January, February, March, April, May

This calendar is constantly evolving according to the needs of the students.

January
5 6-Class info.  Poll, Wiki instructions, assign author groups, begin persuasive writing notes, group persuasive examples, pass out texts   7 -Begin Voices of Courage unit, Scarlet Letter, What to look for sheet, Writing prompts and transitions  8- Alligator story, evaluation of persuasive essays, differences between state, class, and AP rubrics, Timed writing - 35 minutes, five paragraph 9-Sign up for turnitin  Class id is 2339749 class password is house9, McCarthyism, Red Scare, and Arthur Miller  Work on Author info. 
12- Begin The Crucible, integrate Three Sovereigns for Sarah clips.  Acts I and II 13 - Essential AP vocab. list, assign words, Miller and Hawthorne presentations, 14 - Act III 15 -Act IV and V,  16 - Discussion of chapters 1-14 (Letter)
19 -  No school, read The Scarlet Letter 20 - No school 21 - Moral development 22 - ALL SUMMER READING TESTS COMPLETED, Finish Act III 23 -Finish play
26 -Finish Scarlet Letter, (Chat and message board on Gaggle)  discussion, essay prompts given  27-  Timed writing over moral development in The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter 28- Crucible test and work on drafts 29-Work on drafts, poetry comparisons 30 AP timed writing collaboration with Honduras 
February
2 -Speed writing work, evaluate timed writings.   SNOW DAY 3 - Essays due to me tomorrow and to turnitin.com by midnight, State writing test, finish evaluating essays 

 

turnitin.com class id 2339749  password house9 

If we have another snow day, the essay will be due Thursday no matter what.

 4.  Snow day

 

 5 - Patrick Henry's "Speech to the Virginia Convention" Rhetoric, Thomas Paine's "The Crisis"  6 - Whitman and Hughes presentations, "I Hear America Singing" and "I, Too"  Finsih evaluating essay, hand in SCARLET LETTER essay, turnitin.com class id 2339749  password house 9   Thoreau and Emerson presentations, "Resistance to Civil Government",  "Self Reliance", You've heard their speeches now let's see what you really know...Blog Homework
9 - Thoreau and Emerson presentations, "Resistance to Civil Government",  "Self Reliance", You've heard their speeches now let's see what you really know...Blog Homework

 "Aren't I a Woman?" AP quiz, correct essays, HOMEWORK :Analyze speeches for propaganda and rhetoric using SOAPS and ethos, pathos, and logos

JFK

Obama

 10 - Steinbeck presentation, "The Flight"   Vocab quiz page 1, Patrick Henry's "Speech to the Virginia Convention" Rhetoric, Thomas Paine's "The Crisis" 

 

 11 -  Begin Memory and Time unit, Faulkner presentation, "A Rose for Emily" Sequencing, view "Rose for Emily" 12 - 13 - No school
16 - No school  17 - Finish "A Rose for Emily" AP questions 18- Frost Presentation, "Death of a Hired Man" AP poems (151-152)"Thanatopsis" 19 - Hemingway presentation. "Soldier's Home", Pass out novel list for research 20 - Discuss Mice and Men 1-36, AP vocab. quiz II, Library, 

list of AP novels

 Recommended reads for the college bound
23 -  Hansberry presentation, Literary analysis essay  (symbols, color, allegory, theme, tone internal documentation)  Mini group research paper due Friday - Surprise!

 

24 - London presentation, Discuss Mice and Men, work on mini research

  

 25 - Work on drafts 26 -Work on drafts, conferencing on essays 27 - 

 

 

 
March
2-Finish research, rubric for intro and conclusion,  rubric for your section   3 -Lit. Analysis research paper  essays due to me and turnitin.com, AP vocab quiz III   "The Story of an Hour" Look for this on the midterm! 4 - "The Tide Rises and Falls," "Cross of Snow," "Because I Could not Stop for Death", "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" Look for these on the midterm!

 

 2 - 1 and 7 midterms,  3 - 4 and 9 midterms 
9 - Twain presentations, focus on Twain's work (AP) 10-HOMEWORK - preliminary research on novel - You are doing a literary analysis and connecting the author's life, literary movement, and historical events to the novel.  "The Lowest Animal"  write a parody   11 - Timed writing, Computer lab AP Begin parody of Twain 12 -AP poetry focus, AP vocab quiz III, computer lab for parodies  13 - FINISH NOVELS FOR RESEARCH by Monday, AP poetry focus, group presentations 
16 - Research, Library Literary research, templates , MLA, requirements, rubric  Gatsby assignment due 4/6 17 -Research, Library , Literary research, templates , MLA, requirements, rubric  18 -Research, Library Literary research, templates , MLA, requirements, rubric  19- Work on rough drafts 20 - Spring Break!
23- 27 - SPRING BREAK         
30 - Read GATSBY, Roaring Twenties. Outlines are due, work on rough drafts 31- Work on rough draft      
April
 

 

   1-Computer lab 2 -Computer lab  3 -Rough draft of research due to me and turnitin.com

class id 2339749  password house 9 
6 -Read Gatsby 7 -  Practice AP test 8 - Practice AP test 9  - CAREER DAY, TALENT SHOW, BLUE RIBBON CELEBRATION 10 - GOOD FRIDAY
13 - Gatsby  discussion, Great Books video, Rough drafts returned for corrections, Timed writings returned 14-Gatsby Timed Writing,   15-Raisin in the Sun . 16 - -Raisin in the Sun

 

 17 - Raisin in the Sun
20 -  Free Response essay assigned using Raisin timed writing  21 - Library/Lab 22 - 23 - Raisin in the Sun test. 24
27 -  28- FINAL COPY DUE to me and turnitin.com 29 30  
May
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