Completed Fall Semester

SUMMER READING 2011:

The Sun Also Rises:  PPT: The Sun Also Rises, Jake's Journey through Paris, Essay prompts

Choice Book Assignment: Choice Book Assignment, Choice book assignment rubric , SRCB Example (this is only a partial and not a completed assignment meant to serve as an example)

8/8: Class syllabus (generic) and class procedures, Course Prospectus, Honors Contract, website tutorial, locker assignments

8/9: Questions over Summer Reading Choice Book assignment & Choice book assignment rubric, SRCB Example, Annotating a Text,theme statement fill-in

8/10: Questions over Summer Reading Choice Book Assignment, PPT: The Sun Also Rises 

8/11: PPT: The Sun Also Rises, Jake's Journey through Paris, TSAR Essay & possible topics

8/12:  Exam: The Sun Also Rises, MC & SA 

8/15: GHSGWT Assessment,  literature books, GHSGWT review, the "American Dream"

8/16:  DUE: Summer Reading Choice Book Assignment   (emailed to me by 7:40), Picture Day

8/17: PPT: Begin Unit I: Native American & Colonial Literature (EOCT predictor test canceled)

8/18: Exam: The Sun Also Rises, Essay

8/19: Naturalization Test

8/22: EOCT Predictor Exam

8/23: PPT: Native American Literature, Due: "The World on the Turtle's Back," Language of Literature, p. 24-30, What does Bear think about our connection to nature?

8/24: wrap up N.A. Literature, Anne Bradstreet's "Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666," Language of Literature, p. 140-41

8/25: wrap up Bradstreet, Due: Bradford, "Of Plymouth Plantation," Language of Literature, p. 82-87, Things to Look for in "Of Plymouth Plantation"

8/26: Return TSAR exam, transpose predictor tests

8/29: Due: "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano," Things to Look for in the slave narrative, Language of Literature, p. 93-97, exam review

8/30:  Review for Exam

8/31: Exam: Native American Literature and the Colonial Period (mc & sa)

9/1: Exam: Native American Literature and the Colonial Period (essay)

9/2: The Crucible vocabulary

9/6-7: The Crucible : PPT historical introduction, vocabulary, character list, historical timeline, McCarthy & dramatic license, HUAC & McCarthyism, Assignment, Remembering McCarthyism

9/8: discussion of McCarthyism and events surrounding the 1950s political arena, begin reading Overture  

9/9: Read Act I of The Crucible, Act I study questions

9/12: Continue reading Act I of The Crucible

9/13: Continue reading Act I, discussion of Act I study questions, authorial intrusion p. 32-36 (class set), discuss vocabulary words

9/14: Finish reading/discussion over Act I, discuss vocabulary words, direct and indirect characterization

9/15: Finish reading Act I, review Act I study questions

9/16: Act I vocabulary quiz, finish  discussion of Act I study questions, authorial intrusion p. 32-36 , return CP and NA exams

9/19: Finish discussion of authorial intrusion, begin Act II,  Act II study questions

9/20: Continue Act II

9/21: Finish Act II, review vocabulary quiz (Act II), Act II study questions

9/22: Vocabulary quiz, (Act I & Act II), begin review for the GHSGWT

9/23: Begin Act III of The Crucible, Act III study questions

9/26: GHSGWT review

9/27: GHSGWT, Continue reading Act III, Act III study questions 

9/28: Continue reading Act III, Act III study questions

9/29: Continue reading Act III, Act III study questions 

9/30: Discuss Act III, Act III study questions

10/3: EOCT Predictor Test, review for exam over The Crucible

10/4:  Begin Act IV, Act IV study questions  

10/5:  PROBE Fair (no 3rd period)

10/6: Review vocabulary,  continue Act IV 

10/7:  Vocabulary quiz, (Acts III-IV), finish Act IV

10/10-14: Fall Break

10/17-18: Review, The Crucible, John Proctor & Jungian Psychology, ESSAY HELP!, Common Errors in Writing/Writing the thesis statement

10/19: Exam: The Crucible (Essay)

10/20: Exam: The Crucible (mc & sa)

10/21: The Crucible, movie version

10/24: wrap up The Crucible

10/25: Begin Revolutionary Background, PPT, the American Dream

10/26: discussion of propaganda, Rhetoric & Aristotelian Appeals (Logos, Ethos, Pathos), Literary Terms: polysyndeton, anaphora, parallelism

10/27: Propaganda questions, Dr. Seuss: Children's author or propagandist?, The Butter Battle book and other political cartoons 

10/28, 10/31: Political Cartoons, Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention & Rhetorical Analysis,Elements of Literature, p.262-66

10/31: Wrap up Patrick Henry, Political Cartoons

11/1-2: More political cartoon analysis, assignment, rubric

11/3-4: the American Dream & J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, excerpt from Letters From an American Farmer & study questions

11/7: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, Elements of Literature, p. 270-272, 276

11/8: Analyze current Political Speech

11/9: Review for exam

11/10: Exam: The Revolutionary Period (mc & sa)

11/11: Exam: The Revolutionary Period (Essay)

11/14-15: PPT & background: American Romanticism and the American Renaissance

11/16-17: Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker" DUE, Elements of Literature, p.349-359, Setting Analysis

11/18: Finish "TD & TW" discussion

11/28: PPT: Origins of Gothic Literature & introduction to Edgar Allan Poe

11/29: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher", Elements of Literature, p. 474-482, Usher literary analysis, the unreliable narrator

11/30: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher", Elements of Literature, p. 483-494 DUE, Usher study questions

12/1: DUE Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance," Elements of Literature, p. 363-366, "What is Transcendentalism?"

12/2: DUE Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," Elements of Literature, p. 369-376

12/5: Finish Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," Elements of Literature, p. 369-376 , intro to Walden, Pics of Walden Pond 

12/6: DUE: Thoreau's Walden, Elements of Literature, p. 382-391,   Thoreau's Packing List, study questions, Anti-transcendentalism & intro to Nathaniel Hawthorne

12/7-8: DUE: Hawthorne's "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," Elements of Literature p. 500-513, study questions, Analyzing the Text

12/9: Turn in QOTDs, Review for exam, Emerson & Thoreau Review Materials Page One & Page Two 

12/12: Exam: American Romanticism & the American Renaissance (mc & sa)

12/13: English EOCT Predictor

12/14: Exam: American Romanticism & the American Renaissance (essay)

12/15: Discuss FINAL EXAM

12/16,19-20: Final Exams

12/21-1/4/2011: Christmas Break