Fear Essay: All The Pieces

Here are links to all the pieces:

The Crucible - All 4 Acts

"Nature" and "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The Landlady" By Roald Dahl

"The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving

"The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls" and "A Psalm of Life" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

"Declaration of Independence" by Thomas Jefferson

"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathon Edwards

Test "Preview"

Today in class, you received a "preview" of the test on block day. I've given you a copy of all the questions that will be asked, but you won't receive the reading pieces until block day. All the pieces are thematically related to content previously covered in class. I gave you the test questions ahead of time for several reasons:

• You can look up any unfamiliar words, or ask me for clarification about questions if you're not sure what the question is asking for.
• You can read the questions and find out what genres will be on the test.
• Based on your previous knowledge of these topics, you can start to formulate answers to the questions before you even read the pieces.
• Being familiar with the questions will help you find the answers easier on test day!

Students will have 30 minutes to read, discuss, and annotate the pieces with a partner (or in a triad). After the 30 minutes are up, students will rearrange desks so that we are sitting in "test formation" and then you will be given the answer document with the questions on it. For the rest of class, you will answer the questions and complete a paragraph about the essential question.

Because this is a test, students will need to use a paper dictionary to clarify meanings of unknown words.

Periods 2 and 4 have their paragraph due tonight at 11:59pm. For all other classes, this assignment is now past due.

Character Paragraph

This week, we started working on a character analysis paragraph. In this paragraph, you will pick one character from The Crucible and analyze that character addresses one of the essential questions.

Essential Questions:

• What did they value?
• How did they live?
• How did they view death?
• How did they spend their money?

Periods 1, 3, 5, 7: Due Monday, September 30, 2019 by 11:59pm. 

Periods 2, 4: Due Tuesday, October 1, 2019 by 11:59pm. 

All paragraphs must be submitted on TurnItIn.com. How to submit an assignment on TurnItIn.com. No emailed or handwritten assignments will be accepted. Please refer to the rubric you received today in class.

Test Review Answers

Click here to see the answers for the multiple choice exam review.

Review Stations and Multiple Choice Review

Today, we did review stations to prepare for our exam over The Crucible on block day this week. All of the review station materials are due on block day when your class takes the test.

Click here to download a BLANK copy of the multiple choice review.

If you're looking at the review materials from today and you need to finish them, but you don't remember what to do - - - Click here to view the station directions for today's review activities.

Reading The Crucible

In case you need to reference any of the reading outside of class time, I am posting links to the four acts of The Crucible:

Act 1

Act 2

Act 3

Act 4

Please note the new dates for our quizzes:
Vocabulary Quiz #2 will be Friday, September 13
The Crucible Plot Quiz will be Monday, September 16

Block Day: Rhetoric Notes and Continued Rhetorical Analysis of "Sinners"

We started Wednesday/Thursday by finishing our emotional appeals graphic organizer. Click here to read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathon Edwards.

Then, we took some notes about Rhetoric. Some of this information is new, some is not. Below is the presentation from class. We went through the powerpoint and took notes on this handout.



After completing the notes, we went back into the text of "Sinners" and found examples of every rhetorical device from the notes. If you didn't finish finding all the rhetorical devices, you need to do this before class on Friday.

"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Today, we read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathon Edwards. This document is an excerpt of the 6-hour sermon he delivered in July of 1741.

We read the sermon and started a rhetorical analysis. Edwards' whole purpose for writing and delivering this sermon was to scare his fellow Puritans into reforming their ways and being stricter with their religion. To scare them, he repeatedly calls them "sinners" and discusses the various ways in which he believes God is going to condemn them to an eternity in hell. It's pretty bleak, to be honest.

Appealing to your audience's emotions is one way to get your point across, and Edwards did this by appealing to their fear, pity, and guilt. We used this emotional appeals worksheet to find examples of Edwards' use of emotional appeals, which we also call pathos.

Puritan Background Notes and "Upon the Burning of our House" by Anne Bradstreet

Today, we started studying Puritan literature.  As we start to learn about the Puritans and their literature, you will see that they were very religious. As a consequence of that, you'll notice that our academic vocabulary for this unit will be a bit different than we're used to. We are studying the Puritans, and because religion is something they valued, you will notice we're going to be using a lot of religion-related words. Under normal circumstances, we do not usually discuss religion at school. In English III, we study American literature, and some of the first English-speaking people to populate North America were the Puritans.

Here are the notes from today:



Click here to download the student notes for this presentation.

After we took notes, we read "Upon the Burning of Our House" by Anne Bradstreet and we paraphrased it together.

Homework: Answer the question on the back of the poem handout. Read the poem and think: What did the Puritans value? Cite 2-3 short pieces of text evidence in your answer.

Due when you walk into class on Tuesday.