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Junior Block Syllabus

 

The Romantic Era

We are studying the American Romantics, including:  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allen Poe.

 

Romantics Intro Notes (powerpoint)

 

Emerson Vocabulary (10/14)

from "The American Scholar"

from "Self Reliance"

Am. Scholar & Self Reliance Homework (10/13)

from "Nature"

"Each and All"

Nature / Each and All Homework (10/16)

 

Thoreau Vocabulary (10/23)

from Walden

Walden Assignment (10/22)

Civil Disobedience Notes (powerpoint)

Civil Disobedience Assignment (10/29)

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

 

Walt Whitman Intro

A link to Whitman's poems

Selected Poems Assignment (11/4)

"Song of Myself"

Song of Myself Assignment (11/6)

 

Hawthorne Vocabulary (11/12)

"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"

Dr. Heidegger Assignment (11/10)

"The Minister's Black Veil"

MBV Assignment (11/16)

 

Herman Melville

"Bartleby the Scrivener"

Bartleby Assignment (11/18)

 

Edgar Allen Poe

"The Raven"

"The Cask of Amontillado"

Raven/Cask Assignment (11/23)

"The Fall of the House of Usher"

House of Usher Assignment (11/24)

 

ROMANTICS TEST REVIEW (Test 12/3)