1. Unit II
American Identity

2. A Growing Nation Early 19th Century Lecture Notes Read pages 230-237
Outline the text
Don’t forget your key points summary at the end (1- 2 paragraphs)
video notes (20)

3. Edgar Allen Poe Introduction
Read pages and take 15 notes
Create Vocabulary Cards (9) from page 307
Edgar Allan Poe Video Notes (15)

4. “The House of Usher” Tasks
Video
text reading
1. Follow along as we read and take notes about major plots points and questions/thoughts
Review “The Fall of the House of Usher” and complete the discussion questions hand-out
3. Complete a 7 entry dialectical journal as you read
Focus on alliteration, metaphors, symbols, personification, imagery, themes
4. House of Usher Sales Brochure Project

5. “The Raven” Tasks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BefliMlEzZ8
Create Vocabulary Cards from the hand-out
Read the study guide for “The Raven”
Read “The Raven” pages and answer the Literary Analysis, Reading Strategy, and Reading Check Questions.
Complete the discussion questions hand-out
Edgar Allan Poe Movie Poster Project

6. EDGAR ALLAN POE: Movie Poster
Create a movie poster that captures the essence of one of Poe’s works. Be creative. This will serve as an advertisement for the movie made from the story. You have to rate it, come up with review words from newspapers, a couple of quotations from the story. Your poster must have dimension. Use different textures. You will need to pick out who will star in the movie. On a separate piece of paper give me the reasons you have chosen these actors/actresses for the parts. The setting and characters need to be represented. Use an appropriate quote from the story to help represent the plot.

7. Transcendentalism Lecture Notes
Emerson Tasks
Transcendentalism Lecture Notes
Read pages and take 20 notes
Create vocabulary cards from page 387 (9)
Emerson Videos (10 notes)
Read from Nature pages and answer the literary analysis, reading check, and reading strategy questions.
Complete the Review and Assess questions on page 390
Read from Self-Reliance pages
Complete the Review and assess questions on page 392

8. Thoreau Tasks Video with 10 notes Read page 400 and take 7 notes
Create Vocabulary Cards from page 401 (8)
Thoreau Packing Activity
Read from Walden’s Pond pages and complete the literary analysis, reading check, and reading strategy questions.
Analysis of Walden’s Quotes Assignment

9. Thoreau Tasks *Civil Disobedience Lecture Notes
Read from Civil Disobedience pages
Complete the Review and Assess on page 413
Dialectical Journal for Transcendental Documents
Walk in the Woods Reflection Response with nature video
Final Project