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| August 23-27 |
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INTRO
Begin Scarlet Letter/Intro Vocab
Intro Summer Essay
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MRS. EVERSON IS NOT TEACHING THIS CLASS THIS YEAR! |
| Aug.30- Sept. 3 |
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Present Scarlet Letter Vocab (Chapters 1-5)
Discuss Scarlet Letter(chapt. 1-5)
Quiz
Daily Oral Grammar
Notes: Medicine Wheel and mind maps for NA legends
Read "Coming of Wasicum"
Read Earth on Turtle's Back . . .Mind Map
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No School Monday
Sept.7-10 |
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Scarlet Letter Journals Due (1-5)
Daily Oral Grammar
Puritan - Early
American poet - Anne Bradstreet
Review notetaking/source cards/MLA format
Introduce Culture Clash Project
Group work/culture clash
Text summary and Historical article source and note cards due
Group Work on projects |
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Midterm
Vocab Picture Due Tuesday
Vocab Unit 2 due and Quiz 2 (Thursday) |
| Sept. 13-17 |
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Daily Oral Grammar
Present Culture Clash
groups
Facsimile and journals due
Vocab Scarlet Letter (6-10)
Discuss Scarlet Letter (Chapters 6-10)
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Sept. 20-24
Homecoming Week |
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Introduce Tech Paper (SDLN)
Scarlet Letter Journals (6-10) Due
Finalize Topics/Library Research
10 Sources required
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| Sept. 27-Oct. 1 |
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Scarlet Letter Journals (Discuss 11-15
Coming of Wasicum
Media Study (Native American)
MOVIE: Essay (Work on) |
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| Oct 4-8 |
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Scarlet Letter Discuss (16-20) Movie Essay (Rough Draft)DUE
Intro: Research/SDLN
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October 11-15
No School Monday |
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Library Research (10 sources)
Note Cards Due next Tuesday |
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October 18-22
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Scarlet Letter Journals Due (Chapter 16-20)
Vocab (Chapters 16-20) Due +Quiz
Notecards Due/Sort/Work on thesis and Outline |
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QUARTER ENDS
Follow PROPER MLA format for all source
cards and note cards. Use SDLN/Infotrac/Proquest |
October 25-29
No School Friday |
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Discuss Second Quarter Book Requirements
Assign "Dr. Heidegger's Experiement"
Final Outline Due (w/ citations) Work on Rough Draft
Discuss
Discuss Scarlet Letter (Ending) (Chapters 21-24)
Present Vocab Pictures |
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| October |
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Daily Orral Grammar and Analogy
Start
Gothic Group Project/Mind maps
Discuss Scarlet Letter (Ending)
Final Scarlet Letter journals due Thursday
Final decision on quarter book (American author)
Group work on Gothics/Present next week |
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| November 3-7 |
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Daily Oral Grammar and Analogy
Present Gothics
Review Hawthorne
Hawthorne Essay assigned
Rough Draft Hawthorne essay assigned on Tuesday
Hawthorne Final Test **Includes Scarlet Letter on Thursday!
Begin Vocab Unit 4 (Pics due on Thursday)
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Hawthorne essay
Hawthorne Final Test |
| Nov. 8-12 |
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Vocab Picture
Due
Final Research Paper Due
Work on Gothics
Vocab
Unit 25 Due NExt Week
Begin Melville's "Bartleby" and Thurber's "Catbird Seat" -Study
Guides and Memo's due next week. |
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Nov.. 15-19
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Finish
"Bartleby" and Melville Introduction
Thurber's "Catbird Seat" -Study Guides
Memos for both stories Due
Vocab Quiz/Gothic Quiz
Start Literary Devices Review/Alliteration
Ben Franklin Aphorism
Intro Emerson and Transcendentalism |
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Nov.22-24
THANKSGIVING |
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Vocab Unit 26 Assign
VocabPic
Continue Literary Devices (Allusion, Assonance/Connsonance)
and (hyberbole/Metaphor/Onomon, Personification)
Begin Transcendentalist
Discuss Emerson/transcendentalism
"Self Reliance"
and "Nature"
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| Nov. 29-Dec. 3 |
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Vocab 26 Test
Continue Emerson "Snowstorm"
Emerson aphorism and "Rhodora"
Intro: Thoreau
Civil Disobedience
Literary Devices . . .Oxy/Simile)
"Walden"
Video Thoreau/Walden and Thoreau
Assign Thoreau essay/Rough Draft due Friday
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Thoreau essay/Rough Draft due Friday |
| Dec. 6-10 |
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Assign Thoreau Essay/Rough Due Friday
Vocab Unit 27 Assign/Pic Unit Due Friday
Fred. Douglass/Melville
Longfellow, Fuller, Stowe |
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| Dec. 13-17 |
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Final ESSAY DUE
Alcott/Little Women
Begin viewing Little Women
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BOOK REPORTS DUE Dec. 16
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Dec. 20-22
CHRISTMAS BREAK |
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Review and Final Test |
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VACATION!! |
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Jan.3-14 (Two weeks)
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Whitman Bio Handout/Worksheet
Text
Whitman Video
Poetry (Text)
Whitman projects
Vocab Unit 7 Intro/Pic Due Thursday
Vocab Unit Due Monday (10) + DOG 12-19
Civil War Poems/Handout
DOG 20-25
Intro Emily Dickinson - Handout (chart) and (Video)"A
Slant of Light"
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Vocab Test Wed (12) |
Jan. 17-21(Inservice - No School 17th)
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Poetry
in Text page 301
and handout
Finish Dickinson/Assign Essay/Projects
Assign Vocab 29 (Pic Due Friday)
DOG 26-29 |
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Due Next Week |
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Continue with
Dickinson Poetry in Handout
Journal must include chapter summaries, character list and explanations,
three significant quotations with response/reaction/ and voice-personal
response/reaction with connections, arguments and experiences. |
Jan. 24-28 |
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Whitman/Dickinson TEST
Intro Crane . . .Assign "Mystery of Heroism" /color
theme assignment
Vocab Unit 29 DUE/TEST
Critique Essay/Analysis
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Dickinson Project Due |
Jan. 31-Feb 4
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Dickinson
Essay Due
Continue Crane
Discuss Crane/"Mystery
of Heroism"
Discuss poetry(handout) and "Red Badge"
Read "The Veteran"
Read
"Red Badge" play and/or view movieclips
Assign:
Crane: Courage and Me Essay
Assign Vocab 30/Pic and Finish Crane
Vocab 30 DUE + Test (Feb.4)
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Jan. 31- Feb. 4
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Discuss Crane/"Mystery
of Heroism"
Discuss poetry(handout) and "Red Badge"
Read "The Veteran"
Read
"Red Badge" play
Assign:
Crane: Courage and Me Essay
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Huck Finn Journal must include chapter summaries,
character list and explanations, three significant quotations
with response/reaction/
and voice-personal response/reaction with connections, arguments
and experiences. |
Feb.7-11
No School Friday |
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Critique Crane Essay
on Tuesday
Crane Final Essay Due Thursday
Intro Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby
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Essay
and Huck Finn Journals DUE Thursday!
Plan ahead! |
Feb. 14-17
No SchoolFriday and Monday |
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby :)
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Feb. 22-25 No School Monday
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby :)
Assign Portfolio Review/Letter
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| Feb. 28 - March 4 |
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
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March 7-9
No School March 10/11
SPRING BREAK |
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Chapter Poster (Group Activity)
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March 14-18
End Quarter |
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Present Posters
View Great Gatsby/Review
The Great Gatsby FINAL TEST
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NEW QUARTER
March 21-25
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Twain Bio video
(?)
" Jumping Frog of Calavaras Co."
Vocab 1 Pic
Read "Life on the Mississippi"
Video/Life of Mark Twain
Assign: "Life on the Mississippi"
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| March 28-April 1 |
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(Video")Man who Corrupted Hadleyburg"
Twain One-liners
Vocab Due and Test (Unit 1)
Read and discuss "Story Without an End"
Twain Test
DOG 30,31 |
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Vocab Quiz Wednesday |
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April 4-8
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Revieew Lit Terms/Skills
DOG 30,31 Assign 32-34
Intro Willa Cather/Cather Bio Video
Song Activity
Assign:Cather's
"Wagner Matinee and "Sculptor's Funeral"
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April 11-15
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Discuss "Sculptor's Funeral"
Tie to Cather's main themes.
Watch "Paul's Case" -Viewing Guide/Discuss
Reflections on Cather/Writing/Due Next Week
DAKOTA STEP TESTING |
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April 18-21 (No School Friday Good Friday)
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Cather TEST
Intro Research Paper
Library |
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April 25-29 (No School Monday)
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Library Research
Note card Check/Outline
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Outline/Thesis statement for Research Paper |
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Updated through April 29 |
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| May 2-6 |
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Typed Outline Due
Intro Ernest
Hemingway
"End of Something" and "Indian Camp"
Discuss Old Man
and the Sea
Critique Research Papers in Class Thursday
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Rough Draft
for Research Paper Due |
April 12-16
T TH |
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Vocabulary Unit 11 assigned/Picture Due Friday
Finish Hemmingway/Fitzgerald Test
Intro:Faulkner. Assign: Read "Tall
Men" |
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Final Research Paper Due Wednesday
Vocab Pic Due Friday
Vocab Unit Due next week/Tuesday
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April 19-23
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Continue Faulkner
Barn Burning
"As I Lay Dying" - excerpt
American Dream Essay
Intro: Steinbeck
Read "Flight" (text)
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April 26-30
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Vocab Unit 12 Intro/Quiz on Friday
Discuss "Flight" - Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath/Of Mice and Men |
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| May 3-7 |
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Finish Steinbeck
Author Presentations Begin
Quarter Book Report Due May 4 |
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| May 10-14 |
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Semester Author Presentations |
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Semester Test/Last Day Wednesday |
