American Studies: Tentative Assignment Calendar, October 21, 2009
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Wed
10/21
10/22
Due: Optional Research for term papers
Review: Revised 2nd Quarter Plan
Reminder: TW reflections are due Friday—do you need to check out
anchor papers?
Instruction: Philosophy 101 for Dummies
 Video: Plato’s Republic
Assign: Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”, due 10/30
Planning: AIMS and Instruction and Assessment—who’s testing
when?
American Pageant - Chapter 14- Forging the National Economy Pages 305-321
Assign Chapter 15 Socratic Seminar - 100 points - A visit to Brook
Farm with your special guest reformer.
Note: Test Mastery, A-L, after school, chapters 1-13
10/23
Mon
10/26
10/27
Due: TW reflections/advertising
Assign: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
American Pageant - Forging the National Economy Pages 321-339b
Note: Test Mastery, M-Z, after school, chapters 1-13
Assign Weekly Grammar: #7: 78 & 79
Drafting the term paper/models of argument/writing an outline
(outlines due 11/2)
AIMS Reading/Retake to Exceed: 8:00-12:00
Instruction: As a matter of argument: Connotative diction and
Fallacies
10/28
AIMS Writing/Retake to Exceed: 8:00-12:00
Chapter 15 Brook Farm Socratic Seminar -100 points (tii)
10/29
AIMS Math/Retake to Exceed: 8:00-12:00
Chapter 15 Brook Farm Socratic Seminar (Cont.) 100 points (tii)
10/30
Mon
11/2
11/3
11/4
Due: Weekly Grammar: #7: 78 & 79
Writer’s Workshop/Syntax: Vocabulary List A
Due: Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”/Socratic Discussion/50 points
Assign Weekly Grammar #8: 80 & 81
Due: Vocabulary Log #3
Due: Term paper outlines/review
American Pageant - Chapter 16 The South and the Slavery
Controversy - pages 370-384
American Pageant - Chapter 16 The South and the Slavery
Controversy - pages 384- 395b
American Pageant - Chapter 17 - Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy
Manifest Destiny Document analysis in class - 40 points
TW: Argument
11/5
11/6
Mon
11/9
11/10
11/11
11/12
Assign: Douglass and MLK
TW: Calibration
History Review
Due: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part I/ Socratic
Discussion/essay writers only
Due: Weekly Grammar #8: 80 & 81
Assign Weekly Grammar #9: 91 & 92
Due: 1st draft/term paper/writer’s workshop (tii)
History Focus Exam - Chapters 1-17 with emphasis on chapters 1417
 Multiple Choice 160 points
 Free Response Essay 150 points
 Optional Notes on Chapters 14-17 due
No School/Holiday: Veteran’s Day
Due: Frederick Douglass and MLK readings and assignments/Socratic
Discussion
 Document Analysis for Douglass (summary/rhetorical
devices/significance - 40 points
 MLK: annotations and rhetorical analysis questions
11/13
American Pageant - Chapter 18 - Renewing the Sectional Struggle
Reading/M/C: Hawthorne meets Lincoln
Due: Weekly Grammar #9: 91 & 92
Mon
11/16
Assign Weekly Grammar #10: 95 & 85
Due: 2nd draft/term paper/writer’s workshop
11/17
American Pageant - Chapter 19 - Drifting Toward Disunion - pages
437-451
11/18
American Pageant - Chapter 19 - Drifting Toward Disunion - pages
451-461b
11/19
American Pageant - Chapter 20 - Girding for War
Assign/Video: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson (due 11/25)
11/20
Due: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part II/ Socratic
Discussion/essay writers only
Due: Weekly Grammar #10: 95 & 85
Mon
11/23
Due this week: term paper (tii; semester final)/NO LATE PAPERS
WILL BE ACCEPTED
American Pageant - Chapter 21 - The Furnace of Civil War - pages
481-496
American Pageant - Chapter 21 - The Furnace of Civil War - pages
496-511
LAST DAY TO TURN IN TERM PAPERS.
Assign: class writing on Reconstruction/a 1-2 paragraph response,
which includes a split/complex thesis statement. Evaluate to what
extent Reconstruction was a “Splendid Failure”? Due 12/3. 25 pts.
Due/Discussion: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
No School/Holiday: Thanksgiving
11/24
11/25
11/2627
Mon
11/30
Assign: Weekly Grammar #11: 96 & 97
Assign: The Poetry of Walt Whitman (due 12/7)
Video on Civil War
12/1
American Pageant - Chapter 22 - The Ordeal of Reconstruction pages 513-527
12/2
12/3
12/4
American Pageant - Chapter 22 - The Ordeal of Reconstruction pages 527-535b
Writer’s Workshop/Syntax: Vocabulary List B
Due: Reconstruction Assignment/Class Discussion: Evaluate to what
extent Reconstruction was a “Splendid Failure”?
Due: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part III/Socratic
Discussion/essay writers only
Due: Weekly Grammar #11: 96 & 97
Assign: Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural speech (due 12/11)
Optional Credit/after school movie: Dead Poet’s Society
Mon
12/7
Assign Weekly Grammar #12: 130, 131 & 132
Due/Discussion: The Poetry of Walt Whitman
Due: Vocabulary Log #4
12/8
History Focus MC Test Chapters 1-22 - Focus on Chapters 18-22
12/9
History Focus Test Chapters 1-22 - Focus on Chapters 18-22 - Free
Response
Optional Notes on American Pageant Chapters 18-22 due
American Pageant - Chapter 23 - Political Paralysis in the Gilded
Age pages 536-546
12/10
12/11
Due/Discussion: Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural speech
Due: Weekly Grammar #12: 130, 131 & 132
Mon
12/14
Portfolio Updates
12/15
Review Tournament: 1st Semester history
12/16
Review Tournament: 1st Semester history
12/17
M/C History Final, Pageant, Chapters 1-23
10% of Semester Grade
100 Multiple Choice Questions - NO NOTES ON FINAL EXAM
Chapter 23 American Pageant Optional Notes Due
American Pageant - Chapter 23 - Political Paralysis in the Gilded
Age pages 546-564B
12/181/4
No School: Winter Intercession