Class Notes

PreAP Handouts & Materials

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First Nine Weeks

	Summer Reading Instructions
	How It Feels to Be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston
	Unit 1 Vocabulary
	SOAPSTone
	Form for Written Assignments
	Everyday Use questions for Chapter 1: Reader's Journal
	Sample Rhetorical Analysis Paper
	Reasons for Commas
	Bradstreet and Taylor poems
	Puritan Creative Project
	Lit. Review Unit 1
	S3QR Method for Analyzing Poems
	Everyday Use Chapter 2 Reading Questions
	Writing About Literature notes
	Sample Thesis Statements for Literary Analysis of Persona
	Strategies for Effective Introductions and Conclusions
	Isaacson Biography of Franklin
	Declaration of Independence (note: it takes three pages, or you can copy and paste and size it however you want!)
	Unit 2 Vocabulary
	Descriptive Writing Techniques
	Unit 3 Vocabulary: The Scarlet Letter
	Pre-AP Midterm Exam Study Guide

Second Nine Weeks

	Pre-AP Semester Exam Study Guide
	Unit 4 Vocabulary from Civil_Disobedience_Unit
	Unit 5: Romanticism Vocabulary
	Sample paper using literary criticism: www.dianahacker.com/pdfs/Hacker-Lars-MLA.pdf

Other Handouts & Reference Sheets

	Presidential Addresses handout
	Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
	Common Abbreviations handout
	Note Taking Methods
	Source Card Practice Exercise
	Quoting Exercise
	Paraphrasing Exercise
	Works Cited Entries
	Pronoun charts
	Conjunctions Study Sheet
	Reasons for Commas

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The Scarlet Letter articles

The Scarlet Letter article #1

The Scarlet Letter article #2

The Scarlet Letter article #3

The Scarlet Letter article #4

The Scarlet Letter article #5

The Scarlet Letter article #6

The Scarlet Letter article #7

The Scarlet Letter article #8

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass articles

	Douglass Article 1
	Douglass Article 2
	Douglass Article 3
	Douglass Article 4
	Douglass Article 5
	Douglass article 6
	Douglass article 7
	Douglass article 8

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn articles

Huck Finn article #1: Johnson, Claudia Durst. "From Understanding Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with Related Readings. New York: Glencoe, 2000. 234-37.

Huck Finn article #2: Morrow, Lance. "In Praise of Huckleberry Finn." The Signet Book of American Essays. Eds. M. Jerry Weiss and Helen S. Weiss. New York: Signet Classics, 2006. 176-86.

Huck Finn article #3: Salwen, Peter. "Is Huck Finn a Racist Book?" Peter Salwen’s Mark Twain Page. 25 Nov. 2007 http://www.salwen.com/mtrace.html.

Huck Finn article #4

Huck Finn article #5

Huck Finn article #6

Huck Finn article #7

Huck Finn article #8

Huck Finn article #9

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Huck Finn articles on censorship

Maseda, Marisa. "Point: Curriculum Should Be Sensitive to Students’ Feelings" and Stephen Shepherd. "Counterpoint: Curriculum Needs to Recognize, Not Ignore, Racism." Point/Counterpoint: Huck Finn Gets Sent Down the River. 25 Nov. 2007 http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/huckcen/PointCounter.html.

Contemporary Reviews & Controversy Regarding the Novel

	" ‘Huckleberry Finn and His Critics.’ " The Atlanta Constitution 26 May 1885: 4. Reprinted in Mark Twain in His Times. Ed. Stephen Railton. 25 Nov. 2007 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/atlanta.html.
	" ‘Huckleberry Finn’ in Concord.’ " New York Herald 18 March 1885. Reprinted in Mark Twain in His Times. Ed. Stephen Railton. 25 Nov. 2007 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/nyherald.html.
	"Review." Boston Daily Advertiser 12 Mar. 1885. Reprinted in Mark Twain in His Times. Ed. Stephen Railton. 25 Nov. 2007 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/bosdail3.html.
	"Review." Life 26 Feb. 1885. Reprinted in Mark Twain in His Times. Ed. Stephen Railton. 25 Nov. 2007 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/life1.html.
	Untitled article. San Francisco Chronicle 29 Mar. 1885: 4. Reprinted in Mark Twain in His Times. Ed. Stephen Railton. 25 Nov. 2007 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/sfchron2.html.
	Untitled editorial. Hartford Courant 4 April 1885: 2. Reprinted in Mark Twain in His Times. Ed. Stephen Railton. 25 Nov. 2007 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/harcour1.html.

Interesting Websites and Articles

	Jordahl, Steve. "Banned Books Week, More Fiction Than Fact." Family News in Focus. 25 Nov. 2007 http://www.citizenlink.org/fnif/A000005716.cfm.
	"Intellectual Freedom and Censorship Q and A." American Library Association. 25 Nov. 2007 http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/basics/intellectual.htm.
	"Parents Unite Against Offensive Books." CitizenLink.com. 25 Nov. 2007 http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000005737.cfm.
	Railton, Stephen. Mark Twain in His Times. 25 Nov. 2007 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/index2.html.

The Taming of the Shrew articles

The Taming of the Shrew article #1

The Taming of the Shrew article #2

The Taming of the Shrew article #3

The Taming of the Shrew article #4

The Taming of the Shrew article #5

The Taming of the Shrew article #6

The Taming of the Shrew article #7

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