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  General

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  English 10B

  English 10B is the second semester of a year-long Language Arts course. In English 10, we will study and explore poetry, narratives, short stories, novels, non-fiction essays, articles and informational texts. Our comprehension of these texts will be facilitated by analyzing and evaluating the literary elements, plot, character development and themes of each work. As part of this course, we will continue to develop writing skills by experimenting with multiple forms of writing. We will clarify thinking and writing by improving our ability to support opinions, providing expressive details and using the writing process as a means to strengthen ideas. This course will provide ample opportunities for students to imaginatively and critically express themselves through multimedia resources as they make essential connections to the world, themselves and literature.

  

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  Topic 1

  

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  • TEXT of FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley URL
  • Mp3 AUDIO FILES of FRANKENSTEIN URL
  • WATCH--How to be MORE successful in 10th grade English Page
  • READ Frankenstein chapters 17-19 Page
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  Topic 2

  

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  • TEXT of FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley URL
  • WATCH--NLM's Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature File
  • READ/LISTEN--Frankenstein chapter 20-22 Page
  • READ--Frankenstein Today Page
  • READ--Using the Right Word Page
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  Topic 3

  

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  • TEXT of FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley URL
  • READ & WATCH--Doppelganger and Yin Yang Page
  • READ--Frankenstein Chapter 23-24 Page
  • READ & WATCH--Semicolons Page
  • READ--Review for Essay Exam Page
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  Topic 4

  

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  • WATCH--Frankenstein Parody Page
  • WATCH--Using an OHSU Blog Page
  • WATCH--How to: The Art of Storytelling Page
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  Topic 5

  
  (Picture of author, Flannery O'Connor)
  "I write to discover what I know."
  

  ~Flannery O'Connor

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  • READ --Descriptive Words Page
  • WATCH--Descriptive Writing Help Page
  • READ--Varations on a Theme Page
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  Topic 6

  

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  • READ & WATCH--Showing & Telling Page
  • READ--Writing Metaphorically Page
  • WATCH--Conflict in Literature and Life Page
  • WATCH--Anecdotes URL
  • READ--Informational Texts: Brochures Page
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  Topic 7

  
  

  The short-story differs essentially from all the longer forms of fiction because its brevity forces the writer to confine himself to a single one of the three elements which the author of a novel may combine at his pleasure. These three elements are the plot, the characters, and the setting.
  

  --Brander Matthews

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  • RESOURCE--Mrs. A's Grammar Mashup of Schoolhouse Rock Page
  • WATCH--The Short Story Page
  • READ & WATCH--O. Henry Award & Develoment of the Short Story Page
  • WATCH--Kurt Vonnegut Qwiki Page
  • READ--Kurt Vonnegut's Obituary Page
  • READ--Antithesis & Metonymy Page
  • WATCH--Satire URL
  • PRACTICE--Who Wants to be a Millionaire Literary Terms Page
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  Topic 8

  
  
  “I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.”
  --J.D. Salinger
  

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  • WATCH--Harrison Burgeron YouTube Page
  • WATCH--Tone & Mood Page
  • WATCH--Qwiki on J.D. Salinger Page
  • WATCH--on JD Salinger's Life Page
  • READ--J.D. Salinger's "The Laughing Man" Book
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  Topic 9

  
  

  Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.--Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  • WATCH--Point of View URL
  • UNGRADED PRACTICE--Point of View Page
  • WATCH--Gabriel Garcia Marquez URL
  • WATCH--Qwiki on Gabo Page
  • WATCH--Magical Realism Qwiki Page
  • WATCH--Social Realism Qwiki Page
  • READ--"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" Page
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  Topic 10

  And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?
  

  -Julio Cortazar
  

  
  

  (Picture taken by Rachel Shearer)
  

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  • WATCH--Grammar Girl on Subject/Verb Agreement Page
  • WATCH--Julio Cortazar Qwiki Page
  • WATCH--About Julio Cortazar URL
  • READ--"House Taken Over" by J. Cortazar URL
  • IMPORTANT--Writing a FANTASTIC Story Page
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  Topic 11

  
  (Picture taken by Rachel Shearer)
  
  Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.--Edgar Allan Poe

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  • WATCH--Edgar Allan Poe Qwiki Page
  • WATCH--Edgar Allan Poe's Death Page
  • INTERACTIVE--Poe's House Page
  • READ--Poe's Life Page
  • READ--The Fall of the House of Usher Page
  • WATCH--"The Fall of the House of Usher" Page
  • WATCH--Poe's "Singular Effect" File
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  Topic 12

  
  
  You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
  
  - Sir Edmund Hillary
  

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  • WATCH--Reading & Analyzing Non-Fiction Page
  • WATCH--Sir Edmund Hillary & Mt. Everest File
  • READ & LISTEN--Commonly Confused Words--Further/Farther Page
  • READ--Everest--Norgay, Krakauer & Hillary Page
  • WATCH--How to create a MINDMAP Page
  • READ--Critical Reviews & Star Wars Page
  • READ--Vincent Candy on Star Wars URL
  • READ--Rodger Ebert on Star Wars URL
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  Topic 13

  

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  • WATCH--Shakespeare Biography Page
  • WATCH--Shakespeare's Language Page
  • WATCH--Understanding Shakespeare's Othello Page
  • WATCH--Grammar Girl--Using Transition Words Page
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  Topic 14

  Othello, Identity, Jealousy, Manipuation, Race, Gender,Marriage, Vocabulary, and Acts I-II

  

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello

  And what's he then that says I play the villain?--Iago (Othello, Act II, scene iii)

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  • 6.1 READ-Othello Act I, scenes ii-iii Page
  • 6.3 READ--Othello, Act II, scenes i-ii Page
  • 6.3 IMPORTANT--Characters of Othello Page
  • INTRODUCTION to week 6 Page
  • PRINT: checklist for week 6 URL
  • 6.2 WATCH --Othello and You URL
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  Topic 15

  IAGO
  O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
  It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
  The meat it feeds on; (3.3.15)
  
  

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  • WATCH--The THEMES of Othello Page
  • READ--Othello Act I, scene i Page
  • WATCH--Mrs. Andersen helps you understand Act I, scene i Page
  • READ--Othello Act I, scenes ii-iii Page
  • WATCH--Othello Mini-Lecture Act I, scenes ii-iii Page
  • WATCH--Othello and You URL
  • REVIEW --Comonly Confused Words: Good/Well Page
  • READ--Technical Writing on Space Junk Page
  • READ--Othello, Act II, scenes i-ii Page
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  Topic 16

  VoiceThread Questions, Acts III-IV, Elizabethan Marriage, a Feminist Othello and Characterizations of Othello, Iago, Desdemona, and Cassio.
  
  

  

  
  Trifles lights as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong As proofs of holy writ.--IAGO (3.3.370)

  • 7.2 READ--Othello, Act III, scenes i-iii Page
  • 8.1 READ--Othello, Act III, Scene vi Page
  • 7.2 WATCH--Productions of Othello File
  • 7.2 WATCH--Paul Robeson's Othello 1943 Page
  • 7.4 IMPORTANT--Othello Themed Glog Page
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  Topic 17

  
  
  We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly follow'd.
  --Iago (Othello, Act I, scene I, 43-44)

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  • WATCH--Productions of Othello Page
  • WATCH--Paul Robeson's Othello 1943 Page
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  Topic 18

  
  

  William Shakespeare's grave, in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon Avon.
  

  
  

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  • Othello--The Audio Version URL
  • Othello--The Google Text URL
  • Othello--Original Text Next to Translation URL
  • READ--Othello, Act IV, scenes ii-iii Page
  • READ--Othello and Feminist Criticism Page
  • WATCH--Elizabethan Marriage Page
  • WATCH--Compare/Contrast Emilia & Desdemona Page
  • READ--Othello, Act V, Scene ii Page
  • READ--What the Critics Say... Page
  • WATCH: Monologues in Othello Page
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  Topic 20

  More autobiography, Peer Editing, Self-Editing, and My So Called Life Forum.
  

  
  

  
  

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_sir/4545676087/
  
  

  A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
  --John Heywood, English Playwrite and Poet 1497-1580.
  

  • INTRODUCTION to week 17 Page
  • Anticipated outcomes Page
  • PRINT: checklist for week 17 URL
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  Topic 21

  Nobel Laureates, Poetry, Music & Lyric Assignment, Poetic Terms, Walt Whitman, and "Song of Myself"
  

  
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajourneyroundmyskull/3496253408/
  

  And your very flesh shall be a great poem. --Walt Whitman

  • INTRODUCTION to week 12 Page
  • PRINT: checklist for week 12 URL
  • 12.2 WATCH--Poetic Terms Page
  • 12.2 WATCH--Music & Poetry Assignment File
  • 12.2 READ-- Example of Music & Poetry Assignment Page
  • 12.3 WATCH --An Introduction to Uncle Walt Page
  • 12.3 READ--According to Walt Whitman... Page
  • 12.3 WATCH--About Walt Whitman Page
  • 12.4 WATCH--Analyzing Whitman Page
  • 12.3 READ--Walt Whitman's Song of Myself Page
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  Topic 22

  Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn Brooks, African American Literary Tradition, Poetic Devices, Person vs. Society, and Writing Poetry.
  

   

  
  
  
  We Real Cool
  by Gwendolyn Brooks
  
  We real cool. We
  Left school. We
  
  Lurk late. We
  Strike straight. We
  
  Sing sin. We
  Thin gin. We
  
  Jazz June. We
  Die soon.
  

  
  

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  • INTRODUCTION to week 13 Page
  • PRINT: checklist for week 13 URL
  • 13.2 WATCH--The African American Literary Tradition Page
  • 13.2 READ--Langston Hughes Page
  • 13.3
  • 13. 3 WATCH--Rhyme Scheme Page
  • 13.3 REFERENCE--Sonnets Page
  • Wimba class room discussion about G. Brooks poem and Q/A poetry writing help....a song in the front yard http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=172082
    
  • Sources Page
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  Topic 24

  Choosing Your Own Biography, Alice Walker, Reed Wittenmore and His Critics, Lyrical Poetry, Poetic Devices, and Terms.
  

   

   

  “We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering - these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love - these are what we stay alive for.”--Robin Williams as John Keating in The Dead Poet's Society

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  • INTRODUCTION to week 15 Page
  • PRINT: checklist for week 15 URL
  • 15.1 READ--Be Beautiful, Noble, Like the Antique Ant Page
  • 15.2 READ--"Expect Nothing" by Alice Walker Page
  • 15.2
  • 15.2 READ--"Still Life" by Reed Whittenmore Page
  • 15.3
  • 15.4
  • 15.4 READ--Why We Read Poetry Page