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6 Vocabulary quiz today!! (how exciting!) Paul Laurence Dunbar-"Douglass" G0 over rhyme scheme--how do we find this? Define Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnet--hmm what are their rhyme
schemes??! Continue with poetry (personally, I loved “This Is Just to Say” – Are you
guys keeping your lists of authors and their works updated? Lots of poems and poets should be on
there by now!) |
7 MLA workshop Correctly citing our sources If you didn't write the notes down (which you should have) go on-line to LCHS.org and then to the Library link. The info is here as well. |
8 Library Day Find those poems! Credible sources Due tomorrow--4 bib cards done correctly |
9 Go over bib card corrections W.H. Auden-"The Unknown Citizen" |
10 I will return your bib cards today--fix your mistakes in class! Reading: Robinson, "Luke Havergal" and "Richard Cory" What are the common themes here? Recognizing attitudes |
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13 Introduction to new unit—Transcendentalism and the New England Renaissance Define, identify transcendentalism You MAY enjoy this unit! Who are the transcendentalists? HOMEWORK ALERT!!!! Each student must bring in a copy of his or
her Skyward printout by Wednesday for conferences. This is an easy ten points!! Don’t drop the ball on this
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14 Poetry Projects due today The poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson (who also happens to be that transcendentalist guy that we talked about yesterday. What are the elements of transcendentalism that we can identify in his poetry? |
15 Poetry Jam! Be prepared with
a couple of your favorite poems for performance. The coffee and hot chocolate are on me – you guys can brings cookies or
doughnuts to share (not just for yourself!!! Bring enough for everyone!) We’ll work it out in class. Conferences tonight. Extra
credit if you come to your own conference. Be sure your homework from Monday is in. |
16 No school. Conferences in the
evening. |
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20 Continuing with transcendentalism… get ready for Henry David Thoreau. Remember – simplify, simplify,
simplify. Discussing “Nature” by Emerson What are his thoughts on Nature? Writing activity in-class Vocab! (yay) Blithe Connate Temperance Cordial Sanctity Calamity Chaos Transcendentalism Fallow Sublime Superfluous Evitable Expedient Posterity Alacrity Personification Due Wednesday Quiz Thursday! Homework tonight: Read “Self-Reliance”-pg. 391 |
21 Discuss “Self-Reliance” How should we live according to Emerson? Henry David Thoreau Tonight, read the excerpt from “Walden” in your Lit. book Remember—vocab is due tomorrow! |
22 Vocab due today! More Henry David Thoreau Let’s talk about “Walden” Maybe if it is nice out, we can talk about it outside! Homework: Read, “Civil Disobedience” |
23 Vocab quiz today—be ready! Discuss “Civil Disobedience” We will talk about why Thoreau only spent 1 night in jail—it is kind of a
funny story! (Remember what we have after all these readings!) Homework: Read “the most Sublime Spectacle on Earth” by John Wesley Powell |
24 Discuss how spectacular the most sublime spectacle on Earth actually is!!! Next week: More vocab and starting Poe—get ready!! |
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27 Begin Edgar Allen Poe, “Fall of the House of Usher” More Vocab: Should have all the vocab. terms written down from your
respective hours—(each class has a different set of terms!) We started “Fall of the House of Usher”—for homework tonight—read up to
page 316. |
28 Continue with story How is this story going for you? Breaking it down—discussing why Poe uses all those looooooong sentences—what
is the effect this has on the story? Review sentence structure What is a complex sentence? Finish story tonight at home |
29 Finish up with “Fall of the House of Usher” What’s a-going on in this story? –Let’s talk about it! Vocabulary terms due today, Quiz tomorrow! |
30 First thing, vocab quiz today! In class: Read, Poe’s, “The Raven” Discuss: Assonance Consonance There is a lot of this stuff in here! First person who can CORRECTLY define these terms to me today gets a jolly! |
31 No School—Teacher In-service Happy Halloween! |
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Justice In Literature – October 2008 |
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6 New quote: “’Everything you
sent me to school for, you’re stripping me of it,’ I told my aunt…’The
humiliation I had to go through, going into that man’s kitchen…Now going up
to that jail…Anything to humiliate me.
All the things you wanted me to escape by going to school Years age, Professor Antoine told me
that if I stayed here they were going to break me down to the ****** I was
born to be. But he didn’t tell
me that my aunt would help them do it.’” Ok, we’ve got to discuss this quote before you write about it – it’s
loaded! Please be ready to
discuss it in detail. Chapter 17-18 |
7 What about the white men’s attitudes make this so trying for Grant? For Jefferson? Are all of the white characters like this or just a few? Be prepared to support your answer
(oh, goodness, that sounds suspiciously like a writing assignment!) Chapters 19-20 |
8 Writing day for quotes journal. Back to the concept of a Christ figure. Grant or Jefferson?
Who fits the description for accurately? Chapters 21-22 |
9 New quote: I had gone to barbershops, I had stood on street corners and I had gone to many suppers there in
the quarter. But I had never
really listened to what was being said.
Then I began to listen, to listen closely to how they talked about
their heroes, how they talked about the dead and about how great the dead had
once been. I heard it
everywhere.” (90). Has your opinion of Grant changed yet? Has Grant changed yet? Do you foresee a just outcome? Chapters 23-24 |
10 Reading day in class New quote:”We b;ack men ,,, stay here in the South and are broken or we
run away and leave them alone to look after the children and themselves. So each time a male child is born,
they hope he will be the one to change this vicious circle – which he never
does. Because even though he
wants to change it and maybe eve tries to change it, it is too heavy a burden
because of all the others who have run away and left their burdens behind….I
can give them something that neither a husband, a father, nor a grandfather
ever did, so they want to hold on as long as they can. Not realizing that their holding on
will break me, too. “ (166-67) Chapters 25-28 |
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13 Tackling the difficult chapter (29).
Read aloud in class. Why does Gaines choose to shift p.o.v.? Does Jefferson’s voice make a
difference to you? Why does
Gaines choose to write in such a stringent dialect? Be able to articulate why it is so important for the reader to hear
Jefferson’s voice before he dies.
What judgement do you have to make? New quote: “I kno you paul an I kno ole clark and I kno you too shef guirty and you
mr picho and mr morgan an all the rest of yall I jus never say non of this
befor but I know yall everlas one of yall”(230) HOMEWORK ALERT!!!! Each student must bring in a copy of his or
her Skyward printout by Wednesday for conferences. This is an easy ten points!! Don’t drop the ball on this
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14 Who has learned the lesson before dying? Let’s make a chart today and see if we can tackle that
question (since it’s going to be the essay question on the test this Friday,
I suggest that you work pretty hard today to prepare for it!). please consider the following: what constitutes learning? How can we tell that anyone in this
novel has learned anything at all?
Grant’s last quote (see Monday) makes it seem pretty bleak. We should probably be able to find
quotes that support the position that someone has learned something. Let’s find some of those, too. They’ll help with tomorrow’s debate. Debate format. Tomorrow we
will debate who has learned the best lesson before dying. |
15 Debate Final quote. Please focus on the idea of justice
being accomplished in the story.
How does this quote reflect the success or failure of justice? “Yet they must
believe. They must believe, if
only to free the mind, if not the body.
Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free.” (251). Please be sure to have your
TYPED quote journal ready to turn in on Monday. It should be ready PRIOR to class. Please do not ask to go and print it
during class time. |
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17 Test over A Lesson Before Dying. Final study guides due today. Please be sure to have your TYPED quote journal ready to turn in on Monday. It should be ready PRIOR to class. Please do not ask to go and print it during class time. |
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20 Prep for debate |
21 Debate |
22 Test over A Lesson Before Dying. Final study guides due today. |
23 Hotel Rwanda |
24 Hotel Rwanda |
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27 Continue movie |
28 Finish movie if necessary. Discuss the qualities that make Grant and Jefferson and Paul heroes. What sacrifices did each make to
reach their potential (in the cases of Grant and Jefferson, learn the lesson
before dying). Did any of them
want to do what they did at the beginning? Seems like we’ll be making a chart! |
29 Hopefully today we’ll be going to the library to research St. Anthony de
Claret. Be sure to create at
least three bib cards and five note cards. This means that you will have to move quickly and no
messing around time. This is the
only day we will have for research on this project. The last sixteen points of the quarter ride on today’s
work. Get busy!! |
30 Writing the rough draft in class. We will work on an outline first and then begin writing. Remember: you will be writing a five paragraph essay about the ability of one person to follow the example of Christ and change the world in which they live for the better. Each body paragraph will require a MINIMUM of two quotes per paragraph. Since you have three separate people (or characters) to work with, naturally a bibliography with at least three resources is required. |
31 Continue writing. Typed, final copy due in class on Monday. |
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Honors U.S. Literature – October 2008 |
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6 How do we react to scandal?
Are we fair? Continuing with
yesterday’s work, we will begin to look at specific examples of scandals and
the outcomes that come with them. The letter of scandal. There are plenty of scandals available in history
from which to choose. In class I will offer you a list of possible scandals
from which to choose and you will be responsible for designing the letter
that person may have had to wear as a result of his or her sin (or perceived
sin). Will they be as proud as
Hester? Or will their letter
show shame? Remember, that person
is the one designing the letter, so your opinion needs to be couched in that
person’s view point. Letter (artwork)due on Thursday.
Please be prepared to make a brief presentation. Learning to make a bib card.
In this, our first little research project, you will need to complete
a bib card about your resources.
Please check the school library’s website for proper citation
examples. We’ll go over it in
class, too. |
7 Did somebody say vocabulary quiz today???? I think Mrs. Pike did! |
8 Oh, look! More vocabulary words. How about a quiz on Tuesday?
Shun Pristine Intrinsic Similitude Analogy Dauntless Tome Panoply Subsistence Genial Proximity Emaciated Parable Scrupulous Tremulous Scrutinize Sagacity Erudite Providence |
9 Letter of scandal presentations. This should be fun. Please have your artwork, presentation and your bib card(s) ready for inspection (ok, grading). |
10 Reading day – we’re almost done!!!!!! |
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13 Finish the book. HOMEWORK ALERT!!!! Each student must bring in a copy of his or
her Skyward printout by Wednesday for conferences. This is an easy ten points!! Don’t drop the ball on this
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14 Prepare for Jeopardy review. Bring in questions from categories we discussed. |
15 Jeopardy review. Don’t forget – extra credit if you accompany your parents to conferences this evening. |
16 No school. Conferences this evening |
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20 Test I imagine that the essay question is going to be about symbolism since the
book is so full of it. Find your
favorite symbol from the story and prepare a brief essay explaining the
symbol and its effectiveness in the story. I’m thinking three paragraphs, two quotes in the body paragraph (write
them down and bring them in with you, but nothing but the quotes – all
writing must be done in class.
Five sentences per paragraph minimum. Homework: Follow this link,
bring in this story and let’s finish up this anti-transcendentalism thing! “ Bartleby the Scrivener” by Herman
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21 Bring “Bartleby” today. Which is this? A testament to
anti transcendentalism or an example of transcendentalism gone horribly,
horribly wrong/ Miss Ryan and I argue about this all the time! |
22 More Bartleby |
23 And you thought we were done with Hawthorne! Bring your books to class today. For a little more anti-transcendentalism (will the evil never end????!!???!) |
24 Working on a five paragraph essay (don’t worry, we’ll do it together in class … at first!) Let’s say we bring in a rough draft on Tuesday. |
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27 Good news! No vocabulary this
week! Better news!! We’re writing a paper (I can hear your excitement from here. Writing a five paragraph essay.
We will review formats, thesis statements and upgrades (you don’t
always need to say due to…)
Pretty exciting stuff! Begin rough draft. |
28 Please bring your copy of The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. If you need a copy at home because your copy is at school, click here! You need to have this very short book finished by next Friday. While you will not have to write questions for each chapter, you will be expected to turn in summaries by next Friday (honest, it’s a really short book)!! |
29 Continue writing in class.
The rough draft must be finished in time for tomorrow so that we may
peer edit. |
30 Peer editing for first half of the class. FINAL COPY DUE ON MONDAY!! TYPED, TIMES NEW ROMAN 12PT. YES, I DO EXPECT A BIB PAGE - STOP ASKING THAT QUESTION!!! Intro to Edgar Allan Poe for the second half of class. |
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