SYLLABUS Fall 2015 - Jr Honors English (always subject to change)
Aug. 12-21
?? = if time permits
Oct. 19-23
Scarlet Letter begun -Pre Assessment
2 wks Native American Literature 25-30,34,35
Narrative writing - personal history??
History/Geography -map quiz/Economy DVD
MLs- Writing basics, proofreadg, Nat.
Americans/ SL background /??gold sheet
Vocabulary #1 - Definitions
Aug. 24-Sept. 10
Bradford p. 81 +readings/J. Edwards/
Equiano 93/ Bradstreet 138 +
3 wks Vocab Test #1 - Vocab. #2- Definitions
MLs- Philosophies, Puritans, AmTrad, Early
Am dates
Scarlet Letter objective TestTheme- short Expository writing
Persuasive writing Proving the theme is
universal (compare)
Grammar - gold sheet
Sept. 11-Sept. 25
3 wks Vocab. Test #2- Scarlet Letter
Crucible- Seeing others differently -bullying
( 6 days)
??Adams 285; Wheatley 283
TEST #1 - Early Americans (Native Amer Puritans)
Crucible TEST
ML- phrases, clauses
Scarlet Letter persuasive paper due
Sept. 28- 14
Vocab. #3 - Definitions
Patriotism- Henry (tape) 262; Jefferson 270
2 wks Paine handout “Crisis”; de Crevecour 289
Toulmin claim statement The Pledge of Allegiance; Dec. of
Independence
TEST #2- Patriotism
ML- Intro to Romanticism - Irving 340; Poe "The
Raven" 466; Poe House of Usher -partial 473
"Bells" HO; Hawthorne "Dr. H Exp" 500,
Longfellow 344
Transcendentalism - Emerson 364, Thoreau 382
Oct. 26-30
Presentations -Poets - Whitman 397, 399, 400
and Dickinson 751, 752, 753, 757, 759
Romanticism/Transcendentalism - Test
Start Huckleberry Finn reading
Vocab. #3 Test- Vocab #4 list -Huck Finn
H. Finn research groups- Lab/ITC
Nov. 2-6
?? Huck Finn presentations
Start Huck Finn papers - major /minor character
Nov. 9-13
Huck Finn Vocab. Test ( #4)
Huck Finn Quizzes
ML - Diagrams A
Paper conference-outlines
Nov. 16-24
HFinn - Novel Test
Book Sale presentations
ML- Diagrams B
Huck Finn papers to edit
Nov. 30-Dec. 4
ML- Intro. to Local Color and Conflict
Vocab list #5
Bierce "Owl Creek" 580; Twain 658 & 679
Huck Finn paper due
Dec. 7-11
Civil War - Lincoln 605;
Chief Joseph 651; S. Truth Handout
Frederick Douglass HO and 562;
Vocab #5 Test
?? Test on Local color and Conflict
Dec. 14- 17
Exams- review