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