The Scarlet Letter

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Thursday 9/6 Hello, get course description and handouts Friday 9/7 Read Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay Monday 9/10 Read Soldiers Home, by Ernest Hemingway Tuesday 9/11 Read The Great Gatsby up to page 28 Wednesday 9/12 Read The Great Gatsby, chapters 2 and 3 Thursday 9/13 Rosh Hashanah-No School Friday 9/14 1) Read The Great Gatsby, chapter four. 2) Journal #1 due Monday 9/17 Read The Great Gatsby, chapter 4 Tuesday 9/18 Read The Great Gatsby, chapters 5 Wednesday 9/19 Read The Great Gatsby, chapter 6 (pages 98-112) Thursday 9/20 1) Journal #2 due. Friday 9/21 Read The Great Gatsby, chapter 7 Monday 9/24 Read The Great Gatsby, chapters 8 Tuesday 9/25 1) Grammar 2) Start thinking about a Gatsby Essay Wednesday 9/26 Read The Great Gatsby, chapters 9 Thursday 9/27 1) Quotations, examples, first shot at thesis 2) read Ben Franklin handout and answer questions Friday 9/28 Outline and start of essay	Edna St. Vincent Millay Notes Gibson Girls and Flappers The 1920s Gatsby Journal Assignment The Lost Generation Hemingway and The Lost Generation Style Points for Formal Writing √+ Descriptive Writing Techniques Gatsby Notes ch. 4-5 Nightclub by Billy Collins A Few Gatsby Questions See Gatsby page for lots of info on the essay Gatsby and Ben Franklin Notes
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Monday 1 Gatsby draft due Tuesday 2 Gatsby essay due Wednesday 3 Read handouts on the Harlem Renaissance and "Harlem Dancer" by Claude McKay Thursday 4 Read and annotate the rest of the Mckay Poems Friday 5 Read and annotate poems by Helene Johnson and complete worksheet Monday 8 Columbus Day Tuesday 9 Read poem's by Hughes and Brown Wednesday 10 In-Class Essay. Use any three pieces of writing that you've read for this class to explore one of these themes: The American Dream, the lives of the young, the lives of women Thursday 11 Grammar Friday 12 Read Their Eyes Were Watching God, chapters 1 and 2 Monday 15 Read Their Eyes Were Watching God, chapters 3 and 4 Journal Prompt—Continue with your previous journal topic –or— why exactly does Janie run off with Joe? Tuesday 16 Read Their Eyes Were Watching God Ch. 5 Prepare notes to hand in: How does speech serve people in this chapter? Wednesday 17 Read Their Eyes Were Watching God Ch. 6 In-class ID passage/10 minutes Thursday 18 Read Their Eyes Were Watching God Ch. 7-9 Journal prompt—Is Janie fair to Joe in these chapters? Friday 19 Read Their Eyes Were Watching God Ch. 10-12 Monday 22 Read Their Eyes Were Watching God Ch. 13-14 Tuesday 23 Read Their Eyes Were Watching God Ch. 15-17 Wednesday 24 Polish a journal entry Thursday 25 Finish the novel (chapters 18, 19 and 20) and write a thesis for your Hurston essay Friday 26 Work on essay Monday 29 Essay Due Tuesday 30 Read ten paragraphs of Emerson's Self-Reliance Wednesday 31 1) Read ten paragraphs of Emerson's Self-Reliance 2) Do worksheet	The women in Gatsby Notes on the Harlem Renaissance Notes on chapter 6, Their Eyes Were Watching God Transcendentalist Page Emerson: Notes on Socrates and the Allegory of the Cave, the enitre dialogue
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Thursday 1 1) Read ten paragraphs of Emerson's Self-Reliance 2) Do drawing Friday 2 1) Finish Self-Reliance Monday 5 1) Emerson HW (To Be Announced) 2) Subject-Verb Agreement Quiz Tuesday 6 Emerson Test Wednesday 7 Read Thanatopsis and complete worksheet Thursday 8 Read three poems, Donne, Thomas, Oliver Friday 9 Read Economy up to page 26 Monday 12 Veteran’s Day Tuesday 13 Read Walden Baker Farm and Where I Lived, and What I Lived For Wednesday 14 Read Walden, Brute Neighbors and Conclusion Thursday 15 Grammar Friday16 Journal Assignment Due Monday 19 Journal Assignment Due Tuesday 20 Read Douglass, chapters 1-5 Wednesday 21 Half Day 22-23 Thanksgiving Monday 26 Read Douglass chapters 6-9 2) complete paragraph Tuesday 27 Read Douglass chapters 10-11 Wednesday 28 1) Read Douglass chapters 10-11 2) Work on "Mr. Covey" exercise Thursday 29 have thesis for short essay on Douglass and either Emerson or Thoreau Friday 30 Compare/contrast paragraphs due	Illustration Assignment Emerson on Microcosm What is Romanticism? Douglass and Trascendentalism
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Monday 3 Finish Douglas/Thoreau/Emerson Essay Tuesday 4 Read The Scarlet Letter, chapters 1-3 Journal Prompt: Analyze one of the symbols in chapter 1 -or- choose a quotation from the novel that reveals who the Puritans are, and explain your thinking. (to be collected) Wednesday 5 Read The Scarlet Letter chapters 4-5, and write journal entry Journal Prompt: Why doesn’t Hester leave the colony? -or- Do you approve of Roger Chillingworth and Hester’s actions? Make sure to use a quotation in your entry. (to be collected) Thursday 6 Professional Day-No School for Students (Read ahead if you can!!!) Friday 7 1) Read The Scarlet Letter chapters 6-8 2) Complete Worksheet Monday 10 1) Read The Scarlet Letter chapters 9-11 2) Read Anne Bradstreet's poem Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House Tuesday 11 Read The Scarlet Letter chapters 12-15 Wednesday 12 Do grammar exercises. Review for vocabulary for quiz. Read "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards. Thursday 13 Read The Scarlet Letter chapters 16-19 Friday 14 Symbol Assignment: analyze how Hawthorne is using a particular symbol in The Scarlet Letter. -or- Write about the nature of evil in the novel Monday 17 Read The Scarlet Letter chapters 20-21 Tuesday 18 Read The Scarlet Letter chapters 22-24 (finish!) Wednesday 19 Have quotations, thesis and outline for paper Thursday 20 Work on paper Friday 21 Paper Due	Scarlet Letter/Puritans Page, where you'll find notes on Hawthorne and Puritans, and readings by Jonathan Edwards, Anne Bradstreet and John Winthrop Notes on Winthrop Symbol Reflection Handout What is Evil Worksheet Notes on Pearl The Role of Nature The Fates of the Characters: Examining the novel The Paper Topics Notes on Moral Development: Kohlberg and Gilligan
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Wednesday 2 Welcome back Thursday 3 Read Walt Whitman poetry and complete worksheet/notes Friday 4 Read more Walt Whitman poetry, complete packet Monday 7 Write a Whitmanesque poem. Capture the enthusiasm and form of his poetry. Tuesday 8 Read two poems by Langston Hughes; study for grammar quiz Wednesday 9 Read Poems by Whitman and Dickinson, and answer questions for two of the poems (one from each poet) Thursday 10 Read Poems by Emily Dickinson, 465 and 712 Friday 11 Do Emily's World Exercise Monday 14 Read poem by Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time, and write 3 discussion questions. (Frost Poems) Worksheet on Two Tramps Tuesday 15 Read poems by Robert Frost--finish the packet. Wednesday 16 Read poems by e. e. cummings, and complete modern poetry worksheet Thursday 17 Read a mishmash of modern poems, (perhaps Pound and Stevens) Friday 18 Professional Day Monday 21 Martin Luther King Day Tuesday 22 Have thesis and outline for poetry paper, and read short story Wednesday 23 Work on paper, and discuss short story Thursday 24 Have draft of paper Friday 25 Final paper due Monday 28 Review for Final -Essay Questions-Final Prep -Guiding Questions for the Final -Sample Excerpts Tuesday 29 Finals Begin Wednesday 30 Thursday 31	My Whitman Notes Whitman Notes, Day One Whitman and Dickinson Themes/Notes Dickinson Overview (no live links but lots of concise info) Dickinson: Views on Poetry Frost Poems Notes on Two Tramps: unpacking Frost's metaphor Modern Poetry Paper Extra Credit Assignment
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American Literature Survey, E Block: Assignments, Handouts and Class Notes