1/19/11

(A;Class Meetings)

Lesson Unit/Topic

1/21/11

(C)

1/25/11

(E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• RESEARCH PAPER

• BOOK DUE (bring to class)

• Interim assignments rubric

• "Writing a good thesis" exercises

.Take notes on textbook pp.228-237

.Read and take notes on  "Transcendentalism:  The Seekers"

H. D. Thoreau bio

R. W. Emerson bio

.

1/27/11

(A)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Compare and contrast:  Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Naturalism, and Gothic

• chart

.

.

First Draft Thesis Due Next Class!

1/31/11

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• First Draft thesis DUE

• Conference about thesis

• Take notes on Division Reconciliation and Expansion

.

Do Vocabulary Unit 9 exercises

2/2/11

(E; Advisee Mtg during Break + 15)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• SNOW DAY

• Read the HW pieces -->

• Respond to the wiki

• work on thesis revision

• check email for comments on thesis if I have not already had a conference with you

• .Revise thesis

• Read from Nature

  Read from Self-reliance

  Read from Civil Disobedience

   

2/4/11

(A; First Friday)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Go over Unit 9 Vocabulary exercises

• Discuss Emerson and Thoreau

• Finish thesis Conferences

.

• Finish taking notes

• Read Whitman and Dickenson's Poetry

  (All of them in the textbook)

   

  Read "the Raven" by E. A. Poe

   

2/8/11

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Revised thesis due

• Discuss Poe, Dickenson and Whitman

• Go over Notes

• Vocabulary unit 9 QUIZ

• Conference on thesis statements

.

• Read "I Too" by Langston Hughes

• Read "To Walt Whitman" by Angela de Hoyas

• Complete Unit Review Exercises Units 7-9.

2/10/11

(E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

Discuss Whitman, Hughes, De Hoyas

Literary criticism ppt

.

Read

Read "An Episode of War"

Read "Willie has gone to War"

Read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

2/14/11

(A)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Add to chart

• Discuss

  "An Episode of War"

  "Willie has gone to War"

• Conference --thesis statements

   

.STUDY FOR TEST

Read "I will Fight No More Forever"

Read "My Bondage and My Freedom" by Frederick Douglas

2/16/11

(C; Class Meetings)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Vocabulary TEST Units 7-9

• Discuss "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

 

• Discuss "I will Fight No More Forever"

   

   

   "My Bondage and My Freedom" by Frederick Douglas

.Read "The Story of an Hour"

SOURCES DUE NEXT CLASS

Acquire Ethan Frome

2/18/11

(E; Mid-Quarter Reports)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss "The Story of an Hour"

• Sources DUE

.

WINTER BREAK!

3/1/11

(A)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• BEGIN ETHAN FROME

• Read and discuss chap 1-3 in class

.Complete vocabulary exercise unit 10

Read Ethan Frome Chapters 4-6

NOTECARDS DUE NEXT CLASS

3/3/11

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• NOTECARDS DUE

• Reading Quiz Ethan Frome

• Discuss Ethan Frome

.Read Ethan Frome Chapters 7, 8

3/7/11

(E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Reading Quiz Ethan Frome

• Discuss Ethan Frome

• Go over Unit 10 Vocabulary exercises

.Read Ethan Frome Chapters 9 -end

3/9/11

(A; Ash Wednesday Liturgy)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Quiz on Vocabulary Unit 10

• Discuss Ethan Frome

• REVIEW

.Study for Ethan Frome TEST

3/11/11

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• OUTLINE DUE

• Test on

  Test on Ethan Frome; The Story of an Hour; The Raven; from Nature; from Self-reliance; from Civil Disobedience; Because I could not Stop for Death; I heard a Fly buzz—when I died-; There’s a certain Slant of light; My life closed twice before its close; The Soul Selects her own Society; The Brain-is wider than the sky-,There is a solitude of space; Water, is taught by thirst;  from Song of myself; When I heard the learned Astronomer; By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame; I hear America singing; I, Too; To Walt Whitman; An Episode of War; Willie has Gone To War; My Bondage and My Freedom; I will Fight No More Forever; An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

.Complete Unit 11 vocabulary exercises

Take Home Test rules

3/15/11

(E; Spirit Week)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Begin Their Eyes Were Watching God

• Go over Vocabulary Unit 11 execises

• TAKE HOME TEST DUE

• Background webquest

.Read Chapters 1-3 Their Eyes

Answer  QUESTIONS for assigned chapters

3/17/11

(A; Spirit Week)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss research papers and how to write them

• introduce project

• Ist rough draft due (peer edit and conference next class)

.Read Chapters  Their Eyes 4, 5

Answer Questions

read project

3/21/11

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Ist rough draft due

• Peer edit

• Discuss Their Eyes

• work on project

..Study for Vocabulary Quiz

.Read Chapters  Their Eyes 7, 8, 9

Answer Questions for assigned chapters

3/23/11

(E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Vocabulary Unit 11 quiz

• Discuss Their Eyes

• work on project

..Read Chapters  Their Eyes 10, 11, 12

Answer Questions for assigned chapters

Complete Vocabulary unit 12 exercises

3/25/11

(A; Grades Close)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• 2nd rough draft due (peer edit)

• Discuss Their Eyes

..Read Chapters  Their Eyes 13, 14, 15

Answer Questions for assigned chapters

3/29/11

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

Work on paper

rubric for paper

.

4/1/11

(E; First Friday)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• FINAL PAPER DUE

• Discuss Their eyes

• chart

.

Read Chapters 16, 17, 18

Answer Questions for assigned chapters

4/5/11

(A)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss Their Eyes

• Go over Vocabulary Unit 12 exercises

.

Read Chapters 19-end

Answer Questions for assigned chapters

4/7/11

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Finish Discussing Their Eyes

• Work on projects

.

4/11/11

(E; 1:10; Stuco Speeches and Elections)

Lesson Unit/Topic

Vocabulary Unit 12 QUIZ

Work on projects

.

4/13/11

(A)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Projects DUE

  Present projects ON THEIR EYES

   

Acquire The Great Gatsby and colored sticky notes (Blue, red (pink), yellow, orange) see HW 4/27

4/15/11

(C; Junior Picnic)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• finish presenting projects (if needed)

• Go over Harlem Renaissance webquest and add to notes

• poetry

.Acquire The Great Gatsby and colored stick notes (Blue, red, yellow, orange) see HW 4/29.

SPRING AND EASTER BREAK!

4/27/11

(E; 1:10; Class  Elections)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Background on the 1920's

• BRING BOOK (GATSBY) TO CLASS

• Go over hw

• go over plans for the rest of the year

• direct and indirect characterization

.Begin The Great Gastby

Homework for The Great Gatsby

Read Chap 1 & 2 of Gatsby and complete Hw questions

Vocabulary Unit 13

4/29/11

(A; Advisee Mtg; Senior Mid-Quarter Reports)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Go over webquest

• Go over vocabulary unit 13

• Discuss Gatsby

• Check hw

.Read Gatsby Chap 3 &4

Complete HW questions

5/3/11

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss Gatsby

• Check hw

. Study for vocabulary quiz

Read and complete questions for Chap 5 & 6 in Gatsby

5/5/11

(E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Vocabulary Unit 13 QUIZ

• Discuss Gatsby

• Check hw

. Vocabulary exercises Unit 14

Read and complete questions for Chap 7 in Gatsby

5/9/11

(A)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Go over Exercises Unit 14

• Discuss Gatsby

• Check HW

.Read and complete questions for Chap 8 to the end in Gatsby

5/11/11

(C)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Quiz Unit 14

• Discuss Gatsby

• Check HW

.Study for test

5/13/11

(E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Review for test

  • Go over Unit 15 Vocabulary

• Coyote vs. Acme background (if time, if not, 5/19)

.Do Unit 15 vocabulary

5/17/11

(A)

Lesson Unit/Topic

TEST on Gatsby

.Read "Coyote versus acme"

5/19/11

(C; 1:10 May Crowning)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Discuss "Coyote vs. Acme"

• define Satire

• Coyote vs. Acme background

.Write a satire of your own

5/24/11

(E)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Quiz Unit 15 Vocabulary

• peer edit satire

.revise and submit for quiz grade

Read "In Another Country"  by Hemmingway (tetbook)

read "A Rose for Emily" http://www.flf.ukim.edu.mk/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=ywsvxY63msU%3D&tabid=206&mid=1469&language=en-US

5/26/11

(A; Senior Report Cards On-Line)

"In Another Country"  by Hemmingway

Final Writing Assignment TEST GRADE

5/31/11

(C)

p.  718-738

776-780

838

882-892

1014-1022

1173-1195

6/2/11

(E; Ascension Thursday)

Lesson Unit/Topic

• Collected writings:  Test grade--DUE

• Review for Final-the complete list  is on the wiki

• hints

Prepare for Final Exam

Syllabus 

Schedule