October 2012- Honors American Lit.- Mrs. Koszarek
Mon
Tue
Wed
1
2
Beginnings – 1800 Test
Review for test (unit
organizer)
Thu
Fri
3
Intro to Romanticism
Identify key characteristics
and compare & contrast
with Age of Reason
4
Return tests (reteach if
needed)
HWK: Washington Irving’s
Rip Van Winkle and qs
8
Goals: read to understand
“Thanatopsis” (jigsaw)
HWK: Connect
“Thanatopsis” to 3
romantic subjects
9
Goals: Identify Romantic
subjects and support with
quotes. Define the Dark
Romantics.
HWK: read “Masque of the
Red Death” & answer qs
15
Review Romanticism
And Dark Romantic
writers
Goal: Identify and analyze
elements of Dark Romantic
characters, themes,
settings. (Poe)
HWK: “The Raven” and qs
16
22
29
Quiz 1-12
Read chs 19-24 for Wed.
Late Start
17
Take a Stand…opening
discussion of ideas in TSL
HWK: notes on TSL and
Hawthorne
Romantic Lit Test
Pop quiz
Discuss 1-5
(medias res, exposition,
light/dark imagery, irony,
character development)
HWK: read 6-8 & qs for 6
10
23
Discuss 6 and complete 7-8
explication
HWK:9-12 for Thurs.
Goal: Identify and analyze
elements of Dark Romantic
lit. (Hawthorne)
Simpsons “the Raven”
Hwk: Dr. Heideggers
Experiment
P-T Conferences 18
Return tests & discuss
Begin Reading The Scarlet
Letter.
HWK: chs 1-5
24
discuss chapters 9-10 –
character development (2
interpretations of
Chillingsworth, Dimm’s
suffering, H & P), the title
(Leech) connotation vs
denotation, the change in
him, public sin vs secret sin
30
Discuss the change in Hester,
Dim, and Chill
11
31
Discuss the ending of the
novel.
HWK: Review packet
12
Goal: Identify and analyze
elements of Dark Romantic
lit. Review romantic
subjects and author
messages about those
subjects.
HWK: finish frame
P-T Conferences 19
No School
25
Discuss 9-12 (only got
through 11 – great
discussion)
Review 1-12
26
Quiz 1-12
Moved quiz to Monday
(discuss 12-frame scaffold
scenes)
HWK: read 13-18
Nov. 1
In-class essay or part 1 of
test??
2
Test- The Scarlet Letter
Romanticism & The Scarlet Letter
HWK: read 138-150
American Romanticism
5
SUB: watched Wishbone’s
version of Rip Van Winkle
Discuss Rip Van Winkle
Connect story to nature, the
past, and the human world
of human nature
“Thanatopsis” jigsaw
HWK: William Cullen Bryant
“Thanatopsis” wksht