Welcome to Mrs. Porter's American Literature Wiki!
To begin, your group will consider your theme as it appears in the texts we've studied this semester:
How to Breathe Underwater
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Middle Passage
The Road
Winthrop's A Model of Christian Charity
Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Tyler Durden's Hyperreal
Dead Man's Cell Phone
Dickinson's poetry
American Beauty
The Storm
The Story of an Hour
The Yellow Wallpaper
Semester 2:
Passing
The Great Gatsby
Six Degrees of Separation
Brokeback Mountain
Your page should have: original writing about the works above; links to relevant external webpages; links to other pages within this wiki.
To Edit Your Page:
1. Click on the title of your page in the blue list to the left
2. Click on "edit this page" at the top of the page
3. The editing toolbar is across the top of the page
4. Click "save" frequently!
To Insert a Link
1. Type the text that will be the link
2. Highlight that text
3. Click on the lefthand picture of the earth in the editing toolbar
4. Decide whether you want to make a link to another page in the wiki or an external webpage
5. Follow directions to make the link
Welcome to Mrs. Porter's American Literature Wiki!
To begin, your group will consider your theme as it appears in the texts we've studied this semester:How to Breathe Underwater
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Middle Passage
The Road
Winthrop's A Model of Christian Charity
Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Tyler Durden's Hyperreal
Dead Man's Cell Phone
Dickinson's poetry
American Beauty
The Storm
The Story of an Hour
The Yellow Wallpaper
Semester 2:
Passing
The Great Gatsby
Six Degrees of Separation
Brokeback Mountain
Your page should have: original writing about the works above; links to relevant external webpages; links to other pages within this wiki.
To Edit Your Page:
1. Click on the title of your page in the blue list to the left
2. Click on "edit this page" at the top of the page
3. The editing toolbar is across the top of the page
4. Click "save" frequently!
To Insert a Link
1. Type the text that will be the link
2. Highlight that text
3. Click on the lefthand picture of the earth in the editing toolbar
4. Decide whether you want to make a link to another page in the wiki or an external webpage
5. Follow directions to make the link
Wiki Grading Criteria: