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What Did We Do When I was Absent?  Spring Semester

School is out for summer.  Read books, get exercise, and eat healthy. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

02/01: CE, Grading Categories, Reading HW
 

02/02: WU, CE-HW due, Transfer Assignments,  Vocabulary, Amontillado -- FIVIPAQ
 

02/03: WU, Vocab, Amontillado: close reading of 1st sentence: Conflict, character, setting, precipitating incident, key ideas, character development, Revenge Criteria: 3 parts
 

02/04: WU, Amontillado: Setting, Weakness, Carnival around the world,

 

02/05: WU | Amontillado: Alibi, Arms, Masons
 

02/09: WU | Finish Amontillado, Discuss falling action details
 

02/10: WU--2nd read of Amontillado, Finish Falling Action disc., Review PS
 

02/11: WU, brief notes on "Tell Tale Heart" | full read as media grade (Short period due to assembly)
 

02/12: WU, Cornell notes: "American Masters"
 

02/16: WU, Finish notes
 

02/17: WU and/or finish notes, Poe concepts review, TTH reprise, partial reading
 

02/18: WU, Finish TTH, Terror of the Soul
 

02/19: WU, Dickinson, Terror of  the Soul continued, questions 1-4
 

02/22: PLC, Collected Notes, Terror of the Soul, "The Raven" (maybe tormorrow)
 

02/23: WU, Finish Film as needed, quick read of  "The Raven" (period 5 still needs to read)
 

02/24-26: WU, "The Raven", (meter, alliteration, assonance, rhyme scheme, content), some classes took notes on Dickinson and got the handout
 

03/01: English Electives, Dickinson -- background and begin 752
 

03/02: Registration, Dickinson 1 continued--752
   
 

03/03: Registration, Dickinson 2--1732
   
 

03/04: Registration, Dickinson 3--  512
   
 

03/05: WU-Dickinson, Complete 512 and/or 249,

   
 

03/08: WU, EAP Letter, Dickinson
   
 

03/09: EAP Essay Test
   
 

03/10-11: WU: review Emerson notes or take notes.  Read "Nature" and "Self-Reliance," Emerson Quotations,  WU: Review Thoreau Notes, Start Walden, Thoreau Quotations
   
 

03/12: Sub-day: WU, Rise of Realism Notes
   
 

03/15: Finish Chapter 4, Begin Whitman
   
 

03/17: HF introduction, Chapter 1 (see: audio placeholder)
   
 

03/18: HF - Chapters 2 & 3, Whitman Poems
   
 

03/19: HF - Chapters 4 & 5, Whitman Poems
   
 

03/22: HF - Chapter 6, Whitman Poems - complete Astronomer
   
 

03/23: HF - Chapter 7, Whitman Poems - start Beat
   
 

03/24: HF Quiz, Whitman Poems - finish Beat
   
 

03/25: HF - Chapters 8, Whitman Poems
   
 

03/26: HF - Chapters 9-10, Whitman Poems: Section 1 of "Wound Dresser"
   
 

03/29: HF - Chapter 11, Whitman Poems: Section 2-3 of "Wound Dresser"
   
 

03/30: HF - Chapter 12, Whitman Poems: Section 3 of "Wound Dresser", Lifeline films
   
 

03/31: HF - Chapters 13, Finished WD as necessary, Lifeline Slideshows -- started in some classes
   
 

04/01: HF - Chapters 14-15, Class discussion
   
 

04/02: HF: Chapter 16,  Complete Lifeline Slideshows as needed, Crossword Puzzle
   
 

04/03-11: Spring Break
   
 

04/12: HF: Chapter 17,

   
 

04/13: HF Chapter 18,  Assembly
   
 

04/14: HF: Chapter 19, Quiz: chapters 8-16, Continue w/ Crossword
   
 

04/16: HF: Chapter 20
   
 

04/17: HF: Chapter 21-22 (except 2nd period)
   
 

04/19: Admissions presentations in the library
   
 

04/20:  HF: Chapter 23, "Song of Myself" (see chart below)
   
 

04/21: HF, part of Chapter 24, Chapter 31, 

   
 

04/22: Discuss Testing Schedule, HF Chapter 32, "Song of Myself" (see chart below)
   
 

04/22: Incentive Pilot, Testing Announcements, HF Chapter 33--34 (Some periods may have not finished C34 . . . )
   
 

04/26: Testing, Chapter 35, Twain Biography
   
 

04/27: Testing, see Audio Bookmark for reading by individual classes, Twain Bio.
   
 

04/28: Testing, see Audio Bookmark for reading by individual classes, Twain Bio.
   
 

04/29: Testing, see Audio Bookmark for reading by individual classes, Twain Bio.
   
 

05/03: Testing, see Audio Bookmark for reading by individual classes, Twain Bio.
   
 

05/04: Testing, see Audio Bookmark for reading by individual classes, Twain Bio.
   
 

05/05: Varies by class: Finished Huck Finn, Twain Bio., Reading and Notes on the Moderns, Song of Myself
   
 

05/06: The Moderns,  Twain Bio.,

   
 

05/07: The Moderns,  Twain Bio.,

   
 

05/10: The Moderns,  The Catcher in the Rye Introduction
   
 

05/11: Moderns, The Catcher in the Rye (Chapters 1-4 due tomorrow)
   
 

05/12: Rye Quiz 1, Discuss chapters 1-4, read 5 & 6 tonight
   
 

05/13: Rye Reading, Discussion, read 7 & 8 tonight
   
 

05/13: Rye Reading, Discussion,

   
 

05/17: PLC, Finish Twain Bio, Read 10 tonight, QUIZ Tomorrow
   
 

05/18: Quiz, Rye Discussion, Reading
   
 

05/19: Rye Reading and Discussion
   
 

05/20: Rye Reading (Chapters 15-16), Hughes Intro
   
 

05/21: Rye Reading (Chapters 17-18), Hughes Poetry
   
 

05/24: Rye Discussion (keep reading) chapter 15
   
 

05/25: Rye Discussion Chapters 16-17,  (finish the book and start over), Act 1 of The Raisin in the Sun
   
 

05/26: Rye warm up, Raisin continued, finish Act 1, Scene 1
   
 

05/27: Rye Quiz tomorrow, finish through Chapter 21, Raisin continued
   
 

05/28: Rye Quiz , Discussed 19-20, Raisin continued
   
 

06/01: Rye Reading, Discussion grade tomorrow, Began or continued viewing Act II
   
 

06/02: Rye Discussion, Rye Reading
   

06/03: Rye Discussion, Rye Reading, Raisin cont.
   
 

06/04: Rye Discussion, Rye Reading, Raisin cont.
   
 

06/07: Rye Reading: be prepared for tomorrow's discussion: Chapters 25-26,  Final Preview, Raisin cont.
   
 

06/08: WU Reading, Rye Discussion, Final Review, Raisin cont.
   
 

06/09: Final Review, Raisin continued
   
 

06/10: Final Review, Raisin continued
   
 

06/11:  Final Review, Raisin continued as necessary
   
 

06/14:  Final Review, Raisin continued as necessary
   
 

06/15:  Finals: Periods 1 & 2
   
 

06/16:  Finals: Periods 3 & 4
   
 

06/17:  Finals: Periods 5 & 6
   
 

06/18: Student Free Day
   
 

06/19: Summer Vacation

Poetry by Period

Emily Dickinson-1 Emily Dickinson-2

1

752, 1732, 512, 249, 415, 362, 67, 435

2

752, 1732, 512, 249, 362, 241, 415

4

752, 1732, 512, 249, 362, 241, 280, 398

5

752, 1732, 512, 249, 362, 241, 415

6

752, 1732, , 512, 249, 362,

 

  
Walt Whitman-1 "Song of Myself"
1

Learn'd Astronomer, Am. Sin, Beat!, Wound Dresser, O Captain, T

1, 2, 5, 6--most of it, What has become of the dead
2

Learn'd Astronomer, Am. Sin, Beat!, Wound Dresser,

1, 2, 5, start 6
4

Learn'd Astronomer, Am. Sin, Beat!, Wound Dresser,

1, 2, 5, 7, 8,  Start 10
5

Learn'd Astronomer, Am. Sin, Beat!, Wound Dresser

1, 2, 5,

6

Learn'd Astronomer, Am. Sin, Beat!, Wound Dresser,

1, 2, 5, 6, 7

Langston Hughes
1

Read all of the poems
2
4
5
6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Introductory Notes: Romanticism, 133-160, Cornell notes

  2. PowerPoint: Washington Irving

  3. "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving

  4. "The Devil and Tom Walker" quiz

  5. Hawthorne background PPT notes

  6. "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," on-going review of FIVIPAQ and Plot Structure, Rule of Repetition

  7. Moby Dick Video

  8. "The Cask of Amontillado"  (Close reading)

  9. "The Tell-Tale Heart" (key concepts)

  10. "The Raven" (poetry) Close reading

  11. Edgar Allen Poe: Terror of the Soul

  12. Whitman Poems: See table below

  13. Ron Kovic Essay: "The Forgotten Wounded of Iraq" (sixth hasn't done this!!!)

  14. Lifeline Slideshows

  15. Dickinson Poems: see below

    16.

  16. The Catcher in the Rye: Chapters 1-26.   Finish the book.  Final Discussion Grade is Friday!  Be Prepared!!

  17. Notes: Periods of American Lit

  18. A Raisin in the Sun: Act 2, Scene 3