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FINALS: Author Panel #4 and 5;
COLLECTED: Author Parody, Portfolio Evaluation, Bibliography

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TEST: Modernism Unit Test

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PRESENTATIONS: American Author Panels

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PRESENTATIONS: Author Panel #1;
COLLECTED: Snows/Macomber packets

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REVIEW: completed review for Modernism etc. Unit Test;
HANDOUT: Faulkner Notetaking Packet;
LECTURE/DISCUSSION: Faulkner background;
COLLECTED: Contemporary Novel Papers;
REMINDER: will collect Snows/Macomber Notetaking packet with Snows/Macomber themes and list of parallels between all 6 stories tomorrow

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DISCUSSION: completed Snows/Macomber;
HANDOUTS: Modernism Test Focus Areas, Hemingway Parodies, Author Parody assignment (due day of final)

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DISCUSSION: Snows/Macomber (flashbacks);
HANDOUT: Portfolio Evaluation Letter (due day of final);
HANDOUT: Portfolio Log

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DISCUSSION: continued Snows/Macomber (code heroes);
HANDOUT: Author Panel Schedule;
CALENDAR: Author Panels will start Tuesday, panels 4 and 5 will be on finals day, Contemporary Novel Papers due Monday

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REVIEW: format for Contemporary Novel Papers;
DISCUSSION: Snows/Macomber (women);
HANDOUT: Snows/Macomber notetaking packets

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LECTURE/DISCUSSION: completed Hemingway background

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LECTURE/DISCUSSION: began Hemingway background;
HANDOUTS: Hemingway notetaking packet, Hemingway Supplementary Packet

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DISCUSSION: In Another Country, Hills Like White Elephants

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DISCUSSION: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, Indian Camp

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TEST: Fitzgerald/Modern Age

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HANDOUT: Farewell Ch. 1 (read and discussed imagery, style);
HANDOUT: Farewell (Hemingway's naturalistic world view);
HANDOUTS: Indian Camp, Hills Like White Elephants;
LECTURE/DISCUSSION: Hemingway Code Hero (notetaking);
HANDOUT: Snows/Macomber discussion questions (due June 6);
CALENDAR: read A Clean Well-Lighted Place, Indian Camp, and In Another Country for June 1, Hills Like White Elephants for June 2, Snows of Kilimanjaro and Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber for June 6

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TIMED WRITING: Gatsby

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COLLECTED: review questions for Fitzgerald test;
DISCUSSION: expatriate writers packet (examples of modernism);
REVIEW: procedure for Author Panels;
TEXTBOOKS: checked out Snows of Kilimanjaro

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HANDOUT: Modernism;
FILM: Expatriate Writers documentary;
HANDOUT: Expatriate Writers excerpts;
COLLECTED: Babylon Revisited

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DISCUSSION: closing of Gatsby;
HANDOUT: Fitzgerald/Modern Age Test Review;
HANDOUT: Sherwood Anderson Bio;
HANDOUT: Fitzgerald Supplementary Packet;
CALENDAR: Gatsby Timed Writing Thursday, Fitzgerald Unit Test Tuesday 5/31, Contemporary Novel Papers 6/10, Author Panels begin 6/13;
DISCUSSION: Babylon;
ASSIGNMENT: 15 review questions for Fitzgerald test (due Wednesday, typed)

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DISCUSSION: Gatsby Ch. 8 and 9;
HANDOUT: Babylon Revisited (read and annnotate for Monday--regret, nostalgia, sickness, money, past, autobiographical elements)

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DISCUSSION: Gatsby Ch. 7 (after Plaza Hotel)

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READER'S THEATER: completed Gatsby Ch. 7 scenes (discussion)

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QUIZ: Gatsby Ch. 8;
READING ASSIGNMENT: Gatsby Ch. 9 for Monday;
READER'S THEATER: began Gatsby Ch. 7 (Buchanan Luncheon);
HANDOUT: Gatsby Activity Sheet #10 (due Monday)

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QUIZ: Gatsby Ch. 7;
READING ASSIGNMENT: Gatsby Ch. 8 (quiz tomorrow);
DISCUSSION: Gatsby Ch. 6

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DISCUSSION: Gatsby Ch. 5;
REMINDER: Gatsby Quiz Ch. 7 tomorrow

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LECTURE/DISCUSSION: completed Fitzgerald biography;
DISCUSSION: Gatsby Ch. 4;
READING ASSIGNMENT: Gatsby Ch. 7 (quiz Thursday);
QUIZ: Gatsby Ch. 6

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LECTURE/DISCUSSION: continued Fitzgerald biography;
REMINDER: Gatsby Ch. 6 quiz tomorrow

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LECTURE/DISCUSSION: began Fitzgerald bio (notetaking)

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PRESENTATIONS: completed Ch. 3 Gatsby Group Reports;
DISCUSSION: compiled a list of common elements in Ch. 3;
DISCUSSION: began Gatsby Ch. 4;
READING ASSIGNMENT: read Ch. 6 Gatsby for quiz Tuesday

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PRESENTATIONS: continued Gatsby Ch. 3 group reports (5, 6, 7)

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PRESENTATIONS: continued Gatsby Ch. 3 group reports (annotated books);
QUIZ: Gatsby Ch. 4 and 5

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PRESENTATIONS: began Gatsby Ch. 3 group reports (Groups 1 and 2)

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QUIZ: Gatsby Ch. 3;
DISCUSSION: completed Gatsby Ch. 2
READING ASSIGNMENT: Gatsby Ch. 4 and 5 quiz on Tuesday;
HANDOUT: Gatsby Ch. 3 groups (will begin Monday)

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DISCUSSION: Gatsby Ch. 2;
REMINDER: Gatsby Ch. 3 Quiz tomorrow

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QUIZ: Gatsby Ch. 2;
READING ASSIGNMENT: Gatsby Ch. 3 quiz Friday;
DISCUSSION: completed Gatsby Ch. 1

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FILM: excerpts from The Flapper Story;
DISCUSSION: began Ch. 1 (Tom, Jordan, Daisy);
REMINDER: Gatsby Quiz on Ch. 2 tomorrow;
COLLECTED: Winesburg essay comment sheet and essay; Death, Sophistication, Departure annotations

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QUIZ: Gatsby Ch. 1;
READING ASSIGNMENT: read Gatsby Ch. 2 for quiz Wednesday;
HANDOUT: intro to Modern Age/American Dream (discussed--notetaking)

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HANDOUT: Winesburg essay and comment sheet (due Tuesday);
INSTRUCTION: intro to Gatsby, read and discussed opening pages;
READING ASSIGNMENT: Gatsby Ch. 1 (quiz Monday)

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ASSEMBLY

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DISCUSSION: Winesburg (Sophistication, Departure, George's development);
COLLECTED: Spoon River packets;
REMINDER: start bringing Gatsby every day

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DISCUSSION: completed Spoon River/Introduction (will collect Spoon River packets tomorrow)
DISCUSSION: Winesburg (Death);
CALENDAR: signed up for Contemporary Novel Conferences (will begin Thursday)

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REPORTS: continued Spoon River Reports

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WINESBURG PRESENTATIONS: Nobody Knows/An Awakening;
HANDOUT: Spoon River Introduction (annotate for Monday)

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WINESBURG PRESENTATIONS: Loneliness/Respectability;
ASSIGNMENT: annotate Death, Sophistication, Departure for Monday

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WINESBURG PRESENTATIONS: The Strength of God/Teacher

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WINESBURG PRESENTATIONS: Adventure/Queer;
TEXTBOOKS: get copy of Gatsby for Monday

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CAREER CENTER

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PRESENTATIONS: continued Spoon River group reports (annotating)

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OUTSIDE READING: checked out Contemporary Novels (parent letters to be returned);
PRESENTATIONS: began Spoon River reports (notetaking/annotating);
REVIEW: requirements for Winesburg presentations

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HANDOUT: Spoon River Anthology;
GROUPS: Spoon River Analysis (will report to class tomorrow)

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DISCUSSION: completed Contemporary Novel Overview and Book Browsing (rank choices 1-10)(due tomorrow)

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HANDOUT: Contemporary Novel Prompt;
HANDOUT: Contemporary Novel List;
DISCUSSION: began book overview

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DISCUSSION: Mother (Winesburg);
GROUPS: worked on Winesburg Presentations

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TEST: Naturalism

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GROUPS: preparation for Winesburg presentations;
DISCUSSION: Winesburg (Paper Pills);
REMINDER: Naturalism Test tomorrow;
HOMEWORK CHECK: annotations for Winesburg group chapter (grade recorded)

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COLLECTED: Author Panel rankings;
DISCUSSION: Hands;
GROUPS: worked on Winesburg analysis for presentations

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HOMEWORK CHECK: Hands, Paper Pills, Mother Annotations (grade recorded);
DISCUSSION: Notes by Tim O'Brien;
HANDOUT: American Author Panels (rank EACH side 1-5 [top choice #1 etc.])(due tomorrow);
CALENDAR: Realism/Naturalism Test on Thursday, Winesburg Group Presentations will begin April 11 (the Monday after break)

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DISCUSSION: completed Speaking of Courage;
ASSIGNMENT: annotate Hands, Paper Pills, Mother (Winesburg) for Monday;
HANDOUT: Notes by Tim O'Brien (read and mark 2-3 passages of interest for Monday);
COLLECTED: London group notes and annotated To Build a Fire

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DISCUSSION: continued Speaking of Courage;
COLLECTED: 15 study questions for Naturalism;
REMINDER: London group notes/annotated story due tomorrow

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FILM: Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge;
DISCUSSION: began Speaking of Courage

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REVIEW: Focus areas for Realism/Naturalism test;
HANDOUT: Realism/Naturalism Supplementary packet;
ASSIGNMENT: 15 study/review questions for Naturalism (typed, due Thursday);
HANDOUT: Winesburg Group Presentation assignment sheet (formed groups and chose chapters);
ASSIGNMENT: xerox Winesburg chapter and annotate (due Tuesday);
HANDOUT: London Bio

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TIMED WRITING: Ethan Frome Setting Essay (Prompt, Essay, Typed outline, Imagery Charts, Ethan Report Notes, Annotated Scene)

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READING TEST: Winesburg, Ohio;
HANDOUT: Journal Topic for Speaking of Courage (typed, 350 words min, due Tuesday);
HANDOUT: Speaking of Courage (read for Tuesday, draft 5 discussion questions for character, setting, themes (total of 15), typed, due Tuesday);
REMINDER: Ethan Frome Setting timed writing Monday;
PRESENTATIONS: continued London group reports

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PRESENTATIONS: continued London Group Reports (notetaking);
REMINDER: Winesburg Reading Test tomorrow

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SCHEDULING: Course Requests for 2011-12 (cafeteria);
CALENDAR: Winesburg Reading Test Friday, Ethan Frome Setting essay Monday

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REPORTS/DISCUSSION: began London topic reports (groups 1, 2, 3) (notetaking/annotating)

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DISCUSSION: completed Bridge;
GROUPS: To Build a Fire topic groups (will begin reports tomorrow)

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DISCUSSION: Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Sections I and II);
HANDOUT: London--To Build A Fire (read for Monday)

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FILM: completed Crane documentary (notetaking);
DISCUSSION: parallels Red Badge/Mystery of Heroism, Crane's influences on modern literature/journalism;
LECTURE/DISCUSSION: Ambrose Bierce background

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REVIEW: completed instructions for Ethan Setting timed writing;
HANDOUT: Crane notetaking packet;
FILM: began Crane documentary

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DISCUSSION: completed Mystery of Heroism;
COLLECTED: Mystery of Heroism notetaking packet and annotated story;
REVIEW: format for Ethan Frome Setting Outline (timed writing March 10)

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COLLECTED: Bridge Part III Summary;
HANDOUT: Mystery of Heroism Analysis packet;
DISCUSSION: Mystery of Heroism;
REMINDER: will collect MOH analysis packet and annotated story tomorrow

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DISCUSSION: completed imagery in Mystery of Heroism (annotated story);
HANDOUT: Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce (read story and type a detailed plot summary for Part III, due Monday 2/28)

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HANDOUT: Naturalism notetaking packet;
DISCUSSION: began analysis of imagery in Mystery of Heroism

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HANDOUT: Ethan Frome Setting Prompt;
HANDOUT: Ethan Frome Scenes (choose one for approval)
HANDOUT: excerpt from My Antonia (read and discussed patterns of imagery);
HANDOUT: A Mystery of Heroism by Stephen Crane (read for tomorrow)

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TEXTBOOKS: checked out Winesburg, Ohio (Reading Test March 11);
INTRODUCTION: Modernism, Sherwood Anderson, The Book of the Grotesque, Ohio pics etc.)
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PRESENTATIONS: completed Ethan Topic Reports;
COLLECTED: second Extended Reading annotations

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PRESENTATIONS: continued Ethan Topic Reports (notetaking)

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PRESENTATIONS: Ethan Topic Reports (notetaking on reports and class discussion)

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FILM: Mark Twain Tonight (Hal Holbrook);
GROUPS: worked on Ethan Frome topic reports (will begin reports tomorrow)

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COLLECTED: Ethan Frome Analysis;
GROUPS: prepared for Ethan Frome topic reports (due tomorrow)

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READING TEST: Ethan Frome;
REVIEW: Realism Test, Literary Movement Test

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FILM: completed Charley's Aunt;
REMINDER: Ethan Frome Reading Test Monday

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ASSIGNMENT: Ethan Frome List of Significant Scenes, Character/Conflicts/Techniques/Passages/Questions/Themes (typed, due Tuesday);
FILM: continued Charley's Aunt

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FILM: began Charley's Aunt

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PRESENTATIONS: Extended Reading Projects

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PRESENTATIONS: continued Extended Reading Projects

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PRESENTATIONS: continued Extended Reading projects;
REMINDER: Literary Movement Test and Trapped journals day of final

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PRESENTATIONS: continued Extended Reading projects

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PRESENTATIONS: Extended Reading Projects

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COLLECTED: Extended Reading Projects;
PRESENTATIONS: began Extended Reading Projects

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TEST: Realism Unit Exam;
REMINDER: Extended Reading Projects due tomorrow

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TEXTBOOKS: checked out Ethan Frome (due Feb. 2);
HANDOUT: Trapped (due day of final, typed, 300 words);
DISCUSSION: Du Bois (The Souls of Black Folk);
REMINDER: Realism test tomorrow

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COLLECTED: Realism study/review questions;
HANDOUT: DuBois The Souls of Black Folk (read for Tuesday);
DISCUSSION: Washington and Douglass slave narratives;
REVIEW: Literary Movements (for Final)

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REVIEW: Focus items for Realism test (Handout);
ASSIGNMENT: 15 study/review questions for Realism test (typed, due tomorrow);
HANDOUT: Realism Supplementary Packet;
COLLECTED: Childhood Memoir Interviews;
HOMEWORK CHECK: Douglass Narrative

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HOMEWORK CHECK: Twain Quote, Washington annotations;
HANDOUTS: Whitman (Specimen Days, Republic of Suffering excerpt on Whitman)(read and discussed)

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INSTRUCTION: turnitin.com for Childhood Memoirs;
FILM: Whitman documentary (notetaking)

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DISCUSSION: Whitman Poetry (Drumtaps poems, I Hear America Singing, Song of Myself);
HANDOUTS: Slave Narratives (Washington, Douglass);
ASSIGNMENT: read and annotate slave narratives--Washington for Wed, Douglass for Thursday;
CALENDAR: Childhood Memoir due Thursday

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HANDOUT: Whitman Bio (discussed);
GROUPS: focused on specific elements of Drumtaps poetry;
DISCUSSION: began discussion of Drumtaps poetry;
REMINDER: Twain quote due Monday

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FILM: completed Twain documentary;
ASSIGNMENT: find a Twain quote you have not heard yet, type in 36 font, indicate source, due Monday;
HANDOUT: Whitman (Drumtaps poetry)(annotate for poetic devices and significant imagery, due tomorrow);
HANDOUTS: Mark Twain (Huck map), Mark Twain (A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling)

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FILM: continued Twain documentary (notetaking)

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HOMEWORK CHECK: Annotations for Extended Reading assignment (grade recorded);
FILM: continued Twain Documentary (notetaking)

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FILM: began Twain documentary (notetaking)

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TIMED WRITING: Huck Finn (attachments: notes on Huck's moral development, Twain's satire of Romanticism, lists of influential elements, American characteristics)

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INSTRUCTION: Purpose/procedure for Extended Reading Project/Presentation (browsed samples)(due Jan. 20);
HANDOUT: Childhood Memoir Interview (reviewed instructions, content, format etc. Due Jan. 12);
DISCUSSION: Influential aspects, American characteristics of Huck Finn;
REMINDER: Huck Finn timed writing tomorrow

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HOMEWORK CHECK: Huck at 100 annotations (grade recorded);
DISCUSSION: Huck at 100;
ASSIGNMENT: make a list of influential elements of Huck Finn, make a list of uniquely American aspects of Huck Finn (typed, due tomorrow)

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DISCUSSION: completed Twain's satire of Romanticism;
HANDOUT: Huck at 100 (read and annotate for tomorrow);
HANDOUT: Extended Reading Project (discussed stories, chose partners and stories)

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DISCUSSION: Twain's Satire of Romanticism (made list on projector of various episodes, characters etc. that comprise Twain's satire of Romanticism)(looked specifically at Walter Scott, Emmeline Grangerford, Grangerford/Shepherdson feud)

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LECTURE/DISCUSSION: continued Twain background (notetaking)

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DISCUS"SION: debriefed debates on Huck's moral development, functions of "Jim's Rescue sequence;
LECTURE/DISCUSSION: began Twain bio

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DISCUSSION: Huck's Moral Development (Stage 5--Wilkes episode, Stage 7--Duke and King tarring and feathering);
GROUPS: prepared arguments to debate Huck's moral development in Jim's Rescue;
DISCUSSION: debated Jim's Rescue

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DISCUSSION: Huck's Moral Development (Stage 6 "You Can't Pray a Lie"--handout);
HANDOUTS: Jim's Rescue, Huck's Moral Development #8 (due tomorrow);
COLLECTED: Shadow of a Doubt, Young Goodman Brown

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TEST: Class/Rom/Trans Test Part Two;
REMINDER: Shadow of a Doubt questions due tomorrow

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TEST: Class/Rom/Trans Part One;
DISCUSSION: Huck's Moral Development (Stage 3--Slavetraders, Stage 4--Jim's Sorrow)(notetaking);
REMINDER: Class/Rom/Trans Test Part Two Monday

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FILM: completed Poe documentary;
DISCUSSION: Huck's Moral Development (completed Stage One--rattlesnake trick, Stage Two--fog incident, notetaking);
REMINDER: Class/Rom/Trans Unit Test (Part One) tomorrow, Part Two Monday

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BOOK BROWSING: ranked Childhood Memoir choices 1-6;
DISCUSSION: There Was a Child Went Forth;
COLLECTED: annotated Whitman poem and discussion questions;
HANDOUT: Billy Collins (On Turning Ten)(read and discussed);
DISCUSSION: began Huck Finn's Moral Development (hat trick--Stage One);
HANDOUT: discussion questions for stages of Huck's Moral Development (will use during discussion for notetaking)

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DISCUSSION: Importance of childhood and childhood memories, discussed objects;
ASSIGNMENT: reread There Was a Child Went Forth and annotate for tomorrow;
COLLECTED: Journal (Childhood Object);
HANDOUT: list of Childhood Memoirs (reviewed titles and authors)

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HANDOUTS: Reader's Journal (Childhood Object--typed, 300 words, due tomorrow), There Was a Child Went Forth by Walt Whitman (read for tomorrow), Discussion questions on Whitman poem (typed, due tomorrow);
READING TEST: Huck Finn;
REMINDER: bring Childhood pic for tomorrow;
COLLECTED: 15 study/review questions for Class/Rom/Trans test

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REVIEW: Class/Rom/Trans Test (will be Friday 12/3);
HANDOUT: 3 Supplementary packets for Class/Rom/Trans Test;
LECTURE/DISCUSSION: Bryant background;
ASSIGNMENT: 15 study/review questions (due Monday 11/29);
DISCUSSION: completed Walden

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HANDOUT: Thoreau/Transcendentalism notetaking packet;
LECTURE/DISCUSSION: Thoreau/Transcendentalism;
DISCUSSION: began Walden;
HANDOUT: Shadow Assignment;
CALENDAR: Huck Finn Reading Test Mon.11/29, Romanticism/Transcendentalism Test Fri 12/3

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HOMEWORK CHECK: Walden annotations;
HANDOUTS: Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses (Twain), Muck-a-Muck (Harte)(read orally and discussed points of both authors' satire of Cooper)

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COLLECTED: Thanatopsis;
HOMEWORK CHECK: Rescue Annotations;
HANDOUT: Cooper Background;
LECTURE/DISCUSSION: Cooper's life and career;
HANDOUT: Thoreau (Walden and Civil Disobedience)(read Walden for tomorrow and annotate for significant passages);
DISCUSSION: Rescue excerpt (Deerslayer's romanticized traits, skills etc.)

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DISCUSSION: Thanatopsis (annotated poem, will collect annotated poem and specific section analysis tomorrow);
HANDOUT: Faulkner poem (connected to Thanatopsis)
HANDOUT: Deerslayer excerpt (read for tomorrow and annotate examples of Deerslayer's idealized actions/behavior etc.)

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DISCUSSION: Shadow of a Doubt;
GROUPS: reviewed Thanatopsis sections

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FILM: completed Shadow;
REVIEW: characteristics of Romantic literature
HANDOUT: Thanatopsis (paraphrase your section, identify poetic devices and significant imagery, and discuss significance, typed, due Friday)

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DISCUSSION: opening impressions of Shadow;
FILM: continued Shadow of a Doubt (notetaking)

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INTRO: background to Shadow of a Doubt;
FILM: began Shadow

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COLLECTED: Young Goodman Brown annotated story and notetaking packet;
CAREER CENTER

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DISCUSSION: completed Young Goodman Brown (ending, parallels to Minister's Black Veil)(will collect annnotated stories/packets tomorrow);
LECTURE/DISCUSSION: Hawthorne life and career (notetaking)

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DISCUSSION: continued Young Goodman Brown
 

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COLLECTED: Minister's Black Veil notes plus annotated story;
DISCUSSION: continued Young Goodman Brown;
ASSIGNMENT: from p. 42 through p. 45 in YGB, bullet on notetaking packet under "Setting" significant imagery (communion scene)(for tomorrow)

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PRESENTATIONS: completed Minister's Black Veil (notetaking)(will collect annotated stories and notes tomorrow);
HANDOUT: Notetaking sheet for Young Goodman Brown;
DISCUSSION: began Young Goodman Brown;
COLLECTED: Johnny/Sons Significant List

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PRESENTATIONS: continued Minister's Black Veil group reports (notetaking);
REMINDER: Johnny/Sons Significant Lists due Monday, read Young Goodman Brown for Monday

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PRESENTATIONS/DISCUSSION: began Minister's Black Veil Group Reports (notetaking)

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HANDOUT: Minister's Black Veil Discussion Questions;
GROUPS: worked on specific discussion question to present to class tomorrow;
HANDOUT: Young Goodman Brown (read for Friday)

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TIMED WRITING: Poe stories;
CALENDAR: extended Johnny/Sons assignment to Monday

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HANDOUT: Expository Essay Structure (reviewed in class);
REMINDER: Poe timed writing tomorrow

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TEXTBOOKS: checked out Huck Finn;
DISCUSSION: Huck's voice/character as reflected in Ch. 1;
READING ASSIGNMENT: complete Huck Finn by Nov. 16;
FILM: Poe Documentary (notetaking);
HANDOUT: The Minister's Black Veil (read for Wednesday)

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DISCUSSION: Censorship;
INTRODUCTION: censorship connections to Huck Finn, Realism, Focus areas for study of Huck Finn, Huck Finn Chapter One;
COLLECTED: Censorship Journal

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READING TEST: Johnny/Sons;
ASSIGNMENT: Journal (Censorship--definition, personal experience, opinion, typed 250 words minimum, due tomorrow);
ASSIGNMENT: Johnny/Sons Significant Lists (typed, due Wednesday)

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LECTURE/DISCUSSION: Poe background material (notetaking);
REMINDER: Johnny/Sons Reading Test tomorrow

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TEST: Colonial Unit;
CALENDAR: Johnny/Sons Reading Test Wednesday

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DISCUSSION: Poe Parallels (focused on Cask of Amontillado);
REMINDER: Colonial Unit Test Monday

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DISCUSSION: Poe Parallels (focus on Black Cat)

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DISCUSSION: continued Poe parallels (emphasis on Black Cat);
CALENDAR: Colonial Unit test will be Monday

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HOMEWORK CHECK: Poe Parallels (grade recorded);
DISCUSSION: Telltale Heart, Black Cat (emphasized parallels)

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COLLECTED: Cask of Amontillado Irony;
DISCUSSION: Telltale Heart;
ASSIGNMENT: identify parallels among the 3 Poe stories in characterization/conflict, setting, symbol, and theme (typed, subheads for each category, bulleted details for each category, abbreviate stories TH, BC, CA, due Tuesday)

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DISCUSSION: complete group discussion of Telltale Heart imagery;
DISCUSSION: began Telltale Heart;
HANDOUT: Cask of Amontillado, 3 types of irony;
ASSIGNMENT: read Cask of Amontillado, make list of 5 examples of verbal irony, 2 dramatic, and one situational (typed, due tomorrow);
CALENDAR: Colonial Period Test Thursday Oct. 14

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COLLECTED: Journal (Unreliable narrator in Telltale Heart);
LECTURE/DISCUSSION: completed intro to Unit Two;
HANDOUT: The Black Cat (read for tomorrow);
DISCUSSION: examples of Poe's Theory of the Single Effect in The Telltale Heart (annotated story)

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DISCUSSION: Farewell Quote Analysis, continued Unit Two intro, Poe's Theory of the Single Effect;
ASSIGNMENT: annotate words/phrases Poe uses to create his single effect on a selected page from The Telltale Heart (due tomorrow);
COLLECTED: 15 study/review questions for Colonial Unit

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DISCUSSION: American traits, national character;
COLLECTED: Journal (American traits);
HANDOUT: Unit 2 Notetaking Packet (Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Literary Nationalism);
HANDOUT: Poe (The Telltale Heart)(read for tomorrow);
ASSIGNMENT: Journal (How is Poe's narrator in The Telltale Heart an unreliable narrator? (typed, l.5 spacing, min 600 words, close reading/specific details/supporting quotes, due Wednesday)

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TEST: Elements of Fiction;
REMINDER: American Character Journal due Monday

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REVIEW: Colonial Period/Classicism (test will be week of 10/12);
ASSIGNMENT: write 15 study/review questions for Colonial Period (typed, due Tuesday)

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DISCUSSION: read Ch. 1 from Bright Lights, Big City as example of second person p.o.v.;
ASSIGNMENT: Journal (discuss attributes of American national character, typewritten, 1.5 spacing, min 300 words, due Monday);
INSTRUCTION: reviewed and revised thesis statements;
REMINDER: Elements of Fiction test Friday (discussed format)

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TEXTBOOKS: checked out Johnny Got His Gun/All My Sons;
ELEMENTS: structure, style, theme, point-of-view (Elements test on Friday);
QUIZ: intro to Johnny

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INTRODUCTION: Outside Reading (background, authors, subject matter) (Johnny Got His Gun/All My Sons);
READING ASSIGNMENT: read intro to Johnny for tomorrow, both works need to be completed by October 19

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LECTURE/DISCUSSION: Franklin Bio, Classicism;
DISCUSSION: Poor Richard aphorisms, Moral Perfection (drew parallels to The Age of Reason/'Enlightenment, the American Dream);
COLLECTED: Poor Richard translations
REMINDER: study Elements of Fiction outline (we will complete the outline Monday and test will be later next week)

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LECTURE/DISCUSSION: completed Edwards, Great Awakening, Puritan sermons, Calvinism;
DISCUSSION: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God;
HANDOUTS: Age of Reason/Enlightenment notetaking packet (discussed), Ben Franklin background

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HOMEWORK CHECK: Sinners Annotations (grade recorded);
HANDOUTS: Bradford/Byrd, Jonathan Edwards (notetaking packets);
HANDOUTS: Franklin (Poor Richard examples--mark familiar and unfamiliar, Poor Richard translations, Moral Perfection excerpt. Due tomorrow)

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PRESENTATIONS: completed New World group reports;
ELEMENTS: setting, symbol

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PRESENTATIONS: continued New World group reports;
HOMEWORK CHECK: poetic devices definitions (grade recorded);
HANDOUT: Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (annotate all poetic devices for Tuesday)

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PRESENTATIONS: began New World group reports (class annotates);
ASSIGNMENT: write definitions for the following poetic devices (simile, metaphor, personification, repetition, exclamation, alliteration, oxymoron, hyperbole)(typed, due Monday)

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LECTURE/DISCUSSION: completed North/South Literature;
HANDOUT: Puritans and Planters (Group Report instructions);
GROUPS: prepared material for group reports on specifc sections of New World packets (due tomorrow)

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DISCUSSION: completed Emily;
HANDOUT: Northern and Southern Literature--Colonial Period (notetaking packet)(began discussion)

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DISCUSSION: Rose for Emily;
COLLECTED: Thesis Rewrites;
REMINDER: read New World material for tomorrow

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HOMEWORK CHECK: Emily Annotations (grade recorded);
ELEMENTS OF FICTION: Character, Conflict;
DISCUSSION: began Rose for Emily (continued annotations);
HANDOUT: Emily timeline;
COLLECTED: Emily student timeline;
CALENDAR CHANGE: Thesis rewrites (typed) due tomorrow, New World readings due Wednesday

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ELEMENTS OF FICTION: Action, Plot, Character (notetaking on outline);
HANDOUT: A Rose for Emily (read, annotate images of time, dust, decay, disintegration, type timeline for story's events, due Monday);
HANDOUTS: New World packets (2)(read for Tuesday);
HANDOUT: Thesis Statement rewrites (due Wednesday, typed)

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DISCUSSION: completed American Author Cards;
DISCUSSION: meaning in literature, strong literary interpretations;
HANDOUTS: Elements of Fiction Outline

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SUMMER READING ASSESSMENT: Crucible Reading Test;
GROUPS: American Author Cards

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SUMMER READING ASSESSMENT: 20th Century Work (timed writing);
REMINDER: Crucible Reading Test Tuesday

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SUMMER READING ASSESSMENT: Farewell (Reading Test, Quote Analysis);
REMINDER: bring 20th century book for timed writing tomorrow

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HANDOUT: Course Expectations/Ethics Policy (reviewed, tear-offs due Tuesday);
CALENDAR: Summer Reading Assessments (Thursday Farewell to Arms Reading Test and Quote Analysis, Friday timed writing on 20th century work, Tuesday Crucible Reading Test)