Teacher Work Day

Class: Hurricane Day!

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Class: Hurricane Day!

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Class: Course Introduction / Syllabus

HW: Review syllabus; quiz tomorrow

Class: Syllabus quiz; "Our National Conversation"

HW: Complete the first part of the "National Conversation" assignment

Labor Day

DROP 6

Class: "National Conversation" group discussions

HW: review essay assignment; begin work on it

DROP 7

Class: second round of "National Conversation" group discussions

HW: Complete "National Conversation" Micro-Analysis

Class: "Still Life"

HW: Read "Play Date" by Kate Walbert

Class: "Play Date"

HW: Read John Smith's "A Description of New England." Who is his AUDIENCE, what is his PURPOSE, and what is his TONE?

Class: "A Description of New England"

HW: N/A

Open House

Class: Winthrop and "Christian Charity"

HW: Read excerpt from Mayflower (handout); annotate as necessary; look for information that will help to put Winthrop's "Christian Charity" into proper context

DROP 6

Class: Winthrop and "Charity," Day Two

HW: Look over first micro papers; review General Tips handout. If you want to revise, you have one week from today to meet with the primary grader and submit an annotated revision.

Class: Puritan beliefs, The New England Primer, and Anne Bradstreet's poetry

HW: Read the Bradstreet biography and the poem "Verses Written Upon the Burning Of Our House" in your "Colonial Reader." Annotate: Where do we see the speaker struggling to deal with an internal conflict?

Class: Bradstreet; analytical paragraph writing

HW: revise your analytical paragraph; read and annotate "The Author to Her Book"

90-Minute Delayed Opening

Class: Encounters Between Settlers and Native Americans

HW: Analytical Paragraph: Of the three different authors' accounts of native American encounters, which one do you find most surprising, upsetting, troubling, or otherwise noteworthy? Why?

Class: The Age of Reason

HW: read Franklin's autobiography through page 197

No School -- Rosh Hashanah

DROP 7

Class: Franklin

HW: finish reading Franklin

Class: Franklin

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Class: Virtues and Schedules

HW: Write your own set of 10 virtues (with a brief explanation for each)

Class: "The Art of Virtue" and "Moral Algebra"

HW: outling Isaacson's essay

Class: Isaacson's essay on Franklin; the Franklin Prize assignment

Clip of the Day

HW: Franklin Prize nomination proposal due Monday; final piece due Friday the 14th.

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HW: Between now and Tuesday morning, you should send me an e-mail proposal that explains a) who you'd like to write about, and b) for what reasons. The sooner the better...

Staff Development

Class: American Visions video on Neoclassical Art

HW: Franklin Prize

DROP 7

Class: Commas, Comma Splices, "because," and Quotation Integration

HW: Franklin Prize. Hopscotchers -- go to this site (password: egan) and choose one Thomas Jefferson-related document. Read it, and then respond informally to the questions on the handout.

Homecoming

Class: Franklin Prize essay due; Thomas Jefferson Day!

HW: Look over Q1QP guidelines, and paraphrase each prompt so that you understand what you are being asked to do. You don't need to select texts to write about yet, especially since we'll be reading some potentially useful texts in class next week.

Class: Your Quarter Paper and You; Jefferson cont'd.

HW: Read part I of "Rip van Winkle." Make an appt. to meet with mp or pe by Friday; bring topic proposal, etc.

Class: "Rip van Winkle"

HW: Finish "RvW"; make appt. to meet with mp or pe by Friday

Class: "Rip van Winkle," part deux

HW: work on Q1QP; make appt. to meet with mp or pe by Friday

Class: Neoclassical Art and Architecture

HW: prepare introduction/thesis for class on Friday.

90 minute (PLC)

Class: Introduction/Thesis workshop

HW: revise intro./thesis; make plans to meet with Mr. Pavia or Mr. Egan

DROP 6

Class: Intro/thesis due; The Ins and Outs of Writing an Introduction

HW: Ideally, you should aim to have a draft done by Tuesday night.. Read Mr. Pavia's essay on Romanticism

DROP 7

Class: Intro/thesis due; The Ins and Outs of Writing an Introduction

HW: Ideally, you should aim to complete a draft. Read Mr. Pavia's essay on Romanticism.

Class: Quarter One Essay Due

Period 6 -- American Visions: The Wilderness and the West

Period 7 -- "Thanatopsis"

HW: Chill...

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Period 6 -- "Thanatopsis"

Period 7 -- American Visions

HW: Enjoy the Snow-pocalypse!

Class: "Transcendentalism" and "Solitude"

HW: Read "Nature"

Class: "Nature"

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Class: "Nature"

HW: finish the responses to the passages from "Nature" that you started in class today.

Class: "Nature"

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Class: "Nature"

HW: Read "Self-Reliance"

Class: "Self-Reliance" in-class writing

HW: Read "Scarlet Letter Backgrounds and Context" handout; read chapter 1 ("The Prison Door," pg. 41; skip "The Custom House")

Class: Story-boarding an opening credits sequence ("The Prison Door"); the importance of setting, mood, and tone

HW: Read chapter 2 ("The Marketplace" for Friday

Class: Chapter 2

HW: Read chapters 3, 4, & 5

Class: Hester and Chillingworth; mood and tone

HW: Read chapters 6, 7 & 8

Class: Hester and Pearl

HW: Read ch. 9 & 10

DROP 6

Class: Religion/Science; Dimmesdale and Chillingworth

HW:Catch up on your reading, if necessary; (optional) re-writes due Friday

Class: Chapters 10-12

HW: Read 13-15

Early Dismissal

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HW: Read 16-18 by Monday

Thanksgiving

Class: 16-18

HW: Read 19-21

Class: 19-21

HW: Read 22 & 23

DROP 6

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HW: Finish the book

DROP 7

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HW: Finish the book

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HW: Scarlet Letter Micro Analysis (proposal due Monday, essay due Friday); read Thoreau's "Resistance to Civil Government" for Monday

Class: micro analysis question/position proposal due; essay due on Friday; "Civil Disobedience"

HW: Do you accept my bold challenge?

Class: Double-Class: Thoreau, Neck-Beards, and the legacy of Civil Disobedience

HW: Work on your micro analysis

Class: More Whitmania!

HW: Huck?

DROP 6

Class: "Song of Myself"

HW: view this Powerpoint; read "Huck," ch. 1-5

DROP 7

Class: "Song of Myself"

HW: view this Powerpoint; read "Huck" ch. 1-5

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DROP 6

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DROP 7

Early Dismissal

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Holiday Recess

Class: More information on Minstrel Shows

HW: Your Midterm Essay

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Exams 1 & 2