3. Assignment – Read “Ahab,” a chapter from Moby-Dick, to draw conclusions about its themes.
4. Instruction – How does Melville use symbols to convey themes in Moby-Dick?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Choosing Vocabulary Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can you use vocabulary to address specific situations and develop style and tone?
3. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
4. Assignment – Practice choosing vocabulary that is appropriate for the task, purpose, and audience.
5. Quiz Answers
Unit Test
1. Unit Test Review Answers
2. Unit Test Answers

Unit 4: A Nation Dividing and Expanding: Civil War, Regionalism, and Realism

Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements, Part 1 Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – What types of reasoning and rhetorical devices make a persuasive argument effective?
3. Assignment – Read Douglass’s speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” to evaluate his reasoning.
4. Instruction – What types of reasoning and rhetorical devices make a persuasive argument effective?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
An Inner Story of the Civil War Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can predicting plot and summarizing themes aid in understanding a short story?
3. Assignment -Read “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and make predictions about the plot.
4. Instruction – How can predicting plot and summarizing themes aid in understanding a short story?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
The Mississippi River Runaways Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – What role do dialect and humor, including irony and satire, play in Twain’s writing?
3. Assignment – Read excerpts from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to analyze use of dialogue and dialect.
4. Instruction – What role do dialect and humor, including irony and satire, play in Twain’s writing?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
American Indian Issues Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – What are the central ideas of a speech, and how does tone affect the meaning?
3. Assignment – Read Chief Joseph’s speech “An Indian’s View of Indian Affairs” to determine central ideas.
4. Instruction – What are the central ideas of a speech, and how does tone affect the meaning?
5. Assignment – Read Satanta’s speech “My Heart is Bursting” to determine tone and central ideas.
6. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
7. Quiz Answers
Reality and Cynicism in Poetry Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can analyzing irony help readers infer and compare themes in naturalist poetry?
3. Assignment – Read Dunbar’s poem “We Wear the Mask” to determine how it is an example of naturalism.
4. Instruction – How can analyzing irony help readers infer and compare themes in naturalist poetry?
5. Assignment – Read “A Man Said to the Universe” to determine how it reflects naturalism.
6. Instruction – How can analyzing irony help readers infer and compare themes in naturalist poetry?
7. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
8. Quiz Answers
Pronoun Agreement and Reference Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can you use pronouns and subject-verb agreement correctly when you write?
3. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
4. Assignment – Practice pronoun usage and subject-verb agreement by completing a paragraph.
5. Quiz Answers
Writing Workshop: Effective Professional Communication
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How do you organize and write an argumentative letter?
3. Pre-Writing
4. Instruction – How do you organize and write an argumentative letter?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Assignment – Write an argumentative letter.
7. Drafting
8. Assignment – Evaluate the draft of your argumentative letter.
9. Revising –
10. Assignment – Evaluate the revision of your argumentative letter.
11. Quiz Answers
Unit Test
1. Unit Test Review Answers
2. Unit Test Answer

Unit 5: Make it New!: Early Modernism

Early Stream of Consciousness and Feminism in Fiction Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can viewpoint and gothic elements convey social context and attitudes?
3. Assignment – Read “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Gilman to analyze social attitudes about women.
4. Instruction – How can viewpoint and gothic elements convey social context and attitudes?
5. Assignment – Read “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’” by Gilman to grasp her purpose for writing.
6. Summary-Review and connect what you have learned.
7. Quiz Answers
Meta Poetry: Poetry about Poetry Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How do modernist poets use free verse to communicate the themes of their poems?
3. Assignment – Read Marianne Moore’s poem “Poetry” and analyze how poetic form communicates theme.
4. Instruction – How do modernist poets use free verse to communicate the themes of their poems?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Robert Frost’s Poetry Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How is Frost’s “Mending Wall” both a modern poem and a formal poem?
3. Assignment – Read “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost to analyze its form.
4. Instruction – How is Frost’s “Mending Wall” both a modern poem and a formal poem?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Reflecting on World War I Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can an author use structure and key terms to express a viewpoint?
3. Assignment – Read “How We Entered World War I” to focus on central ideas, viewpoint, and structure.
4. Instruction – How can an author use structure and key terms to express a viewpoint?
5. Assignment – Read Woodrow Wilson’s war message to Congress to analyze the use of key terms.
6. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
7. Quiz Answers
Speaking and Listening: Evaluating a Speaker Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can listening skills help you evaluate a speech’s effectiveness and its techniques?
3. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
4. Assignment – Practice listening critically to evaluate a speaker.
5. Quiz Answers
Writing Workshop: Literary Analysis
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How do you use the writing process to write and support a critical lens literary analysis?
3. Pre-Writing – Plan to write your analytical essay.
4. Instruction – How do you use the writing process to write and support a critical lens literary analysis?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Assignment – Write a critical lens literary analysis essay.
7. Drafting – Draft your analytical essay.
8. Assignment – Evaluate your critical lens draft.
9. Revising – Revise your analytical essay.
10. Assignment – Evaluate your critical lens essay revision.
11. Quiz Answers
Unit Test
1. Unit Test Review Answers
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Unit 6 – Cumulative Exam

Cumulative Exam Review Answers
Cumulative Exam Answers

Unit 7: Modern Drama Study

Trifles: The Rise of Modern Feminism on the Stage, Part 1 Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How do stage directions and characterization set the scene for a murder mystery?
3. Assignment – Read the first half of Trifles by Susan Glaspell and analyze its stage directions.
4. Instruction – How do stage directions and characterization set the scene for a murder mystery?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Trifles: The Rise of Modern Feminism on the Stage, Part 2 Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How does Glaspell use symbols and irony to reinforce feminist themes in Trifles?
3. Assignment – Read part two of Trifles by Susan Glaspell to notice symbols.
4. Instruction – How does Glaspell use symbols and irony to reinforce feminist themes in Trifles?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Interpreting a Source Text: A Production of Trifles Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How do different forms of media interpret Glaspell’s Trifles?
3. Assignment – Explore different versions of Trifles.
4. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
5. Quiz Answers
Nonrestrictive Elements and Parallel Structure Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can you use punctuation and parallel structure to improve your writing?
3. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
4. Assignment – Practice using parallelism and nonrestrictive elements in writing.
5. Quiz Answers
Writing Workshop: Exploring Argument
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How do you organize and develop an effective argument?
3. Pre-Writing – Plan to write your argumentative essay.
4. Instruction – How do you organize and develop an effective argument?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Assignment – Write an argumentative essay.
7. Drafting – Draft your argumentative essay.
8. Assignment – Revise writing for style and logic.
9. Revising – Revise your argumentative essay.
10. Assignment – Evaluate the revision of your argumentative speech.
11. Quiz Answers
Unit Test
1. Unit Test Review Answers
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Unit 8: Victory and Despair: The Roaring Twenties, Modernism, and Postwar Outlooks

Fitzgerald and the Roaring Twenties
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How does Fitzgerald use setting to help the reader gain deeper insight into a story?
3. Assignment – Read chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald to examine the setting of the story.
4. Instruction – How does Fitzgerald use setting to help the reader gain deeper insight into a story?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Japanese American Internment Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Assignment – Read Executive Order 9066 by President Roosevelt to determine its purpose.
3. Instruction – How can a reader analyze different texts to understand a historically significant event?
4. Assignment – Read “In Response to Executive Order 9066. . .” by Dwight Okita and summarize the theme.
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Remembering and Reflecting on the Holocaust Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How do genre and point of view contribute to the power of Holocaust literature?
3. Assignment – Read an excerpt from All Rivers Run to the Sea to analyze point of view.
4. Instruction – How do genre and point of view contribute to the power of Holocaust literature?
5. Assignment – Read an excerpt from Maus to analyze the genre and point of view.
6. Instruction – How do genre and point of view contribute to the power of Holocaust literature?
7. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
8. Quiz Answers
Southern Gothic Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How does Flannery O’Connor use literary techniques to influence characterization?
3. Assignment – Read “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” to analyze Southern gothic characters.
4. Instruction – How does Flannery O’Connor use literary techniques to influence characterization?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Correct Modifiers and Concise Wording Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can you correct wordiness, redundancy, and modifier errors to improve your writing?
3. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
4. Assignment – Practice correcting modifier errors, wordiness, and redundancy.
5. Quiz Answers
Writing Workshop: Comparing Texts
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How do you write a literary analysis comparing two works through a central topic?
3. Pre-Writing – Plan to write your analytical essay.
4. Instruction – How do you write a literary analysis comparing two works through a central topic?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Assignment – Write a five-paragraph literary analysis essay.
7. Drafting – Draft your analytical essay.
8. Assignment – Evaluate your literary analysis essay.
9. Revising – Revise your analytical essay.
10. Assignment – Evaluate your revision.
11. Quiz Answers
Unit Test
1. Unit Test Review Answers
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Unit 9: I, too, Am America: The Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movement

Poetry of Langston Hughes Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How does Hughes use imagery, repetition, rhythm, and speaker to convey theme?
3. Assignment – Read “Harlem” and “The Weary Blues” to analyze how imagery reveals theme.
4. Instruction – How does Hughes use imagery, repetition, rhythm, and speaker to convey theme?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Zora Neale Hurston’s Strong Voice Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How does Hurston use nonstandard English and voice to convey cultural experiences?
3. Assignment – Read chapter 16 of Their Eyes Were Watching God to examine the use of dialect.
4. Instruction – How does Hurston use nonstandard English and voice to convey cultural experiences?
5. Assignment – Explore the dialects of your region.
6. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
7. Quiz Answers
Richard Wright’s Struggles with Racism Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How does Richard Wright’s Black Boy reflect societal and cultural influences?
3. Assignment – Read a selection from Black Boy by Richard Wright to analyze anecdotes.
4. Instruction – How does Richard Wright’s Black Boy reflect societal and cultural influences?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Brown v. Board of Education Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can background knowledge be used to analyze and evaluate Supreme Court opinions?
3. Assignment – Read Brown v. Board of Education and apply background knowledge to the text.
4. Instruction -How can background knowledge be used to analyze and evaluate Supreme Court opinions?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Disobedience Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How does King use text structure and allusions to support his purpose?
3. Assignment – Read “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr. to analyze purpose.
4. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
5. Quiz Answers
Choosing Language for Context and Purpose Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can you use language to understand and convey meaning, style, and tone?
3. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
4. Assignment – Practice determining how language functions in different contexts.
5. Quiz Answers
Writing Workshop: Argumentative Essay
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How do you use research, organization, and revision to write a clear argumentative essay?
3. Pre-Writing – Plan to write your argumentative essay.
4. Instruction – How do you use research, organization, and revision to write a clear argumentative essay?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Assignment – Write your argumentative essay.
7. Drafting – Draft your argumentative essay.
8. Assignment – Evaluate your argumentative essay draft.
9. Revising – Revise your argumentative essay.
10. Assignment -Evaluate the revision of your argumentative essay.
11. Quiz Answers
Unit Test
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Unit 10: Cultural Rebellion: Mid-Twentieth Century Voices

Individualism, Modern Capitalism, and Dystopian Visions Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How does Ayn Rand use fictional elements and themes to develop her philosophical ideas?
3. Assignment – Read chapters 11 and 12 of Anthem by Ayn Rand to analyze how Rand develops theme.
4. Instruction – How does Ayn Rand use fictional elements and themes to develop her philosophical ideas?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Beat Poetry Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How does Allen Ginsberg’s choice of structure, style, and allusions contribute to meaning?
3. Assignment – Read “A Supermarket in California” by Allen Ginsberg to analyze style and structure.
4. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
5. Quiz Answers
Beat Movement Spontaneous Prose Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How does Jack Kerouac use words to capture experiences and spontaneous thoughts?
3. Assignment – Read an excerpt from “The Railroad Earth,” and monitor your comprehension as you read.
4. Instruction – How does Jack Kerouac use words to capture experiences and spontaneous as thoughts?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Experiencing and Reliving Vietnam Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can authors use structure to recreate the experience of being in and reliving Vietnam?
3. Assignment – Read the short story “Ambush” by Tim O’Brien to identify structure.
4. Instruction – How can authors use structure to recreate the experience of being in and reliving Vietnam?
5. Assignment – Read the poem “Facing It” by Yusef Komunyakaa to analyze structure.
6. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
7. Quiz Answers
Critiques of American Society in Science Fiction Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – What techniques does Vonnegut use to develop his critique of American society?
3. Assignment – Read “Harrison Bergeron” to analyze how Kurt Vonnegut uses irony and satire.
4. Instruction – What techniques does Vonnegut use to develop his critique of American society?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Assignment – Practice planning for and review a collaborative discussion.
7. Quiz Answers
Using Resources and Reference Materials for Editing Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can using references and resources about language usage improve your writing?
3. Assignment – Read excerpts from Strunk’s The Elements of Style to understand usage and conventions.
4. Instruction – How can using references and resources about language usage improve your writing?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Assignment – Practice using reference materials to review and edit student writing.
7. Quiz Answers
Writing Workshop: Visual Media Analysis
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How do you write to analyze media messages?
3. Pre-Writing – Plan to write your analytical essay.
4. Instruction – How do you write to analyze media messages?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Assignment – Write a five-paragraph essay that evaluates the effectiveness of an advertising campaign.
7. Drafting – Draft your analytical essay.
8. Assignment – Evaluate your draft.
9. Revising – Revise your analytical essay.
10. Assignment – Evaluate your revision.
11. Quiz Answers
Unit Test
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Unit 11: Heritage and Multicultural American Identities: Contemporary Voices

Latin American Magic Realist Voices Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How do magic realism and text structure shape Cristina García’s fiction?
3. Assignment – Read excerpts from Dreaming in Cuban to examine elements of magic realism.
4. Instruction – How do magic realism and text structure shape Cristina García’s fiction?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Latina Poetry as an Expression of Cultural Heritage
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How do Judith Ortiz Cofer and Aurora Levins Morales express cultural identity with poetry?
3. Assignment – Read “The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica” and “Child of the Americas” to explore cultural identity.
4. Instruction – How do Judith Ortiz Cofer and Aurora Levins Morales express cultural identity with poetry?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Exploring Cultural Identity through Language Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How do authors use voice and rhetoric to express a clear purpose in their essays?
3. Assignment – Read Anaya’s essay “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry” to analyze elements of voice.
4. Instruction – How do authors use voice and rhetoric to express a clear purpose in their essays?
5. Assignment – Read Nye’s essay “Speaking Arabic” to analyze her voice and rhetorical techniques.
6. Instruction – How do authors use voice and rhetoric to express a clear purpose in their essays?
7. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
8. Quiz Answers
Asian American Voices Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction -How can inferences help readers analyze central ideas in “Mother Tongue”?
3. Assignment – Read Amy Tan’s essay “Mother Tongue” to make inferences about language and writing.
4. Instruction – How can inferences help readers analyze central ideas in “Mother Tongue”?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Choosing Language Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can you use word choice to convey purpose and affect topic and theme in a text?
3. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
4. Assignment – Practice evaluating the impact of word choice on purpose, audience, and topic.
5. Quiz Answers
Writing Workshop: Evaluating Sources That Support a Claim
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How do you evaluate two different sources to determine what makes an effective argument?
3. Pre-Writing
4. Instruction – How do you evaluate two different sources to determine what makes an effective argument?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Assignment – Write a compare-and-contrast essay.
7. Drafting
8. Assignment – Write a compare-and-contrast essay.
9. Revising
10. Quiz Answers
Unit Test
1. Unit Test Review Answers
2. Unit Test Answers

Unit 12: Globalization and the Information Age: Postmodernism into the Twenty-First Century

A Look at the Fast-Food Industry by Eric Schlosser Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How does Schlosser use evidence to develop his claims?
3. Assignment – Read “Throughput” from Fast Food Nation to evaluate Schlosser’s reasoning.
4. Instruction – How does Schlosser use evidence to develop his claims?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Assignment – Practice planning for a group discussion.
7. Written Response (Project): Group Discussion – Participate in a discussion and write to evaluate it.
8. Quiz Answers
The Poetry of Physics Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can you integrate diverse sources to address complex topics?
3. Assignment – Read “Death by Black Hole” to understand its central ideas and analyze messages.
4. Instruction – How can you integrate diverse sources to address complex topics?
5. Assignment – Read “Man Listening to Disc” to understand its central ideas and analyze its themes.
6. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
7. Quiz Answers
David Foster Wallace’s Postmodern Voices Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How does David Foster Wallace use structure and voice to introduce a complex novel?
3. Assignment – Read an excerpt from Infinite Jest to find subjectivity and objectivity in narrative voice.
4. Instruction – How does David Foster Wallace use structure and voice to introduce a complex novel?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
A Response to 9/11 by Jonathan Safran Foer Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How does Foer’s use of narration and tone reveal meaning in a fictional work about 9/11?
3. Assignment – Read part of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close to find assumptions and ambiguities.
4. Instruction – How does Foer’s use of narration and tone reveal meaning in a fictional workabout 9/11?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Ordering the Chaos of the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Freakonomics Guided Notes
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How do Levitt and Dubner use data to make sense of the world?
3. Assignment – Read an excerpt from Freakonomics to determine and examine an argument.
4. Instruction – How do Levitt and Dubner use data to make sense of the world?
5. Summary -Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Quiz Answers
Research Workshop: Writing and Presenting the Argumentative Essay, Part 1
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How do you write an argumentative essay in preparation for a presentation?
3. Pre-Writing – Plan to write your argumentative essay.
4. Instruction – How do you write an argumentative essay in preparation for a presentation?
5. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
6. Assignment – Write your argumentative essay.
7. Drafting – Draft your argumentative essay.
8. Assignment – Evaluate your draft.
9. Revising – Revise your argumentative essay.
10. Assignment – Evaluate your revision.
11. Quiz Answers
Research Workshop: Writing and Presenting the Argumentative Essay, Part 2
1. Warm-Up – Get ready for the lesson.
2. Instruction – How can you turn an essay into a clear and visually appealing multimedia presentation?
3. Summary – Review and connect what you have learned.
4. Assignment – Prepare to create a multimedia presentation to deliver a convincing argument.
5. Project: Multimedia Presentation – Create a multimedia presentation to deliver a convincing argument.
6. Quiz Answers
Unit Test
1. Unit Test Review Answers
2. Unit Test Answers

Unit 13: Cumulative Exam

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