10 THIRD QUARTER
CLASS ASSIGNMENTS
January 6- Review grades for first quarter. Students will have their grades written in their
planners. Start Poetry Unit I. Begin discussing poetry unit one. Read and discuss two poems by
Anne Bradstreet’s poems “Upon the Burning of Our House” and “To My Dear and Loving
Husband.” Anne Bradstreet To My Dear and Loving Husband.docx Anne Bradstreet Upon the
Burning of Our House.docx
Daily Oral Language 12-1
January 7- Finish discussion of Bradford poems. Read and discuss Phyllis Wheatley’s poem “To
His Excellency, General Washington.” Daily Oral Language 12-2
Phyllis Wheatley To His Excellency, General Washington.docx
January 8- Read and discuss William Cullen Bryant’s “To the Fringed Gentian” and Olive
Wendell Holmes’s “Old Ironsides.” Begin discussion of Edgar Allan Poe poems. Daily Oral
Language 12-3. William Cullen Bryant To the Fringed Gentian.docx Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old Ironsides.docx
January 9- Analogy Test VII. Students will be allowed to use a dictionary.
Listen to Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven.” F:\The Raven.pdf
January 12- Go over analogy test. Students will have grades written in their planners.
Discussion of Poe’s “The Raven.” Daily Oral Language 13-1.
January 13- Read and discuss Poe’s “The Bells.” Review for test. Daily Oral Language 13-2.
F:\The Bells.pdf
January 14- Poetry Test I. Students will have short answer questions on their test.
January 15- Review test. Students will have their grades written in their planners.
January 16- Analogy Test VIII. Students will be allowed to use a dictionary.
January 19- Holiday. No class.
January 20- Begin Poetry Unit II. Discussion of the poet Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman
Introduction.docx Daily Oral Language 14-1.
January 21- Read and discuss the following Walt Whitman poems: “I Heard America Singing,”
“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” and “A sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and
Dim.” Daily Oral Language 14-2. I Hear America Singing.pdf
January 22- Continue poems by Walt Whitman. “Beat! Beat! Drums!” “Song of Myself”
Read and discuss both poems.
January 23- Analogy Test VIX. Students will be allowed to use a dictionary.
January 26- Review analogy test. Students will have grades written in their planner.
Begin discussion of the life of poet Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson Introduction.docx
Daily Oral Language 15-1.
January 27- Read and discuss the following Dickinson poems: “My life closed twice before its
close,” “”The Soul selects her own Society,” “Much Madness is divinest Sense,” and “Success is
counted sweetest.” Daily Oral Language 15-2.
January 28- Continue Dickinson poems. “I heard a Fly buzz when I died,” “The Bustle in a
House,” “Because I could not stop for Death,” and “There’s a certain Slant of light.” Test
review.
Daly Oral Language 15-3.
January 29- Poetry Test II covering the poems of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Students
will have short answer questions on their test.
January 30- Analogy Test X. Students will be allowed to use a dictionary.
February 2- Grades for Poetry Test II and Analogy Test X will be written in planners. Visit
computer lab to register at the ACT testing center.
February 3- Second day of going over ACT test in the computer lab.
February 4- Third day of going over ACT test in the computer lab.
February 5- Background information on the author Mark Twain and his short story “The
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras
County.pdf
February 6- Continue with Twain’s short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras
County.” Students will listen to the short story.
February 9- Finish listening to and begin discussing the Twain story.
February 10- Finish discussion of the Twain story. Begin Bret Harte’s story “The Outcasts of
Poker Flats.” Background information on the author and the story. The Outcasts of Poker
Flat.pdf
February 11- Listen to the story “The Outcast of Poker Flats.”
February 12- Finish listening to and discuss the short story “The Outcast of Poker Flats.”
February 13- Analogy Test XI. Students will be allowed to use a dictionary. Finish discussion of
“The Outcast of Poker Flats.”
February 16- President’s Day Holiday.
February 17- Students will have their analogy test grade entered into their planners. Read and
discuss Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour.” Background information of Stephen
Crane’s short story “The Open Boat.” Stephen Crane Introduction.docx The Open Boat.pdf
The Story of An Hour.pdf
February 18- Listen to and begin discussing “The Open Boat.”
February 19- Finish discussing “The Open Boat.”
February 20- Begin discussion of Jack London’s “To Build a Fire.” Students will be given
background information on the author and story. Begin listening to the story. Jack London
Introduction.docx To Build a Fire.pdf
February 23- Finish listening to and begin discussion of “To Build a Fire.”
February 24- Conclude discussion of the London story and review for the test.
February 25- Test on the five short stories covered in this unit. The test will be composed of
short answer questions.
February 26- Students will have test grades written in their planners. Begin essay three.
Students will compose a four paragraph MLA style essay which will include title page, outline,
essay, and work cited page. Prompt will be provided for the students.
February 27- Continue essay composition.
March 2- Continue essay composition.
March 3- Continue essay composition.
March 4- Continue essay composition.
March 5- Essay three will be due by the end of the class period.
March 6- Make-up test day. Students who have missed work and have an excused absence will
be allowed to take the missed test. End of quarter three.