About American Lit & Humanities . . .
This course is a survey of many of the important authors in America's history.
It looks at the major literary and cultural movements of the last two-and-a-half
centuries through their eyes. The humanities portion of the class is concerned
with other ways the culture expresses itself besides literature: art, music,
architecture, philosophy, etc.
Points are earned in the following ways:
1. Unit Tests - worth 50-100 points apiece.
2. Quizzes - worth 10 - 20 points apiece (expect one every day).
3. Papers - at least three major papers worth 50-100 points apiece.
4. Projects - presentations or special projects, worth 50-200 points apiece.
The semester will be broken up as follows:
- Term 1-
- Unit 1 - The New Land - 2 weeks. Native Americans, Columbus,
DeVaca, LaSalle, Smith, Bradford, Byrd, Bradstreet, Taylor, Mather,
Edwards, Franklin, Jefferson, Paine, Henry, Locke.
- Unit 2 - The Romantics - 2 weeks. Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Longfellow,
Holmes,Whittier, Lowell, Wright, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau.
- Unit 3 - The Reformers - 3 weeks. Hawthorne, Melville, Fuller,
Robinson, Stanton, Stowe, Douglass, Alcott, Lincoln, Lee, Sealth, Satanta,
Joseph.
- Unit 4 - The Realists - 3 weeks. Twain, Bierce, Whitman, Crane,
Dickinson, Freeman, DuBois, Dunbar, Robinson, Masters.
- Term 2 -
- Unit 5 - The Roaring 20s - 3 weeks. Fitzgerald.
- Unit 6 - The Moderns - 2 weeks. Steinbeck, Anderson, Porter,
Hemingway, Faulkner, Welty, Eliot, Hurston, Hughes, Cullen.
- Unit 7 - The Contemporaries - 3 weeks. Meyers, O'Brien, Asimov,
Vonnegut, Bradbury, Barthelme, Tan.
About Mr. Clark . . .
Education
- Graduated from Rocky Mountain High School in 1983
- Graduated from Colorado State University with a Bachelor of Arts in English
in 1993
- Graduated from University of Phoenix with a Master of Arts in Education
in 1999--Thesis/Research Proposal: "The Correlation Between Negative Change
in the Academic Performance of High School Students and the Separation of
Their Parents"
- Completed the Advanced Placement Institute at the University of Northern
Colorado in 1999
- Completed the Teaching Shakespeare Institute at the Folger Shakespeare
Library through Georgetown University in 2000.
- In Progress: learning a lot about life and human nature from his wife
Tracey, his daughters Kylee and Molly, his son Danny and his dog Eleanor.
Teaching Experience
- 1993-1994: 8th grade English at Lake County Intermediate School, Leadville,
CO.
- 1994-1995: 8th and 9th grade English at John Evans Junior High, Greeley,
CO.
- 1995-present: World Literature & Composition, American Literature & Humanities,
British Literature & Composition and TV and Video Production at Rocky Mountain
High School, Fort Collins, CO.
- 1998-present: Competitive soccer coach (and player).
Email Address:
Voice mail:
Schedule (Fall 2004):
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1st Hour
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7:50 - 9:20
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TV & Video Production |
Room 302
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2nd Hour
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9:30 - 11:10
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Planning |
Room 302
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3rd Hour
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12:00 - 1:30
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American Lit & Humanities |
Room 333
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4th Hour
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1:40 - 3:10
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British Lit (Shakespeare) |
Room 333
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