Assigned+Reading

Here is all of the Assigned Readings for the Year.

Tips for keeping up with the readings.

All assignments are listed and dated on the wiki and in the syllabus. __Please feel free to read ahead, complete responses in your journal and reflecting on your thinking.__

1. Library during Seminar. There are textbooks for you to use in the library if your seminar is too loud.

2. In your seminar. I will bring textbooks to your seminar. Leave them there.

3. Hallway next to me, I will find a quiet spot for you to read.

4. Check out a textbook for home.

5. Read online

=1st Quarter= The Crucible

=Holt Textbook with Response Journals and the Big Question: What do I want? What is a life worth living? = = =


 * // The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World //
 * // Young //


 * //Resistance to Civil Government//
 * // On Non-violent resistance //
 * // Letter from a Birmingham Jail //


 * //Speaking of Courage//
 * // Testimonial //
 * // Song of Myself (selections) //


 * //World in Hounding Me//
 * // Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God //
 * // Nature (Emerson) //

=2nd Quarter=


 * **Readings for Class Essential Question for Semester #1 ‘What do I want?” (2 blocks)**

Freedom and Bondage

 * **Gettysburg Address**
 * **A Wagner Matinee**
 * **We wear the Mask**

Life and Loss

 * Full Powers
 * The Fish
 * One Art

=3rd Quarter= The Bean Trees


 * **Readings for Class Essential Question for Semester #2 (What is Beauty?)**
 * Contemporary Poetry (2 blocks) **
 * Choose 9 from text collection 5 and 6 **
 * The Creative Spirit (2 blocks) **
 * Tell all truth but tell it slant **
 * This is my letter to the world **
 * The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica **
 * The Bonds of Love **
 * Somewhere I have never traveled, Gladly Beyond **
 * A Worn Path **
 * Raisin in the Sun (Movie only) **

=4th Quarter=

**Readings for Class Essential Question for Semester #1 (What is Beauty?) (4 blocks)**
 * Design **
 * Teenage Wasteland **
 * Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock **
 * Chicago **