Modern+American+Literature


 * __Modern American Literature__**

Spring 2012

[|Elements of Literature Online Text]


 * Modernism Introduction**

[|Mod Lit 524-536 pres.ppt] (courtesy of Mr. Giguere!) [|Modernism.pdf] (another presentation)


 * Short Stories**

[|"A Wagner Matinee" by Willa Cather] [|AWM voc.doc] (A Wagner Matinee Vocabulary-courtesy of Mr. Giguere)

[|"His Father's Earth" by Thomas Wolfe]

[|"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"]
 * Robert Frost Poetry**

Username: wshs Password: terriers
 * Research Paper Assignments/Tips/Information**
 * [|MAL Spring 2012 Due Date Checklist.pdf]**
 * [|MAL Research Paper Spring 2012.pdf]**
 * [|MAL Spring 2012 Learning Commons Research Assignment.pdf]**
 * [|MAL Spring 2012 Research Paper Assignment #1-Thesis and Sources Document.pdf]**
 * [|MAL Spring 2012 Research Paper Assignment #2-Notes.pdf]**
 * [|MAL Spring 2012 Research Paper Note Taking Tips (to be used with assignment #2).pdf]**
 * [|MAL Spring 2012 Research Paper Assignment #3-Outline.pdf]**
 * [|MAL Spring 2012 Research Paper Assignment #4-Rough Draft_Revising a Rough Draft.pdf]**
 * [|MAL Spring 2012 Research Paper Assignment #5-Final Draft.pdf]**
 * Research Database Access:**
 * [|JSTOR]**

Infotrac-Access from school website.

__** [|Modernism Unit Freud Information.pdf] **__ [|Modernism Unit Dream Analysis Paper Assignment.pdf]
 * Helpful Topic Information:**

//**The Great Gatsby**//

[|The Great Gatsby Full Text]

[|The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 Questions.doc] [|The Great Gatsby Chapter 2 questions.doc] [|The Great Gatsby Chapter 3 Questions.doc] [|The Great Gatsby Chapter 4 Questions.doc] [|The Great Gatsby Chapter 5 Questions.doc] [|The Great Gatsby Chapter 6 Questions.doc] [|The Great Gatsby Chapter 7 Questions.doc] [|The Great Gatsby Chapter 8 Questions.doc] [|The Great Gatsby Chapter 9 Questions.doc]
 * The Great Gatsby Chapter Questions**

[|Modernism.pdf]
 * Unit 1-Defining Modernism Through Poetry**

[|Shine, Perishing Republic by Robinson Jeffers]

[|Defining Modernism Through Poetry Terms to Know Sheet.pdf] [|Defining Modernism Through Poetry Diction Handout _Shine..._.pdf] [|Defining Modernism Through Poetry Metaphor and Symbol _Shine..._.pdf] [|Defining Modernism Through Poetry Toward a Definition of Modernism.pdf]
 * Unit 2-Dreams vs. Reality-//Death of a Salesman//**


 * Unit 3-Short Stories and Freudian Analysis**

[|The Secret Life of Walter Mitty] [|Walter Mitty Worksheet]

[|The Jilting of Granny Weatherall]

__** [|Modernism Unit Freud Information.pdf] **__ [|Modernism Unit Dream Analysis Paper Assignment.pdf] [|Modernism Freudian Analysis Sample Proposal.pdf]

__**Research Paper Information**__ [|MAL Research Question Assignment Fall 2011.pdf] [|Research Assignment MAL Fall 2011 Assignment sheet and Learning Commons Research Assignments.pdf]

[|Winter Dreams]


 * Unit 3-Heroes**

[|Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson]

[|Richard Cory by Simon and Garfunkel lyrics]

[|Miniver Cheevy by Edwin Arlington Robinson]

[|Soldier's Home by Ernest Hemingway]


 * Unit 4-Past vs. Present**

[|The Jilting of Granny Weatherall]

[|A Rose for Emily]


 * __Unit 5-The Harlem Renaissance__**

[|**The Harlem Renaissance presentation.pdf**]

[|**I, Too by Langston Hughes**]

[|**Harlem by Langston Hughes.doc**]

[|**America by Claude McKay**]

[|**Tableau by Countee Cullen**]

[|**Incident by Countee Cullen**]

[|**of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery by Gwendolyn Brooks**]

[|**Harlem Renaissance Poetry chart.doc**]


 * __Research Paper__**

[|**Modern American Lit Research Paper assignment Spring 2010.pdf**]


 * Unit 6//-Death of a Salesman//**

[|**Modern American Lit Senior Study Guide Spring 2010.pdf**]
 * Senior Final Exam Study Guide**