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Date Class Work Homework Due Today

Week 9 (28)

Mon

03/26

Minimum Day

Period 1. Huck Finn Character Study Presentation (see Rubric)

Vocabulary 5b Deno/Conno - Period 3 and 5

  • Review your answers in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Homework Packet.  Word or PDF as we move through the work.  Adjust accordingly.

  • Bring a copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to class from hereon. Bring to class.

    •

Character Study Presentation Period 1 Only

Tues

03/27

Period 1. Huck Finn Character Study

  • Review your answers in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Homework Packet.  Word or PDF as we move through the work.  Adjust accordingly.

  • Bring a copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to class from hereon. Bring to class.

  

Wed

03/28

Ms. Gerber out

Period 1. Complete Vocab 5b List on your own

Period 3 and 5: Finishing touches on poster

  • Review your answers in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Homework Packet.  Word or PDF as we move through the work.  Adjust accordingly.

  • Bring a copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to class from hereon. Bring to class.

    •

Character Study Presentation Period 3 and 5 Only

Thurs

03/29

Period 1: River/Shore review

Period 3 and 5: Character Presentation

  • Study for Vocabulary 5b (see Quizlet)

  

Fri

03/30

Vocabulary 5b Quiz

Period 1: River/Shore review

Period 3 and 5: Character Presentation

  • Monday we begin standardized testing days.  Get some good rest and be ready to push those scores off the charts. 

  • Semester 2 Vocabulary Midterm will on 4/13.  See Quizlet

  

Spring Recess

April 2 - April 6

Week 10 (29)

Mon

04/09

Standardized Testing for Period 1 (2 hours).  Review in-class essays for Top Priorities of the Essay

 

  • Tomorrow Period 1 will continue with Standardized Testing .  Get some good rest and be ready to push those scores off the charts. 

  • Review your answers in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Homework Packet.  Word or PDF as we move through the work.  Adjust accordingly.

  • Semester 2 Vocabulary Midterm is on Monday, April 16.   See Quizlet

 

Tues

04/10

Standardized Testing for Period 1 (2 hours)

Periods 3 and 5: A novel of race and space.  Space: Language. The role of dialect, colloquialism and vernacular.  A

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Homework Packet due MONDAY (change)

  • Semester 2 Vocabulary Midterm is on Monday, April 16.   See Quizlet.  CHANGE:  We will do the midterm on Friday 4/13 and the Unit Test on Monday.

  • Periods 3 and 5.  Please rewrite your thesis claim and two topic sentences on your Transcendentalism essay.  Make sure everything aligns.  Attach the new work to the essay and place in Homework box.

 

Weds

04/11

A novel of race and space.  Space: Setting. Charting Huck's course: River/Shore

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Homework Packet due MONDAY (change)

  • Semester 2 Vocabulary Midterm is on Monday, April 16.   See Quizlet.  CHANGE:  We will do the midterm on Friday 4/13 and the Unit Test on Monday.

Per. 3 and 5.  Rewritten thesis and two topic sentences.

Thurs

04/12

 Turning Points in Huck's Evolution -last page. Trace the development of Huck's sound heart and deformed conscience.

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Homework Packet due MONDAY (change)

  • SSemester 2 Vocabulary Midterm is on Monday, April 16.   See Quizlet.  CHANGE:  We will do the midterm on Friday 4/13 and the Unit Test on Monday.

Per. 1.  Rewritten thesis and two topic sentences.

Per. 3 and 5. River/Shore Questions

Fri

04/13

Semester 2 Vocab Midterm

Discuss the novel's controversial ending?  Why does Mark Twain end the work this way?

How is Huck's story ultimately America's story?

 

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Homework Packet MONDAY (change)

  • Semester 2 Vocabulary Midterm is on Monday, April 16.   See Quizlet

 

Week 11 (30)

Mon

04/16

Minimum Day

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Unit Test

  • Please buy (for 5 Gangstuh points) or borrow (for break even points) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald for book check Friday 04/27.

  • Please print or download into Notability:

    • American Classic Homework Packet

    • American Classic Reading Packet

  • Answer questions in the Homework packet (Word/PDF) as we move through the work.  Remember to use the packet as practice for completing the essays (answer prompt, precise diction and syntax, fill in the space provided, tense, no taboos, gerunds, passive voice)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Homework Packet

Tues

04/17

Vocabulary 6b Deno/Conno

Introduce Realism

Set Historical Backdrop

 

What factors would motivate a rejection of the fantastic, the optimistic, the academic?

Compare excerpt from The Jungle with "Annabel Lee."

  • Please buy (for 5 Gangstuh points) or borrow (for break even points) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald for book check Friday 04/27.

  • Please print or download into Notability:

    • American Classic Homework Packet

    • American Classic Reading Packet

  • Answer questions in the Homework packet (Word/PDF) as we move through the work.  Remember to use the packet as practice for completing the essays (answer prompt, precise diction and syntax, fill in the space provided, tense, no taboos, gerunds, passive voice)

 

Weds

04/18

The linchpin between two movements: Walt Whitman

Review Voice - the way in which an author establishes a unique identity.  Voice consist of:

1. Style - syntax, form, meter

2. Diction - word choice, dialect, vernacular, colloquialisms.

3. Tone - the author's attitude toward the work

4. Point of View - the perspective from which a story is told.  Consider bias.

-First person

-Second person

-Third person objective

-Third person limited

-Third person omniscient

 

- ""I Hear America Singing" (packet  5).

- “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer…” (text 312)

-   “Sparkles from the Wheel” (text 312)

- Excerpts "Song of Myself” (packet)

Annotate the works for rhetorical elements

  • Please buy (for 5 Gangstuh points) or borrow (for break even points) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald for book check Friday 04/27.

  • Please print or download into Notability:

    • American Classic Homework Packet

    • American Classic Reading Packet

  • Answer questions in the Homework packet (Word/PDF) as we move through the work.  Remember to use the packet as practice for completing the essays (answer prompt, precise diction and syntax, fill in the space provided, tense, no taboos, gerunds, passive voice)

 

 

Thurs

04/19

Emily Dickenson

 

What is Regionalism

Regionalism/The Tall Tale

 

Read from Life on the Mississippi pg 324

 

-How does Twain's reflection on the Romantic ambitions of childhood contrast with the realities of adulthood, as revealed through experiences of disappointment and failure?

-How does Twain use comedy in his chapter? What role does comedy seem to play?

  • Please buy (for 5 Gangstuh points) or borrow (for break even points) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald for book check Friday 04/27.

  • Please print or download into Notability:

    • American Classic Homework Packet

    • American Classic Reading Packet

  • Answer questions in the Homework packet (Word/PDF) as we move through the work.  Remember to use the packet as practice for completing the essays (answer prompt, precise diction and syntax, fill in the space provided, tense, no taboos, gerunds, passive voice)

 

 

Fri

04/20

 

Naturalism

 

Author Background: Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge/Background: Ambrose Bierce (txt pg. 344)

Read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce

  • Please buy (for 5 Gangstuh points) or borrow (for break even points) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald for book check Friday 04/27.

  • Please print or download into Notability:

    • American Classic Homework Packet

    • American Classic Reading Packet

  • Answer questions in the Homework packet (Word/PDF) as we move through the work.  Remember to use the packet as practice for completing the essays (answer prompt, precise diction and syntax, fill in the space provided, tense, no taboos, gerunds, passive voice)

 

Week 12 (31)

Mon

4/23

The linchpin between two movements: Walt Whitman

Vocabulary 6b Quiz

  • Please buy (for 5 Gangstuh points) or borrow (for break even points) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald for book check Friday 04/27.

  • Please print or download into Notability:

    • American Classic Homework Packet

    • American Classic Reading Packet

  • Answer questions in the Homework packet (Word/PDF) as we move through the work.  Remember to use the packet as practice for completing the essays (answer prompt, precise diction and syntax, fill in the space provided, tense, no taboos, gerunds, passive voice)

  • Mason's Contest Information - Deadline May 19.

 

Tues

4/24

 

Review Voice - the way in which an author establishes a unique identity.  Voice consist of:

1. Style - syntax, form, meter

2. Diction - word choice, dialect, vernacular, colloquialisms.

3. Tone - the author's attitude toward the work

4. Point of View - the perspective from which a story is told.  Consider bias.

-First person

-Second person

-Third person objective

-Third person limited

-Third person omniscient

 

- ""I Hear America Singing" (packet  5).

- “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer…” (text 312)

-   “Sparkles from the Wheel” (text 312)

  • Please buy (for 5 Gangstuh points) or borrow (for break even points) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald for book check Friday 04/27.

  • Please print or download into Notability:

    • American Classic Homework Packet

    • American Classic Reading Packet

  • Answer questions in the Homework packet (Word/PDF) as we move through the work.  Remember to use the packet as practice for completing the essays (answer prompt, precise diction and syntax, fill in the space provided, tense, no taboos, gerunds, passive voice)

  • Mason's Contest Information - Deadline May 19.

 

 

Weds

4/25

Emily Dickenson

  • Please buy (for 5 Gangstuh points) or borrow (for break even points) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald for book check Friday 04/27.

  • Please print or download into Notability:

    • American Classic Homework Packet

    • American Classic Reading Packet

  • Answer questions in the Homework packet (Word/PDF) as we move through the work.  Remember to use the packet as practice for completing the essays (answer prompt, precise diction and syntax, fill in the space provided, tense, no taboos, gerunds, passive voice)

  • Mason's Contest Information - Deadline May 19.

 

Thurs

4/26

- Excerpts "Song of Myself” (packet)

Annotate the works for rhetorical elements

 

  • Answer questions in the Homework packet (Word/PDF) as we move through the work.  Remember to use the packet as practice for completing the essays (answer prompt, precise diction and syntax, fill in the space provided, tense, no taboos, gerunds, passive voice)

  • Mason's Contest Information - Deadline May 19.

 

Fri

4/27

Gatsby book check

 

What is Regionalism

Regionalism/The Tall Tale

 

Read from Life on the Mississippi pg 324

 

-How does Twain's reflection on the Romantic ambitions of childhood contrast with the realities of adulthood, as revealed through experiences of disappointment and failure?

-How does Twain use comedy in his chapter? What role does comedy seem to play?

  • Please buy (for 5 Gangstuh points) or borrow (for break even points) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald for book check Friday 04/27.

  • Answer questions in the Homework packet (Word/PDF) as we move through the work.  Remember to use the packet as practice for completing the essays (answer prompt, precise diction and syntax, fill in the space provided, tense, no taboos, gerunds, passive voice).

  • Read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald by 5/08.

  • Reader's Response: Read "A New England Nun" by Mary Wilkins Freeman (pg. 336 in textbook).  What makes this a regionalist work?

 

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald book check.

Week 13 (32)

Mon

04/30

Minimum Day

Vocabulary 7b Deno/Conno

Discuss Naturalism - subgenre of realism

Read "An Episode of War" by Stephen Crane

 

 

Mason's Contest Information

  • Answer questions in the Homework packet (Word/PDF) as we move through the work.  Remember to use the packet as practice for completing the essays (answer prompt, precise diction and syntax, fill in the space provided, tense, no taboos, gerunds, passive voice). Packet due on Friday 5/04.

  • Study for Realism/Naturalism Unit test on Friday.  See page 15-27 in Writing Packet for strategies in test taking.

  • Read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald by 5/07.

  • Answer questions in The Great Gatsby Homework Packet (Word or PDF) as you move through the work.

Reader's Response: Read "A New England Nun" by Mary Wilkins Freeman

Tues

05/01

The Other

Author Background: W.E.B. Du Bois

Read "Of the Meaning of Progress" (txt pg. 362)

Chart the narrative arc and identify the narrator's conclusion at the end of the piece.

What is innately Naturalistic about the piece?

  • Answer questions in the Homework packet (Word/PDF) as we move through the work.  Remember to use the packet as practice for completing the essays (answer prompt, precise diction and syntax, fill in the space provided, tense, no taboos, gerunds, passive voice). Packet due on Friday 5/04.

  • Study for Realism/Naturalism Unit test on Friday.  See page 15-27 in Writing Packet for strategies in test taking.

  • Read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald by 5/07.

  • Read "The Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin (pg. 11 in Reading Packet).  Complete a Reader's Response with a focus on a women's role in 19th century society.  Due tomorrow.

  • Answer questions in The Great Gatsby Homework Packet (Word or PDF) as you move through the work.

 

Weds

05/02

The Other

Read I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes from 1945 - legacy

Discuss Parody

Parody projects/presentation

  • Answer questions in the Homework packet (Word/PDF) as we move through the work.  Remember to use the packet as practice for completing the essays (answer prompt, precise diction and syntax, fill in the space provided, tense, no taboos, gerunds, passive voice). Packet due on Friday 5/04.

  • Study for Realism/Naturalism Unit test on Friday.  See page 15-27 in Writing Packet for strategies in test taking.

  • Read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald by 5/07.

  • Answer questions in The Great Gatsby Homework Packet (Word or PDF) as you move through the work.

"The Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin Reader's Response

Thurs

05/03

Read "My Heart Feels Like Bursting" by Chief Satanta and "I Will Fight No More Forever" by Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce.

How do these speeches by Native American leaders reflect the literary movements at work during this period?

  • Answer questions in the Homework packet (Word/PDF) as we move through the work.  Remember to use the packet as practice for completing the essays (answer prompt, precise diction and syntax, fill in the space provided, tense, no taboos, gerunds, passive voice).  Packet due on Friday 5/04.

  • Study for Realism/Naturalism Unit test on Friday.  See page 15-27 in Writing Packet for strategies in test taking.

  • Read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald by 5/07.

  • Answer questions in The Great Gatsby Homework Packet (Word or PDF) as you move through the work.

 

Fri

05/04

 Unit Test Realism

  • Read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald by 5/07.

  • Study for Vocab 7b Quiz on Monday (see Quizlet)

  • Answer questions in The Great Gatsby Homework Packet (Word or PDF) as you move through the work.

American Classic Homework Packet due.

 

 
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