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Welcome to English 11 Honors

Please write your child’s name, your name, and anything you think I should know about your son or daughter. These are confidential and will not be shared with students. Thank you!. Welcome to English 11 Honors. Mrs. Lynn Bonakdar Room 203. Who Am I?.

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Welcome to English 11 Honors

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  1. Please write your child’s name, your name, and anything you think I should know about your son or daughter. These are confidential and will not be shared with students. Thank you! Welcome to English 11 Honors Mrs. Lynn Bonakdar Room 203

  2. Who Am I? • Four years at Stony Brook (Miss Bennett) • Fifth year at Westford Academy

  3. American Literature How does the social, political, economic and cultural landscape of American society shape its literature? How does literature, music, photography, painting, film and architecture from each major period reflect American ideas and values of the time?

  4. The American Dream How does the American Dream reflect the values of our culture? How has this Dream evolved throughout the course of our nation’s history? How do authors use literature to comment on the values of our society?

  5. 1st Quarter Curriculum • Intro to American Literary Periods • Historical context and art  American values particular to each period • Literary Period Museum (Monday) • Summer reading, Into the Wild and The Awakening • Focus on the search for identity, the impact of society on the individual, and motifs • Transcendentalism—focus on Emerson and Thoreau • Analytical essay on The Awakening: Thinking beyond the 5-paragraph essay! • Their Eyes Were Watching God • Harlem Renaissance • Dialectic journals (interacting with text to make meaning) • Zora Neale Hurston’s use of folklore, dialect and figurative language • Literary criticism presentation and in-class essay test

  6. 2nd Quarter Curriculum • The Great Gatsby and Modernism • Modern thought as seen in historical context, philosophy, architecture, film and art • Trace modernist motifs in The Great Gatsby and then in Citizen Kane • Article for Modernist Magazine tracing modernist elements in the novel and film

  7. 3rd Quarter Curriculum • The Scarlet Letter • Most challenging reading of the year • Puritanism and the origins of the American Dream • Early American reading selections through the Age of Reason • Student student-led chapter analysis will be presented in class and posted on class blog • Personal narrative and analytical essay

  8. 4rd Quarter Curriculum • Death of a Salesman • Photography project: personal interpretation of the American Dream • Reader’s theater in class • Essay • Poetry • Reading and writing • Formal explication

  9. Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary • Quiz roughly every two weeks • Some form of practice is required • No cramming! SATs are coming quickly!

  10. Exams • Mid-year covers Q1 and Q2 • Final covers Q3 and Q4 • Both contain essay component, vocabulary, and literature

  11. Contact Information Mrs. Lynn Bonakdar Lbonakdar@westfordk12.us 978-692-5570 x331 http://mrsbonakdar.weebly.com/

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