English Lessons to Go Along with Beautiful Feet's High School US History Course

Setup:

You will be completing 3 history lessons a week (or at least attempting to).  In order to be prepared with the literature aspect of each history lesson, you will do the english portion a day before the history portion.  So if you do history on Tues, Thurs, and Sat, you will do the english studies on Mon, Wed, and Friday.  Make sense?

Materials needed:  A composition or spiral notebook or electronic journal for writing/typing vocabulary words and literary devices.  Pick the format that you like best.

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Lesson 1

English:

1.  Define at least 4 of the vocab words from the study.  Write or type them depending on which method helps you to remember best.

2.  Find out what irony in a story is.  http://www.shmoop.com/literature-glossary/irony.html

    Here is another example that makes it easy to understand dramatic irony. http://www.shmoop.com/midsummer-nights-dream/dramatic-irony-symbol.html

   Make an entry in your notebook about what irony is in your own words.

History:

1.Read or listen to the assigned chapters.  Listening to the chapters will take about 50 minutes.

2.Read this overview on slavery in the Commonwealth of Kentucky explorekyhistory.ky.gov/items/show/180#.VNVRCkKrT_M

Lesson 2

English:

1.  Define at least 4 of the vocab words from the study.  Write or type them depending on which method helps you to remember best.

2.  Find out what junxtaposition in a story is.  http://www.shmoop.com/literature-glossary/juxtaposition.html

    Here is a video that explains juxtaposition. http://www.shmoop.com/video/speak-part-8-juxtaposition

   Make an entry in your notebook about what juxtaposition is in your own words and an example from a past reading if you can think of one.

History:

1.Read or listen to the assigned chapters.  Listening to the chapters will take about 50 minutes.