Literature and Writing

Scheduled classes

Goal: Read, analyze, and write a book report for five books:

1. The Wee Free Men
2. Extreme Ownership
3. The Catcher in the Rye
4. Life's Ratchet
5. Influence: The Art of Persuasion
6. A Mind for Numbers
7. The Scarlet Letter
8. Surviving Alone
9. Rubicon (roman empire fall)
10. Gods and Generals (civil war novel)
11. Under the Black Flag (golden age of piracy)

Crash course literature

• Season 1 crash course literature
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • The Great Gatsby
  • The Catcher in the Rye
  • Poetry of Emily Dickinson
• Season 2 crash course literature
  • The Odyssey
  • Hamlet
  • Frankenstein
  • Jane Eyre
  • Things Fall Apart
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Slaughterhouse 5
  • Beloved
  • Langston Hughes
  • Sylvia Plath
• Season 3 crash course literature
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Shakespeare's Sonnets
  • Lord of the Flies
  • 100 Years of Solitude
  • Invisible Man
  • Sula
• Season 4 crash course literature
  • 1984
  • The Handmaid's Tale
  • Candide
  • The Parable of the Sower
  • The Yellow Wallpaper
  • The Lighthouse
  • Macbeth
  • Pride and Prejudice

AI essay grading help: Co-grader

IXL Skill Practice

• #hw (literature) IXL Identify Evidence 2024-12-10
• #hw (literature) https://www.ixl.com/ela/grade-10/analyze-short-stories-set-1 2024-12-12
• #hw (literature) https://www.ixl.com/ela/grade-10/analyze-passages-from-things-fall-apart-part-1
• #hw (lang) IXL Clauses 2025-01-10

Reading 1: Wee Free Men

• #hw Read the Wee Free Men 2024-09-26
• #hw Wee Free Men book report rough draft due book-report-rubric 2024-10-03
• #teacher Grade WFM book reports 2024-10-04
• #hw Wee Free Men book report final draft due book-report-rubric 2024-11-07
• #hw (literature) gr7: Correct the paragraphs in editing-exercises-gr7 2024-11-25

English language analysis

AP English practice on youtube

This is mostly for test preparation. This course goes through a large number of example questions from the AP English exam, covering how to think through the passages and processes in detail and how to work out the correct multiple choice answers.

Reading 2: Extreme Ownership

• #hw (lit) Extreme Ownership chapters 1-4 main ideas outline. Your goal is to be able to get the big picture across to someone who hasn't read it in a two minute elevator pitch, like you're trying to sell them a copy 2024-11-19
• #hw (lit) Extreme Ownership chapters 5-8 main ideas outline 2024-11-26
• #hw (lit) Extreme Ownership chapters 9-12 main ideas outline 2024-12-03
• #hw (lit) Extreme Ownership essay rough draft 2025-01-06
• #hw (lit) Extreme Ownerships essay final draft 2025-01-15