American Literature
Week of May 7-11
Monday May 7
· Discuss Chapter 1 and 2 of Gatsby
HW Answer questions as we go along.
Tuesday May 8
· Read Chapter 3
HW Questions 1-3 are due tomorrow.
Wednesday May 9
· Read Chapter 4
Thursday May 10
· Read Chapter 5
HW Read pages 103-110 and answer questions for Chapters 1-5
Friday May 11
· Finish reading Chapter 6
· Read Chapter 7
American Literature
Week of April 30-May 4
Monday April 30
· EOCT Review
Tuesday May 1
· EOCT Testing Schedule
Wednesday May 2
· EOCT Testing Schedule
Thursday May 3
· EOCT Testing Schedule
Friday May 4
· Read Chapter 2 of The Great Gatsby
American Literature
Week of April 23-27
Monday April 23
· Present Banned Books Power Point
Tuesday April 24
· Hand out The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
· Discuss the importance of the book and the time period that was written in.
Wednesday April 25
· Review for the EOCT
Thursday April 26
· Read Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby
Friday April 27
· Review for the EOCT
American Literature
Week of April 16-20
Monday April 16
· Work on Banned Book Power Point
Tuesday April 17
· Work on Banned Book Power Point
Wednesday April 18
· Work on Banned Book Power Point
· Re-Take Benchmark Test
Thursday April 19
· Watch the 1920's documentary
Friday April 20
· Finish watching the documentary.
American Literature
Week of April 9-13
Monday April 9
· Introduction to Realism Power Point and Notes
Tuesday April 10
· Read "An Episode of War" by Stephen Crane page 476. Answer the study guide questions.
HW Quiz on Friday based on "An Episode of War"
Wednesday April 11
· Read "Desiree's Baby" and answer the questions
Thursday April 12
· Read "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: by Mark Twain page 569
· Key Terms: Frame Story, Regional Dialect, Local Color, Humor/Satire
Friday April 13
· Quiz on "An Episode of War"
· Introduce the Banned Book PowerPoint Assignment. This will be worth one major writing grade. Due Friday April 20th in class.
Multi Cultural Literature
Week of March 26-30
Monday March 26
· Personal Reflections are due.
· Work on Crash Project
HW Crash project is due on Wednesday.
Tuesday March 27
· Begin watching People Like Us and answer questions on social class.
Wednesday March 28
· Complete watching People Like Us and answer the questions.
.Hand in Crash project.
HW Benchmark Test tomorrow.
Thursday March 29
· Benchmark Test
HW Tomorrow will be the last day to hand in the Crash project or Unit 2 personal reflections. These will not be accepted after break.
Friday March 30
· Last day to hand in Crash project or Personal reflections.
· Make up benchmark tests.
Multi Cultural Literature
Week of March 19-23
Monday March 19
· Work on Crash project
Tuesday March 20
· Work on Crash Project
Wednesday and Thursday March 21-22
· Testing
Friday March 23
· Work on Crash Project
HW Personal Reflection is due on Monday.
American Literature
Week of March 26-30
Monday March 26
· View Poetry Review PowerPoint and take notes on corresponding sheet
· View Emily Dickinson PowerPoint. Take notes on her writing influences, her style of writing, the rhyme scheme she uses in her poetry and the major themes she writes about in her poetry.
Tuesday March 27
· Emily Dickinson Poems from the textbook. Read and complete questions about the poems.
Wednesday March 28
· Realism Power Point.
· Complete the notes that go along with the Power Point.
Thursday March 29
· Individualism Journal Project due today.
· Benchmark Test
Friday March 30
· Hand in late journal projects
· Watch a segment from the movie UP and discuss the transcendentalist nature of the film.
American Literature
Week of March 19-23
Monday March 19
· Written Response: Who is responsible for Neal Perry's death in the movie Dead Poets Society?
Tuesday March 20
· GHSGT-Social Studies all juniors are taking this test.
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Wednesday March 21
· Testing
Thursday March 22
· Testing
Friday March 23
· View The Story of Stuff
· Write journal entry based on your reaction to the information.
American Literature
Week of March 12-16
Monday March 12
· Discuss the Individualism Journal project
· Read "Civil Disobedience" by Thoreau
Tuesday March 13
· Read " I Sing America" and "O Captain My Captain" by Walt Whitman
· Read " I, Too, Sing American" by Langston Hughes
Wednesday March 14- Friday March 16
· Watch and discuss the movie Dead Poets Society.
