Unit+04+Homework+Archive

//Note: This unit of study is an adjustment to the syllabus and will include the units labeled 4, 5, and part of 6 on that document.//

** ANNOUNCEMENTS **
1. Timed essay date changed [AGAIN!] to Monday, November 19. 2. The page for submitting class notes on group Transcendentalist readings is up and waiting for your contributions. 3. Here's the document with that we used for our reflective exercise in class last week. 4. If you get a tutoring session in the Parker Center between Friday, 11/16 and Tuesday, 11/20, you will receive a 1-day extension and 5% extra credit on the reading journal assignment. The session must focus on the coherence and effectiveness of your social criticism essay.

**[|1. Reading Journal #3 (plus Social Criticism Essay Assignment)]**
The document linked above describes our next reading journal. This time, you will submit the journal along with a final essay. The journal portion of this assignment will count for 100 homework points; the essay will count for 50 major assessment points. __Both the journal and the essay are due together on Tuesday, November 20.__ Here are the readings to choose from for this journal. Readings highlighted in yellow are required.
 * __Transcendentalists__
 * [|"The American Scholar"] by Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * Any textbook excerpts by Ralph Waldo Emerson (pp. 186-198)
 * //[|Walden]//by Henry David Thoreau
 * [|"Where I Lived, and What I Lived For"]
 * [|"Conclusion"]
 * __19th Century Gothics__
 * "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving (p. 106)
 * [|"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"] by Washington Irving
 * "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe (p. 136)
 * [[file:Ligeia.doc|"Ligeia"]] by Edgar Allen Poe
 * [[file:YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN.doc|"Young Goodman Brown"]] by Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (p. 213)
 * "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (p. 220)

**2. Timed Essay #4 -- Rhetorical Analysis**
This essay will be administered in class on Monday, November 19. The prompt will require you to write a contrastive rhetorical analysis of two brief texts. For an example of this kind of prompt from a previous AP Language exam, [|click here].

to download a preview copy of the actual essay assignment. This document contains the two texts, but the prompt directions are omitted. You should read and annotate the two texts, but you may not bring your annotated copy to class on Friday. The first text is excerpted from Thoreau's "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For". The second is from the conclusion of "The Minister's Black Veil". Your textbook contains commentary following both texts that you may find useful in preparing.

**[[file:Scarlet Letter Reading Journal.pdf|3. Reading Journal #4 -- The Scarlet Letter]]**
This document contains directions for both the individual reading journal and the group presentation assignment. Begin working on the journal as early as possible in order to avoid a rush at the end. Former AP students will tell you -- this journal is one that really can not be crammed at the last minute!

**4. Scarlet Letter Group Presentation**
See the second half of page one in the document linked to #3 above.

**[[file:The Scarlet Letter -- Final Essay.doc|5. Scarlet Letter Final Close Reading Essay]]**
This essay will not be due until after Christmas break, but we will peer edit a draft of it before break and you will want to read the entire novel with an eye on potential passages for close reading. for an example of a close reading essay based on another work of literature.

**Assignment #4: Reading Journal (Scarlet Letter)**
See directions above.
 * Due: Thursday, December 20**

**Assignment #3: Annotation of SL Ch. 1**
to download a copy of chapter one of //The Scarlet Letter.// Create a thorough and insightful semantic annotation, with a special focus on symbolism. You are encouraged to take note of grammar and syntax, but only as it directly relates to significant meaning in Hawthorne's language.
 * Due: Monday, November 26**

**Assignment #2: Reading Journal (Transcendentalism & Gothicism)**
See directions above.
 * Due: Tuesday, November 20**

**Assignment #1: Emerson's "The American Scholar"**
Read the text of Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous speech [|"The American Scholar"]. Then, write a brief essay (one well-developed paragraph will do) that clearly articulates Emerson's central message and explores its development through __**one**__ of the following sub-topics: Please write the sub-topic that you are addressing at the top of your response.
 * Due: Wednesday, November 7**
 * Nature
 * Man
 * Books
 * The scholar
 * Reason
 * God
 * History