High School 3: Concerning Lewis

Hello and welcome back, High School Third-Years!

Below is the link to the biographical talk on C. S. Lewis that John Piper gave in 2010. Please enjoy this video and take notes on anything you find important. (The transcript of the speech is below the video, but taking notes with your own hand will help you remember better.)

"Lessons from an Inconsolable Soul"

See you soon!

~Mrs. Stewart

High School Writing 2: More Photos

Welcome back, photography description gurus!

Here's the link for today's options:

National Geographic Photo Galleries

Choose a photo you can describe in vivid, stylish language, as we discussed in class. Be sure to print out the photo to hand in... or send me the link to the gallery you chose and tell me which photo you described! Either way, remember that I need to see it.

Have a great week,

~Mrs. Stewart

HS Writing II: Photo Assignment

Hi, High School Writing II!

Follow the link below to find a slideshow of all the photos you may use for your first creative photo assignment. Of course, you may also use a personal photo!

Photo Description Assignment

Remember, your options are a descriptive non-fiction short essay, a poem, or a short story. Don't be silly. :-)

~Mrs. Stewart

American Literature: Faulkner Story

American Literature students:

Here's the link to your Faulkner reading for this week. As usual, please print it out and bring it to class next Tuesday!

"A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

~Mrs. Stewart

Middle School Lit: Robert Frost Poems

Hello, all!

I hope you enjoy these poems. Please print them out and bring them to class next week for discussion.

"The Road Not Taken"

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

See you next Tuesday!

~Mrs. Stewart

American Literature: The Harlem Renaissance

Hey, American Literature-ers!

I hope you're hard at work on your analysis papers by now. Enjoy these--and as you do, think about how they show evolution (or not) from previous discussions about race that we've read!

"A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes
"Democracy" by Langston Hughes
"Visitors to the Black Belt" by Langston Hughes (the paragraphs beneath the poem are optional to read/print)

~Mrs. Stewart

American Literature: High Modernist Poets

Good day, Am Lit students.

Here are your lovely modernist poems for the day. These are HIGH Modernist poems; it takes some work to get meaning out of them. If you read them and find yourself utterly confounded, don't despair. We'll make sense of them in class. I do want you to be familiar enough with them to discuss them in class, however, so don't skip through the reading just because it's difficult!

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot
"In Just--" by e e cummings

Enjooooy~

~Mrs. Stewart

Middle School Reading: "The Most Dangerous Game"

Hello all,

I hope you enjoy reading our short story for this week. Here's the link:

"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell

Have fun - and remember to print the story out so that you can bring it to class! :-)

~Mrs. Stewart

Robert Frost Poems for American Lit

Hi, everyone.

We have a good run of poems this week, but they're short, and they should be more accessible than Whitman and Dickinson. :-) Print them out and bring them to class with you: class depends on you having these handy.

"Mending Wall"
"The Road Not Taken"
"Out, Out--"
"Fire and Ice"
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
"Desert Places"

Happy researching!

~Mrs. Stewart

Naturalist Short Stories

Hello there, American Lit students!

I hope your take-home midterms are going well. Here are the short stories for this week. You may have already been exposed to both authors. Print them out and bring them into class next week; remember that your participation grade is affected by whether you bring in the assigned text on that day!

"To Build a Fire" by Jack London
"The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane

Have a good week!

~Mrs. Stewart

American Literature: Short Stories for 3/6

Hello American Literature-ers!

Here are the three short stories for this week. Remember to print them out and bring them to class with you on Tuesday. And don't neglect to begin studying for your final exams!

"The Wife of His Youth" by Charles Chesnutt
"Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin
"The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Enjoy -- these are some of the finest American short stories we've got!

~Mrs. Stewart

Middle School: Shel Silverstein Poems

Middle Schoolers:

I hope you enjoy these poems this week! Remember to print them out and bring them to class next Tuesday!

"It's Dark in Here"

"One Inch Tall"

"Whatif"

~Mrs. Stewart

High School Writing II MLA Helps

Hi, students.

Here are the two links that I mentioned in class. The first is a video that will show you how to use footnotes in Word 2007 and 2003; the second is a blog entry that explains (with unfortunately poor capitalization) how to create a block quote. Both of these links are primarily for Word 2007, which I'm assuming the majority of you have. If not, simply Google "how to use block quotes in [insert your program here]" and you should be able to receive instruction that way. :-)

How to use Footnotes
How to Create Block Quotes (Inset Quotations)

I hope these resources help you in your essay journey. Happy writing!

~Mrs. Stewart

American Lit: More Whitman

Hello class,

Greetings. Here are the two Walt Whitman poems for this week's homework. Remember to look for the symbols in "Lilacs" (you won't have to look too hard) and try to figure out what each symbolizes. This should help in understanding the poem.

Remember also that you should print both of these poems out to bring to class. I'll see you there!

"O Captain! My Captain!"
"When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom'd"

One more thing: don't forget to think about which poem by Whitman or Dickinson you would like to choose for your notecard poem report. It's coming up soon!

~Mrs. Stewart

Middle School Lit: "The Gift of the Magi"

Congratulations! You've found the home school blog!

Here is the link to the first short story of the semester: "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry. Remember to print out the story so that you can bring it to class!

"The Gift of the Magi"

Enjoy the story! I'll see you next Tuesday. :-)

~Mrs. Stewart

American Literature: Whitman and Dickinson

Welcome back, American Lit students!

Below are the links to the two Walt Whitman poems you've been assigned for this week. Remember that for "Song of Myself," you only need read the sections that were specifically assigned: 1, 6, 7, 15, 32, 52. I  recommend copying and pasting only these sections into a Word Document so that you don't waste paper and ink printing out the whole poem. You may read the whole poem, but we won't be discussing other sections in class.

"The Wound-Dresser" is more straightforward, but I wouldn't read it while eating.

"Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman
"The Wound-Dresser" by Walt Whitman

Remember to print these out and bring them to class on Tuesday. Class will revolve around the printouts you bring. Enjoy--

~Mrs. Stewart