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Materials needed:

One notebook (one subject) and a folder with pockets.  The notebook will be used for notes/vocabulary, while the folder will be used for a Reader/Response journal for the three novels we will be reading this year.

Writing assignments are subject to change due to the Keystone Exams. 

NOTE:  I will be adding a narrative essay, a persuasive essay, and a speech in order to prepare students for the Keystone Exams.

 

 

 Week 1:

History of American literature

Notes, vocabulary

Colonial writings

 Week 2:

continuation of Colonial literature

compare/contrast assignment

The Catcher in the Rye Chapters 1-4 Reader/Response journals

Week 3:

Puritan poetry

Sermons, speeches, and pamphlets

Catcher in the Rye  Chapters 5-8 R/R journal

Week 4:

finish unit on Colonial Literature

Review for  exam

Exam

Catcher in the Rye Chapters 9-12  R/R journal

Week 5:

Begin the Romantic Period of American Literature

Background notes on the period

Background notes on Washington Irving

Vocabulary list for stories

Read " The Devil and Tom Walker"

The Catcher in the Rye Chapters 12-15  R/R journal

Week 6:

extra credit Irving crossword puzzle

continue Romantic Period with the reading of "The Legend of Sleppy Hollow

Irving Test

Catcher in the Rye  Chapters 17-20  R/R journal

Week 7:

Romantic Period Poetry

Study Island in preparation for Keystone exam

Catcher in the Rye Chapters 21-26  R/R journal

Week 8:

Edgar Allan Poe

Short stories and poem

Study Island or Keystone Exam prep

Week 9:

Continue with Poe

 Week 10:

Transcendental writers (Thoreau and Emerson)

To Kill a Mockingbird  Chapters 1-5   R/R journal

Week 11: 

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Young Goodman Brown"

TKM Chapters 6-10  R/R jouranl

Week 12: 

Read and discus "The Minister's Black Veil" and "Dr. Heidegger's Experiement"

Prepare for a Hawthorne exam

TKM Chapters 11-15  R/R journal

Week 13:

Finish Hawthorne stories and prep for Hawthorne exam

TKM  Chapters 16-20  R/R journal

Use Quizlet to study

Week 14:

Hawthorne exam

Begin Research Paper  Process*subject to change due to Keystone Exams

TKM Chapters 21-25  R/R journal

Week 15:

Persuasive paper process handout and library time to research

TKM Chapters 26-30  R/R journal

Week 16:

Persuasive paper process --avoid plagiarism ...MLA documentation

Library time to research with topic handout due

Week 17:

"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry and "Christmas Bells"  by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Week 18:

Herman Melville notes, vocab.  Story and poetry

Week 19:

Emily Dickinson notes, vocab., poetry

Walt Whitman notes, vocab. poetry

Prep for Keystone exam

Week 20:

Ambrose Bierce background notes, vocab. stories

Test

 Week 21:

Twain notes and background

Read story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog"

Quiz

The Great Gatsby Chapter 1  R/R journal

 

 

Week 22:

Work on rough draft for research paper* subject to change due to Keystone Exams

The Great Gatsby Chapter 2  R/R journal

 

 

Week 23:

work on final draft of research paper*

Gatsby novel Chapter 3  R/R journal*

Week  24:

Research paper due*

Gatsby Chapter 4*

 

Week 25:

Realism 

Stephen Cran notes and vocab.

Read "An Episode of War"

Gatsby Chapter 5*

Week 26:

E.A.Robinson poetry

Gatsby Chapter 6*

Week 27:

 Sherwood Anderson works

Gatsby Chapter 7*

Week 28:

William Faulkner's works

Shirley Jackson

Gatsby Chapter 8*

Week 29:

Hemingway's work "Soldier's Home"

Gatsby Chapter 9*

 

Week 30:

Tennessee William's The Glass Menagerie

notes and vocab.

Read Act 1

Week 31:

Act 2 of The Glass Menagerie

Week 32:

continue with and finish play

test on play

 

Week 33:

Sci-fiction works by Ray Bradbury

Laptops for Quizlet Review

Week 34:

Sci-fi detective story "The Singing Bell" by Isaac Asimov

Contemporary story "Teenage Diseases"

Review for final using laptops and quizlet

Week 35:

Contemporary writers and poets

Week 36:

Review for final

Week 37:

Final exam