Persuasive Essay
Honors English 10
Due: Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Value: 150 points
Of these four Transcendental authors (Dickinson, Emerson, Thoreau, or Whitman), which one acts as the best spokesman for America?
Answers to questions of interest can be found below:
1. How long should my paper be? Three to five typed pages
2. What font and size should I use? Times New Roman 12
3. Will I find it necessary to double space my paper? Yes, that is a requirement.
4. Do I need a works cited page? Yes, you do.
5. What happens if my paper is late? You tell me. The answer depends if you were really ill or if you were lazy.
6. What if I will not be in school Wednesday? Submit your paper on Tuesday.
7. Will I have any class time to work on this paper? Yes, this Friday and next Monday you may work on the paper. Be prepared with specific questions.
8. Will I be able to email my paper? No, but you may open your email and print the paper in the morning before school starts or during lunch.
9. Should I use proper MLA formatting when adding quotes? Yes, you need at least three quotes. Use MLA format.
10. Should I have a cover page or a binding? Absolutely not. I use them for fish food.
Excellent papers:
• use action verbs in the present tense;
• have sentences that vary in length;
• use a variety of transitional words and phrases;
• avoid vague words like things and got;
• avoid words like the reader and one and I ;
• focus on the writers and their ideas;
• accurately interpret the text;
• stay on topic;
• use vivid imagery;
• do not contain clichés;
• contain figures of speech; and
• are not written the night before they are due.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Upcoming quiz
The foci of next week's quiz are as follows:
present tense verbs;
agitate and aggravate;
farther and further;
till and until;
than and then; and
amount and number.
You will also demonstrate an understanding of parallel structure.
present tense verbs;
agitate and aggravate;
farther and further;
till and until;
than and then; and
amount and number.
You will also demonstrate an understanding of parallel structure.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Transcendentalism
The project listed below is due this Friday, December 17.
Objective: To research authors and analyze their connections to Transcendentalism
Lab Days: Monday and Tuesday
Due Date: Friday, December 17
Assignment: Using the approved websites (and only the approved ones) research the following:
• Transcendentalism – define and create a timeline for the period; note its major contributors.
• Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman – take notes and answer questions.
• Create a works cited page.
• Neatly bundle your work and submit everything by the deadline
Timeline
http://www.transcendentalists.com
http://www.transcendentalists.com/special_dates.htm
Define Transcendentalism. When did the movement begin? End? Where was the center of this movement in America? Who are some of the major writers and when did they live?
Emily Dickinson
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/index.html
Click on her name in red. Read Dickinson's biography and take notes. You may use bullets.
Go back to her main page and read the second and third paragraphs about Dickinson. How was she different from Thoreau and Emerson?
Finally, look on the bottom of her main page. Open the link to The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Select Part Two: Nature. Read the following poems: “A bird came down the walk,” “A spider sewed at night,” and “Besides the autumn poets sing.” Does she seem to accept or reject the teachings of Transcendentalism?
Walt Whitman
http://www.poets.org
First, read his biography and take notes. Once again, you may use bullets.
Read “I Hear America Singing.” Listen to “America.” Print both. How do these poems reflect the movement?
Finally, read “A child said, What is the grass?” and answer these questions:
• What does Whitman mean by “Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the/ same, I receive them the same”?
• Why to the question “What is the grass?” is the response “How could I answer the child?. . . I do not know what it is any more than he”?
• Why to the questions “What do you think has become of the young and old men?/ What do you think has become of the women and children?” is the response “They are alive and well somewhere;/ The smallest sprouts show there is really no death”?
Objective: To research authors and analyze their connections to Transcendentalism
Lab Days: Monday and Tuesday
Due Date: Friday, December 17
Assignment: Using the approved websites (and only the approved ones) research the following:
• Transcendentalism – define and create a timeline for the period; note its major contributors.
• Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman – take notes and answer questions.
• Create a works cited page.
• Neatly bundle your work and submit everything by the deadline
Timeline
http://www.transcendentalists.com
http://www.transcendentalists.com/special_dates.htm
Define Transcendentalism. When did the movement begin? End? Where was the center of this movement in America? Who are some of the major writers and when did they live?
Emily Dickinson
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/index.html
Click on her name in red. Read Dickinson's biography and take notes. You may use bullets.
Go back to her main page and read the second and third paragraphs about Dickinson. How was she different from Thoreau and Emerson?
Finally, look on the bottom of her main page. Open the link to The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Select Part Two: Nature. Read the following poems: “A bird came down the walk,” “A spider sewed at night,” and “Besides the autumn poets sing.” Does she seem to accept or reject the teachings of Transcendentalism?
Walt Whitman
http://www.poets.org
First, read his biography and take notes. Once again, you may use bullets.
Read “I Hear America Singing.” Listen to “America.” Print both. How do these poems reflect the movement?
Finally, read “A child said, What is the grass?” and answer these questions:
• What does Whitman mean by “Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the/ same, I receive them the same”?
• Why to the question “What is the grass?” is the response “How could I answer the child?. . . I do not know what it is any more than he”?
• Why to the questions “What do you think has become of the young and old men?/ What do you think has become of the women and children?” is the response “They are alive and well somewhere;/ The smallest sprouts show there is really no death”?
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