11th+Grade+American+Lit

media type="custom" key="4225375" [|NPR on Hester Prynne]This is an essay on the irony of Hester as sinner and saint. JCR
 * =Sample Syllabi= ||
 * [[file:11 Am Lit and Comp 10.11.pdf]] ||  ||
 * [[file:beach 11 syllabus 09.10.pdf]] ||
 * [[file:2008-2009 Course Information.doc]] ||


 * [|American Authors on the Web]** : This is a website with authors and links to their work ranging from 1550 to 1950. Also on this site is a link at the top to "General Resources." Though some of the links are broken, it is an immense resource of American authors, literature, literary movements, etc. CDV

__**[|Narrative Magazine:]**__ A great site for taking in The Story of the Day (fiction), The Poem of the Day, Works in Progress (from some of today's best writers), essays on writing, etc. //Caveat//: There is a section entitled "6 Great Sex Stories" as of 9.1.08; this is not fiction written in pornographic or erotic style, but the magazine proposing that "the best writing about sex rests firmly on scenes that offer perceptive, erotic characterizations of conflicts, hopes, desires, illusions, struggles for power, and other intricacies between lovers." CDV


 * [|Explore American Lit]**: Contemporary American Lit. I haven't explored this fully, but great opening to the web page. KHJ


 * [|Lakeview American Lit Blog]**: The blogsite for Lakeview's American literature classes. Assignments, responses, creative ideas, videos, etc. CDV


 * [|David Foster Wallace Essays]** : A number of essays collected in //Harper's Magazine// by David Foster Wallace, who was the leading Gen-X postmodern thinker, essayist, and fiction writer until his death on September 12. 2008. CDV

[|An Essay on the N world] A good essay from The American Scholar on a black professor in a mostly white classroom. Thoughtful, especially when considering Huck Finn, Black Boy, TKAM. KHJ

Tim O'Brien? media type="custom" key="4321013"

Lesson idea: writing about the purpose of a college education (from NYT) CLB

10 lessons on Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God CLB