Week 11: October 28-November 1
Weekly Assignments JUNIORS
Resources
 Mrs. Montgomery’s Website (mrsmontyg.weebly.com)
 To submit assignments, email them to jmontgomery@usd397.com
 (SUBJECT LINE: Your name and assignment title)
Monday
 Define vocabulary with definitions, sketch, part of speech, and sentence. Morphemes: find
words that contain these morphemes that might help trigger your memory. For
morphemes definitions only are required.
Week 11
dict
glib
don
harbinger
duc/duct
Homeric epic
fac/fic
ideological
flect/flex
imminent
fract
post-ate
pre-er/-or
re-ful
semisub Grammar concept: Complex sentences and dependent clauses
o For an assignment grade, use Grammar 101 MODULE 2 to complete exercises 2-17,
2-18, and 2-19. (Go to mrsmontyg.weebly.com “grammar” tab)
Tuesday – Wednesday -Thursday
Finish our unit on Individualism
 Take notes using the Cornell system (see my website’s reading tab) as you read pages 140144 “The American Revolution” in The American Tradition
 Take notes using the Cornell system as you read pages 192 – 198 “The New England
Renaissance” in The American Tradition
 Be sure your notes include this information:
o Define the Enlightenment (Age of Reason).
o Identify the ideas of Thomas Hobbes (natural rights), John Locke and Jean-Jacques
Rousseau (social contract), Adam Smith (invisible hand)
o Define the characteristics of the Romantic Movement in America
o Define the characteristics of the Transcendental movement in America
o Explain the social purpose felt by American writers during the New England
Renaissance
o Describe the American colonists in terms of literacy in the colonial and
revolutionary periods
o How were the “Schoolroom/Fireside” poets advocates for an American identity?
What was the “ideal” American in the 18th-19th c?
 Select and write down in your journal two quotations from the options on page 145
“Echoes: The American Revolution”.
o Write in your journal your interpretation of each quote, the concept it addresses
(e.g. slavery, revolution, patriotism, human nature, etc.) and how it applies our lives.
 Select and write down in your journal two quotations (one by Emerson and another by
Thoreau) from the options on page 198 “Echoes.”
o Write in your journal your interpretation of each quote, the concept it addresses,
and how it applies to our lives.
 Read & take notes using the Cornell system over THREE of these literary selections in The
American Tradition
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“Self-Reliance” (Emerson) – nonconformity (p276)
“Walden” (Thoreau) – limits of individualism (p286)
“Loomings” (Melville) – human purpose for living (p299)
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“Song of Myself” (Whitman) – the common man (p365)
“A Man Said to the Universe” (Crane) – human purpose (p382)
“Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (Eliot) – isolation (p500)
“Mending Wall” (Frost) – neighbors (p508)
“The Richer, The Poorer” (West) – choices (p652)
“The Life You Save May Be Your Own” (O’Connor) – flawed humanity (p784)
“On the Mall” (Didion) – consumerism (p915)
Kennedy’s Inaugural (John F. Kennedy) – a vision (p908)
Final Product (see below)
Friday
 Quiz
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Vocabulary (week 11)
Grammar (complex sentences and dependent clauses)
Notes from textbook reading
Final Product Due Nov. 5
5 minute speech or 3 page paper or a debate with a partner that focuses on a question about
American foundational documents, the definition of Individualism, your textbook passages &
quotes, and the text selections that you have read?
Option 1
Answer this question What is your political philosophy? (In other words, what is relationship
between an individual and his/her society?)
Option 2
Define the concept of Individualism in American society.
Here are two definitions to get you started:
Definition from Merriam-Webster dictionary
a (1) : a doctrine that the interests of the individual are or ought to be ethically
paramount; also : conduct guided by such a doctrine (2) : the conception that all values,
rights, and duties originate in individuals
b : a theory maintaining the political and economic independence of the individual and
stressing individual initiative, action, and interests; also : conduct or practice guided by
such a theory
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/individualism
Definition from dictionary.reference.com
1. a social theory advocating the liberty, rights, or independent action of the
individual.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/individualism
Option 3
Another question you may have about Individualism based on American foundational documents,
the definition of Individualism, your textbook passages & quotes, and the text selections that you
read? (Please write out your thesis & show it to your teacher.)