NDSU and Great Plains Literature
Update 7.21.2008
“Oh, give me a home…”
Take a look at what I saw last week at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Unit.
Photo courtesy Joy Franklin of Duncan, OK.
Greetings from Fargo!
I am busy reading, writing, and discussing literature of the Great Plains with 14 other very talented teachers from across America. We have just finished week one’s author, Walter P. Webb and his book The Great Plains.
We are at North Dakota State University, Fargo, which was just moved up to division I for athletics! Go Bisons!
It is a beautiful campus and weather, except for rain on Saturday, has been magnificent!
Tomorrow we begin discussing Willa Cather’s classic novel, My Antonia.
This is a favorite of mine and one we will be reading together in 2008-2009.
I hope you are well into your summer reading as well. The Color of Water by James McBride is required.
One additional book from the list is also required. I will want to see your composition books on the first day of class which is August 26th, I do believe. Don’t delay!! Get reading now!
I’ve already met a Grammy award-winning musician (Keith Bear of the Mandan and Hidasta tribes of North Dakota) and will be meeting an author next week.
Feel free to email me with questions about my trip or your summer reading. I’ll check this site at least once a week, since I am in class everyday, Monday to Saturday through July.
I’ll make a page for photos. The photo in this blog is one I took on the Missouri Coteau in Streeter, ND.
Find a dictionary and an atlas to reference these terms.
I am having so much fun and learning at the same time. I hope you are doing the same.
Check back at this site for updates to my journey on the road this summer.
Be safe, learn much, do good!
Ms. Martin
AP Language | Comment (0)Words to know quiz
AP students,
I hope you survived that APUSH test today. Several of you stopped by and looked tired.
Rest up! Your LANGUAGE EXAM IS WEDNESDAY!
Take home quiz over pages 4-6 of the words to know will be ready on Monday, come by then. If you will be in class, you will receive it then.
If you came by, you got the slide handout from me.
If not, please be ready to discuss and prepare ch. 1-10 for Socratic seminar for Monday and Tuesday. If you are AP testing those days, bring by 3 factual and 3 deep thought questions from your reading no later than Monday after school.
I have LANGUAGE EXAM tip packets for you; come by and get one before Wed if you are testing. Everyone else will get one in class on Monday.
Happy Mother’s Day to all of your moms!
Enjoy the weekend. See you on Monday!
Slide show handout attached for those who want them!
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