Barbara Armbruster armbruster75@gmail.com
Grade Nine American Literature Trinity Classical Christian Academy
2011- 2012
All Books Dover Press unless otherwise noted. Order online.
Summer Readings:
The Gold Bug and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe.
ISBN-13: 9780486268750 $2.50
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ISBN:0-486-2806 1-6 $2.00
Great Speeches of American WomenISBN:0-486-46141-6 $3.50 continued throughout the term.
All Dover press, unless otherwise noted.
1. September The Crucible ISBN-13: 0822202554. Drama: Puritan witchcraft trial in New England Colonial times. Amazon $ 8.00
2. October Daisy Miller. Dover. Henry James (1878) . Americans abroad (Italy); cultural misunderstandings. ISBN: 0486287734 $3.00
3. November House of the Seven Gables. Hawthorne. (1851) ISBN-0-486-40882-5. Family drama of greed and revenge in Salem. $3.50
4. December The Life of Frederick Douglass, ISBN:0486284999Auto biography of a former slave. $2.00
5. January O Pioneers!, ISBN-0486277852. Willa Cather (1900) A look at westward migration. $2.50
6. February The Great Gatsby, ISBN-978-0-7432-7356-5 (1920's) . Life in the roaring twenties; the results of greed. Amazon 14.50
7. March 101 Great American Poems, Dover Thrift Edition. ISBN 0486401588. Genre/ Assorted poetry of the Period.$1.50
8. April/May The Great Divorce C.S. Lewis Amazon/Church Bookstore by order.
Opportunities for Salvation.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
American Literature and Composition Grade 9
American Literature Summer Assignments
Huck FinnUse a two column format below to create double entry journal sheets. Then write the heading like this: Top block-Huck Finn by Mark Twain. Left half block write a Quote from the Novel and the page #; Right half block Reflections.(What you think the quote means.
Again: write an important quotation of one or more lines and its page number for each chapter in the left hand column. Then in the right hand column write what you think the quote means and why it is important. Do this as you read the novel. You may have more than one quote per chapter if you wish. You can print more sheets as you need them or write the headings and quotes on loose leaf paper neatly.
We will discuss these on the on the first and second days of class (Sept 6th and 9th). You will hand them in when we finish the discussion.
Great American Speeches by Women
Great American Speeches. Choose one of the following speeches and memorize A paragraph or two from it. If you have memorized the whole speech- you will get extra credit. You will recite it or a part of it and read your paper on Sept.13th.
1. Mary McLeod Bethune p.122
2. Eleanor Roosevelt p.126
3. Nancy Pelosi p.177
4. Geraldine Ferraro p.139.
Then write a five paragraph paper about the person. Tell only important facts or write the five paragraph paper about whether you disagree or agree with what whe speaker says and why!
The Gold Bug and Other TalesRead the following Stories and Highlight the suspenseful parts. We will discuss these on Sept.20th.
1. The Masque of the Red Death p.57
2. The Tell Tale Heart p.74
3. The Cask of Amontillado p.116.
Huck FinnUse a two column format below to create double entry journal sheets. Then write the heading like this: Top block-Huck Finn by Mark Twain. Left half block write a Quote from the Novel and the page #; Right half block Reflections.(What you think the quote means.
Again: write an important quotation of one or more lines and its page number for each chapter in the left hand column. Then in the right hand column write what you think the quote means and why it is important. Do this as you read the novel. You may have more than one quote per chapter if you wish. You can print more sheets as you need them or write the headings and quotes on loose leaf paper neatly.
We will discuss these on the on the first and second days of class (Sept 6th and 9th). You will hand them in when we finish the discussion.
Great American Speeches by Women
Great American Speeches. Choose one of the following speeches and memorize A paragraph or two from it. If you have memorized the whole speech- you will get extra credit. You will recite it or a part of it and read your paper on Sept.13th.
1. Mary McLeod Bethune p.122
2. Eleanor Roosevelt p.126
3. Nancy Pelosi p.177
4. Geraldine Ferraro p.139.
Then write a five paragraph paper about the person. Tell only important facts or write the five paragraph paper about whether you disagree or agree with what whe speaker says and why!
The Gold Bug and Other TalesRead the following Stories and Highlight the suspenseful parts. We will discuss these on Sept.20th.
1. The Masque of the Red Death p.57
2. The Tell Tale Heart p.74
3. The Cask of Amontillado p.116.
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