Literature Links!!!

1. Thomas Paine's "The Crisis" (These are the times that try mens' souls" - questions 2,3 and 5
2. Wheatley's "An Hymn to the Evening" - find rhyme scheme and SOAPSTONE analysis/write personal poem about morning
3. Henry's "Speech to the Virginia Convention" (Give me liberty or give me death! - find rhetorical devices in speech and for advanced option, compare with Benjamin Franklin"Speech to the Convention", which you should find honest and amusing.

Busy Last Week

For those that are missing some things from this week, the run-down is as follows:
Monday - Word List 1-11 "M" and the grammar skills of personal pronoun omission; Thomas Paine and his essay "The Crisis", along with questions 2,3 and 5
Tuesday - Phillis Wheatley and her poem "An Hymn to the Morning", SOAPSTONE analysis and find the rhyme scheme in order to write your own poem with the same frame.
Wednesday - Complete your personal ode to the morning using Wheatley's frame
Thursday - Patrick Henry and rhetorical devices in his "Speech to the Virginia Convention"
Friday - Word List 1-11 quiz and Colonial Broadsides activity

I will link up the literature for you and place assignments into the menu to the right. Mrs. C

Assignments for final week before holiday

We have a few things to do before the break. Make sure you have taken the word list 1-10, j,k,l and written your essay over the three parts of the Declaration of Independence. Which part is the most important? Use logic and reasoning, along with the three E's of evidence, elaboration, and examples. The personal declaration of yours is an optional assignment that will be due at the end of this week. Notes taken this week can be used on Friday's quiz.