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Welcome to American Literature-Academic
10th Grade
In American Literature we will be reading literature from Native American origin myths through modern literature. Focus will be on looking at sub-text and writer's style.
Literature
- Helps us grow personally and intellectually
- Opens doors for us
- Stretches our minds
- Develops our imagination
- Increases our understanding
- Enlarges our power of sympathy
- Helps us to see beauty in the world around us
- Links us with the cultural, philosophical, and religious world we are a part of
- Enables us to recognize human dreams and struggles in different places and times
- Helps us develop mature sensibility and compassion for all living things
- Nurtures our ability to appreciate the beauty of order and arrangement
- Enables us to see worthiness in the aims of all people
- Exercises our emotions through interest, concern, sympathy, tension, excitement, regret, fear, laughter, and hope
- Encourages us to assist creative and talented people who need recognition and support
- Shapes our goals and values by clarifying our own identities—both positively through acceptance of the admirable in humans, and negatively, through rejection of the sinister
- Enables us to develop perspectives on events occurring locally and globally
- Gives us understanding and control
- Is one of the shaping influences of life
Literature makes us human
Required Materials for Class
2011-2012
- Pencil and pen
- Reading book of your choice
- Folder or 1" 3-ring binder dedicated to this class and filled with plenty of college-ruled notebook paper
- Textbook
- Participation in our Edmodo community
American Literature Edmodo Page:
Ms. Whisler's American Literature
Join Edmodo and type in group code dmfk7u
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