The Early Americans -- Revision
Honors American Literature – Fall 2013
September
Friday 13
Discuss Puritan poets, Anne Bradstreet (pp. 95 & 194) and Edward Taylor (p. 101) and literary devices
HW: Read The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 10 & 11
Monday 16
Discuss chapters 5-11 of The Scarlet Letter; collect Post-it Notes
HW: Read The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 12
Tuesday 17
Introduce the Great Awakening; read Jonathan Edwards’s Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (p. 105)
HW: Read The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 13
Wednesday 18
Introduce comparison and contrast assignment; begin C&C chart
HW: Complete comparison and contrast chart – due 9/19
Thursday 19
Check C&C charts; write comparison and contrast draft
HW: Read The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 14; complete comparison and contrast rough draft – due 9/23
Friday 20 – Parent-Teacher Conferences - No School
Monday 23
Collect comparison and contrast drafts; introduce Arthur Miller, Why I Wrote The Crucible (p. 1095) and The
Crucible (p. 1098); introduce Salem witch trials; read Salem court documents
HW: Read The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 15 &16
Tuesday 24
View The Crucible
HW: Read The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 17 & 18
Wednesday 25
Continue viewing The Crucible
HW: Read The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 19 & 20
Thursday 26 – Early Release
Finish viewing The Crucible; discuss play; begin The Crucible writing
HW: Read The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 21; complete The Crucible writing – due 9/30
Friday 27 – Waiver Day - No School
Monday 30
Collect The Crucible writing; discuss chapters 13-21 of The Scarlet Letter; collect Post-it Notes
HW: Read The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 22
October
Tuesday 1
Writing lesson - commas; October vocabulary
HW: Finish reading The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 23 & 24; complete October vocabulary – due 10/4
Wednesday 2
Discuss The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 22-24 and the novel’s themes; collect Post-It Notes
HW: Complete The Scarlet Letter writing – due 10/3
Thursday 3
Collect The Scarlet Letter writing; view Great Books: The Scarlet Letter; select Early American paper to revise
HW: Revise Early American paper – rough draft due 10/9
Friday 4
Collect October vocabulary; finish Great Books; review for Early American test
HW: Prepare for Early American unit quote/essay test; revise Early American paper
Monday 7
Writing lesson - showing v. telling
HW: Prepare for quote/essay unit test; revise Early American paper
Tuesday 8
Early American test
HW: Revise Early American paper – second draft due 10/9
Wednesday 9
Peer edit Early American paper
HW: Complete final draft of Early American paper – due 10/11
Age of Reason
Honors American Literature – Fall 2013
October
Thursday 10
Introduce the Age of Reason and Benjamin Franklin
HW: Read The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (p. 165) and Poor Richard’s Almanack (p. 171)
Friday 11
Collect Early American final drafts; discuss Franklin and his writings
HW: Writing assignment: Choose one of Franklin’s aphorisms, and write a fable that concludes with the
aphorism as the moral of the story – due 10/14
Monday 14
Share Ben Franklin writings; discuss elements of persuasion and argumentation; read excerpts from Thomas
Paine’s The Crisis, No. 1 (p. 131)
HW: Finish reading The Crisis; complete The Crisis worksheet – due 10/14
Tuesday 15
Continue to discuss elements of persuasion and argumentation; listen to Patrick Henry’s Speech to the Virginia
Convention (p. 121)
HW: Writing assignment: Write an argument in the style of Patrick Henry’s speech; use, underline and label
three different rhetorical devices in the speech – due 10/16
Wednesday 16
Collect Patrick Henry speeches; introduce Thomas Jefferson’s The Declaration of Independence (p. 139);
writing lesson - parallelism
HW: Complete parallelism worksheet
Thursday 17
Read and discuss Malcolm X’s Necessary to Protect Ourselves (handout)
HW: Read Martin Luther King Jr.’s Stride Toward Freedom (handout)
Friday 18 – COTA Day – No School
Monday 21
Discuss Stride toward Freedom; view Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech
HW: Writing assignment: Do you agree with Malcolm X or Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy for change?
Explain their philosophies and your reason for selecting one over the other; include a minimum of two direct
quotes from their writings to support your opinion – due 10/22
Tuesday 22
Collect MLK v. Malcolm X assignment; writing lesson - colons and semicolons