August, September, October, November, December

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

August
11- Class info.  Poll, Wiki instructions, assign groups, begin taking notes, pass out texts and panel discussion info.

 

12 - Begin Voices of Courage unit, Scarlet Letter, What to look for sheet work on Wikis, library research, MLA format 13 - Wikis due at end of class (hopefully), sign up for turnitin  Class id is 2339749 class password is house9  14 -Finish Wikis by Monday 15 - McCarthyism, Red Scare, and Arthur Miller  Begin The Crucible, integrate Three Sovereigns for Sarah clips. Acts I and II, Wiki presentations (Romanticism, Puritanism, Dark Romanticism, and Contemporary)
18 -  Acts III 19 - Act IV and V, Moral development 20 - Discussion of chapters 1-14 (Letter),  21 - Finish Crucible (We might be moving everything forward a day.) ALL SUMMER READING TESTS COMPLETED 22 -Finish play, Gaggle Message Board due today
25 - 26- Crucible test,   27- Scarlet Letter, (Chat and message board on Gaggle)  discussion, essay prompts given  28-  All wiki presentations , "I Hear America Singing" and "I, Too" No school
September
1  Labor Day   2 - Whitman and Hughes, creative writing

3 -  "Aren't I a Woman?" AP quiz

check essays 

4 - Analyze speeches for propaganda and rhetoric using SOAPS and ethos, pathos, and logos

Palin      Obama

McCain     Titans

Lean on Me

Field of Dreams

We Were Soldiers

Other Speeches  

5 - Essays due, "Resistance to Civil Government"
8 - Patrick Henry's "Speech to the Virginia Convention" Rhetoric, Thomas Paine's "The Crisis"     9 - Interim Grades go home, "The Flight"   

 

10 - Connect the literature game.  Begin Memory and Time unit, "A Rose for Emily" Sequencing 11 -"The Jilting of Granny..." 12 - AP  Rewrites due Tuesday
15 - "Thanatopsis" 16 - "The Tide Rises and Falls," "Cross of Snow," "Because I Could not Stop for Death" 17- "Death of a Hired Man" AP poems (151-152) 18 - "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" 19 - AP poetry comparison and essay evaluation timed writing
22 - No school

 

23 - AP poetry comparison timed writing  

 "Dr. Heideggar's Experiment"  "Death of a Hired Man"  Literary analysis essay due on Tuesday (symbols, color, allegory, theme, internal documentation) Friday

24 - Work on evaluating essays.  Begin Challenges and Choices unit, Pass out Of Mice and Men, read chapter one 25 -Work on drafts, conferencing on essays 26 -

Discuss Mice and Men

 

 

29 -AP, You've heard their speeches now let's see what you really know...Blog Homework 30 - Conferencing on essays, finish Of Mice and Men discussion      
October
    1 - AP Hand in essay to me and turnitin.com

"Self Reliance"

 

2 - 1 and 7 midterms, Final discussion over Mice and Men, 

list of AP novels

 Recommended reads for the college bound

3 - 4 and 9 midterms Of Mice and Men will be on it. 
6 - "Of Mice and Men" timed writing (pity, sympathy), Correct essays, "Game" 7 - "To Build a Fire"

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.  

8 -AP comparison of contrasts  9 -AP comparison of contrasts  10 - Seminar Fridays start (Clay, Yaying)
13 - No school 14 -Raisin 15 -Raisin 16- Raisin 17 - View Raisin Grades mailed home (Daniella, Rachel)
20 - Library,  21- View Raisin, AP Free Response essay assigned using Raisin, click on the link to see the rubrics and sample essays. 22 -Raisin test 23  -"The Soul Selects her Own" A Worn Path" (Sarah, Amy, Emilio) 24 - Rough draft due
27 - Debate 28 - (Sarah, Amy) Final copy due 29- The Soul Selects her Own" A Worn Path" "The Story of an Hour" 30 -(Michael, Sally), show example of research, discussion of outlines, 

FINISH NOVELS FOR RESEARCH by Monday

31 - No school
November
3 -Library research

MLA, requirements, rubric

4-Election Day 5-Library Literary research 6 -Library research (Dylan, Molly) 7 -
10-Library research and lab 11-Library research and lab 12 - lab, use templates   13 Lab 14 - Interim Grades Home (Sierra, Tiffany)
17 - Finn, rough draft check list 18-Finn work 19-Finn, Point/Counter Point 20 -Rough Drafts due

Finn summaries

21 - Niki, Lexi)
24 -Correct rough draft (doubtful) "Lowest Animal" 25 -Finn Timed Writing,  Introduce Gatsby Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thanksgiving
December
1 -Gatsby 2-  3 -  4-Research Final Copies due 5 -(Martha-Grace, Dallon)
8 9 10 11 12 (Davis, Elizabeth)
15 - 1 and 7 Finals 16  - 4 and 9 Finals 17 18 19