List of journal assignments for English III Honors (Round One):

1) 9/1: 2 pg.’s on Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts.” What is your writing process like?
2) 9/12: 1 ½ pg.’s on Mark Busby’s article: Does Huck fully embrace the wilderness? What
is his relationship with the frontier? How is like/unlike the American Adam figure?
3) 9/13: 1 pg. freewrite on your chosen topic for essay #1.
4) 9/15: 1 ½ pg.’s on Karen Wallace’s article: Does Hogan mostly depend upon the noble
savage stereotype in Power? What does Omishto gain by giving up the modern world?
What does she lose?
5) 9/16: In-class journaling on Ama in Power: Why does Ama hunt and kill the panther?
Why does the Taiga tribe banish her for this act? Was the act of killing the panther moral
or immoral?
6) 9/20: 1 ½ pg.’s on R.W.B. Lewis article: What is Lewis arguing about the American
Romantics? Why is the American Adam figure so important to our understanding of
their work?
7) 9/24: 2 pg.’s on Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”: Quote or paraphrase a few of his points,
analyze them and personally react.
8) 9/27: 1 ½ pg.’s on Emerson’s “Nature.” In what specific ways do we see the Genesis
story (America’s foundational myth) & the American Adam in Emerson’s “Nature?”
9) 9/30: In-class journaling on Emerson’s “The Over-Soul.”
10) 10/4: 1 ½ pg.’s on Thoreau’s “Spring.” (See handout for assignment.)
11) 10/5: in-class journaling on specific passages in Thoreau’s “Spring.”
12) 10/13: 1 ½ pages on “Conclusion” to Thoreau’s Walden. Quote and analyze several of the
major points he makes in his conclusion to Walden.
13) In addition to all of the above journal entries, there may be other entries that discussion
leaders asked you to do, such as journaling in-class. Such entries will vary from block to
block. Please see me or ask a fellow classmate if you missed a student discussion leading
day and are unsure if you are therefore missing an entry.
14) Finally, I will look for Socratic circle notes and all of the in-class journaling and notes on
the Emily Dickinson poems we are studying. We are journaling nearly every day on one
or more of Dickinson’s poems. As long as you keep up with the in-class journaling on
Dickinson (and make it up if you’re absent), you will be fine. In-class journals vary in
length, but should be no less than half of a page, or a solid body paragraph. Please see
the Dickinson reading schedule so you know what poems you have missed if you are
absent.