Teacher: BATTS
Week of: January 14-18
STANDARDS/OBJECTIVES
(from Pacing Guide)
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Subject: English
ACTIVITIES
Between January 14-25, the
following standards will be taught:
Alabama Course of Study
Objectives –abbreviated-)
1.Examine major historical
developments in language and lit in
America before 1900
Honors: Vocab. Test (pushed to Monday from last week)
2.Analyze literary elements and
devices
3. Read with literal and inferential
comprehension
5.Compare pre-twentieth century
American authors’ literary styles
7.Write in expository mode
Note cards to be checked for completion/accuracy of
MLA set-up.
9.Apply principles of Standard
English in vocabulary/style
10.Justify a thesis statement with
supporting details from American
lit prior to the 20th century.
Continue writing/finish rough draft
15.Use the research process to
document and organize information
to support a thesis on a
literary/nonliterary topic
16. Explain the purpose and
Library for research paper. (Type Works Cited and
Outline: Bring 10 cents per page to print)
Benefits of using, predicting,
summarizing, underlining,
outlining, note taking, and
reviewing as applied in the research
process.
Vocab. Quiz/due
Library for research paper. (Begin typing rough draft,
email rough draft to yourself, finish typing over the
weekend, print at home or in library Monday for 10
cents/page)
Write Works Cited page and Outline to be typed in library
Thursday.
Organize note cards-finalize any last notes, note cards will
be checked for completion Tuesday.
HOMEWORK
EVALUATION
General: Copy vocabulary words
from board, copy definitions from
the back of the literature book:
circumvent, commodious,
concession, confiscate, console,
constrain, elude, enthrall, ethereal,
exemplary
Honors: Receive Lesson 10
vocabulary
Begin writing rough draft
Turn in vocabulary tomorrow
General: Vocabulary quiz
Honors: Vocabulary L10 due
Teacher: BATTS
Week of: January 21-25
STANDARDS/OBJECTIVES
(from Pacing Guide)
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Subject: English
ACTIVITIES
Between January 14-25, the
following standards will be taught:
Alabama Course of Study
Objectives –abbreviated-)
1.Examine major historical
developments in language and lit in
America before 1900
NO SCHOOL: Martin Luther King Day
2.Analyze literary elements and
devices
3. Read with literal and inferential
comprehension
5.Compare pre-twentieth century
American authors’ literary styles
7.Write in expository mode
Rough Draft of research paper due (checked off in class
and returned immediately)
Introduction to Romanticism Unit
Begin literature unit on American Romantic authors
(Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes, Poe, Irving, Hawthorne)
Lit. 174 Washington Irving, The Devil and Tom Walker
anticipation guide/story chart, and questions
9.Apply principles of Standard
English in vocabulary/style
10.Justify a thesis statement with
supporting details from American
lit prior to the 20th century.
RESEARCH PAPERS DUE
In class we will use a checklist to look over final copies.
Continue/finish: Lit. The Devil and Tom Walker
anticipation guide/story chart, and questions
15.Use the research process to
document and organize information
to support a thesis on a
literary/nonliterary topic
16. Explain the purpose and
Lit: 189 William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis + worksheet
Benefits of using, predicting,
summarizing, underlining,
outlining, note taking, and
reviewing as applied in the research
process.
Vocab. Quiz/due
WC: 585 E1, E2, E4
HOMEWORK
General: Copy vocabulary words
from board, copy definitions from
the back of the literature book:
diminutive, disconsolate, distraught,
extremity, facilitate, fitful, florid,
furtive, futile, elation
Honors: Receive Lesson 11
vocabulary
EVALUATION
The Devil and Tom Walker anticipation
guide/story chart, and questions
RESEARCH PAPERS DUE
The Devil and Tom Walker anticipation
guide/story chart, and questions due
Turn in vocabulary tomorrow
General: Vocabulary quiz
Honors: Vocabulary L11 due
Teacher: BATTS
Week of: January 28-February 1
STANDARDS/OBJECTIVES
ACTIVITIES
(from Pacing Guide)
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Subject: English
Between January 28-February 8, the
following standards will be taught:
Alabama Course of Study
Objectives –abbreviated-)
1.Examine major historical
developments in language and lit in
America before 1900
Continue Romanticism Unit
Lit.: 194 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- The Tide Rises,
The Tide Falls and The Cross of Snow
2.Analyze literary elements and
devices
4.Evaluate strength of argument in
informational text
5.Compare pre-twentieth cent.
Lit: 196, 198 Write the rhyme scheme for each
Longfellow poem.
Write a Petrarchan sonnet
Lit: 202 Rhyme scheme: abba, abba, cde, cde
American authors’ literary styles
6.Determine word meaning in
literature
11.Demonstrate correct use of
WC: 591 E5, E7, E8, E9
Commas, semicolons, and colons
12.Demonstrate correct use of
singular/plural collective nouns &
words w/ alternate accepted forms,
demonstrate correct use of
pronoun/antecedent agreement
Lit. 249 Nathaniel Hawthorne- Dr. Heidegger’s
Experiment
Questions on board
13.Apply correct usage of
subject/verb agreement
14.Edit for incorrect shifts in verb
tense in paragraphs, use of verbals,
use of dangling modifiers,
misplaced modifiers, and
parallelism in phrases
Vocab. Quiz/due
WC: 595 E10, E11, E15
Lit. 201 Response and Analysis -#’s 1-5, 7-8
Lit. 202 #’s 2, 4
HOMEWORK
General: Copy vocabulary words
from board, copy definitions from
the back of the literature book:
idealist, impassive, imperative,
imperceptible, impervious, impulse,
impute, infirm, ingenious, iniquity
Honors: Receive Lesson 12
vocabulary
EVALUATION
Lit. 201 Response and Analysis -#’s 1-5, 7-8
Lit. 202 #’s 2, 4 DUE
Petrarchan Sonnet Due
Turn in vocabulary tomorrow
Questions due
General: Vocabulary quiz
Honors: Vocabulary L12 due
Teacher: BATTS
Week of: February 4-February 8
STANDARDS/OBJECTIVES
ACTIVITIES
(from Pacing Guide)
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Subject: English
Between January 28-February 8, the
following standards will be taught:
Alabama Course of Study
Objectives –abbreviated-)
1.Examine major historical
developments in language and lit in
America before 1900
Continue Romanticism Unit
Watch video: The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe (50 mins)
2.Analyze literary elements and
devices
4.Evaluate strength of argument in
informational text
5.Compare pre-twentieth cent.
Lit: 277 Edgar Allan Poe-The Pit and the Pendulum
Google Images: Pendulums
Yellow box questions and study questions to go with short
story
American authors’ literary styles
6.Determine word meaning in
literature
11.Demonstrate correct use of
Lit: Continue/finish The Pit and the Pendulum
Commas, semicolons, and colons
12.Demonstrate correct use of
singular/plural collective nouns &
words w/ alternate accepted forms,
demonstrate correct use of
pronoun/antecedent agreement
WC: 599-E16
WC: 604 E2, E7 Active/Passive Review
13.Apply correct usage of
subject/verb agreement
14.Edit for incorrect shifts in verb
tense in paragraphs, use of verbals,
use of dangling modifiers,
misplaced modifiers, and
parallelism in phrases
Vocab. Quiz/Test
Lit: 302 Poe’s Process: Writing The Raven
Lit: 298 Edgar Allan Poe-The Raven
Response and Analysis: #’s 1, 2, 4, 5, 7
HOMEWORK
EVALUATION
General: Copy vocabulary words
from board, copy definitions from
the back of the literature book:
Honors: Vocabulary test Friday,
study L10-12 words
Yellow box and study questions due
Turn in vocabulary tomorrow
General: Vocabulary quiz
Honors: Vocabulary Test L10-12
Teacher: BATTS
Week of: February 11-February 15
STANDARDS/OBJECTIVES
ACTIVITIES
(from Pacing Guide)
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Subject: English
Between February 11-March 1, the
following standards will be taught:
Alabama Course of Study
Objectives –abbreviated-)
1.Examine major historical
developments in language and lit in
America before 1900
Continue/Finish Romanticism Unit
Lit: 311 Edgar Allan Poe- The Fall of the House of Usher
-Receive questions for short story
2.Analyze literary elements and
devices
3.Read with literal and inferential
comprehension
Continue The Fall of the House of Usher
5.Compare pre-twentieth century
American authors’ literary styles
Finish story (10-15 minutes), watch 1993 version video of
The Fall of the House of Usher (85 minutes)
8. Write using language suitable for
audience and purpose
Finish video of The Fall of the House of Usher
10.Justify a thesis statement with
supporting details from American
literature prior to the twentieth
century
Vocab. Quiz/due
Lit: 308 Oliver Wendell Holmes
Lit: 310 Response and Analysis 1-4
HOMEWORK
EVALUATION
General: Copy vocabulary words
from board, copy definitions from
the back of the literature book
Honors: Receive Lesson 13
vocabulary
Turn in vocabulary tomorrow
Turn in questions for The Fall of the House
of Usher
General: Vocabulary quiz
Honors: Vocabulary L13 due