Week of January 25:
We will start class with The Soloist so please bring that on Tuesday, Jan 26. Start reading The Crucible now.
Jan 26: The Soloist
Jan 29: You should have read and taken notes on pages 2-15 in your text.
Week of Feb. 1:
Feb 2: Answer the questions on the discussion board site for the colonial period
Feb 3: Read and take notes on Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation," pages 22-32, looking for the ways God controls people
Feb 4: Read and take notes on Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" pages 54-59, looking for the relationship between people and humanity
Feb 5: You should have completed the fill ins and critical reading in your vocabulary book for chapters 1-2. Next Friday we will have a quiz/test on 1-2 (spelling, definition) and go over 3-4
Feb. 8: The Soloist project due, read Equiano's "The Interesting Narrative of Oludah Equiano" in texbook and take notes
Feb 9: Go to handouts and weblinks and paste the following into your notebooks: a picture of a spinning wheel with its parts, a picture of a loom with its parts, the poem "Huswifery," and the poem "Upon What Base"
Feb 10: You should have finished reading The Crucible
Feb 11 or Feb 15: Tentative date for Colonial Period test
Feb 12: Voc 1-2 quiz on spelling and definitions, go over 3-4
Week of Feb 15:
2/17: Crucible...
Tentative date for Colonial Test is now 2/18
2/19: Voc 3-4 quiz, 5-6 due
Week of Feb 23:
Feb 23: Starting The Crucible--you need to have read it or know more about it than you have so far... and you need that book with you daily for now
Feb 24: Test on the Colonial writers and period
Feb 25: Crucible again until Friday
Feb 27: voc 5-6 quiz, 7-8 due
Week of March 1:
Mar 1: Voc 5-6 quiz, go over 7-8
Mar 2-4: Crucible
Mar 5: voc 7-8 quiz with 9-10 due
Week of March 8:
March 12: Voc 9-10 quiz, 11-12 due
Week of March 15:
March 16: Essay test on The Crucible--you will be colloborating
March 17: Start bringing the textbook again
March 18: Id badges or trading cards due for The Crucible
Week of March 28:
April 1 (Wed): Tenative date for test on Revolutionary Period writers--objective
Week of April 12: Start reading Night for May 10
April 13: Have read "The Devil and Tom Walker"
April 14: Have read "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"
April 16: Voc 11-12 quiz, 13-14 due
Week of April 19:
Start reading Night for May 10
April 19: Projects due on Revolutionary Period
April 20: Have a copy of "Young Goodman Brown" either printed out from the internet or pasted into your notebook. Have it read. Think of it as an allegory
April 22: Have either Night or voc with you because I will be on a field trip--also bring yout textbook--READ "THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER" and "The Oval Portrait" FOR FRIDAY, APRIL 23, pages 158-179
April 23: Voc 13-14 quiz, 15-16 due
April 26: Read Cooper's 137-148
April 29: Test on the short stories , I hope
April 30: Voc 15-16 quiz, 17-18due--I corrected themistake from earlier about the units
May 3: Objective and essay test on Romantic period writers
May 7: Voc 17-18 quiz, 19-20 due
May 10: Night should be read, possible day of the test on Bryant and the Fireside poets
May 11 poetry test with index card
May 14: voc 19-20 quiz, 21 due
May 21: Last voc quiz 21
May 24: Night essay test--you can have a 3 by 5 index card with quotations
June 1: Night projects due--see handouts project 3
June 7: poetry project due--in handouts under poetry project 2
June 14: To Kill a Mockingbird should be read