December 2017 - AmLit (dates subject to change, usually in your favor)
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Week 17 | 4 Harlem Renaissance poetry | 5 Harlem Renaissance poetry | 6 Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby” | 7 Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby” | 8 Snow Afternoon! |
Week 18 | 11 Snow Day | 12 Unit Test | 13 Amnesty Day | 14 Review for Final | 15 7th period final! |
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August 2017 - AmLit (dates subject to change, usually in your favor)
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Week 1 | 31 Introductions/parallels Week 1 assignments What is transcendentalism? | 1 Background on Transcendentalism -- Yoda and the Oversoul | 2 Yoda Journal Begin Quote Puzzles | 3 Book Pass to choose choice parallel Finish Quote puzzles | 4 Work on Quote Posters Vocab List due tonight! |
Week 2 | 7 15 minutes to finish Quote Posters Preface to The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail -- paradoxical Henry | 8 Review for summer reading test | 9 Book title submitted for choice parallel Review for summer reading test | 10 Summer reading test | 11 Juxtapositions of past and present -- the beginning of The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Vocab List due at 3:30! |
Week 3 | 14 Twenty minutes to read choice parallel Syllabus and plagiarism contract Review the beginning of The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail -- look for examples of direct and indirect characterization | 15 Continue The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, finish reading Act I for homework
| 16 Twenty minutes to read choice parallel
| 17 Continue The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Act II | 18 Twenty minutes to read choice parallel Begin planning personal credo essay Vocab List due at 3:30!
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Week 4 | 21 ECLIPSE! at 2:35 Twenty minutes to read choice parallel | 22 Continue TNTSJ | 23 Twenty minutes to read choice parallel Finish The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Act II
| 24 Quiz on Act I Connections to The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (Whitman, Dickinson, contemporary) | 25 Twenty minutes to read choice parallel -- three journal due Vocab List due at 3:30! |
Week 5 | 28 Twenty minutes to read choice parallel Act II of The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail | 29 Characterization Chart Due Act II of The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail | 30 Twenty minutes to read choice parallel Connections to The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (Whitman, Dickinson, contemporary)
| 31 Connections to The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (Whitman, Dickinson, contemporary) | Sep 1 Twenty minutes to read choice parallel Brainstorm personal credo essay Connections to The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (Whitman, Dickinson, contemporary) Vocab List due at 3:30! |
September 2017 - AmLit (see end of document for August -- dates subject to change, usually in your favor)
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Week 6 | 4 Labor Day! | 5 Twenty minutes to read choice parallel Transcendentalism Connections -- Nature and the Oversoul -- due on Wednesday | 6 Twenty minutes to read choice parallel Transcendentalism Connections -- Nonconformity and Individuality -- due at end of class on Thursday | 7 Brainstorm personal credo essay, begin drafting | 8 Choice parallel -- Happy Labor Day -- |
Week 7 personal narrative, start New Frontier novel | 11 No school | 12 No school | 13 Book in hand check for New Frontier Unit Review for Transcendentalism Unit Test Brainstorm for Personal Narrative Essay | 14 Unit test on Transcendentalism Read New Frontier parallel | 15 Twenty minutes to read New Frontier parallel Brainstorm/plan personal credo essay Vocab List due at 3:30! |
Week 8 New Frontier novel, “2BRO2B,” “10 with a Flag” | 18 Quiz 1 - New Frontier Novel Draft Personal Narrative Essay | 19 Draft Personal Narrative Essay Lab Day -
| 20 Rough draft due -- compare draft to model essays to evaluate development and depth; revise for content | 21 Revise for style, voice, and effectiveness of writing | 22 Personal Narrative Happy Fall Break -- America’s New Frontier -- Where are we headed?
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Fall Break! September 25-29 | |||||
October 2017 - AmLit (dates subject to change, usually in your favor)
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Week 9 New Frontier novel, “2BR02B” | 2 | 3
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| 5 Quiz 2 - New Frontier Novel | 6 Vocab List due at 3:30! |
Week 10 New Frontier novel, “2BR02B” | 9
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| 13 Quiz 3 - New Frontier Novel No vocab this week! |
Week 11 New Frontier novel, “The Birthmark” | 16
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Week 12 New Frontier novel, “The Birthmark,” “The Oval Portrait” | 23
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Week 13 | 30 In-class timed writing on New Frontier Novel | 31 Finish work on Poe’s “Sonnet to Science” and “Oval Portrait” | Nov 1 Facebook’s Frankenstein Moment Review for test | 2 New Frontier Unit Test | 3 Pen or Sword Journal Can Writing Change the World? Group Activity looking at Music, Movies, etc. |
November 2017 - AmLit (dates subject to change, usually in your favor)
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Week 14 | 6 The Danger of Silence TED Talk and Journal (see Pen and Sword GoogleSlides) Finish Can Writing Change the World? Group Activity looking at Music, Movies, etc. -- due on Wednesday | 7 Election Day! | 8 Turn in Can Writing Change the World? Group Activity Conduct SOAPSTone Analysis on one of the songs on your chart (or a new one) Ethos, Pathos, Logos | 9 Singer Solution TED Talk and Journal Start movie analysis
| 10 Singer Solution TED Talk - rhetorical analysis (claim, reason, evidence, ethos, pathos, logos) Select article to read and annotate by Tuesday for Expository Reading Cricles Continue movie analysis
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Week 15 | 13 Continue movie analysis
| 14 Rhetorical Analysis of choice expository article | 15 SAT-style Rhetorical Analysis -- practice and review of exemplar essays | 16 SAT-style Rhetorical Analysis in computer lab (timed writing for summative writing) | 17 Finish movie analysis
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Thanksgiving! November 20-24 | |||||
Week 16 | 27 Finish the Soloist and Soloist journal | 28 Native American Literature - “Ceremony” and “Ellis Island” | 29 Native American Literature - “Ceremony,” “Ellis Island,” and “Red Convertible” | 30 Native American Literature - “Red Convertible” | Dec 1 Native American Literature - “Red Convertible” |