Cycle 1:  November 1 - 9

Mon, Nov 1

A

Assignment: Reread The Fall of the House of Usher

 Tues, Nov 2

B

The Fall of the House of Usher:  Group work

Assignment:  Read poem Alone and write a one page response on how Poe's life is reflected in his writings
                       Text pp 362 - 367

Fri, Nov 5

D

Assignment: Text pp 373 - 381

                      Guide questions

                      Choose one significant statement/reflection from either Emerson's Self-Reliance or Thoreau's Walden and explain how it relates to you
                      as a young person in 2010 (make it relevant).  Alternatively, you might choose a statement and explain why it has lost meaning in today's world.  If so, is
                      this regrettable?

Cycle 2:  November 10 - 16

Wed, Nov 10

A

Assignment: Prepare for test

 Thurs, Nov 11

B

TEST Unit 3: Writings of a New Nation

Assignment:  The Scarlet Letter Ch 1 - 4
Reading Protocol: Highlight in book
                            Journals:  Some assignments will be collected.  All work should be ready to be turned in since you write in binders as directed on the first day of class.
                            Journal assignment #1:  (1) Choose one paragraph that acts as a commentary on Puritan society.  What is Hawthorne's tone and message in this paragraph?

                            NOTE:  Do not rewrite the paragraph; annotate it as follows:  pg. 1 "Smily Sally......... jovial Johnny."
                            (2) Copy one sentence that you found difficult to understand.

Mon, Nov 15

D

Assignment: TSL: Ch 5-6 pp 69 - 88

Cycle 3:  November 17 - 29

Wed, Nov 17

A

Assignment: TSL:  Ch 9 - 12, pp 105 - 142 - How has sin impacted the lives of Chillingworth and Dimmesdale?
                      Vocabulary exercises 9 and 10

 Fri, Nov 19

B

Review!!!

Complete work, revisions, and how to write an essay response-

Assignment:

Be prepared to discuss Ch 9 - 13.  Turn in the revised Poe paragraphs and the paragraphs on the following:

Chapters 9 - 11 demonstrate how guilt and guile can take over a person's life.  Choose either Dimmesdale or Chillingworth and explain how he became a prisoner or his own guilt or guile, respectively,

Tues, Nov 23

D

Assignment: Read Chapters 14 - 19:  There will be a double-graded reading check.
                      Vocabulary Lessons 11 & 12

Cycle 4:  December 1 - 8

Wed. Dec 1

A

Assignment:  Read through Chapter 21

 Thursday, Dec 2

B

Assignment: Reread Chapters 20 & 21 and closely read concluding chapters

                      Vocabulary exercises 13 & 14

Monday, Dec 6

D

Assignment:  Formulate outline ideas according to format discussed in class.  Bring these to class on Tuesday.

Cycle 5:  December 9 - 15:

Thursday, Dec 9

A

Assignment: Work on essay outlines

Friday, Dec 10

B

Assignment: Complete essays:  Note: Self-check list

Tuesday, Dec 14

D

Assignment:  Complete group questions for The Quarter-Deck
                       Begin reading The Chase

Cycle 6:  December 16 - January 7

Thursday, Dec 16

A

Assignment: Vocabulary 15& 16 exercises
                      Literature assignment:  Welcome to the World of Emily Dickinson

Monday, January 3

B

Assignment: Using the text or on-line resources, read and analyze using some type of organizational structure (a chart, etc.):

                      I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -; Because I could not stop for Death-; My life closed twice before its close; There is a Solitude of Space;

                     The Soul selects her own Society

Wednesday, Jan 5

D

Assignment:  Introduction to Walt Whitman - read text pp 404 - 405, Leaves of Grass excerpt, 406-407
                      Note passages on free verse and the poet's "attitude" or TONE

Cycle 7:  January 10 -

Monday, Jan 10

A

Assignment: Complete Whitman pictorial projects

Tuesday, Jan 11

B

Assignment: Read text pp 456 - 463 - Frederick Douglass and the excerpt from "My Bondage and My Freedom"

Thursday, Jan 13

D

Assignment: Mid-term review assignments:  Posting context vocabulary and other guides on google docs