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1/21-1/25
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21
HOLIDAY
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22
WORKDAY
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23
- Class Syllabus
- Signed Syllabus, Parent Letter, Behavior Contract, and Info Sheet due by Friday, 1/25.
- Overview of the Common Core Standards for English
- Policies and Procedures Scavenger Hunt
- In Class Essay- American Dream
- HW: Read Native American Myths
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24
1. W/u: What values/beliefs are evident in our culture?
2. Research Cards: Native American Readings
3. HW: Assignment: Create/perform your own myth about how the world came to be.
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25
NO CLASS- due to inclement weather!
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1/28-2/1
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28
1. Warm up: What qualities do you think would help a person endure great hardship?
2. Intro- Puritans
4. William Bradford-Of Plymouth Plantation, CH. 9,11,12
5. HW: William Bradford Poem
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1. Warm up: Think about something you own that you treasure. How would you feel if you lost that cherished item?
2. Vocab 1- Quiz Friday!
3. Finish reading Bradford and complete #4 on p. 73
4.. Anne Bradstreet
"Upon the Burning of Our House", "To My Dear and Loving Husband"
5. Figurative Language- Bradstreet
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30
1. Warm up: When faced with difficulties, how do you typically respond? What's your outlet?
2. Discuss Bradstreet/Fig Lang
3. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God-"Quiz"- due Thurs.
4. Read Unit Intro and answer Focus questions- due Friday!
5. Intro to research paper - Topic due next Wed!
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1. Warm up: How do you feel when you find yourself in a group of strangers? What does the word stranger mean to you?
2. Discuss Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
3. Mary Rowlandson- Narrative of her Captivity
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1.Vocab Quiz 1!
2. Unit Intro and Focus Questions due!
3.Conclude Puritans
4. Warm up question: What do you know about the ACT/SAT?
5. Practice for the ACT using Study Island
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2/4-2/8
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4
1. Warm up: Why do you young people in love sometimes experience conflict with their parents?
2. KWL/Intro to Shakespeare (first vid only)
3. Iambic Pentameter
4. MSND
5. Read Act 1, A Midsummer Night's Dream
6. HW: Finish Act I and complete Active Reading Sheet
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5
1. Warm up: How would you feel if someone suddenly stopped liking you?
2. MSND Writing Assignment
3. Read Act 2 and 3 and do Response Questions for Act 2 and 3
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6
1. Warm up: Think of a movie or book where the characters have an unusual experience that makes them shake their head and ask, "Did that really happen?"
2. Act 4- MSND
3. Research Day- MLA Format
Research Topic due!
4. HW: Read Act 5- MSND
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7
1. Warm up: Have you ever seen a live performance that was so badly presented it was entertaining?
2. Act 5- MSND
3. Compare MSND with modern film interpretations
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8
1. Vocab Quiz 2
2. Review for take home test (Native Americans, Puritans, and Shakespeare)
3. ACT Test Taking Strategies
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2/11-2/15
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11
1. Warm up: Create a word web with the word "Freedom" at the center. What does personal/national freedom mean to you?
2. Vocab 3- Quiz Thursday
3. Intro- Age of Reason
4. Declaration of Independence: Authors Purpose- Was it to declare war?
5. Preamble
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12
MEET IN LIBRARY!
Research Day 1 (Half class)
ACT Practice (Half class- using Study Island)
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13
1. Warm up: What's one freedom that you don't think you could live without?
2. Bill of Rights- Compare and Contrast with British Bill of Rights
3. Examine Rhetoric- Ethos, Logos, and Pathos
HW: Thomas Paine's "The Crisis" (p. 155-157). Do Emotional Appeals Q on p. 159)
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Vocab Quiz 3
1. Warm up: A crisis is a moment when a crucial change is about to occur. Whom do you know that has been through a life-changing crisis?
2. Discuss "The Crisis"
3. Patricky Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention
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15 EARLY RELEASE
1. Warm up: What are some sayings/things to live by that you've heard from older generations?
2. Read pp. 134-135 and do creative writing activity on the top of p. 137
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2/18-2/22
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18
WORKDAY
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19
Research Notes due- Day 1
1) Research Day 2
2) ACT Practice (Half class- using Study Island)
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20
1) Warm up: Choose a favorite saying and explain why it is effective (this could be the same saying from Friday, or a different one)
2)Compare and Contrast- Poor Richard's Almanack v. Paredes' Dichos (pp. 135-142)
3) Review for test tomorrow!
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21
US Seminal Documents Test
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22
1) Warm up: Think of a time when you had a flash of understanding and saw the deeper, hidden meaning of something. What was it? What happened?
2)Intro- American Dream Project
1st 1/2 due: 3/22
3) Intro to Romanticism
4) HW: Read p. 225-227
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2/25-3/1
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25
1)Warm up
2)Vocab 4- Quiz Friday!
3) Jigsaw Activity- Poetry
4) Annotating texts
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26
1) ACT Prep
2) Research Day- Viewpoint 1
HW: Watch the following videos for Wednesday's class:
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Extreme Alliteration
Rhyme
Repetition
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27
1) Warm up
2) Introduction- Poe
3) Discuss "The Bells"- Quiz tomorrow!
4)HW: Bells- due Friday
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28
1) "Bells" Quiz
2)Warm up
3) Hawthorne Notes
4) Read "The Minister's Black Veil"
and do focus questions
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1
1)Vocab 4 Quiz
2)Present Bells Recreations!
3) HW: "The Raven" Annotation Due Monday!
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3/4-3/8
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4
1) Warm up
2) Minister's Black Veil: Last word Activity
3) Conclude Raven
4) HW: Read Self- Reliance
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5
ACT!!!
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6
1) Warm up
2) Intro to Transcendentalism
3) Discuss "Self-Reliance"
3) Nature and Walden (Intro video)
4) HW: Read Nature (p. 252-255) and do q's on 256. Read Civil Disobedience (p. 258-262) and do q's on 262)
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7
1) Warm up
2) Discuss Nature- Graphic Organizer
3) Civil Disobedience and its impact on modern authors (Ghandi and MLK)
4)Transcendentalism with modern adaptations
5) Transcendentalism Mini Project- due Mon!
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8
Unit 3 Test
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3/11-3/15
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Transcendentalist Project due!
1)Warm up
2)Vocab 5- Quiz Thurs!
3) Document Analysis: Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address
4) HW: Finish questions for Lincoln's address & write your own inaugural address as if you were living in the time period
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12
1) Study Island Assignment- Due at end of the day!
2) Research Paper- Outline due next week!
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13
1)Warm up
2)Success is Counted Sweetest
3) Because I Could Not Stop for Death
4) ACE Activity
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14
1)Vocab Quiz!
2)Warm up
3) Whitman- "I hear America Singing"
4) Create your own list poem
5) Compare and Contrast with Langston Hughes' "I, Too, Sing America"
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15 EARLY RELEASE
1) Warm up
2) Frederick Douglass- (p.329-334)
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3/18-3/22
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18
1) Warm up
2) Intro to Realism
3)Close Reading- Frederick Douglass
4) Sample Research Paper Discussion
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19
1)Research paper outline due!
2) Study Island Assignment due at the end of the day!
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20
1) Quiz- Whitman, Dickinson, Frederick Douglass
2) Intro- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
3) Importance of Dialect
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21
1) Warm up
2) Finish intro activity- Huck finn
3) Huck Finn- Chapter 1
Discuss the importance of Dialect
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1st 1/2- American Dream project due
1) Warm up
2) Huck Finn- HW: read through chapter 7 for Monday!
3) Sample Works Cited- due Tues!
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3/25-3/29
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1) Quiz- Chapters 1-7 of Huck Finn
2) Warm up
3) Summary- Huck Finn
4) Mix and Match Theme Activity
5) HW: Read Chapters 8-9 of Huck Finn- due Wed!
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Works Cited Rough Draft Due!
Study Island Assignment- Due at end of day!
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27 END OF 3RD QUARTER
1) Warm up
2) Literary Criticism Activityon Ipads- due Monday 4/8
3) Read through chapter 13- due Monday 4/8
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28
WORKDAY
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29
HOLIDAY
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