English 3.1
Mrs. Holly Peiritsh
hpeiritsh@wjhsd.net
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Objectives: STUDENTS WILL . . .
Exam Day
M
3/30
Receive SAT vocab
words
Submit “Snowbound”
images/ discuss
Take bio-notes on
Holmes
RTN: “Old Ironsides”
And “Chambered
Nautilus”
HW: Complete comp.
assignment 1 or 2 on
pg 270 in journal (first
entry of last nine
weeks).
4/6
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words
Complete poetry
assessment with
explication.
Receive evaluated
research papers.
HW:
4/13
No School: Spring
Break
T
Exam Day
W
Th
SAT vocabulary
F
3/31
Receive SAT vocab
words
4/1
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words
4/2
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words
4/3
Conclude Emily
Dickinson’s poetry
Take Lowell bionotes
Read “The Courtin’”
and “The First
Snowfall.”
Receive Emily
Dickinson bio-notes
Continue reading,
analyzing and
interpreting Emily
Dickinson’s poetry
Discuss poetry
explication assignment.
HW: Complete DEJs
for both poems in
actual journals (not
typed). These will be
entries 2 and 3. Have
these ready to share
tomorrow.
4/7
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words
Discuss each poem in
class
Begin reading E.D’s
poetry pgs 279-284
HW: Poetry Exam
Monday! Study
HW: Poetry Exam
Monday
HW: TBA
4/8
No School: Spring
Break
4/9
4/15
SAT vocabulary quiz
4/16
Report to the Computer
Lab
4/17
Discuss Twain/ and
Huck Finn
Complete poetry
explication assignment
Huck Finn (Read Chapters
1-10 for Monday 4/7)
HW: RTN Local Color/
and Regionalism 290-300
No School: Spring
Break
4/10
No School: Spring
Break
Bradford School
Communications
Speaker
“Interviewing Skills”
HW: We will be in
the library 4/14 for a
source check. If you
must prove sources
from other libraries,
be sure to have them
with you on that day.
4/14
Report to Library for
research source check
to earn 10 points to
be added to your
research score.
HW: Vocabulary
Quiz tomorrow
Receive Huck Finn (Read
Chapters 1-10 for Monday
4/7)
4/21
4/22
4/23
4/24
4/25
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Receive SAT
vocabulary words
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Submit “I hear TJ
Singing” poem
Receive “The Jumping
Frog of Calaveras
County,”
FROG DAY: In honor of
Mrs. Fiore’s tradition
Complete reading quiz
for chapters 1-10 of Huck
Finn
RTN Bio notes Fredrick
Douglass
Share poetry with class
Review answers and
RTN (Listen) Negro
Spirituals (301)
“Swing Low, Sweet
Chariot,” and “Follow
the Drinking Gourd”
HW: Ch. 11-25Huck
Finn Due Monday
Read “My bondage and
My Freedom,”
Read “Bivouac on a
mountain side” and
illustrate the vignette.
RTN Whitmann Bio
(ppt) Read “I hear
America Singing”
HW: Complete TJ
singing assignment due
tomorrow (Huck Finn
11-25 due Monday
Discuss Whitman’s “Song
of Myself” and “Beat Beat
Drums”
HW: RTN 319 “Free
verse” 324 “catalog,”
and 325” Comic
techniques: exaggeration
and humorous metaphor
(FROG DAY Friday)
4/28
4/29
4/30
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Discuss “Outcasts of
Poker Flat” questions
Complete a quiz on
chapters 11-25 of Huck
Finn
Review answers and
discuss events and
elements of satire.
HW: Complete the
book Huck Finn for
Monday 4/21
5/5
Complete a Huck Finn
Exam on entire novel
Receive creative
Huckleberry Finn project
assignment (due 5/5)
RTN Bio Harte 359
Read, analyze, “The
Outcasts of Poker Flat”
HW: Questions 1-7
page 367
Read “An Occurrence
at Owl Creek Bridge”
Receive Frog Frame to
complete for Homework
View “An Occurance at
Owl Creek Bridge”
Listen to the recorded
version of “Jumping Frog”
Share frog paraphernalia
for bonus
HW: 11-25 Huck Finn
due Monday
HW: FROG DAY
TOMORRROW! Frog
paraphernalia for up to
five bonus points.
Complete Frog Frame
guide after reading
“Jumping Frog”
5/1
Receive vocabulary lists
for SAT vocabulary
portion of final exam.
RTN Ambrose Bierce
Silent reading day
5/2
Complete Unit 10 Sat
quiz.
Read Huck Finn when
test is finished.
Discuss film
HW: Huck Finn must
be completed for
Monday HW: Huck
HW: Read the rest of
Huck Finn for Monday
Finn test Monday, Local
color/ regionalism test on
Wednesday: STUDY!
5/6
5/7
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View United Streaming:
Adventures of Huck
Finn (Great Books)
Complete exam on Local
color and regionalism
HW: Study for exam
tomorrow on Local
color and regionalism
Define and apply tall tale,
frame device and local
color
HW: work on Huck Finn
Project
HW: Study Huck Finn
and Vocabulary words
5/8
View Segments of The
Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
5/9
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Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn