Mr. Rick Morgans
Advanced English 11, English 11, and Journalism
Welcome Back!
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
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