1. Honors English 11
Ms. McKee

2. Fun facts about me… This is my third year in Council Rock.
I am the advisor to the Hiking Club.
My parents are both English teachers.
I was band president when I was in high school.
I spent some time working for the marketing department of a Philadelphia publishing company.

3. Honors English 11 Rachel McKee- rmckee@crsd.org
Continuing development of critical reading strategies for use in analyzing the significance of particular works
American Literature
Theme of American Identity
Social/Historical Context of Literature
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
-Emerson

4. Literary Eras Native American Period Puritanism 1620-1720
Age of Enlightenment
Romanticism (and Transcendentalism)
Realism
Naturalism
Modernism (Harlem Renaissance)
Age of Anxiety
“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote it.” -E.M. Forster

5. Literature Novels -Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neal Hurston
-The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
-The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne -Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
-Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – J. Safran Foer -Of Mice and Men– John Steinbeck
-Independent Research Novel – American Author
“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” -Nick – The Great Gatsby

6. Short Story Selections
Literature continued
Short Stories
Honors English 11
Short Story Selections
Play(s) Essays
The Crucible Thoreau
Death of a Salesman Emerson
Franklin
Literary Criticism
Poetry
Whitman Dickinson
Bradstreet Harlem Renaissance Poets
Collins Frost
“That you could omit anything if you knew that you omitted and
the omitted part would strengthen the story and make people
feel something more than they understood” - Hemingway

7. Writing - Journal Responses - Blue Book Essays: timed writing
- Persuasive Essays
- Personal Narrative & Creative Pieces
- Literary Criticism Paper
- Grading of major writings based on Pennsylvania Writing Assessment Scoring Guidelines
"I may have said the same thing before... But my explanation, I am sure, will always be different." - Oscar Wilde

8. Research Paper - Completed third marking period
- 25% of marking period grade
- Self-selected American novel
- Collect Literary Criticism
- Synthesis of personal analysis and literary
critics views into thesis driven paper
- Can be expanded for graduation project
- Plagiarism results in zero for assignment as per student handbook policy
“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.” -Zora Neal Hurston

9. Short Story Presentations
Group Dynamics
Public Speaking and Presentation Skills
Synthesis of Literary Criticism
Class Participation
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“The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.” – Ernest Hemingway

10. Grammar / Usage / Mechanics
- Taught formally using multiple resources
- Addresses problems seen in compositions
- The SAT has a writing section containing multiple-choice grammar / usage / mechanics questions as well as an essay
“Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.”  ~Mark Twain

11. Vocabulary Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary Workshop Level G
20% each Marking Period
Twenty-Two new words per week: parts of speech, definitions, synonyms, antonyms, sentence completion and
word forms
Tests- Biweekly and Cumulative
Website with games and iWords; vocabtest.com
Solid SAT performance enhanced by rich vocabulary background
Workbook or Flashcards
$12.00 to CRHS South Activities - English

12. Homework and Assessments
- Regularly Scheduled Reading
- Journal Response Writing
- Biweekly Vocabulary Tests
- All assessments returned for review

13. My Website