Do you need to contact Miss Brown? You can e-mail her at [email protected].
Important Links
Essay: T-chart Instructions Here. You can download the Night Essay Prompt here.
Read: If you don't have your copy of Night, you can read it for free online here. (Thank you to Jose Cruz for finding this for us!)
Listen: The audio version of Night is divided into many sections for each chapter, but the man who reads it does a wonderful job.
Listen: Their Eyes Were Watching God audio clips. (To listen to the audio, you will have to download each file.)
Can't play the audio on a Mac? Go here to download the free version of Flip4Mac, then try again.
If you lost the video release permission slip Miss Brown gave you, you can download it here in English or Spanish.
Read: If you don't have your copy of Night, you can read it for free online here. (Thank you to Jose Cruz for finding this for us!)
Listen: The audio version of Night is divided into many sections for each chapter, but the man who reads it does a wonderful job.
Listen: Their Eyes Were Watching God audio clips. (To listen to the audio, you will have to download each file.)
Can't play the audio on a Mac? Go here to download the free version of Flip4Mac, then try again.
If you lost the video release permission slip Miss Brown gave you, you can download it here in English or Spanish.
Homework Assignments
PERIOD 3
Due Thursday, 5/16
Due Monday, 2/11
Due Tuesday, 2/5
Due Monday, 1/28
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PERIOD 7
Due Monday, 5/20
Due Monday, 2/11
Due Tuesday, 2/5
Due Monday, 2/4
... 2 RRJ entries together as a class (Thursday, 1/24) ... 2 additional entries for homework assigned Thurs., 1/24 (from pages 1-6) ... 2 entries as classwork on Mon., 1/28 (pages 7-12) Due Monday, 1/28
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PERIOD 8
Due Wednesday, 5/22
Due Tuesday, 2/26
Due Tuesday, 2/12
Due Wednesday, 2/6
Due Tuesday, 1/29
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The Great Gatsby Links
Read: If you don't have your copy of The Great Gatsby, you can read it for free online here. (You will not be able to see page numbers, but you can still read by chapter.)
Listen: Click here for an audio version of The Great Gatsby, broken down by parts.
Study Guide Packet: Lost your packet? Download a new copy here.
Listen: Click here for an audio version of The Great Gatsby, broken down by parts.
Study Guide Packet: Lost your packet? Download a new copy here.
Course Information
11th Grade English
2012 - 2013
Ms. Aguirre
The Fine and Performing Arts Academy is committed to providing an academically rigorous teaching and learning environment that prepares well-rounded people who are self-aware, dedicated to community, and confidently ready for post-secondary success.
Overview: The purpose of this class is to prepare students to pass a college English Placement Exam, read and discuss literature in multiple genres and write effectively about non-fiction and fiction texts.
Grading Policy:
Attendance and Participation – 20%
4 Essays/2 Timed Writing Assessments - 25%
Reading - 25%
Homework 10%
Final Exam 20%
Required Texts:
The Bedford Reader 10th Edition
11th Grade Expository Reading and Writing Course
Fall Semester
11th Grade Expository Reading and Writing Course
Week 1 and 2 – Module 1: Fast Food: Who’s to Blame?
Week 3, 4 and 5: Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Week 6 – Module 2: Going for the Look
Week 7 – Module 3: The Rhetoric of the Op-Ed Page: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
Week 8 – Module 4: The Value of Life
Week 9 and 10- Module 5: Racial Profiling
Week 11- Module 6: Juvenile Justice
Week 12- Module 7: The Last Meow
Week 13 – Poetry 101: Contemporary Poetry
Week 14 – The Poetry of James Baldwin and African American Poetry
Week 15 – Chicana/o Poetry
Week 16 – Feminist Poetry
Week 17 – The Short Story 101
Final Examinations December
Spring Semester
Week 1- Autobiography
Readings: “Celebrating the Pity of Brotherly Love” by Andrew Koritz Krull (p203), “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros (p584), “Arm Wrestling with My Father” by Brad Manning (p146), “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid (p367), “Finding Prosperity by Feeding Monkeys” by Harold Taw (p110)
Week 2- History
Readings: The Bedford Reader: ‘We are Free to Be You, Me, Stupid, and Dead” by Roger Rosenblatt (p215, “The Meaning of a Word” by Gloria Naylor (p 488), “Being a Chink” by Christine Leong (p 494), “The Roots of War” by Barbara Ehrenreich (p598),
Week 3 - History
Readings: “Everything Isn’t Racial Profiling” by Linda Chavez (p563), “Safety Through Immigration Control” by Mark Krikorian (p567), “Not Your Homeland” by Edwidge Danticat (p572), “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell (p634) and
“The Capricious Camera” by Laila Ayad (p358)
Week 4 – Law and Homelessness
Readings: “On Comparison” by Barbara Lazear Ascher (p193), “Homeless” by Anna Quidlen (p198), “Live Free and Starve” by Chitra Divakaruni (p442), “Plata o Plomo: Silver or Lead” by Marie Javdani (p448),
Week 5 – Minority Experience
Readings: “Mental Illness on Televison” by Rosie Anaya (p47), “The Best Kept Secret on Campus” by Rosie Anaya (p74), “Champion of the World” by Maya Angelou (p93), “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan (p99), “Black Men and Public Space” by Brent Staples (p208)
Week 6 – Minority Experience
Readings: “The Legacy of Antigay Discrimination” by George Chauncey (p260), “Pride” by Dagoberto Gilb (p505), “No Name Woman” by Maxine Hong Kingston (p620), “Disability” by Nancy Mairs (p17), “A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” by Richard Rodriguez (p651)
Week 7 – Environment
Readings: “Chronicles of Ice” by Gretel Ehrlich (p295), “How to Poison the Earth” by Linnea Saukko (p290), The Story of Stuff video by Annie Leonard, “The Story of Stuffy Introduction 9 (pgs ix – xxxiv)
Week 8- The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard
Readings: The Story of Stuff chapters 1 and 2, “The Story of Water” video, “The Story of Cosmetics” Video
Week 9 - Class
Readings: “Grade A: The Market for a Yale Woman’s Eggs” by Jessica Cohen (p114), “The Myth of Doomed Kids” by Bella De Paulo (p350), “Orange Crush” by Yiyun Li (p164), “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift (p670)
Week 10 - Family
Readings: “I Want a Wife” by Judy Brady (p340), “Not All Men are Sly Foxes” by Armin A. Brott (p345), “What’s Wrong with Gay Marriage?” by Katha Pollitt (p548), “Shooting Dad” by Sarah Vowell (p154), “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker (p267)
Week 11 – Psychology and Behavior
Readings: “Be Cool to the Pizza Dude” by Sarah Adams (p455), “Batting Clean-up and Striking Out” by Dave Barry (p239), “Neat People vs. Sloppy People” by Suzanne Britt (p233), “Videotape” by Don DeLillo (p468), “The Ways We Lie” by Stephanie Ericsson (p408)
Week 12 – Society and Media
Readings: “The World of Doublespeak” by William Lutz (p 418), “What Words Can Tell” by Francine Prose (p644), “Needs” by Thomas Sowell (p501), “Won’t You Be my Friendster?” by Andie Wurster (p543), “Clashing Civilizations?” by Edward Said (p665)
Week 13 - Plays 101 – “Anna in the Tropics” by Nilo Cruz and “Los Vendidos by Luis Valdez
Week 14- 17 Literature Circles
Literature Circles – For each week of Literature Circles you must read a book, pass an AR text and submit a written response.
Final Examinations May.
Suggested Literature Circle Texts:
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Tattoos on the Heart by Father Gregory Boyle
Push By Sapphire
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
A self – selected book that is approved by Ms. Aguirre
2012 - 2013
Ms. Aguirre
The Fine and Performing Arts Academy is committed to providing an academically rigorous teaching and learning environment that prepares well-rounded people who are self-aware, dedicated to community, and confidently ready for post-secondary success.
Overview: The purpose of this class is to prepare students to pass a college English Placement Exam, read and discuss literature in multiple genres and write effectively about non-fiction and fiction texts.
Grading Policy:
Attendance and Participation – 20%
4 Essays/2 Timed Writing Assessments - 25%
Reading - 25%
Homework 10%
Final Exam 20%
Required Texts:
The Bedford Reader 10th Edition
11th Grade Expository Reading and Writing Course
Fall Semester
11th Grade Expository Reading and Writing Course
Week 1 and 2 – Module 1: Fast Food: Who’s to Blame?
Week 3, 4 and 5: Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Week 6 – Module 2: Going for the Look
Week 7 – Module 3: The Rhetoric of the Op-Ed Page: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
Week 8 – Module 4: The Value of Life
Week 9 and 10- Module 5: Racial Profiling
Week 11- Module 6: Juvenile Justice
Week 12- Module 7: The Last Meow
Week 13 – Poetry 101: Contemporary Poetry
Week 14 – The Poetry of James Baldwin and African American Poetry
Week 15 – Chicana/o Poetry
Week 16 – Feminist Poetry
Week 17 – The Short Story 101
Final Examinations December
Spring Semester
Week 1- Autobiography
Readings: “Celebrating the Pity of Brotherly Love” by Andrew Koritz Krull (p203), “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros (p584), “Arm Wrestling with My Father” by Brad Manning (p146), “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid (p367), “Finding Prosperity by Feeding Monkeys” by Harold Taw (p110)
Week 2- History
Readings: The Bedford Reader: ‘We are Free to Be You, Me, Stupid, and Dead” by Roger Rosenblatt (p215, “The Meaning of a Word” by Gloria Naylor (p 488), “Being a Chink” by Christine Leong (p 494), “The Roots of War” by Barbara Ehrenreich (p598),
Week 3 - History
Readings: “Everything Isn’t Racial Profiling” by Linda Chavez (p563), “Safety Through Immigration Control” by Mark Krikorian (p567), “Not Your Homeland” by Edwidge Danticat (p572), “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell (p634) and
“The Capricious Camera” by Laila Ayad (p358)
Week 4 – Law and Homelessness
Readings: “On Comparison” by Barbara Lazear Ascher (p193), “Homeless” by Anna Quidlen (p198), “Live Free and Starve” by Chitra Divakaruni (p442), “Plata o Plomo: Silver or Lead” by Marie Javdani (p448),
Week 5 – Minority Experience
Readings: “Mental Illness on Televison” by Rosie Anaya (p47), “The Best Kept Secret on Campus” by Rosie Anaya (p74), “Champion of the World” by Maya Angelou (p93), “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan (p99), “Black Men and Public Space” by Brent Staples (p208)
Week 6 – Minority Experience
Readings: “The Legacy of Antigay Discrimination” by George Chauncey (p260), “Pride” by Dagoberto Gilb (p505), “No Name Woman” by Maxine Hong Kingston (p620), “Disability” by Nancy Mairs (p17), “A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” by Richard Rodriguez (p651)
Week 7 – Environment
Readings: “Chronicles of Ice” by Gretel Ehrlich (p295), “How to Poison the Earth” by Linnea Saukko (p290), The Story of Stuff video by Annie Leonard, “The Story of Stuffy Introduction 9 (pgs ix – xxxiv)
Week 8- The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard
Readings: The Story of Stuff chapters 1 and 2, “The Story of Water” video, “The Story of Cosmetics” Video
Week 9 - Class
Readings: “Grade A: The Market for a Yale Woman’s Eggs” by Jessica Cohen (p114), “The Myth of Doomed Kids” by Bella De Paulo (p350), “Orange Crush” by Yiyun Li (p164), “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift (p670)
Week 10 - Family
Readings: “I Want a Wife” by Judy Brady (p340), “Not All Men are Sly Foxes” by Armin A. Brott (p345), “What’s Wrong with Gay Marriage?” by Katha Pollitt (p548), “Shooting Dad” by Sarah Vowell (p154), “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker (p267)
Week 11 – Psychology and Behavior
Readings: “Be Cool to the Pizza Dude” by Sarah Adams (p455), “Batting Clean-up and Striking Out” by Dave Barry (p239), “Neat People vs. Sloppy People” by Suzanne Britt (p233), “Videotape” by Don DeLillo (p468), “The Ways We Lie” by Stephanie Ericsson (p408)
Week 12 – Society and Media
Readings: “The World of Doublespeak” by William Lutz (p 418), “What Words Can Tell” by Francine Prose (p644), “Needs” by Thomas Sowell (p501), “Won’t You Be my Friendster?” by Andie Wurster (p543), “Clashing Civilizations?” by Edward Said (p665)
Week 13 - Plays 101 – “Anna in the Tropics” by Nilo Cruz and “Los Vendidos by Luis Valdez
Week 14- 17 Literature Circles
Literature Circles – For each week of Literature Circles you must read a book, pass an AR text and submit a written response.
Final Examinations May.
Suggested Literature Circle Texts:
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Tattoos on the Heart by Father Gregory Boyle
Push By Sapphire
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
A self – selected book that is approved by Ms. Aguirre