This year we will be studying "Threads of Change in the 19th Century American Literature" and "Utopia".
Greek/Latin: stem list #21, 26, 6
Test will be on Friday, November 2. Word list packets are due on Thursday also.
Library Check out will be Thursday, October 25. Bring your book to class daily.
Read daily in your novel Billy Budd, Sailor! Make sure that you are journaling as you read.
8th Grade Parent Letter for Threads of Change Unit
"Brahma" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
History of Concord, Massachusetts
Brook Farm
Immanuel Kant
excerpts from the writings of Frederick Douglas
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
Sojourner Truth and her speeches
Nat Turner's rebellion
Compromise of 1850
Emancipation Proclamation
Thomas Cole paintings
J. M. W Turner paintings
Henry David Thoreau quotations
Ralph Waldo Emerson's poetry
Romantic Music of Chopin, Schubert, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Schumann, and Stravinsky
Samuel Morse
Thomas Edison
Charles Goodyear
Alexander Graham Bell
Andrew Carnegie
John D Rockefeller
Theodore Roosevelt
Uriah S. Stephens
Eugene V. Debs
Pullman strike
the Haymarket affair
Shrimp and Oyster worker
Workers at a Glass factory
Married Women's Property Act
Troy Female Seminary
Mt. Holyoke Seminary
Hartford Female Seminary
Mary Cassatt's art
"This is My Letter to the World" by Emily Dickinson
"A Pair of Silk Stockings" by Kate Chopin
Maize High School Citation Help
Citation Machine
The Write Source
