English 5-6 Honors (Period 2 & 4) Assignments

NO CLASS: Finals

FINALS: Lit Movement Test, Extended Reading presentations

TEST: Literary Movement Overview;

PRESENTATIONS: Extended Reading Projects

REVIEW: procedure for Extended Reading presentations, Huck Finn Timed Writing, Literary Movement test

REALISM UNIT TEST

DISCUSSION: DuBois;

COLLECTED: Realism Study Questions

DISCUSSION: Washington and Douglass;

CALENDAR: Extended Reading Projects now due day of final, Comprehensive Lit Movement questions will be day of final

HANDOUT: Whitman (Specimen Days);

HANDOUT: This Republic of Suffering;

HANDOUT: focus areas for Realism,Twain, Whitman etc. Unit Test;

HANDOUT: supplementary packet for Realism test;

ASSIGNMENT: 15 study questions for Realism test (typed, due Friday)

COLLECTED: Childhood Memoirs;

HOMEWORK CHECK: Washington Annotations;

FILM: completed Whitman Documentary;

HANDOUT: DuBois The Souls of Black Folk (read for Thursday)

DISCUSSION: completed Whitman Poetry (Drumtaps, I Hear America Singing, Song of Myself);

FILM: began Whitman documentary

HOMEWORK CHECK: Twain Quotes, Extended Reading Annotations (grades recorded and Twain quotes posted);

DISCUSSION: Drumtaps Poetry (Whitman);

HANDOUTS: Washington and Douglass slave narratives (annotate Washington for Tuesday and annotate Douglass for Wednesday)

LECTURE/DISCUSSION: Twain's Contributions to Am. Lit (notetaking);

HANDOUT: Whitman Background (notetaking);

GROUPS: worked on Drumtaps Poetry

FILM: completed Twain documentary;

LECTURE/DISCUSSION: completed Twain background;

ASSIGNMENT: find a Twain Quote not seen in powerpoint or documentary, print in 36 point, indicate source, and bring to class Thursday

HANDOUT: Whitman (Drumtaps Poetry)(read and annotate for Wednesday);

FILM: continued Twain documentary (notetaking)

GROUIPS: Chose Extended Reading stories (read and annotate stories by Wed Jan 11, do not use Outside Sources);

FILM: continued Twain documentary

HANDOUT: Extended Reading Project (reviewed purpose and procedure, will choose stories tomorrow, presentations begin Jan. 24);

FILM: continued Twain documentary

LECTURE/DISCUSSION: continued Twain background (to Huck Finn);

FILM: began Twain Documentary (Burns)

LECTURE/DISCUSSION: Twain Background (notetaking)

TIMED WRITING: Huck Finn (with Huck notes attached)

HOMEWORK CHECK: Huck at 100 (grade recorded);

DISCUSSION: Huck at 100, Huck's Influences, Huck's American Characteristics;

HANDOUT: Childhood Memoir Interview (discussed purpose and procedure, due Jan 9)

DISCUSSION: Sherburn/Boggs (notetaking);

HANDOUT: Huck at 100 (annotate for tomorrow);

ASSIGNMENT: List of Influential Aspects of the novel Huck Finn (at least 8, typed); List of American Characteristics (at least 8, typed)(due tomorrow)

DISCUSSION: Twain's Satire of Romanticism (Walter Scott, Emmeline Grangerford, Grangerford/Shepherdson feud)(notetaking)

DISCUSSION: debriefed debates, "Why They Didn't Hang Jim", Wilkes Episode, tarring and feathering of Duke and King (Huck's Moral Development #5 and 7)(notetaking);

INSTRUCTION: intro to Twain's Satire of Romanticism (notetaking)

GROUPS: prepared for Huck Moral Development Debate;

DEBATE: has Huck regressed in his moral development during Jim's Rescue section?

DISCUSSION: Huck's Moral Development Episode 6 (You Can't Pray a Lie)(notetaking);

HANDOUT: Jim's Rescue (discussed);

HANDOUT: Huck's Moral Development Episode 8 (due tomorrow)

DISCUSSION: Huck's Moral Development (completed Episode 2--fog, Episode 3--slavetraders)(notetaking)

DISCUSSION: Huck's Moral Development (Episode 1 and 2--notetaking--handout Huck's stages of Moral Dev. 1-5)

TEST: Class/Rom/Trans Unit Test;

REMINDER: bring Huck Finn to class every day starting tomorrow

HANDOUT: Bryant Bio (study for test);

HANDOUT: Childhood Memoir Titles (browsed books and ranked 1-6);

DISCUSSION: Walden (connected to transcendentalism)

DISCUSSION: importance of childhood memories;

DISCUSSION: There Was a Child Went Forth (annotated), On Turning Ten;

COLLECTED: Childhood Object journals

LINKS: print There Was a Child Went Forth and On Turning Ten and bring to class tomorrow;

ASSIGNMENT: bring a picture of yourself as a child to class tomorrow;

HANDOUT: Journal (Childhood Object)(typed, 12 point, 1.5 spacing, min 1 page, due tomorrow);

HOMEWORK CHECK: Walden annotations;

HANDOUT: Thoreau/Transcendentalism (reviewed)

EXAM: Huck Finn Reading Test;

REMINDER: read Walden and Civil Disobedience (mark 5 significant passages in Walden and comment)(due tomorrow)

COLLECTED: Study questions for Rom/Trans Unit Test;

COLLECTED: Shadow Discussion Questions with film notes;

CAREER CENTER;

REMINDER: Huck Finn Reading Test tomorrow

DISCUSSION: completed Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, Muck-a-Muck;

HANDOUT: focus areas for Classicism/Romanticism/Transcendentalism Test (Monday 12/5;

HANDOUT: 3 supplementary packets for Class/Rom/Trans test;

HANDOUT: Walden and Civil Disobedience (read Walden and mark 5 significant passages for Wednesday 11/30);

ASSIGNMENT: write 15 review questions for Class/Rom/Trans test (typed due Monday 11/28);

REMINDER: Huck Finn Reading Test is Tuesday 11/29, Shadow of a Doubt discussion questions due Monday 11/28

LECTURE/DISCUSSION: completed Cooper Bio;

DISCUSSION: Deerslayer excerpt;

COLLECTED: Thanatopsis Analysis/Annotations

DISCUSSION: completed Thanatopsis (annotations and discussion questions due tomorrow);

ASSIGNMENT: print Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses and Muck-a-Muck from links and bring tomorrow

PRESENTATIONS: completed Turn of the Screw Interior Monologues;

DISCUSSION: began Thanatopsis (annotated poem during discussion);

HANDOUT: Rescue excerpt from Deerslayer (read and annotate Deerslayer's idealized bravery, due tomorrow)

DISCUSSION: Shadow of a Doubt;

HANDOUT: Discussion Questions Shadow (typed, due Friday);

GROUPS: read Turn of the Screw Interior Monologues

FILM: completed Shadow of a Doubt;

HANDOUT: Thanatopsis (read, annotate your assigned section, translate into modern English your assigned section, make a list of significant ideas for your assigned section, typed, due Monday);

CALENDAR: Huck Finn Reading Test when we return from Thanksgiving Break

FILM: continued Shadow (notetaking);

REMINDER: Young Goodman Brown analysis packet and annotated story due tomorrow

HANDOUT: Hawthorne Bio (notetaking);

FILM: began Shadow of a Doubt (notetaking);

EXTENSION: Turn of the Screw Interior Monologues due Monday

DISCUSSION: completed Young Goodman Brown (notetaking packet/annotating)

REVIEW: Colonial Unit Test;

DISCUSSION: continued Young Goodman Brown (notetaking/annotating)

DISCUSSION: began Young Goodman Brown (notetaking packet and annotations);

HANDOUT: Young Goodman Brown notetaking packet

DISCUSSION: completed Turn of the Screw;

GROUPS: chose interior monologue characters (due Wednesday 11/9)

PRESENTATIONS: completed Minister's Black Veil Group Reports (notetaking/annotating)(packets due Thursday);

DISCUSSION: Turn of the Screw

PRESENTATIONS: continued Minister's Black Veil Group Reports (notetaking/annotations);

REMINDER: read Young Goodman Brown for tomorrow

PRESENTATIONS: continued Minister's Black Veil (notetaking/annotating);

DISCUSSION: Turn of the Screw;

COLLECTED: Turn of the Screw Ch. 20-24 (5 Q, 5 C, 5 Q);

CALENDAR: extended Young Goodman Brown reading to be due Tuesday

PRESENTATIONS: began Minister's Black Veil group reports (notetaking/annotating);

DISCUSSION: Turn of the Screw Ch. 15-19;

COLLECTED: Turn of the Screw Ch. 15-19 (5 Q, 5 C, 5 Q);

READING ASSIGNMENT: Turn of the Screw Ch. 20-24 (5 Q, 5 C, 5 Q) (due tomorrow);

READING ASSIGNMENT: Young Goodman Brown (links) (read and annotate for Monday)

TIMED WRITING: Poe;

REMINDER: Turn of the Screw Ch. 15-19 (5 Q, 5 C, 5 Q) due tomorrow;

REMINDER: Minister's Black Veil group reports begin tomorrow

HANDOUT: Minister's Black Veil Group Discussion Questions:

GROUPS: worked on MBV reports (will begin Thursday);

REMINDER: Poe timed writing tomorrow. Bring stories

HANOIUT: Expository Essay Structure (reviewed and discussed);

DISCUSSION: Turn of the Screw Ch. 11-14;

COLLECTED: Turn of the Screw Ch. 11-14 (5 Q, 5 C, 5 Q);

READING ASSIGNMENT: The Minister's Black Veil (Hawthorne)(Links)(read for tomorrow);

CALENDAR: Poe timed Writing Wednesday;

READING ASSIGNMENT: Turn of the Screw Ch. 15-19 (5 Q, 5 C, 5 Q) (due Thursday)

TEXTBOOKS: checked out Huck Finn (Reading Test Nov. 18);

DISCUSSION: completed Huck Finn intro;

DISCUSSION: Turn of the Screw Ch. 8-10;

COLLECTED: Turn of the Screw Ch. 8-10 (5 Q, 5 C, 5 Q);

ASSIGNMENT: Turn of the Screw Ch. 11-14 (5 Q, 5 C, 5 Q) for Monday

DISCUSSION: Censorship;

COLLECTED: Censorship Journal;

REMINDER: Turn of the Screw Ch. 8-10 due tomorrow

FILM: Poe Documentary (notetaking);

DISCUSSION: Turn of the Screw Ch. 5-7;

COLLECTED: Turn of the Screw Ch. 5-7 (5 Q, 5 C, 5 Q);

CALENDAR: Turn of the Screw Ch. 8-10 extended to Friday;

ASSIGNMENT: Journal--Censorship (definition, personal experience, opinion)(typed, 1.5 spaced, 250 word minimum, due tomorrow)

LECTURE/DISCUSSION: Poe Bio (handout--Notetaking Packet);

DISCUSSION: Turn of the Screw Ch. 1-4;

COLLECTED: Turn of the Screw Ch. 1-4 (5 Questions, 5 Comments, 5 Quotations);

REMINDER: read Turn of the Screw Ch. 5-7 for tomorrow (type 5 Q, 5 C, 5 Q for tomorrow)

TEST: Colonial Period/Classicism;

REMINDER: Turn of the Screw 5 Questions, 5 Comments, 5 Quotes Ch. 1-4 due tomorrow

DISCUSSION: completed Cask of Amontillado;

DISCUSSION: Prologue to Turn of the Screw;

COLLECTED: Turn of the Screw Prologue 5 Questions, 5 Comments;

REMINDER: Colonial Period Test Monday

TEXTBOOKS: passed out The Turn of the Screw;

ASSIGNMENT: read to p. 14 of Turn of the Screw, type 5 questions and 5 comments (due tomorrow);

DISCUSSION: Cask of Amontillado

DISCUSSION: completed Black Cat;

COLLECTED: Poe Parallels;

REVIEWED: Elements of Fiction Test

REVIEW: Farewell Quote Analysis;

DISCUSSION: continued Black Cat

DISCUSSION: continued Poe stories (Telltale Heart and Black Cat);

ASSIGNMENT: Poe Parallels (due Wednesday);

COLLECTED: Cask of Amontillado Irony

DISCUSSION: Doubling, duality of human nature, 19th century focus etc.;

DISCUSSION: The Telltale Heart;

READING ASSIGNMENT: The Cask of Amontillado;

HANDOUT: Verbal, situational, dramatic irony (find 5 verbal, 1 situational, 3 dramatic examples of irony in Cask of Amontillado, follow specified format, due Monday)

DISCUSSION: patterns of imagery in The Telltale Heart;

DISCUSSION: began discussion of elements in The Telltale Heart

DISCUSSION: completed Intro to Romanticism (notetaking);

COLLECTED: 15 study questions for Colonial Unit;

GROUPS: made a list of imagery for Poe's Single Effect in Telltale Heart (group to email list to me as Word document for tomorrow);

READING ASSIGNMENT: print "The Black Cat" from links, read, annotate one page for single-effect imagery (due tomorrow)

DISCUSSION: American Character/Identity;

COLLECTED: Journal on American Character;

HANDOUT: Intro to Unit 2: Literary Nationalism/Romanticism/Transcendentalism;

READING ASSIGNMENT: Poe ("The Telltale Heart") (read and annotate plus annotate text that shows the narrator as unreliable, due tomorrow);

REMINDER: 15 study/review questions on Colonial Period due tomorrow

TEST: Elements of Fiction;

REMINDER: Journal on American Identity due tomorrow

REVIEW: Farewell and Crucible tests;

REVIEW: format for Elements of Fiction test;

REVIEW: format and focus areas for Colonial Period test;

ASSIGNMENT: 15 study/review questions for Colonial Unit (due Wed);

ASSIGNMENT: Journal (Discuss attributes of American Character, typed, 1.5 spacing, 12 pt font, min 300 words, due Tuesday)

ELEMENTS: completed outline (style, structure, point-of-view;

CALENDAR: Elements Test Monday 10/3, Colonial Period Unit Test Friday 10/7

HANDOUT: Franklin Bio (discussed and made connections to American Dream and Age of Reason);

DISCUSSION: Moral Perfection (discussed and made connections to American Dream and Age of Reason);

COLLECTED: Poor Richard translations;

ELEMENTS: setting, symbol, theme, structure

DISCUSSION: Age of Reason, Classicism;

DISCUSSION: Poor Richard aphorisms (connections to Age of Reason);

READING ASSIGNMENT: Franklin--Moral Perfection (print from link, read for Monday)

DISCUSSION: Bradford/Byrd background;

HANDOUT: Jonathan Edwards/Great Awakening, Puritan Sermons, Calvinism/Covenant Theology notetaking packet (discussed);

DISCUSSION: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God;

HANDOUT: Age of Reason/Enlightenment background (read and annotate for tomorrow);

HANDOUT: Poor Richard examples (review and mark familiar and unfamiliar or confusing (due tomorrow);

HANDOUT: Poor Richard translation worksheet (due tomorrow)

PRESENTATIONS: completed New World Reports;

HANDOUT: Bradford/Byrd background (review tonight for discussion tomorrow)

HOMEWORK CHECK: Poetic/Rhetorical Devices definitions, Sinners annotations;

PRESENTATIONS: continued New World group reports

HANDOUT: Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God (read and identify poetic/rhetorical devices within, due tomorrow)(will check definitions for rhetorical devices tomorrow as well);

PRESENTATIONS: began New World Group Reports (Wheatley, Bradford)(annotated packet)

GROUPS: New World packet analysis, prepared for New World Reports (will begin Monday);

ASSIGNMENT: Define similel, metaphor, personification, repetition, exclamation, alliteration, oxymoron, hyperbole, onomatopoeia (typed, due Monday)

DISCUSSION: completed Emily;

HANDOUT: Thesis Statements (due Friday, typed)

DISCUSSION: continued A Rose for Emily

ELEMENTS OF FICTION: Character, Conflict;

DISCUSSION: began A Rose for Emily

DISCUSSION: How We Find Meaning in Literature;

ELEMENTS OF FICTION: reviewed Action, Plot;

HANDOUT: New World Packet (read for Tuesday);

HOMEWORK CHECK: Emily Annotations, timeline (grade recorded)

HOMEWORK CHECK: How to Read Literature annotations (grade recorded);

DISCUSSION: reviewed answers to American Author cards;

HANDOUT: Elements of Fiction Outline;

REMINDER: read and annotate A Rose for Emily (due tomorrow)

ASSIGNMENT: Read A Rose for Emily (print from link on 5-6 Honors website) and annotate for Friday (one color for your overall observations etc., a second color for images of decay, disintegration, time). Make a timeline of events.

GROUPS: worked on American Author cards

SUMMER READING ASSESSMENT: Crucible Reading Test;

HANDOUT: Intro to How to Read Literature Like a Professor (annotate for tomorrow);

GROUPS: American Author/Titles cards

SUMMER READING ASSESSMENT: Timed Writing on 20th century work

SUMMER READING ASSESSMENT: Farewell to Arms Reading Test and Quote Analysis;

REMINDER: 20th Century Timed Writing tomorrow