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Chapter One: The Entire Text of The Scarlet Letter is available here one chapter at a time. A link is available at the end of each chapter to return to the previous chapter or to go on to the next one. Use these links to provide a text for reading, to copy portions for class discussions, to practice close reading assignments, to write timed essay tests, etc. Also included are essay prompts with appropriate checklists to facilitate various types of writing assignments. Two multiple-choice tests (eight passages and 100 questions) with answers and explanations are available to test the students' close reading skills.
Chapter Two: Hawthorne's Short Stories The text for six complete short stories are accompanied by journaling suggestions, coded notes assignments, and essay prompts. The titles of the stories are: "The Ambitious Guest" . . ."The Custom House" (An extended essay acting as a preface to The Scarlet Letter) . . ."Ethan Brand" . . . "The Minister's Black Veil" . . . "My Kinsman, Major Molineaux" and "Young Goodman Brown."
Chapter Three: Other Resources: Grading the Essays, Checklist for the Personal Essay, Checklist for the Open Essay, Comparison/Contrast Checklist, Coded Notes, Creative Projects for The Scarlet Letter, Glossary of Terms, Tone Words.Table of Contents:The Analysis Essay Site Licensed Instructional Materials
Chapter One: Reading and Reflective Thinking Three proven techniques for active reading (Coded Notes, Close Reading, and Journaling) are described by Victor Moeller of Algonquin, Illinois and William Starr of Liberty, Indiana. These reflective thinking and active reading skills must be mastered before the analysis essay can be written successfully.
Chapter Two: Two Huge Libraries of Suggested Reading
Chapter Three: Tools of Analysis A formula is offered in the article "How to Write the Analysis Essay."
Chapter Four: Checklists Various checklists guide all stages of the reading, writing and grading of the essays.
Chapter Five: Analyzing Speeches and Essays John Donne, "No Man is an Island;" Mohandas Gandhi, "An Open Letter to Hitler;" Ho Chi Mihn, "Viet Nam Has the Right to be Free and Independent;" William Shakespeare, "St. Crispin Speech" from Henry V; Mark Twain, "Advice to Youth;" and E. B. White, "A Member of a Party of One."
Chapter Six: Analyzing Short Stories Honoré de Balzac, "A Passion in the Desert" and "Facino Cane;" Kate Chopin, "At Chênière Caminada" and "The Blind Man;" W.W. Jacobs, "The Monkey's Paw;" James Joyce, "Araby;" D. H. Lawrence, "The Rocking-Horse Winner;" Guy de Maupassant, "An Affair of State" and "A Coward;" Katherine Mansfield, "Miss Brill;" George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant;" Edgar Allan Poe, "The Black Cat" and "The Cask of the Amontillado;" Dylan Thomas,"A Child's Christmas in Wales;" Mark Twain, "The Private History of a Campaign that Failed."
Chapter Seven: An Issue Analysis Research Paper A Huge List of Novelists of Literary Merit, accompanied by topics for research and the MLA Short Guide can be used to write a 10-15 page analysis paper.Table of Contents:The Personal Essay Site Licensed Instructional Materials
Chapter One: Evaluating an Argument "How to Teach Argument, Rhetoric, and Persuasion."
Chapter Two: Internet Links to Powerful Essays Mitch Albom (Detroit Free Press), John Balzar (the Los Angeles Times), Rick Bragg and Maureen Dowd (New York Times), Ellen Goodman (The Boston Globe), Leonard Pitts, Jr. (The Mami Herald), Anna Quindlen (Newsweek), William Rasberry (The Washington Post), Rick Reilly ( Sports llustrated), George Will (Newsweek), Brent Staples (Essay on Racial Identify). George Will (Newsweek). "Classic Essays" by Addison and Steele, Elizabeth Drew, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Faulkner, William James, Martin Luther King, Barbara Kingsolver, H. L. Mencken, Neil Postman, Anna Quindlen, Great American Speeches, and E. B. White.
Chapter Three: Compelling Speeches Susan B. Anthony, "On Women's Right to Vote" Napoleon Bonaparte, "Farewell to the Old Guard" Winston Churchill, "Blood, Sweat and Tears" Frederick Douglass , "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery" Elizabeth I of England, "Against the Spanish Armada" William Faulkner, "On Accepting the Nobel Prize" Gerald R. Ford, "Pardoning Richard Nixon" William Lloyd Garrison, "On the Death of John Brown" Lou Gehrig "Farewell to Yankee Fans" Patrick Henry, "Liberty or Death" Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, "On Surrender to US Army" John F. Kennedy ,"Inaugural Address" Robert F. Kennedy, "On the Death of Martin Luther King" Abraham Lincoln, "The Gettysburg Address" Nelson Mandela, "I am Prepared to Die" Richard M. Nixon, "Checkers" Richard M. Nixon, "Resigning the Presidency" Pope John Paul II, "At Israel's Holocaust Memorial" Ronald Reagan, "On the Challenger Disaster" Franklin D. Roosevelt, "First Inaugural Address" Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "The Destructive Male" George Washington, "Prevents the Revolt of his Officers"
Chapter Four: Writing the Personal Essay "How to Write the Agree or Disagree Question."
Chapter Five: Practicing the Timed Test 30 Personal Essay Tests.
Chapter Six: The Research Paper All the information needed to write a research paper.Table of Contents:Small Language Skills Site Licensed Instructional Materials
Chapter One: Necessary Knowledge Students are given basic and practical information that helps them master such things as the elements of good writing, diction, syntax, grammar usage rules, and general vocabulary. Various "Contests of Knowledge" are designed here to help the students masters this knowledge in fun ways.
Chapter Two: Grammar Usage Separate practice is available in area where students usually exhibit problems: using helping verbs, creating sentences with clear subjects (avoiding there), creating sentences with active verbs (avoiding such linking verbs as: is, was, were), practicing conciseness (avoiding wordiness, using prepositions correctly (especially learning not to end with a preposition), etc. This chapter ends with a formula for letting the students create grammar exercises.
Chapter Three: Style An excellent checklist called "50 Ways to Revise Your Paper forces the students to improve their diction, syntax, and sentence variety, thereby controlling the basic elements of good writing. Another lesson called "Style Builders" give students daily practice with diction, syntax, and other stylistic and rhetorical devices.
Chapter Four: Applying Skills Two huge lists of quotations can be used in a plethora of ways to learn about and emulate good writing. One list comes from Writers of Non-Fiction; the other from Writers of Fiction. Another section teaches students to "Make Multiple-Choice Tests." Then some practice is given taking one "Multiple-Choice Test. Another section teaches students to recognize voice by rewriting Little Red Riding Hood in the voice of another author. A last section teaches students to grade papers.
Chapter Five: Other Resources Glossary of Terms, Grading Essays, and for Vocabulary FUNóThe Complete Text of The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce.Table of Contents:The Comparison Essay Site Licensed Instructional Materials
Chapter One: Organization How to Write the Comparison and Contrast Essay; How to Write an Analysis of Charles Lamb's Letter to William Wordsworth; Checklist for the Coca-Cola versus Grove Press AP Essay; Finding Common Ground.
Chapter Two: Library of Suggested Reading Many Comparison Essay Prompts and Practice Using Comparison Skills to Write Personal Essays come with two huge lists: Analyzing Novels and Short Stories of Literary Merit, and Analyzing Non-Fiction Selections of Literary Merit.
Chapter Three: Applying the Skills Analyze Two Marriage Proposals; Two descriptions of The Galapagos Islands; General Checklist for a Comparison and Contrast Essay; Comparing Poems; Comparing William Wordsworth's "London" to Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Douglass;" Comparing the Effective Use of Dramatic Monologue in Several Linked Poems; Comparing Love Poems.
Chapter Four: Finding Comparisons in Larger Works
Using Coded Notes to track the elements and make conclusions after finding comparisons within the work; Frederick Douglass; Two Kate Chopin Short Stories; Comparing Civil Disobedience to Antigone.If You Now Would Like to Access our
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