January 2010- American Literature- Mrs. Morrow
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Semester Exams – 8, 7, 6
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Quiz: “Blackfeet” and
“Coyote Juggles”/discuss.
Relate to Little Red
Riding Hood. HW: Read
Iroquois & Pima creation
myths.
Senior Class Meeting
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Semester Exams – 5, 4, 3,
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Due: book cover, notebook.
Native American Stereotypes
quiz and PPT.
HW: Cultural Letter. Read p.
20-21.
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Quiz: p. 20-21.
Due: cultural letter/Discuss
American cultural values.
PPT: Native American lit.
HW: Read “How The World
Was Made” & “Raven’s
Great Adventure.”
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Semester Exams – 2, 1
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In-Service – No School
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Quiz: “How the World” and
“Raven’s Great Adventure.”
Discuss/compare to
Christian creation myth.
HW: Read “Sky Tree” (22)
and “Coyote Finishes His
Work” (24).
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Quiz: “Sky Tree” and
“Coyote Finishes Work” and
discuss. Read/discuss “An
Indian’s View of Indian
Affairs.” HW: Read
“Blackfeet Genesis” &
“Coyote Juggles His Eyes.”
Native American Lit
Junior Class Meeting
Syllabus, folders, note
cards, discuss notetaking,
textbooks.
HW: Book cover,
notebook.
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February 2010- American Literature - Mrs. Morrow
Mon
Tue
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Thu
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Quiz: p. 6-18.
PPT: Settler literature.
HW: Read “Of Plymouth
Plantation” (26-33) and
complete worksheet.
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Work on sermons.
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Due/review: poetry WS.
Notes: Ages of Reason &
The Enlightenment.
HW: Read “Autobio of
Franklin” (84-94).
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PPT: Revolutionary
Literature. American
Dream WS in
class/discuss.
HW: Read “Speech
…Convention” (100-104).
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Frosh Open House
Late Start
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Quiz/discuss: “The History
of the Dividing Line.”
HW: Read “Sinners in the
Hands of an Angry God”
(77-81).
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Discuss “Sinners.”
Introduce sermon rewrite
and choose partners.
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Performs sermons.
PPT: Bradstreet and Taylor.
HW: Read p. 69-70; 73.
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Discuss 13 Virtues
Translations. Developing a
Game Plan WS HW: Moral
Perfection Journal.
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Native American literature
quiz.
HW: Read p. 6-18.
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Perform sermons.
Finish Reason PPT.
PPT: Franklin.
Franklin’s Moral Virtues WS
in groups. HW: Franklin’s
Virtue Quiz (online – my web
page).
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SNOW DAY
Video: Making the 13
Colonies (30 min.). Finish
settler PPT notes.
HW: Read “The History of
the Dividing Line” (48-54).
Due: Native Am. Essay.
Discuss “Plymouth
Plantation”.
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Work on sermons.
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SNOW DAY
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Puritan Poets Bradstreet &
Taylor (69, 73).
HW: Complete worksheets.
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Poor Richard in
class/discuss (95).
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In-Service – No School
Settler & Revolutionary Literature
Compare Iroquois/Pima
myths (worksheet). Introduce
essay.
HW: Study for quiz.
Fri
March 2010- American Literature - Mrs. Morrow
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
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Quiz: “Virginia Convention.”
PPT: “Virginia Convention”
w/worksheet.
HW: Read “The Crisis” (106111).
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Notes: Romantic Literature.
HW: Read “Rip Van Winkle”
(152). Missing Persons
Report.
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Quiz/PPT: “Minister’s
Black Veil.”
HW: Read “House of
Usher” (260-279).
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PPT: “House of Usher.”
HW: Sales brochure for
House of Usher.
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Due: “Raven” WS.
PPT: Melville.
HW: Read “from MobyDick” (313-327);
worksheet.
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Spring Break – No School
Late Start
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Spring Break – No School
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P-T Conferences – No
School
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PPT/discuss: Fireside
poetry. Whittier and
Longfellow worksheets in
class.
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View Moby Dick. Complete
viewing guide WS.
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Spring Break – No School
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Quiz: Rip Van Winkle.
Rip Van Winkle PPT.
HW: Read Longfellow (177)
and Whittier (182-185).
Sign up novel project book.
Work in English lab on
sales brochure.
Due: Moby-Dick WS.
View Moby Dick. Complete
viewing guide WS.
P-T Conferences
Read/discuss Crevecoeur’s
“Letters from an American
Farmer”/WS.
HW: Review for test on
Settler/Colonial literature.
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Due/discuss: Fireside
Poetry WS. PPT: Dark
romantic literature.
Introduce Novel Project.
HW: Read “Minister’s Black
Veil” (296-307).
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Work in English lab on
sales brochure.
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Due: Sales brochure.
PPT: “The Raven.” Read
“The Raven” (282), listen to
recordings, complete WS.
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View Moby Dick. Complete
viewing guide WS.
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Spring Break – No School
Early Release
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Finish viewing Moby Dick.
Due: viewing guide WS.
Romantic Literature
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Test: Settler/Colonial
literature.
HW: Read/take notes p.
138-150.
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Quiz: “The Crisis.”
Review “Convention” WS.
PPT: “The Crisis” w/WS.
Fri
April 2010- American Literature - Mrs. Morrow
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
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Spring Break – No School
Transcendentalism
survey (slides 1-9).
PPT: Transcendentalism.
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Finish transcendentalism PPT
(slides 10-12).
Read “Nature” (216) in class.
HW: Nature WS.
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Due/present protest signs.
Due/discuss: “Song of Myself”
WS.
HW: Dickinson/Whitman
Comparison WS.
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Test: Romanticism,
Transcendentalism, Whitman
& Dickinson.
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PPT: Thoreau.
Discuss Walden WS in
class.
HW: Walden Journal.
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Work in English lab on
Facebook Author project.
Late Start
Due/discuss: Walden
Journal. Watch video clips
of Dick Proenneke.
HW: Read “Resistance to
Civil Gv’t” (249). WS.
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Due: Facebook Author
project.
Introduce protest sign
project. Due Tuesday.
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Read/WS: “Apparently With
No Surprise”, “Some Keep
the Sabbath”, “Much
Madness” and “Heart!” WS.
HW: Review for test
Monday.
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Read “A Pair of Silk
Stockings” (435). Reading
WS.
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Work in English lab on
Facebook Author project.
Due: Comparison WS.
PPT: Dickinson.
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Due/discuss: “Silk
Stockings” WS. HW: Read
“Occurrence at Owl Creek”
(466). Reading WS.
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No School
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Due/discuss: “Owl Creek”
WS. HW: Read “To Build a
Fire” (495). Reading WS.
Realism/Naturalism
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PPT: Emerson.
Discuss Nature WS in
class. Nature Follow-up
WS. HW: Read “Walden”
(230). Walden WS.
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Due/discuss: “Self-Reliance”
WS. Introduce Profile of a
Transcendentalist project.
PPT: Whitman.
Read/WS: “When I Heard
the Learn’d Astronomer”
& “O Captain” HW: “Song
of Myself” WS.
PPT: Realism &
Naturalism.
HW: Read 407-422/notes
by Wednesday.
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Whitman & Dickinson
Due/discuss “Civil Gv’t”
WS. Read “Letter from
Birmingham Jail”
(256)/discuss. HW: Read
“Self-Reliance” (224).
WS.
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Transcendentalism
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May 2010- American Literature - Mrs. Morrow
Mon
Tue
Wed
3
Read (450-51) Twain bio;
“About the Book”; “Historical
Context. Hand out Character
List.
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Due: Novel Project.
Multicultural Awareness
Survey. PPT: Racial
Stereotypes.
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Due/discuss: 12-22
Timeline. HW: Read 2330 by Mon.
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Memorial Day – No
School
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Late Start
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Reading day.
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Due/discuss: 31-43 Timeline.
Review for test tomorrow.
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Due/discuss: Satire WS.
Reading time.
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Foil WS.
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Introduce Huck Finn Final
Writing Assignment (due
Wednesday).
Go to English lab.
Due/discuss: Origins of
Racism WS. Discuss PreReading Q’s.
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Discuss/take notes: Satire
PPT.
HW: Satire WS.
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Read Thomas Jefferson’s
article on race/discuss.
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Read/discuss: The “N”
Word; Exploring
Controversy; “N” Word: It
Just Slips Out
HW: Origins of Racism WS.
Finish Racial Stereotypes
PPT. Complete/discuss
Character & Point of View
WS.
Complete/discuss Conflict
WS.
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Due/discuss: 23-30
Timeline.
HW: Read 31-43 by Tues.
Characterization of Jim
WS.
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Reading Day.
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Due/discuss/quiz: 1-11
Timeline. Continue Racial
Stereotypes PPT.
HW: Read 12-22 by Mon.
Fri
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Symbol WS.
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Go to English lab.
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Go to English lab.
Huckleberry Finn
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PPT: London.
Due/discuss: “To Build a
Fire” WS. Hand out
novels.
HW: Read 1-11 by Tues.
Thu
June 2010- American Literature - Mrs. Morrow
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
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Test: Huck Finn.
HW: Review for exam.
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View Huck Finn.
HW: Compare-contrast
WS.
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Semester Exams
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View Huck Finn.
HW: Compare-contrast WS.
View Huck Finn.
HW: Compare-contrast WS.
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Semester Exams
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In-Service – No School
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