American Lit.

January 30- March 2
Nature, Transcendentalism, and Research
1/30- Introduce Topic 2: Nature
1/31: American Romanticism/Prep A River Runs Through It
2/1:  A River Runs Through It
2/3 : A River Runs Through It

2/6: Discuss Rip Van Winkle/ Research Project Assigned
2/7: Transcendentalism
2/9: Emerson & Thoreau
2/10: Quiz

2/13: Research
March 5- April 5
Adventures of Huck Finn

3/12--Reading Quiz 1-10; Discussion #1; Ch1-10 Group Handout
3/13--Group Handout Due; SSR Chapters 11-18
3/15--View Mainstream; Handout; SSR Ch 11-18
3/16--SSR Ch 11-18 Questions ; Review         Mainstream Handout

3/19--SSR, Overview of The King, Duke, Colonel Sherburn
3/21--Discussion #2: Ch. 11-18/ SSR
3/22: Twain/Discuss 19-22,24-29 (The King, The Duke, Colonel Sherburn); Summary Chapters 19-29; Discussion Questions Ch 20-43

Spring Break

4/2: Discussion #3 23, 30-End; Huck Finn Midterm Study Guide
4/3: Finish Culture Shock Born to Trouble
4/4: Midterm Exam pushed to Monday 4/9

Easter
April 9--Midterm Exam

April 9- May 7
Money, Class, Modernism
Video Link; Modernist Portraits Video Questions
Soldier's Home Questions
"The Sensible Thing" Reading Questions---Due Monday 4/16

May 7-The End

May 9--Writing Starter, SSR, The Western Lecture Intro.
May 10--Writing Starter, SSR, Finish The Western Lecture
May 14--Discussion #1 pgs. 11-68
May 15--SSR
May 17th--SSR
May18th--SSR
May 21 Discussion #2 pgs. 69-175
May 25--TRUE GRIT Final Discussion--Literary Analysis Due
The Western, True Grit, Lonesome Dove

Lit. Genres

2/10--Act 2 Review Handout; Vocab Quiz

2/13--Act 2 Review Handout Due; View Romeo & Juliet--Act 2; Unit 9 Vocab Assigned, collect Unit 8 vocab assignment
2/14--Finish Act 2--Study for Act 1,2 Test
2/16--Act 2 Test; Read Act 3
2/17--Finish reading Act 3, Act 3 Study Guide, View Act 3

2/21--Finish Act 3; Begin Act 4
2/23--Read Act 4; Act 4 Review; View Act 4
2/24--Complete Act 4; Unit 9 Vocab Test


Of Mice and Men
3/12-- Of Mice and Men Chapter 1 Questions Due Tuesday 3/13 Study for Vocab. Test 3/15
3/13--Review Ch1 and Chapter 1 Questions Due; SSR Chapter 2
3/15--SSR Complete Ch2 Reading, Assign and Complete Chapter 2 Questions,
3/16--Unit 10 Vocab Test;

3/19--Chapter 3 Questions Handout Due Wednesday; Assign Unit 11 Vocabulary; SSR Chapter 3
3/21--Finish Chapter 3 and Ch 3 Discussion; Questions Due; SSR Read Ch 4
3/22--Finish Ch. 4 Chapter 4 Discussion and Chapter 4 Questions

Spring Break
Read Ch 5 and 6 for Monday April 2; Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 Questions

4/2 Discuss Chapter 4, 5, and 6
4/3--Review book; Study for Midterm; OMAM Midterm Test Study Guide
4/4--Midterm Test

4/16--Read Act 1 of A Raisin in the Sun--Reading Questions; Assign Vocab Unit                     12--Test Friday, 4/27
4/17--Finish Act 1--Act 1 Reading Questions Due

4/23--Finish Act 1.2 Reading Questions; View Act 1 of Play; Study for Vocab Test on Friday

Video Questions
5/4--A Raisin in the Sun Essay Assigned
5/7--Collect Raisin Reading Questions; Work on Essay; Study Synonyms/Antonyms
5/8--Rough Draft Due, Library Time
5/9--Revision, and Editing Work Day in Class
5/10--Essay Due; Vocabulary Test Unit 13

5/21--Questions Chapters 2-4; Read Chapters 5-7 for Tuesday's class
5/22--Chapter 2 Quotation Analysis

5/25-Chapter 11-12 Quotation Analysis

Absence Form
Missed Discussion Form