Handouts

Class description - rules and regulations

Second Semester Final

The Catcher in the Rye

• Reading and journal assignment
• Discussion and essay preparation

The Things They Carried

• Worksheet 1 - Author's Craft
• Final Project

The Tortilla Curtain

• Worksheet 1 - Characters and descriptions
• Quiz 1 - Key quotations - paying attention to language
• Symbols - Images - Concepts
• Closing Thoughts and Final Assignment
• Assessment rubric

Defining America through song

• "Pink Houses" and "America" lyrics
• Ain't That America - song lyric essay

The Great Gatsby

• The Great Gatsby essay assignment
• The Great Gatsby essay rubric
• The Great Gatsby journal rubric

Transcendentalism

• "Higher Laws" packet  - Thoreau
• "Conclusion" packet - Thoreau

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• Map - Mississippi River - Free and Slave states