The Catcher in the Rye
C Period Reading Schedule
9/19 (7)
9/20 (1)
9/21 (2)
9/22 (3)
9/24 (4)
Bring CitR to class
9/26 (5)
Vocab 1 Quiz
9/27 (6)
-9/28 (7)
CitR 1-5*+
9/29 (1)
Vocab 2 Review
9/30 (2)
CitR 6-7*
10/3 (3)
CitR 8-9+
10/4 (4)
CitR 10-11*
10/5 (5)
Vocab 2 Quiz
10/6 (6)
-10/7
Mid Quarter
CitR 12-13+
10/10
CitR 14-15*
Vocab 3 Review
10/11 (7)
CitR 16-17+
10/12
Bring textbook
Transcendentalism
10/13 (1)
Progress Report due
Transcendentalism
Vocab 3 Quiz
10/20 (6)
10/14 (2)
Transcendentalism
PSAT Review
PSAT
-10/18 (4)
10/19 (5)
10/21 (7)
CitR 21-23+
CitR 18-20*
Vocab 4 Review
CitR 24-26
CitR Review
CitR Test
Reading assignments are due on calendar date.
The calendar is tentative and will be altered as needed. The intended purpose is to help you budget your time.
Expect random quizzes on the reading.
Bring The Catcher in the Rye and Vocab books on vocabulary review and quiz days.
Bring textbook on Transcendentalism days.
Reader's Log
Last names A-L will write on starred days; names M-Z will write on plus days. As you read the daily assignment choose a particular
quotation that appeals to you. Copy this quotation and page number into your blue book and then react to it. Do you agree or
disagree with the quotation? Explain how the quotation is seen in the novel and within everyday life. If you don't agree with the
statement, make an argument countering its rationale. Plot summary will not be given credit.
Blue books will be checked daily and you may be asked to share your quotation and reaction with the class. You must be able to
show me the page with the quotation in your copy of The Catcher in the Rye in order to receive credit. Blue books will be collected
on 10/19.
Columbus Day
10/17 (3)
The following quotations cannot be used and will not be given credit:
“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”
“Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it.”
Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game, all right—I’ll admit that. But if you get
on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it? Nothing. No game.
[Ackley] took another look at my hat . . . “Up home we wear a hat like that to shoot deer in, for Chrissake,” he said. “That’s a deer
shooting hat.”
“Like hell it is.” I took it off and looked at it. I sort of closed one eye, like I was taking aim at it. “This is a people shooting hat,” I said.
“I shoot people in this hat.”
The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move. . . . Nobody’d be
different. The only thing that would be different would be you.
I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if
they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all
day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all.
“I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement’s designed for men who, at
some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn’t supply them with. . . . So they gave up
looking.”