Baldwin: "Autobiographical Notes" 1142 (3 Pages) Lowell: "A Vision of Blacks and Whites United" 953 Komunyakaa: "Monsoon Season" 975 & "Poetry Emotion" 977
This week's activities will fulfill the following Content Expectations as required in Michigan's High School Content Expectations for English: CE 3.1.4 Study of a Specific Author CE 2.1.3 Expand Vocabulary CE 2.1.7 Demonstrate Comprehension CE 3.3.4 Demonstrate knowledge of American minority Xxx Xxx literature and the contributions of minority writers.
Big Ideas of Multiculturalism
(Postmodernism)
Dreams and Visions Stereotyping Diversity Human Motivation Social Equality Rise of Anti-Religious Attitudes American culture, late 1900s
Themes Fighting racial discrimination Importance of family
Contemporary Poetry: "Varied and Intensely Personal" pg 914 Wilbur: "The Beautiful Changes" 1006 Ginsberg: "Homework" 1010 Bishop: "The Fish" 1035 Harjo: "Remember" 1040 Sexton: "The Bells" 1089 Hongo: "What For" & Xx "A Different Story" both pg 1122 Merrill: "The Fifteenth Summer" 1156
Internal and External Conflict
We will study and discuss the Anti-Hero, using this story and this excerpt from the article "The Hero and the Rat-Man".
This week's activities will fulfill the following Content Expectations as required in Michigan's High School Content Expectations for English: CE 3.1.4 Study of a Specific Author CE 2.1.3 Expand Vocabulary CE 2.1.7 Demonstrate Comprehension
"In Georgia's Swept Yards: A Dying Tradition" pg 77 in the Green Book
This week's activities will fulfill the following Content Expectations as required in Michigan's High School Content Expectations for English: CE 3.1.4 Study of a Specific Author CE 2.1.7 Demonstrate Comprehension CE 3.3.4 Demonstrate knowledge of US minority lit & contributions of minority writers.
Isaac Bashevis Singer "Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech" 929-930 Carver: "Everything Stuck to Him" 1028 (3¼ Pages) This week's activities will fulfill the following Content Expectations as required in Michigan's High School Content Expectations for English: CE 3.1.4 Study of a Specific Author CE 2.1.3 Expand Vocabulary CE 2.1.7 Demonstrate Comprehension CE 3.3.4 Demonstrate knowledge of American minority Xxx Xxx literature and the contributions of minority writers.
