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Rhetoric Selections
Kate Chopin
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemingway
Benjamin Franklin
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tony Kushner
Arthur Miller
Other Materials:
Homework
Group Assignments
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Mr. Francis
SHS English Department
In this core English course, juniors will be encouraged to be active readers, responsive students, and developing writers. Students will read, interpret, and write about texts from a wide-range of genres. Students are expected to take the New York State Regents Examination in English Language Arts this June.
The core thematic goal of this course is to explore how American literature has often sought to reject traditions--social, intellectual, political, literary, or otherwise. It also seeks to consider how a culture inspires and is inspired by its own art and rhetoric. Its main secondary purpose is to challenge and develop student's analytical skills, both as readers and as writers, in pursuit of a higher mastery of language arts skills.
Students will demonstrate proficiency in writing through a variety of genres and modes, which may include personal, persuasive, expository, analytical, and satiric. They will show an awareness of audience while each working to develop his or her own unique voice.
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[Complete syllabus]
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N.B. All readings, reading schedules, & assignments below are tentative & subject
to change.
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| Rhetoric Selections |
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| Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899):
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e-text
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Day 1 chapters 1-6.
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Day 2 chapters 7-10.
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Day 3 chapters 11-16.
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Day 4 chapters 17-22.
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Day 5 chapters 23-28.
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Day 6 chapters 29-33.
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Day 7 chapters 34-39.
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"Self-Reliance" (1841):
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Day 1 pages 266-276.†
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to "...and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons."
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Day 2 pages 276-285.
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to "...and that teacher shall restore the life of man to splendor, and make his name dear to all history."
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Day 3 pages 285-292.
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to "Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles."
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† Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Signet Classics edition)
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: rwe.org
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from "Nature" (1836): selections
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"The American Scholar" (1836):
e-text
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"Divinity School Address" (1836):
e-text
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"Self-Reliance" (1841):
e-text
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from "The Over-Soul" (1841):
selections
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"Circles" (1841):
e-text
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Romanticism Handout
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| Henry David Thoreau |
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from Walden or Life in the Woods (1854), 1. Economy:
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Day 1 pages 3-18.†
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to "...and ice in the Neva, would sweep St. Petersburg from the face of the earth."
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Day 2 pages 18-33.
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to "But to make haste to my own experiment."
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Day 3 pages 33-49.
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to "...however it might seem to have your woodchucks ready dressed by the village butcher."
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Day 4 pages 49-65.
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to "...but if it affords nothing to give away, be an azad, or free man, like the cypress."
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† Walden and "Civil Disobedience" (Signet Classics edition)
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Resistance to Civil Government (1848, 1849)
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Day 1 pages 275-286.‡
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to "I see this blood flowing now."
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Day 2 pages 286-297.
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to "...which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen."
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‡ Walden and "Civil Disobedience" (Signet Classics edition)
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Walden (1854):
complete e-text
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Resistance to Civil Government (1848, 1849)
e-text
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Romanticism Handout
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| Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850): e-text |
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| Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms (1929) |
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Day 1 chapters 1-6.
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Day 2 chapters 7-9.
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Day 3 chapters 10-14.
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Day 4 chapters 15-19.
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Day 5 chapters 20-24.
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Day 6 chapters 25-27.
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Day 7 chapters 28-32.
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Day 8 chapters 33-36.
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Day 9 chapters 37-38.
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Day 10 chapter 39-end.
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Modernism Handout
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Realism Handout
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925) |
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Day 1 chapter 1.
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Day 2 chapter 2.
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Day 3 chapter 3.
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Day 4 chapter 4.
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Day 5 chapter 5.
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Day 6 chapter 6.
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Day 7 chapter 7.
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Day 8 chapter 8.
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Day 9 chapter 9.
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