Grade 11 English Language Arts Final
Hopkins
2007-2008
Overview: This year we read the following:
· Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
· The Crucible by Arthur Miller
· The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
· Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
· Into Thin Air by John Krakauer
· The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
· Where are you going? Where [...]
Gothic Stories
Your own Gothic Short stories are due on Wednesday by the end of class. Looking forward to reading them.
Goat Girl & Friends by Betsy Jo Williams
GOTHIC SHORT STORIES
Today we will read H. P. Lovecraft’s The Outsider in class. Please remember to keep you Gothic elements tree map up to date as we finish each story. We will read one more Gothic story on Monday, and then have two days to finish your own Gothic stories, which should have been started [...]
Gothic Stories
For Wednesday of next week, please write a Gothic story of no less than 500 words (two pages typed and double spaced) which uses as many Gothic elements as possible. Please refer to your tree maps and Gothic elements list for examples and how they may be used. While I encourage you to be creative [...]
Gothic Short Stories
We finished The Yellow Wallpaper today. Please have the tree map finished for tomorrow. Today, we started Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates.
GOTHIC STORIES
Today we began The Yellow Wallpaperby Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Please remember to keep up with your Gothic Elements tree map.
Some interesting tidbits about the story from Wikipedia.
It took merely two days to write, and was at first rejected in 1891 by a Boston physician who made a protest in The Transcript. He claimed such [...]
