edgar allan poe laments the loss of his wife virginia in

his poem annabel lee

Week 1

Sometimes less is more…

before you turn in an essay you should proofread it

thoroughly

Week 2

when I was a little kid I loved singing the wheels on the

bus

Week 3

interstate highways were originally built to transport

military troops and equipment

Week 4

ernest hemingway enjoyed fishing hunting fighting and

writing novels and short stories

Week 5

in his poem thanatopsis william cullen bryant uses a

combination of run on lines and caesura

Week 6

poe makes extensive use of onomatopoeia in his

poem the raven

Week 7

the girl who sits behind Rafael is a better student than i

Week 8

reading arthur millers play the crucible our class

learned about the witch trials in salem massachusetts

Week 9

mark twain was born on november 30 1835 in florida

Missouri but moved to Hannibal Missouri when he was

five

Week 10

give a yearbook to whoever paid for one

Week 11

cannibal canoe hurricane and barbecue were some of the first

words borrowed from native Americans

Week 12

sandra cisneros lived with eight other family members

in a small apartment she had to retreat to the

bathroom to have a moment to herself

Week 13

concerned about the plight of migrant workers during

the depression john steinbeck wrote the grapes of

wrath

Week 14

writing a research paper requires careful

documentation of sources

Week 15

herman melville who wrote the novel moby dick once

lived with cannibals in the south seas his first novel

typee was written about this experience

Week 16

if youre planning to go to college this would be a good

time to start looking for scholarships

Week 17

i wish that i was old enough to vote because im very

concerned about some of the issues in this presidential

election

Week 18

richard wright who left the south when he was

seventeen wrote native son a novel that earned

him wide recognition in 1940

Week 19

which of those authors has written his

plays in both english and french

Week 20

the movie star wars may be old but i like it

because its full of action and has many strange

creatures

Week 21

mr hoskins our dynamic german teacher

coaches the brookfield high school falcons

bowling team

Week 22

many of f scott fitzgeralds characters are

thought to be reckless and shallow but

fitzgerald used them to represent the values of

the jazz age

Week 23

i hope we will get to study emerson and

thoreau because i like

transcendentalism

Week 24

langston hughes who lived from 1902 to 1967

read works by the great twentieth century

midwestern poets vachel lindsay edgar lee

masters and carl sandburg and used their

influence in writing his own poetry

Week 25

the car i am fixing in auto mechanics class

belongs to malcoms father but i hope he will

sell it to me when its running again

Week 26

will you help us decorate the gym for

the dance on saturday night

Week 27

the junior class has voted laurel class

president

Week 28

this year we learned that countee cullen wrote

his poem incident after an experience with

racism in baltimore maryland

Week 29

two volumes of poetry made robert frost

famous a boys will in 1913 and north of boston

in 1914

Week 30