Wed. Sept. 8 - blue

Thurs. Sept. 9 - yellow & orange

 Read pages  4 – 9 of our text, The Story of the Times; and pgs.24 – 25, “When Grizzlies Walked Upright”.

Fri. Sept. 10 - yellow & orange

Read pgs. 66 – 75 of text for our next class.  (“The General History of Virginia,” by John Smith, and “Of Plymouth Plantation,” by William Bradford).  Make a word bank of vocabulary you are unfamiliar with in this reading.

Also, write an essay ( 2 pages) based on A) your thoughts about how Americans are viewed by other cultures; or B) Question # 8 on p. 25, about an act of kindness leading to negative results. Essays will be due on 9/13, D day for orange class, and on 9/14, E day for yellow and blue classes. 

Mon. Sept. 13 - orange

Tues. Sept. 14 - yellow

Fri. Sept. 10 blue
                                                                         

Mon. Sept.13, orange
                                                                                                Tues. Sept. 14, yellow

Review the narratives we began in class today.  Be prepared to continue our discussion next class meeting.

Read “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards on pgs. 98 - 101 of text. Be prepared for reading check quiz.

Fri. Sept. 17
yellow & orange

Fri. Sept. 17 - orange & yellow

Read  the poems on pgs. 90 & 92 of text:  “To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet; and “Huswifery” by Edward Taylor.  Be prepared to discuss these in class.  Also, complete first two chapters of your vocabulary workbooks.  These will be checked, and we will go over answers in class.

Note:  We will be having a test on Unit One to be given Mon., 9/20 blue class, Tues. 9/21 Orange class;  and Wed. 9/22 E–Yellow class.  Test will include the following material:

Characteristics of the Native American Oral tradition
“When Grizzlies walked Upright”
"The Walam Olum"
Letter from the Indians of Six Nations to William and Mary College
The General History of Virginia
Of Plymouth Plantation
The New England Primer
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
“My Dear and Loving Husband”
“Huswifery”
selected vocabulary from readings
short essay

Wed. Sept. 22 – Blue;  Thurs. Sept.23  – Yellow & Orange

Make sure you have completed chapters 3 & 4 in you vocabulary workbooks.  Read pages 144 – 145 in your text:  from “The Crisis Number 1”, by Thomas Paine

·         Read the Declaration of Independence on pgs. 140 – 143 of text.

Fri. 10/1 – Yellow & Orange)

Tues. 10/5 - Yellow & Orange

Read from Letters From an American Farmer by de Crevecoeur on pgs. 197 – 199 of text.  Also, complete vocabulary chapters 5 & 6 in vocabulary workbooks.

Wed. 10/6 –Yellow & Orange

Test on Revolutionary Period will include:

• Characteristics of literature in the Revolutionary period
• Benjamin Franklin:  Autobiography & Speech at the Virginia Convention
• Background info on the time period
• Thomas Paine:  Crisis No. 1
• Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence
• Patrick Henry: Speech at the Virginia Convention
• de Crevecoeur:  Letters From an American Farmer
• Characteristics of the Age of Reason / The Enlightment
   

Tues. 10/12 – Orange and Yellow.

We will be starting the Pre-Romantic and Romantic periods during our next class.  Read “The Devil and Tom Walker” on pgs. 236 – 245 of text.  Be prepared for reading check quiz.

Note:  Final drafts of your persuasive essays will be due on Wed. Oct. 20 - Blue class; and on Thurs. Oct. 21 - Yellow and Orange classes.

Fri. 10/15 - Yellow & Orange

Note:  There will be a vocabulary quiz on chapters 5 - 8 on Tues. 10/26 for blue class; Wed. 10/27 for orange class; and on Thurs. 10/28 for Yellow class.

Mon. 10/18 - Yellow & Orange

Topic:  Olaudah Equiano and his sister were kidnapped from their home in West Africa and sold into slavery.  Pretend you are Equiano's sister, and write a journal entry about the time you were taken from your home.  Naturally, this will be a fictionalized account, but it should include credible details based on research.  Two - three pages.  These will be due by Monday, October 18th.

Read introduction to Edgar Allen Poe (pg. 294), “The Raven,”
(pgs. 309 – 313) and “The Oval Portrait,” a very short story you will find in my teach folder. Be prepared for reading check quiz next class meeting.

Monday, 10/18  Blue

Tues. 10/19 - Yellow Wed. 10/20 - Orange

Monday, 10/18  Blue

Tues. 10/19 - Yellow ; Wed. 10/20 - Orange

 Thurs. 10/21 – Yellow & Orange

 Thurs. 10/21 – Yellow & Orange

Read pgs. 372 (bio. of Thoreau) and pgs. 374 – 379 from  “Walden.”  Be prepared for quiz. 

Important!:  We will have a test on the Romantic Period next week.  Test will be given on Thurs. 10/28 E – blue group;  Fri. 10/29 F – Yellow & Orange groups.:
Romantic Period background
Fireside Poets
The First Snowfall
Thanatopsis
The Devil and Tom Walker
The Oval Portrait
Transcendentalism/Anti-transcendentalism
Nature
Self Reliance
Walden

This test conflicts with our scheduled vocabulary quiz dates.  We will have to adjust our schedules accordingly. Blue class, your vocabulary quiz has been moved to Monday, 10/25; Orange & Yellow classes, your vocabulary quiz will be Tuesday, 10 26.

Heads up:  The next major work we will be The Scarlet Letter.  You should have the introduction and the first four chapters read by:
 Mon. 11/1 A – blue group;  Tues. 11/2 B – Yellow & Orange groups

Analytical essay on The Scarlet Letter is due on December 15th - Blue class; December 17th, Yellow & Orange classes.
 

All classes:  Bring your vocabulary workbooks with chapters 9 & 10  completed to class with you.

1.      Write a brief (1 -2 pages) informal creative piece on one of the following topics, to be handed in on  Monday, November 22 – Blue & Yellow groups and Tuesday, November 23 – Orange group:

a)  Write as if you were Hester, trying to explain what she is going through in a letter to
      Pearl, to be opened when Pearl turns 16.
b)  Write a journal entry for Hester Prynne, to be read by no one but herself.  This
      should include her thoughts on Dimmesdale and the nature of her own suffering.

c)  Write a journal entry for Chillingworth – include any relevant thoughts or feelings he
      may have regarding Hester, Pearl or Dimmesdale.

d)  Write a journal entry for Dimmesdale, in which he reflects on the nature of his sin
      and his feelings towards Hester and/or Pearl.

NOTE:  WE WILL HAVE A VOCABULARY QUIZ ON CHAPTERS 9 - 12 ON WED. 12/1 - (blue group) AND THURS. 12/2 (yellow & orange groups)

 

1.      Monday, Nov. 22 – Blue & Yellow

TueTuesday, Nov. 23 – Orange

Mon. 11/22 - Blue group; Tues.. 11/23  – Orange group; Mon. 11/29  – Yellow 

Make sure you have finished reading the novel, as 12/1 is the deadline.

Work on your analytical essays and bring in an introductory paragraph, typed, which includes a thesis statement and an organizing statement. 

We will have a review period for the test on The Scarlet Letter on the Monday and Tuesday we return, and a test on Friday, December 3.

REMINDER:  Analytical essay on The Scarlet Letter is due on December 15th - Blue class; December 17th, Yellow & Orange classes.

Mon. 11/29 E- Blue group; Tues. 11/30 F – Yellow & Orange groups)

Here are the dates for the upcoming quizzes and test:

Vocabulary quiz, chapters 9 - 12 - Wed. 12/1 - Blue class
                                                       Thurs. 12/2 - Yellow & Orange class

Reading check quiz, Scarlet Letter, chaps. 17 - 24 - same as above.

Test - Scarlet Letter - Fri. 12/3 - Blue & Yellow classes
                                 Mon. Dec 6 - Orange class.

Study for test on Scarlet Letter:  Friday, December 3^rd – Yellow and Blue classes; Monday, Dec. 6 – Orange class.

Complete chapters 13 & 14 in your vocabulary workbooks if you haven’t already.  Work on your your analytical essays and bring what you have into class tomorrow.  We will be working on these together.

Work on your essays.  They are due Dec. 15 and 17, depending on class color.  See homework page.

Note:  We will have a vocabulary quiz on chaps. 13 - 16 next week.
Orange class:  Tues. Dec. 14
Blue & Yellow classes:   Wed. Dec. 15   

Mon. 12/13 - Yellow & Orange classes

Also read his biographical information on pg. 478.Read pgs. 456 – 463 – on Fredrick Douglass, from  My bondage and My Freedom.

Wed. 12/15 - Blue

Fri. 12/17 – Yellow & Orange

Read Chief Joseph’s speech, “I will fight no more forever” located on your “related articles” link on my web site and (if you prefer) in your text on pg. 551.

• Read Robert E. Lee’s “Letter to His Son,” on pgs. 482 and 483 of our text. 
• Also read his biographical information on pg. 478

For Wed. 1/5 make sure you have the following assignment read:

• Read pgs. 456 – 463 – on Fredrick Douglass, from  My bondage and My Freedom.

v  Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville (may or not be included depending on whether or not we get to him)
Chief Joseph
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglass

  Test will be given on Monday, 1/10 – Blue group; and Tuesday, 1/11 – Yellow and Orange groups.

Vocabulary will be drawn from chapters 1 - 16 of vocabulary workbooks
Native American Literature - “When Grizzlies Walked Upright,”  "The Wallum Olam"
from The General History of Virginia, by John Smith
from Of Plymouth Plantation, by William Bradford
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards
"To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet
"Huswifery" by Edward Taylor
from The Autobiography and his speech at the Virginia Convention - Benjamin Franklin
"The Declaration of Independence" - Thomas Jefferson
From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
from The Crisis No. 1 by Thomas Paine
Speech in the Virginia Convention - Patrick Henry
"The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving
"The Raven" and "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allen Poe
"Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant
from Walden by Henry David Thoreau
from "Nature" and from "Self Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The First Snowfall" byJames Russell Lowell
The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne
various poems - Emily Dickinson
various poems - Walt Whitman

 

Also:  Read “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” pp. 468 – 475 of our text for next class.  Be prepared for reading check quiz.

Work on bibliographies for research papers. 

Our next reading will be Kate Chopin’s “A Story of the Hour” on pp. 592 – 595, which we will discuss on 2/2 and 2/3.

Mon. 1/31 E Blue; Tues. 2/1  – Yellow & Orange groups

Also, complete chapters 17 & 18 of vocabulary workbooks.

 
Note:  Prepare for vocabulary quiz to be given on Mon. 2/14

Make sure your Final outlines and works cited pages are in shape for next week.  Due dates have been posted on homework page since the first week in February.

·         Work on index cards.  First forty are due on 2/17 - blue class; 2/18 - yellow & orange classes.

·         Study for test on Unit 4 (Realism, Regionalism and Naturalism).  Test will include the following:

 

1.      Background information on Realism, Naturalism and Regionalism

2.      Ambrose Bierce – “Occurrence at  Owl Creek Bridge”

3.      Kate Chopin – “The Story of An Hour”

4.      Mark Twain  - “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”

5.  Jack London - "To Build a Fire"

6.  Edgar Lee Masters – “Richard Bone”

7.  Edwin Arlington Robinson – “Richard Cory”

8.  Paul Laurence Dunbar – “Douglass” and “We Wear the Mask”

Note:  Test will be held on Wed. 2/16 - Blue group; Fri. 2/18  – Yellow & Orange groups

Read pgs. 633 – 641 of text, “Disillusion, Defiance and Discontent.”

Also read T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” pp. 647 – 641.  We will start with this poem when we return from break. 

Also, make sure to complete the balance of your index cards over break.

  Note:  New test dates will be:

Orange and Yellow classes:  Friday, 3/4; Blue class -  Monday, 3/7

Read the short story “In Another Country,” by earnest Hemingway (pgs. 731 – 734).

Read "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," by Katherine Anne Porter, pgs. 776 - 781.
 
Also, complete chapters 23 & 24 of vocabulary workbooks.

Note:  We will have a quiz on vocabulary chapters 21 – 24 on Monday, March 14^th; all classes.

ü    Read the background information on Robert Frost on pg. 802 of text, and
“Mending Wall” on pgs. 806 and 807.

ü     Polish final drafts of research papers. These will be handed in on March 17^th.

ü      

Read the first two chapters of The Great Gatsby for next class.

Also, study for test on Modernism which is scheduled for Wed. 3/30 - Blue group and  Thurs. 3/21  F – Yellow & Orange groups.  Topics to be included are as follows:

Background information on the Modern period
Background information on the Harlem Renaissance
“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot
“In Another Country” by Ernest Hemmingway
The poetry of Robert Frost (“Mending Wall,” “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “Acquainted with the Night”)
The poetry of Langston Hughes (“Refugee in America,” “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”)
The poetry of Claude McKay (“If We Must Die,” “Tropics of New York”)
The poetry of William Carlos Williams
Information on Ezra Pound

Test on Modernism:
Wed. 3/30 - Blue
Thurs. 3/31 - Yellow & Orange

Quiz will be on Wed. 4/20 for all classes.

Tues. 4/19 - Blue

Study for test on The Great Gatsby and The Jazz Age.  Test will be given on Friday, May 6^th. 

Note:  There will be a quiz on vocabulary chapters 29 and 30 next week:  Mon. 5/9 B- Blue group; Tues. 5/10 C – Yellow& Orange groups.

5/12 - Blue & Yellow

Go to the "Related Articles" section of my website, and read "The Crucible - Questions for Discussion,
Act III.  Answer the first five questions for homework.  You can answer these electronically or print them out and write the answers - but they will be checked.  Due next class meeting.

Analytical essays for The Crucible are due on May 31st, D Day, whether our class meets on that day or not.  You may hand them in early; the 31st is the last day to hand them in.  Make sure you give me a hard copy, not an electronic email attachment.

Also - All groups please finish your questions for Act IV of The Crucible for next class.

Please Note:  We will be having a test on The Crucible on the following dates:

                        Blue class - Fri. 6/3
                        Orange & Yellow classes - Thurs. 6/2

For our last week of classes, 6/6 - 6/8, we will be cleaning out our writing folders, placing our letters to our senior teachers in those folders and reviewing for the final exam.
                       

 

6/3 - Blue (test)
6/2 - Yellow & Orange
         (test)

Topic :  One of the themes in The Crucible is that fear and suspicion are infectious and can swell into a mass hysteria that destroys public order and rationality.  Hysteria supplants logic and enables people to believe that their neighbors, whom they have always considered upstanding people, are committing absurd and unbelievable crimes—communing with the devil, killing babies, and so on. Write a 2/4 essay or a 3/5 essay illustrating how this theme is conveyed through the actions of the characters

We will go over sample introductions together in class.

Note: 

Oh - and have a fun weekend!  : )