7: Roll speeches

Here's the assignment.

Here's a text of the sample speech I gave in class:


Here's an online activity about oral competency.

11: 'Mending Wall' essay

Here are notes on the essay:



I also wrote a sample essay on 'Nothing Gold Can Stay.' Enjoy.

7: Roll of Thunder notes

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7: grammar fun

Here are the notes we took in class on Monday:

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And some short cartoons about some grammatical terms:

conjunctions:


predicates:

10: Middle English videos

A Reading of The Canterbury Tales prologue:


A clip about English spelling and the Great Vowel Shift:

10: Ken Lee

From the start of our English Language: History and Current Issues unit:

12: hamlet links

A chart I made for another play, but works well for this one as well:


Online text of Hamlet

No Fear Shakespeare Hamlet

Scansion of Act III soliloquy

'In Search of the Perfect Hamlet'

10: about Streetcar

A reviewer talks about the significance of the film in film history:


More resources:

• the film at IMDB


• the film at filmsite


• the play at SparkNotes