Standard English III
Week of 11/26 to 11/30
Monday-Practice EOC; Textbook Read Pgs 344-346, 350-352 - Questions 1,2,3,5,7 on P.
347 and Questions 1,2,3,4, on P. 353.
Tuesday - Read poems on pages 344-352 and discuss in class; finish question assignment and turn in; review vocabulary words for SAT Vocab #4 for quiz on Thursday, 11/29.
Thursday-QUIZ on SAT Vocab #4; Read Emerson's "Self-Reliance" and "Nature" beg on
Page 370 - do first two pages of packet.
Week of 11/19 and 11/20
M onday 11/19 - SAT Vocab #4, Compare "Thanatopsis" with "Don't Fear the Reaper" and "Dust in the Wind"
Week of 11/12 to 11/16
Monday 11/12 -Finish "The Devil and Tom Walker" and finish the two-sided worksheet;
OR, get the notes on American Romantics (one or the other for each class)
Tuesday 11/13 - Practice EOC with notations in the reading
Thursday 11/15 - Test on "The Devil and Tom Walker" and vocabulary; read
"Thanatopsis" on page 338 and write short narrative on death
Week of 11/5 to 11/10
Monday - Quack #3 Test (2nd period only) LIST of Words
Thursday - American Romantics background: worksheet with vocab and questions; Read
"The Devil and Tom Walker" in class p. 320
Week of 10/28 to 11/2
Monday - In library with Mrs. Blair - take notes on Internet usage and research
Tuesday - In computer lab - practice TCAP essay
Thursday - Quack SAT #3 vocabulary test - Introductory to American Romantic Period
Week of 10/22 to 10/25
Monday - Summative Test for Second Six Weeks (in class)

Tuesday/Wednesday - Review vocabulary Quack 3 and rhetorical questions and parallelism.
Thursday/Friday - Pre-read TCAP practice background and look at writing prompt.
Discuss possible tactics for practice essay.
Week of 10/14 to 10/19
Monday - The Crucible test
Tuesday - Read Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia Convention (p. 230)
Took notes on rhetoric using textbook pages 226-229 in text
Answered study questions #1-6 on page 235 and turned in 10/15/12
Thursday - SAT vocabulary word list #3 - Copy definitions and write an eight-word sentence using each one properly. Due in class. Vocab list HERE
AP English III
Week of 11/26 to 11/30
Monday-Practice EOC and study questions for Chapters XI-XVIII
Tuesday/Wednesday - Discussion ofTAHF Chapters XI-XX (use study questions for evidential information from text) - Vocab List for Test on Monday 12/3/12
Thursday/Friday - Discussion of TAHF Chapters XXI to XXVI - Writing assignment in class - Respond to the following: “The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that’s what an army is—a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any man at the head of it, is beneath pitifulness. Now the thing for you to do, is to droop your tails and go home and crawl in a hole. If any real lynching’s going to be done, it will be done in the dark, Southern fashion; and when they come they’ll bring their masks, and fetch a man along.”
Week of 11/19 and 11/20
Monday/Tuesday - Discussion of TAHF Chapters 7-10, AP Workbook pages 1-3 answer justifications in groups

Week of 11/12 to 11/16
Monday - Introduction to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Tuesday/Wednesday - Discussion of Chapters I, II, III - TAHF
Thursday/Friday - Discussion of Chapters IV,V,VI and pages 1-3 in AP workbook
Week of 11/5 to 11/9
Monday/Wednesday - Discuss Virginia Woolf's "Death of a Moth" and Groucho Marx's
"Letter to Warner Bros." ASSIGNMENT: graphic organizer on JFK's inaugural speech due Thursday/Friday 11/8 or 9
Thursday/Friday - Smoke Signals - Collect graphic organizers from JFK Inaugural
Speech - Receive AP workbooks - Reading calendar for The Adventures of Huck Finn
Week of 10/27 to 11/2
Monday - In library with Mrs. Blair - take notes on Internet usage and research
Tuesday/Wednesday - Practice TCAP Essay
Thursday/Friday - Using the handout "Born to Not Get Bullied" and "who Needs college?" - in groups, answer the questions on page 47 and create a thesis for each.
HOMEWORK: Read pages 47-68 and do activity on page 68.
Week of 10/22 to 10/25
Monday - Summative Test for Second Six Weeks (in class)
Tuesday/Wednesday - Rebubble, check identification facts, learn cheer. Read over TCAP writing prompt materials and receive rubric. Team work on preparing the essay.
HOMEWORK: Read pages 39-47 for discussion.
Thursday/Friday -
In-class discussion of pages 39-47 in The Language of Composition
Pre-read TCAP practice background information and look at writing prompt. Discuss possible tactics for practice essay.
Week of 10/14 to 10/19
Monday - Peer editing on The Scarlet Letter essay, using rubric. Homework: Read pages
1-20 in The Language of Composition

Tuesday/Wednesday - Discussion of pages 1-20 and examples of the types of rhetoric in textbook. Homework: Read pages 21-30 in TLofC
Thursday/Friday - Discussion of pages 21-30 and examples of the types of rhetoric in textbook. Group work: p. 29 HOMEWORK: Culminating Activity on page 30 using
SOAPS and ethos, pathos, and logos to write paragraphs and turn in on Monday.