The Scarlet Letter

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Thursday 9/4 Hello, get course description and handouts Friday 9/5 Read Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay Monday 9/8 Read Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, complete worksheet Tuesday 9/9 Write a sonnet Thursday 9/11 Read Soldiers Home and Cat in the Rain, by Ernest Hemingway Friday 9/12 Read The Great Gatsby up to page 28 Monday 9/15 1) Read The Great Gatsby, chapters 2 and 3 2) Journal #1 due Tuesday 9/16 Read The Great Gatsby, chapter 4 Thursday 9/18 Journal #1 Due Friday 9/19 Read The Great Gatsby, chapters 5 Monday 9/22 Read The Great Gatsby, chapter 6 Tuesday 9/23 Write response to passage, start Ch. 7 Thursday 9/25 Gatsby, finish chapter 7 Friday 9/26 Gatsby, chapter 8 Monday 9/29 Gatsby Chapter 9 Tuesday 9/30 No School	Millay Notes Edna St. Vincent Millay Notes (old) Gibson Girls and Flappers The 1920s Gatsby Journal Assignment The Lost Generation Hemingway and The Lost Generation Hemingway Notes Gatsby Notes 1 Gatsby Ch. 3-5 Gatsby ch. 6 Gatsby 7 Franklin Notes Women in Gatsby Editing Pet Peeves Style Points for Formal Writing √+ Descriptive Writing Techniques Nightclub by Billy Collins
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Thursday 1 1) Quotations, examples, first shot at thesis Friday 3 4 to 5 paragraphs of Gatsby draft due Monday 6 Gatsby Essay Due Tuesday 7 Open note quiz on mini reasearch. Read handouts and "Harlem Dancer" Friday 10 Read "America" and "White Houses." Write on the title of one of the poems Monday 13 No School Tuesday 14 Read poems by Helene Johnson and complete worksheet Thursday 16 Read Johnson Sonnets and write 2 paragraphs Friday 17 Read poetry by Hughes and Brown Monday 20 Notes/Thesis/Outline Due Tuesday 21 Have draft of essay Thursday 23 Paper Due Friday 24 Read Douglass, chapters 1-5 Monday 27 Read Douglass chapters 6-9 and Write Paragraph Tuesday 28 Read Douglass chapters 10-11 Thursday 30 Work on "Mr. Covey" exercise Friday 31 Quiz on Frederick Douglass	Notes on the Harlem Renaissance McKay Harlem Dancer More McKay Notes Helene Johnson Notes More Johnson Notes The Poetry of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes Notes The Poetry of Sterling Brown Sterling Brown Notes Frederick Douglass Notes Day One Douglass Notes: Drawing Inferences Notes on Socrates and the Allegory of the Cave, the enitre dialogue Douglass and Covey Barack Obama's Speech on Race Douglass and Trascendentalism
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Monday 3 Grammar: Subject-verb agreement Tuesday 4 Grammar: pronoun usage Thursday 6 Watch Election Results Friday 7 Read Their Eyes Were Watching God, chapters 3 and 4 Paragraph Prompt: Why exactly does Janie run off with Joe? Monday 10 Read Their Eyes Were Watching God Ch. 5 Prepare detailed notes: How does speech serve people in this chapter? Thursday 13 Read Their Eyes Were Watching God Ch. 6 Friday 14 Read Their Eyes Were Watching God Ch. 7-9 Paragraph Prompt—Is Janie fair to Joe in these chapters? Monday 17 Read Their Eyes Were Watching God Ch. 10-12 Tuesday 18 Read Their Eyes Were Watching God Ch. 13-14 Thursday 20 Read Their Eyes Were Watching God Ch. 15-17 Friday 21 Finish the novel (chapters 18, 19 and 20) Monday 24 Write a thesis for your Hurston essay Tuesday 25 Work on essay Wednesday 26 Essay Due	Illustration Assignment Their Eyes Were Watching God Notes 1-4 Eyes Notes ch. 5 and 6 Eyes 7-9 Notes Ferris State University's Jim Crow Museum Images Depicting and Responding to African American Stereotypes Eyes Notes Tea Cake Eyes Notes On the Muck Janie and Mrs. Turner Eyes Notes: Hurston and the Classics/Novel Wrap Hurston Paper Topic Images Depicting and Responding to African American Stereotypes Links to Hurston Criticism Old Paper Topics
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Monday 1 Welcome Back ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ END OF 2008 ASSIGNMENTS (FOR NOW) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tuesday 30 Read ten paragraphs of Emerson's Self-Reliance Wednesday 31 1) Read ten paragraphs of Emerson's Self-Reliance 2) Do worksheet 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 Thursday 29 have thesis for short essay on Douglass and either Emerson or Thoreau Friday 30 Compare/contrast paragraphs due 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	Transcendentalist Page Emerson on Microcosm What is Romanticism? 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, H Block: Assignments, Handouts and Class Notes